Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Restricting Women's Mobility Under the League of Nations
Seminar
Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Restricting Women's Mobility Under the League of Nations In the 1920s the League of Nations extended its investigation of the traffic in women and children to the sex industry in Southeast Asia. Philippa Hetherington and Julia Laite's 2021 special issue of the…
Katrina Sluis - Curating the Networked Image: Between computation and commodification
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography and Media Arts, School of Art & Design Curating the Networked Image: Between computation and commodification Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU Those who can't…
Engendering Hope: Youth and the Gendering of Development Discourse
Seminar
Engendering Hope: Youth and the Gendering of Development Discourse On 12 July 2013 then sixteen year-old Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Youth Takeover Day. She called on ‘the developed nations to support the expansion of educational opportunities for girls…
Chris McAuliffe - Becoming Robert Smithson: From ‘earth-moving’ to Non-site in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Professor Chris McAuliffe, Sir William Dobell Chair, Head of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU Becoming Robert Smithson: From ‘earth-moving’ to Non-site in the New Jersey Pine Barrens Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy…
Works that Shaped the World: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. Henry David Thoreau was a 19th century author in the United States, and his most famous book, Walden (1854), has often been seen as one of the first examples of “nature writing.” The book has had a…
Circulating Goods, Circuits of Caste: Cargo-cycling in Urban India
Seminar
Set against distinct visions of the city shaped by developmental logics of globalization, air pollution and environmental ideas, this paper explores the changing circuits of caste and the resilience of cargo-cycling in India. People’s diverse relationships with bicycles reorders caste and…
Talepakemalai Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Webinar/Online
In this presentation Patrick Kirch will present the highlights from his most recent book, Talepakemalai. Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Talepakemalai is a single integrated volume in which all of the results of the Mussau Project, including more recent…