ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event: Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths University)
Lecture/seminar
Please join us for this ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event on 'The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before and After GenAI' by Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths, University of London). The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before…
Human Instruments: Sensory Science and the Exclusions of Perceptibility
Lecture/seminar
In this paper, Dr Ella Butler analyses how perceptibility is organised as a social process in a scientific experimental setting. Specifically, she details how an American sensory science lab conducts a form of test called descriptive analysis which aims to transduce the sensory experience of a…
Climate’s Computational Infrastructures
Lecture/seminar
What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary futures? How do computational ensembles pull together computing architectures, data pipelines, calculative practices, and institutional settings to make…
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Lecture/seminar
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy. Snakes continually appear in the scholarly debates about the utility and value of flora and fauna from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century,…
Making Do: Conservation ethics and ecological care in Australia
Lecture/seminar
Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is a region renowned for its environmental and cultural values. Like other biodiverse regions in the world, Cape York sits at the nexus of important political struggles, as well as social, cultural, and environmental changes. Despite the very human role…
What is happening to Canberra? Crumbling Services, Mounting Debt and Declining Governance
Lecture/seminar
Canberra as a city is undergoing big changes, not all of them positive. This seminar, featuring Khalid Ahmed, former Executive Director of the ACT Treasury, analyses key challenges for Canberra services and infrastructure and explores why they have arisen. Ahmed reviews the recent history of…
Problematising Water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity
Lecture/seminar
Problematising water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including urban geography, sociology, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and ethnomethodology. In this presentation, Nicole Vitellone will…