Confirmation of Candidature - The Failure of Political Islam in Sudan
Activity
This thesis examines the rise and collapse of political Islam in Sudan between 1989 and 2019. Following the National Islamic Front’s 1989 coup, the Inqādh (Salvation) regime sought to institutionalise a Shari‘a-based Islamist state, consolidating three decades of authoritarian rule under Omar al…
Reconstructing locomotion in the human lineage: integrating new morphological and biomechanical approaches
Seminar
At some point in our evolutionary history, we transitioned from being an ape-like arboreal species to becoming a committed terrestrial biped. However, the mode and timing of this change is not well understood, and it is becoming increasingly evident that fossil human ancestors were highly varied in…
Skepticism about Pure Moral Deference: Deflate, Debunk, or Defend?
Seminar
Suppose that moral knowledge is unexceptional in the following way: any source of non-moral knowledge can also be a source of moral knowledge. What, then, explains skepticism about pure moral deference—the sense that something is amiss with the agent who outsources her moral judgments? The…
Shameful Material: HIV/AIDS and Shame in North American Gay Short Fiction from the 1980s to 1990s
Lecture/seminar
North American gay short fiction from the 1980s to 1990s offers insight into the underexamined ways that shame is relieved and communicated relationally, within sexual practices, heterosocial friendships, and queer friend groups and literary networks. Authors such as David Leavitt, Stephen Greco,…
Loss and Damage: Enclosing Cyclones in 19th Century Indian Ocean
Seminar
The paper brings together the intertwined histories of maritime insurance, and the technical as well as vernacular representations of maritime storms in the late eighteenth century Indian Ocean. The technical representation of storms became an urgent issue of prediction as well as arbitrating legal…
Research Seminar: Dr Pat O’Grady
Seminar
‘Redefined and streamlined’: SSL SiX and masstige music production technologies Software has been fundamental to the transformation of music production in the past few decades. Digital tools have replaced many hardware-based equipment once almost exclusively available in large recording…
Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, by Naomi Parry Duncan
Book launch
In her new book Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, historian Naomi Parry Duncan wades through misinformation and myth to tell the story of one of the best-known First Nations resistance warriors of the early colonial period. In the process, she uncovers and grapples with the…