Aspiration and Anxiety: A Social Experimentation of Asian Migrant 'Tiger Parenting'
Seminar
Migration from Asia has transformed Australian schooling. Asian-Australian students are remarkably successful in school exams, dominate selective schools and classes, and are disproportionately found in prestigious university courses. ‘Skill level: Asian’ has become a pop culture shorthand to…
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia
Seminar
Abstract: The bodies of Indigenous Australians have been an object of western scientific enquiry for the entirety of the colonial encounter. Drawing on both famous and obscure episodes in the history of scientific research on Indigenous bodies and populations, this talk will tell a larger story of…
How Artifacts Afford
Book launch
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things Please join us to launch Dr. Jenny L. Davis’ new book, “How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things” (MIT Press 2020): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-artifacts-afford Book Description: Technologies are intrinsically social. They…
Crossing Boundaries and Fetishization: Experiences of Sexual Violence for Trans Women of Colour
Seminar
This seminar will take place via Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/94166663031?pwd=QmdxKzduNTBvZ2tQVStOQ1ZiaEJQdz09 Meeting ID: 941 6666 3031 Password: 761199 Abstract: Transgender (trans) women are at higher risk of sexual violence than cisgender women, with trans women of colour reported to be at…
Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia
Seminar
Abstract: In this talk I will share some of the work-in-progress from my research into how inherited family secrets, stories, and memories inform Australians' understandings of colonial history. So far, efforts to address historical silences focus on how we can change narratives at the macro level…
The Courage to Hear? Animal Advocacy, Foucault and Parrhēsia
Seminar
Abstract: A common tactic utilised by animal advocates involves the display of graphic footage or imagery (such as video footage from a slaughterhouse or factory farm) which depicts to its audience the “truth” of human violence towards animals. However the utility of these political tactics…
Self-Calibration in a Digital Society
Seminar
In this paper I will be focusing on how people in their everyday practice make sense of themselves and the society that they live in using an array of resources that include, but are not confined to, digital media. The advent of digital media has changed the forms of interaction available to us and…