Upcoming events
15
Oct
2025
Reading for pleasure: Australian girls, intimate knowledge and print culture, 1970–2010
Lecture/seminar
A condom placed on a banana; a dated video explaining puberty to teenagers who had already experienced it; a teacher’s voice drowned out by awkward laughter: school-based sex education in the recent Australian past often left students confused, bored and uncomfortable. So how did Australian girls…
30
Oct
2025
Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
Seminar
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers spent their lives—if they survived—in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused…