Past events
How to Build a Stock Exchange—Public Lecture by Professor Philip Roscoe
Lecture
Join us for a public lecture by Professor Philip Roscoe, RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology, on his book How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (2023). About the Book Why is finance so important? How do stock markets work and what do they really do? Most…
Trends in Cohort Fertility Level among Chinese Women
Seminar
The continuous decline in the number of births in China has caused extensive attention. Based on the 2017 China Fertility Survey data and from a cohort perspective, this study calculated the age-specific childlessness proportion and age-specific average number of children ever born (CEB) by birth…
The Economies of Life in the Platform Economy: Social Reproduction, Depletion, and Disposability
Seminar
This paper examines the dynamics of the platform economy through the lens of social reproduction theory and feminist technoscience approaches to economics and capitalism. Both perspectives converge in their focus on situating bodies and the embodied experience of working and existing at the core of…
The historian in the mirror: writing first-person history, and other issues in contemporary historiography
Seminar
Responding to the impulse to provide an account of the birth of what was (probably) Australia’s last new polity – the ACT Legislative Assembly – has presented multiple challenges. The period under review (1989-2001, the first four Legislative Assemblies) ends just 25 years ago, rendering…
From Thesis to Published Book: An Aboriginal historian’s multi-generational family history research and what it revealed about the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people
Seminar
Shauna Bostock’s insatiable curiosity about her family history developed over time to become the focus of her academic research. She traced her four Aboriginal grandparents’ family lines to as far back as she could go in the written historic record, which was during the encroachment of white…
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Fertility Ideals Amidst Australia’s Fertility Declines
Seminar
Fertility ideals, desires, and intentions are among the strongest predictors of fertility. The link between these factors and fertility behaviours, as well as how they are influenced by socio-economic factors, is widely studied. However, much less is known about people’s psycho-emotional…
Seminar Series | Anna May Kirk
Art forum
Revealing the Invisible with Glass Anna May Kirk will discuss her practice with glass, exploring how environments transform over deep geological and human historical time, and how this change is experienced. Kirk’s works utilise the optical nature of glass to make tangible the many processes of…