A Day at the Pole: A History of Antarctic Tourism
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 1-2pm Fenner Seminar Room, Fenner Building #141, Linnaeus Way, ANU This seminar presents the findings of my PhD research on Antarctic tourism—how it emerged…
Libby Robin on creativity and seasonality in Griffith Review
NORWEGIANS WORK ONE HUNDRED days less per year than Australians. The whole country savours its precious few months of summer, with long days, long holidays and widespread retreat from city apartments…
Alison Pouliot on RRR Radio
Listen to Alison Pouliot in this program on Triple R Radio. Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and environmental photographer. Her PhD research explores the intersections of cognitive…
Seminar: Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia
Date: 11 May Time: 4.15 – 5.30 Venue: McDonald Room of the Menzies Library, ANU Climate and weather, both in their consistency and their variability are important players in history. Droughts…
English Women and the Late Nineteenth-Century Open Spaces Movement
Wednesday 27 April 2016, 4:15–5:30 pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU Speaker: Robyn Curtis, PhD Candidate, School of History During the second half of the nineteenth century, England became…
Jane Carruthers seminar "Wild science: Conservation biology in South Africa’s national parks 1900-2000"
Date: Wednesday, 25 May 2016 Time: 4pm Venue:Â McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Fellows Road, Australian National University Joint Seminar with the Fenner School of Environment and Society (…
A Thousand Days in the Forest: An Ethnography of the Culture of Fungi
Alison Pouliot DATE: Friday 20 May 2016 TIME: 13:00-14:00 VENUE: Fenner Seminar Room, Building 141 ANU This seminar presents the findings of a thousand days spent in the forest in pursuit of…