‘A Shock Through the System’: Histories of Crisis in Australian Child Refugee Policy
Seminar
This paper will explore how ‘crises’ around refugee and asylum-seeking children have been repeatedly produced and mobilised as an art and technique of government in Australia since 2001. Described by policy makers as ‘shocks,’ ‘jolts’ and ‘circuit breakers’, these moments and discourses of crisis…
Books that Changed Humanity | The History of the Peloponnesian War
Lecture
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
Modern Britain in Crisis
Seminar
This paper provides an overview of my current research project- a book-length study of modern Britain in crisis. The paper begins with a brief definition of the term crisis. It then presents the argument that Britain has suffered from a chronic and interlinked set of crises – political, socio-…
Conversations Across the Creek | Indigenous Australian Genomics and Pharmacogenetics: Health, Privacy and Relevance
Panel discussion
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
Books that Changed Humanity | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Lecture
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
Conversations Across the Creek | Skullbook: A Digital Bone Library of Animal Skulls at the ANU
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
Latin Panegyric XII(9) and the Politics of New Jerusalem under Constantine the Great
Seminar
Taking start from the recent controversy of naming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the paper focuses on the employment of New Jerusalem in the rhetoric of Constantine the Great, under whose leadership the Roman Empire experienced its first Christian Golden Era. Many apocalyptic texts were…