Past events
Bungee jumping on election night - A conversation with Antony Green
Lecture
Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst…
CANCELLED: Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship (April Biccum, ANU)
Seminar
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLEDThis talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but connected ‘cases’ of a concept-in-use. Global Citizenship is a concept with increasing currency. The talk compares two different…
Population Projections
Continuing education
This 2-day course introduces the basic elements of population projections. Predicting the future population is one of the most frequently requested outputs from clients:Governments on future for roads, schools, medical personnel, tax policies, etc.;Businesses: future market size;Demography: to…
30 Years in the EU
Panel discussion
2025 marks three decades since Austria, Finland, and Sweden became valued members of the European Union.To celebrate this milestone, join an evening of discussion with the Ambassadors of Austria, Finland, and Sweden to Australia. This will be followed by a Q&A, joined by the Ambassador of the…
Art | Science | Design: Aesthetic representation of weather and climate
Event
Hear from visiting artist Leah Beeferman (Rhode Island School of Design) and climate scientist Professor Andy Hogg (Director of Australia’s Climate Simulator, ACCESS-NRI), in conversation with Dr Pia Van Gelder (ANU School of Art & Design), convened by Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach. Presented by…
Factfulness and Metalinguistic Agency in Humans and Language Models
Seminar
Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from a variety of infelicities of language such as hallucinations, inconsistencies, continuity and coherence problems, etc. Some of these difficulties suggest that LMs have no idea what they are saying when they “speak”. And yet LMs often also behave in…
Illiberal language, illiberal trends: Political speech and democratic decline
Seminar
Political leaders signal their commitment to democratic or authoritarian values through public speeches. Such signals can constitute a breach of democratic norms and indicate intent to undermine democratic institutions.By listening to what leaders say, we are able to detect a crisis of democracy…