The Lost World of American Conservatism: Who is now the ‘Party of Order’?
Seminar
It is frequently argued that, for good or ill, American political culture is dominated by liberal values. In this talk I want to suggest that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there has long been an important strand of European-style conservatism in the United States. This is particularly clear in…
Writing Lives with Bernadette Brennan
Workshop
A Canberra Writers Festival event sponsored by the National Centre of Biography. For a biography to sing it needs to be written with energy and passion. The biographer, driven by curiosity and the desire to understand what makes their subject tick, or in Helen Vendler’s words, ‘the inner dynamic…
Before Islamic Finance: Muslim Banking in South Asia and the World, 1880-1975
Webinar/Online
In this webinar event, Dr Mike O'Sullivan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) examines the varieties of, and challenges to, Muslim private banking in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. It studies this phenomenon against the backdrop of two processes: The first, are the…
2nd Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture: Prof. Sandra Swart
Lecture
Kinship: How to live in a more-than-human worldThis event has passed, but you can find a summary here.Our earliest roads were elephant paths. Even today, in Africa's most impenetrable undergrowth, it is the trails maintained by elephants that enable human mobility. Hacking back the overgrowth of…
2024 Robin-Griffiths Lecture: Kinship by Professor Sandra Swart
Lecture
The ANU Centre for Environmental History is pleased to announce that Professor Sandra Swart will present the 2024 Robin-Griffiths Environmental History Lecture. This lecture honours the Centre's founders, Emeritus Professors Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths, who have generously fostered the field of…
Bring Out Your Dead: The Impact of the 1630 Plague on Monteverdi and the Musical Communities of Venice
Seminar
‘The terror of death enters my soul and, forced to think of the events of my life, I think of many dear friends who died and their sweet words and faces that I will never see again.’ The words of Petrarch highlight the destructive personal impact of plague outbreaks. By the 17th century, Northern…
Apartheid’s Baboons: how the state weaponised animal bodies
Seminar
There is a forgotten archive of the dying days of a white supremacist regime. In 1997, the Apartheid-era covert bio-chemical warfare program was exposed, after a top agent was arrested and classified files revealed. These files and subsequent revelations allow us to reconstruct this clandestine…