Past events
Seminar Series | Jahnne Pasco-White
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online via Zoom (a link to the online stream will be sent to registered attendees). Embodied Watery Painting This talk will draw upon the contemporary hydro-feminism of Astrida Neimanis to reconfigure water in relation to the body and artmaking.…
Marital Dissolution, Repartnering, and the Realization of Fertility Desires in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture/seminar
Fertility patterns in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain one of the most compelling demographic puzzles of the 20th and 21st centuries. While extensive research has explored fertility variation across the region, the role of marital dissolution and repartnering has received limited attention until…
Are there neural representations?
Seminar
Are there neural representations? This talk lays out traditional philosophical criteria for mental representations, and considers whether neuroimaging provides evidence of them. It briefly reviews previous work suggesting that FMRI, and in particular, Representational Similarity Analysis, provides…
Tradeoffs in Trade
Seminar
Tradeoffs in trade: How the public perceives environmental, human rights, and labor standards in international trade agreementsSince the 1990s, governments have increasingly embedded “non-trade” provisions—such as environmental, human rights, and labor standards—into free trade agreements (FTAs).…
Past and future histories of Gender and Colonialism: In celebration of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott
Lecture/seminar
Join us to celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott in this special event. This multi-generational panel of leading historians will consider why looking at gender and colonisation together has been especially productive, what it means to write ‘feminist’ history, and what’s…
Small area estimation of age-specific and total fertility rates in Bangladesh
Seminar
Bangladesh has experienced a rapid national decline in fertility in recent decades; however, fertility rates vary considerably at the sub-national level (i.e., division). These variations are expected to be more pronounced at lower levels of geography (e.g., district level). However, routinely…
Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society
Lecture
What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…