Daily Archives: 22 October 2025

ANZAMEMS Reading Group

The next session of the 2025 ANZAMEMS reading group is on Tuesday 28 October at 1-2pm Melbourne time (UTC+11). This will be on the topic of ‘Disability and Legal Discrimination’. See schedule below.

The Zoom links, readings, and full schedule can be found on the Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qi0W8i-38w0Dgwia9jJ0aDCh5OEQjpRF.

We are asking those interested to register again on TryBooking at https://www.trybooking.com/CZJNA, although drop-ins are always welcome.

Please contact the convenor with any queries: Emily Chambers (Murdoch University), emily.chambers@murdoch.edu.au.

Reading Group Schedule S2 2025 UPDATED LINKDownload

ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Peer Support Group

The next ANZAMEMS Peer Support Group will begin on Tuesday 28 October. 

The Peer Support Group is a writing and discussion space for postgraduate members of ANZAMEMS. The group will run online, via Zoom, and is open to postgraduate members at any stage from honours to PhD. Attendance across all sessions is not mandatory. This is an informal support group, and we welcome drop-ins as much as regular attendance. See our website for further information.

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact ANZAMEMS Postgraduate Representative (AUS) Jenny Davis Barnett at j.barnett@uq.edu.au.

Fulcrum: Science and Tech before 1500

On the 24th October ANU’s Dr Tatiana Bur will launch Fulcrum, Australasia’s network for the study of science and technology before 1500. Please find the program below.

Fulcrum is a group of Australasian scholars working on a broad range of premodern scientific and technological themes, with a particular emphasis on their interactions with other elements of culture such as gender, religion, philosophy, art, identity, history and historiography. You can find further information at:

www.fulcrumnetwork.me

You are invited to the official launch of this new body on 24 October, which will feature conversations between scholars from Classics, Assyriology, science communication, the history of medicine, cultural arts, philosophy and cybernetics on a range of themes relating to modern science and technology.  

The event is free, and is an all-day event held on campus from 9 am to 5 pm. The programme is attached, with venues to be advised closer to the date.

If you would like to register to attend, you can do so via the following link:

https://events.humanitix.com/fulcrum-launch

Please touch base with Tatiana Bur for any inquiries (Tatiana.bur@anu.edu.au).

Fulcrum Programme PosterDownload