The Ethics of Prediction Markets: A Proposal for Expanding on Existing Moral Limits to Markets Frameworks
Seminar
This article offers a systematic account of the ethics of prediction markets: markets for the trade of financial claims conditional on the occurrence of specified events. Having recently gained prominence, prediction markets remain controversial and their regulation constitutes an urgent policy…
Writing Workshop with Professor Tom Griffiths
Workshop
This event is for postgraduate students studying history.If you wish to attend, RSVP to ruby.ekkel@anu.edu.au by 15 September 2026 In universities, the actual process of writing is rarely talked about, yet effective writing is integral to a creative life of words and ideas. Our aim in this…
Title: Transition to Parenthood? Fertility Intentions of China-born Migrants in Australia
Seminar
Empirical research on fertility among China-born migrants has largely focused on realised fertility patterns, while fertility intentions have received comparatively limited attention. This thesis examines the fertility intentions of China-born migrants in Australia by considering not only…
Cyclones and Cassowaries: Cyclone Winifred and its multi-species history
Seminar
Despite being often regarded as a human-centred disaster, cyclones are a meteorological phenomenon that affects multispecies communities. Using the case study of Cyclone Winifred in far north Queensland, Australia, in 1986, I demonstrate how a cyclone can be a more-than-human event in which humans,…
Fashioning the biography of Australian women artists: Dress and the self-portraits of Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen
Seminar
What can a self-portrait tell us about an artist’s life, and what happens when we look closely at what she chose to wear? Taking self-portraits by Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen in the National Portrait Gallery collection as its starting point, my project considers dress as a form of biographical…
In Conversation with Jessica Urwin and Ruth Morgan at Paperchain Bookstore
Book launch
You are warmly invited to the Canberra launch of Dr Jessica Urwin’s book, Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia. During the twentieth century, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear programs of numerous global powers. From…
Teaching and Learning Political Science in the Era of AI
Lecture
In this presentation, Professor Ishiyama will discuss what is meant by AI, particularly as it relates to teaching and learning. Second, he will review the principal challenges that have emerged as the result of the advent of AI, particularly how these challenges relate to the recommendations…