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…
ANU School of Sociology Honours and PhD - Online Information Session
Information session
Are you interested in pursuing an Honours or PhD in sociology? Join us for this online information session from the ANU School of Sociology.The Honours and PhD programs offer candidates an opportunity to develop their independent research skills in their chosen field of study. In sociology, we…
The Sovereign Individual reloaded: surfacing Thiel’s alt-canon
Lecture/seminar
Peter Thiel’s ideological commitments, financial networks and political interventions reveal a deliberate effort to dismantle democratic governance in favour of elite-controlled sovereignties. Drawing on Girard, Spengler, Strauss and especially The Sovereign Individual (Davidson and Rees-Mogg)…
Queer Youth Histories
Book launch
How has growing up LGBTIQA+ changed over time?What experiences are common across the generations, and what’s different? How do we learn about people’s diverse queer youth histories and what is gained by learning about them?Come to hear about different people’s experiences, celebrate the launch…
Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch
Book launch
Join us for a special event celebrating the launch of two important new books by two leading Australian theorists of computational culture—Professor Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and Professor Anna Munster (UNSW).The event kicks off with an in-conversation between the authors as they discuss the politics,…
Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s drug consumption seeks to push past the narrow public health focus on risk and harm by centring pleasure as a key dynamic shaping the motivations and…