Sexual Offending and Criminal Careers: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data
Seminar
Criminological research and criminal justice practice typically treat sexual offending as a specialized category. This talk examines that assumption, drawing on two empirical studies of sexual and violent offenders and their criminal trajectories.Both studies are based on Norwegian total-population…
Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments
Seminar
In the first half of the twentieth century, the new science of controlled heredity, “eugenics,” was shaped from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century by another new science of controlled environments, the science of “euthenics.” Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments…
Public Lecture: Resurgent Militancy and Strategic Rivalries: Rethinking Security Across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Beyond
Lecture
Resurgent Militancy and Strategic Rivalries: Rethinking Security Across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and BeyondThe talks will explore how the Taliban's return, renewed conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, together with India–Pakistan rivalry and great‑power competition, have created a deeply…
Torn between two paths: uncertainty and ambivalence in fertility intentions
Seminar
In countries with widespread access to modern contraception, childbearing is, for most people, a deliberate choice. Demographic theory has often implicitly assumed that people have clearly defined preferences or desires towards children and are able to articulate their future parenthood plans. For…
Colonial wilding: Cattle, Kangaroo and Gumbakuluk
Lecture
In 1788, a small herd of cattle trafficked from the Cape Colony (South Africa) with the First Fleet escaped and was lost to the colony at Warrane/Sydney. Years later, they were rediscovered by colonists, now living in large wild herds in an area of Country that was then re-named ‘Cowpastures’, with…
A Critique of Human Supremacism: Towards a New Sense of Reverence for the Planet.
Lecture
The Third Biennial Robin-Griffiths Lecture in Environmental History, ANU Centre for Environmental HistoryReception: 5.30–6.30pm | Lecture: 6.30–8pmFrom the seventeenth century on, European thinkers developed - often from religious principles - theories of human supremacism that eventually…
Holy Ground? A conversation about religion in environmental history
Lecture
God, and gods, tend to play a muted role in Australian environmental histories. The diverse religious experiences of First Nations and settler peoples grappling with a land once denounced as the ‘most godless place under heaven’ are yet to be fully explored or historicised. Yet religious beliefs…