Bungee jumping on election night - A conversation with Antony Green
Lecture
Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst…
CANCELLED: Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship (April Biccum, ANU)
Seminar
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLEDThis talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but connected ‘cases’ of a concept-in-use. Global Citizenship is a concept with increasing currency. The talk compares two different…
Population Projections
Continuing education
This 2-day course introduces the basic elements of population projections. Predicting the future population is one of the most frequently requested outputs from clients:Governments on future for roads, schools, medical personnel, tax policies, etc.;Businesses: future market size;Demography: to…
30 Years in the EU
Panel discussion
2025 marks three decades since Austria, Finland, and Sweden became valued members of the European Union.To celebrate this milestone, join an evening of discussion with the Ambassadors of Austria, Finland, and Sweden to Australia. This will be followed by a Q&A, joined by the Ambassador of the…
Quantitative Text Analysis in Political Science
Workshop
In a political environment increasingly defined by rapid information dissemination, digital communication, and data proliferation, Quantitative Text Analysis (QTA) has emerged as an essential tool for political scientists. By enabling robust and systematic analysis of political texts such as…
Women at the edge of the world: human extinction discourse history and historiography
Seminar
The concept of human extinction in European discourse simultaneously invokes a universal 'we' while delineating exclusive 'others'—notably dying races, languages, and tribes—exposing a paradox rooted in Enlightenment thought, colonialism, and scientific rationalism. This presentation critically…
Comparing Populations
Continuing education
In this 2-day course, we'll learn skills that help demographers, policymakers, and health and social researchers measure differences between populations, and techniques that allow valid comparisons to be made across populations with differing compositions.Populations can be compared in many ways,…