Upcoming events
2025 John Passmore Lecture with Professor Niko Kolodny
Lecture
⚠️ Please note: Start time is subject to final confirmation. Registered attendees will be notified of any changes. Join us for the 2025 John Passmore Lecture by Professor Niko Kolodny on Two Concepts of Consent. Niko will explore how consent transforms moral duties and what conditions give it…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?
Seminar
Commercially available AI systems for the detection of sentiment or emotions from human faces, text, and non-verbal behavior are already widely deployed, even if they don’t fully live up to the marketing hype. At the same time, generative AI models are now capable of producing text and images that…