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…
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…
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…
Queering Auto/Biography: The Many Lives of Alison Clark
Seminar
Please note that this presentation will discuss gender based violence and trauma associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.In life-writing by and about queer lives, there are few examples of auto/biography that reflect, in their presentation of both content and structure, the anti-normative experience…
History Day at ANU
Other
A one-day event for senior secondary school students, hosted by the School of History & Centre for Classical Studies ANU in partnership with the History Teachers' Association ACT.Welcome to History Day at ANU 2026! Come on a journey back thousands of years to discover the history and…
‘Instrumentalisation’ of migration and its impact on asylum protection in the EU: Norm contestation perspective
Seminar
The ANU Centre for European Studies is delighted to invite you to a seminar on ‘Instrumentalisation’ of migration and its impact on asylum protection in the European Union: norm contestation perspective, by Professor Dorota Heidrich from the University of Warsaw.The summer of 2021 in the European…
2026 Short course: Analysing Time to Events
Continuing education
This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…