Criminality and Femininity: Undoing the Paradox
Lecture/seminar
Women involved in violent crime, both perpetrators and victims, are often vulnerable to forms of representation that distort or overwrite their experiences. Their identities can be reduced to sexist stereotypes, while their bodies are displaced, manipulated and represented in ways that reinforce…
'Each book, in a word, carries a history': New Insights from First Fleet Association Copies
Lecture/seminar
The First Fleet sailed from England on 13 May 1787, carrying more than 1,500 people. What books they read, owned or carried with them remains a subject of great historical and research value for understanding Early European settlement in Australia. This paper examines surviving books of First Fleet…
Wellspring Series 2026: Beyond the Algorithm: challenging the manosphere
Theatre
Can we use social media to stop hate?How might we redesign digital spaces to minimise misogyny and associated social harms?Beyond the Algorithm pilots theatre-based critical empathy training with young people through an adapted form of Forum Theatre, an interactive theatre style that invites…
“Something about this job and many other kinds of jobs is essentially rotten”: Autofiction in the Amazon Fulfilment Centre
Lecture/seminar
In German novelist Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate (translated into English in 2018), the author details her time working as a temporary labourer in an Amazon fulfilment centre. As a work of autofiction, Geissler’s novel offers an unconventional twist: the novel is written in the second person,…
New Method Masterclass – Introduction to World-Literature
Workshop
Does it make sense to talk about Australian Literature, or English Literature, in the age of globalisation? As far back as 1848, Marx and Engels argued that international trade would mean national literatures would be superseded by a Weltliteratur. To what extent might the aesthetic features of the…
History Day at ANU
Workshop
A one-day event for senior secondary school students, hosted by the School of History & Centre for Classical Studies ANU in partnership with the History Teachers' Association ACT.Welcome to History Day at ANU 2026! Come with us on a journey back thousands of years to discover the history…
Wellspring Series 2026: Reimagining Sex Work
Activity
Debates about sex work often recycle sensationalised images of sex workers; salacious, depraved or victimised, they are not truly flesh and blood, but stock characters made to play a role in moral and political fantasy. Such myths fuel the collective imaginary, and of all media, cinema has perhaps…