Past events
Families on Campus Events
01
Aug
2019
What A Mother’s Got to Do: formulating a moderate account of maternal duty
Modern motherhood is hard. While raising children is never going to be easy, I argue that we, as a society, make motherhood harder than it should be by...
31
Jul
2019
‘A Crafty and Deliberate Murderess’? Poison, Gender, and Justice in Early-Federation New South Wales
Scholarship on women and homicide has focussed increasingly on the ways in which race, ethnicity, and sexual identity intersect to produce patterns of severity...
31
Jul
2019
Expressions of Interest: Sara Ahmed Masterclass 2019
In December 2019, the ANU will welcome Professor Sara Ahmed on a short visit sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre. On the evening of December 5, she...
31
Jul
2019
Making it in the Academic Jungle: Publishing Strategies
In this seminar, three prominent women scholars at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs address one of the most significant demands of a scholar’s...
26
Jul
2019
From muddy boots to business class: to the emergency frontlines and back
The now-iconic image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body washed up on a beach in Turkey in September 2015 sparked a public outcry and turned global attention...
25
Jul
2019
Prejudice vanquished: Championing inclusive and respectful workplaces
What would working in our medical schools and hospitals be like if we cared for one another as if the lives of our patients depended on it? Or it could lead to...
19
Jul
2019
2019 Jack Smart Lecture with Frances Kamm
In the last part of volume 3 of On What Matters, Derek Parfit argues against the moral relevance of such deontological distinctions as harming versus not...