Latin America faces the oil shock: South-South engagement during the 1970s Oil Shock
Lecture/seminar
This paper examines the relationship between three Global South actors during the 1970s — Mexico, Venezuela, and Australia — on questions of energy and technology. The paper will present the emergence, development and ultimate failure of a south-south relation during the 1970s, drawing on archival…
Revolutions are Back!
Lecture/seminar
Professor George Lawson works in the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU). His work is oriented around the relationship between history and theory, with a particular interest in global historical sociology.He applied…
Shining a Light: A Group Biography of the Women of Mackay, Queensland
Seminar
This book is about a group of thirty-seven women who made a significant contribution to the Mackay district from the 1860s to 2023. Their stories reflect the changing role of women in Australia from early settlement days to the present. These women came from all walks of life to make a mark on…
Die Hard: Chance and Selective Causal Decision Theory
Seminar
Many existing causal decision theories do not correctly handle cases in which agents have information about the outcome of a chance process. Those causal decision theories—such as Lewis's—that deliver the correct verdicts in some such cases do so for the wrong reasons. Alexander Sandgreen adapts…
The making and shaping of an Australian icon: E.E. Dunlop’s heroic reputation
Lecture/seminar
At the time of Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop’s death in 1993, many asked: Why did Dunlop receive all the fame? Why did none of the other forty-three doctors, who were also prisoners of war on the Burma-Thailand railway, receive the same accolades as Dunlop? This pre-submission paper explores the…
Towards Actually Existing Development: Project implementation in twentieth century international development
Lecture/seminar
International development formed a core plank of the twentieth-century international system. While we know a great deal about the politics and planning of development, historians have rarely pursued the grassroots dynamics of project implementation. In this paper, Professor SobocinskaI illustrates…
Managing Elections in a Changing World
Lecture/seminar
The field of electoral management is being reshaped, as many of the foundational assumptions crafted in the 1990s no longer apply as initially imagined. From the 1990s, the shaping of the professional norms of election management was shaped by democratisation practices introduced in one context and…