Climate’s Computational Infrastructures
Lecture/seminar
What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary futures? How do computational ensembles pull together computing architectures, data pipelines, calculative practices, and institutional settings to make…
Surface Rights: Aboriginal Lands and Minerals Under the Woodward Royal Commission
Lecture/seminar
On the 50-year anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, this seminar turns to the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of the recognition of Aboriginal mineral rights. Why were Aboriginal mineral rights not…
Latest Demographic Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Pace, Development, and Inequalities
Seminar
Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced rapid demographic change over the past century, marked by sustained fertility decline, improvements in life expectancy, and shifting migration patterns. Although these processes are often described as part of a compressed demographic transition, they…
US/ Israel War on Iran: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
The ongoing US/Israel War on Iran has grave human consequences that deeply threaten regional & global peace1,500+ people reportedly killed in Iran so far, plus 3+ million displaced.1000+ people have been killed in Lebanon and 1+ million displaced.Iranian retaliatory strikes have…
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Lecture/seminar
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy. Snakes continually appear in the scholarly debates about the utility and value of flora and fauna from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century,…
Enchantment and Apocalypse: The Lives and Art of Twin Prodigies, Edward Julius and Charles Maurice Detmold
Seminar
The twin artists Charles Maurice (1883–1908) and Edward Julius (1883–1957) Detmold have been described as ‘two of the most extraordinary figures in the annals of early modern art’. Largely self-taught artistic prodigies, they first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of thirteen. But, as…
Repression, Religion, and Regime Loyalty in Nazi Germany
Lecture/seminar
Measuring regime support in closed autocracies is challenging due to preference falsification and censorship. Professor Alexander De Juan introduces a novel behavioral measure of regime loyalty based on expressions of allegiance in 600,000 soldier obituaries published in Nazi Germany (1939–1944).…