Confirmation of Candidature - Islamic Finance
Lecture/seminar
Join us for the Confirmation of Candidature for two students both working on research related to the topic of Islamic Finance.The first presentation will be by Tayyaba Jabeen Fazal followed by the presentation by Moniruzzaman. Both students are PhD candidates at the Centre for Arab and Islamic…
Collective Punishment of the Other: Perceptions of Groupness and Public Responses to Foreign Influence
Lecture/seminar
When rival governments interfere in each other’s domestic affairs, disclosures of that interference often trigger demands for “collective punishment”—broadly punitive policies impacting the rival country’s ordinary citizens. Why do people support such indiscriminate policies that impose costs…
2026 John Passmore Lecture
Lecture
Smaller Chance of Mistake, More Innocents Dead: A Different Problem with Using AI Systems in War (and Elsewhere) AbstractUsing AI systems in identifying targets may very well increase accuracy, in the following sense: For each person suspected to be a legitimate target, the chance of a false…
Biography as Justice: Recasting Cultural Legacies of Harm
Seminar
Content warning: This talk will reference experiences of childhood sexual abuse, framed by the voices and stories of survivors.This paper considers questions from a forthcoming biography of Dorothy Hewett that explore not just how her legacy can be reconsidered in the light of revelations about…
Jack Smart Lecture: 'When may I burden myself?'
Lecture
There are cases in which both prudential rationality and morality allow you to burden yourself in some way at one time in order to secure something you value at another time. And there are cases in which prudential rationality and morality both prohibit doing this. But I will argue that there are…
Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, by Naomi Parry Duncan
Book launch
In her new book Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, historian Naomi Parry Duncan wades through misinformation and myth to tell the story of one of the best-known First Nations resistance warriors of the early colonial period. In the process, she uncovers and grapples with the…
From here to there and the in-between: Children’s transitions between homes after parental separation
Lecture/seminar
Two potentially important aspects of post-separation parenting arrangements are the number and nature of children’s transitions between homes. Yet scant empirical attention has been paid to the practical, emotional, and relational aspects of these. In this seminar, we examine five contextual…