From here to there and the in-between: Children’s transitions between homes after parental separation
Lecture/seminar
Two potentially important aspects of post-separation parenting arrangements are the number and nature of children’s transitions between homes. Yet scant empirical attention has been paid to the practical, emotional, and relational aspects of these. In this seminar, we examine five contextual…
Bodies as Living Laboratories: Towards A Sociology of Experimentation
Seminar
Experimentation has become one of the most dominant forms of knowledge production in use today, invoked by scientists, artists, activists, policy makers, and critical theorists alike to describe practices that generate new knowledge, enable new modes of expression, or transform existing conditions.…
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…