Against Posthumanism
Conference
This workshop will involve an engagement with Professor Nikolas Rose’s recent publication, ‘Against Posthumanism: Notes Towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood’ (co-authored with Professor Thomas Osbourne). The paper, which will be circulated to invited participants prior to the event, challenges…
Towards Ecosocial Cities? Urban-Nature Encounters and Relations
Conference
We are now living in the age of expansive urbanisation, with estimates suggesting that nearly 60% of the world’s population – some 4.4 billion people – reside in cities (World Bank, 2023), with this trend only set to intensify over the coming decades (Rose and Fitzgerald, 2022). While cities…
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…