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Intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA), data analysis concept. Businessman working on laptop in office with financial graph, analytic dashboard
16
Jun
2025

Analysing Time to Events

Continuing education

This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…

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26
Jun
2025

‘Reading biographies to overcome loneliness’: Reflections of an accidental biographer

Seminar

Frank Moorhouse (1938–2022) is best known as a writer of literary fiction. All of his fiction is connected, with his many books sharing characters and experiences, including across generations, and covering much of the 20th century: one of the most sustained feats of the imagination in Australia’s…

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Gideon Rosen
17
Jul
2025

Explanatory Realism

Lecture

The cement of the universe is not causation: it is explanatory dependence. Reality is a network of facts connected by a single, irreducible, mind-independent “because”. It is widely held that explanation is a sort, interest-sensitive practice that aims to provide information only about other things…

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Drawing of an Indian Ayah from 1864 and photo of professor Victoria Haskins
22
Jul
2025

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…

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