Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research - A Conversation
Conference
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Diana Rose and Michelle Banfield will be in discussion about Diana’s book Mad Knowledges and User Led Research (Palgrave, 2022) which combines theory, research and activism around 'madness' and…
Call for EOI: Community Engagement: the Challenges of Research and Marginalised Groups
Workshop
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are seeking expressions of interest from ANU academics and students to participate in the Masterclass with the Honorary Distinguished Professor Diana Rose on "Community engagement: the…
Call for EOI: How Does ‘Structural Violence’ Get Under the Skin?
Workshop
We regret to inform that this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are seeking expressions of interest from ANU academics and students to participate in the Masterclass with the Distinguished Honorary Professor Nikolas Rose on "How does ‘structural violence’…
Is a Different Psychiatry Possible?
Conference
In this paper, Professors Diana and Nikolas Rose examine a number of approaches that propose new models for psychiatric theory and practices; in the way that they incorporate ‘social’ dimensions, in the way they involve ‘communities’ in treatment, in the ways that they engage mental health service…
Nineteenth Century Life Science and the Professionalisation of Sociology
Seminar
If we examine the professionalisation of the social science disciplines during the Nineteenth Century, we see a leveraging of the more established and more prestigious natural sciences. In order to establish knowledge claims and epistemological legitimacy in the new research universities, some of…
The Lives and Labour of Australia’s Energy Workforce
Lecture
Hear Beck Pearce talk on the 30 August about Australia’s energy workforce, the latest talk in a series about society and climate. Morning tea is included so bring a mug! In this talk, Beck provides notes from the field and insights from a labour study of the industrial transformations set in train…
Welcoming the Foreigner: A Possibility of Multispecies Hospitality
Seminar
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…