Loss and Damage: Enclosing Cyclones in 19th Century Indian Ocean
Seminar
The paper brings together the intertwined histories of maritime insurance, and the technical as well as vernacular representations of maritime storms in the late eighteenth century Indian Ocean. The technical representation of storms became an urgent issue of prediction as well as arbitrating legal…
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…
Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy
Lecture
Democracy is in retreat in the United States and around the world, and our institutions are more fragile than ever. At this delicate moment, Professor Beth Noveck argues, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene — a powerful technology with as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm…
Three Things Reasons Do: Transmission, Aggregation, and Difference-Making
Seminar
Reasons for action can do many things. They can give rise to further reasons, combine to provide stronger support, and favour one option over another. Each of these phenomena has received considerable attention in the literature, but largely in isolation. I argue that they are systematically…
Chaste Girls and Minor Prostitutes: The Death of Kureema and the Limits of Colonial Legal Protection in British India
Seminar
The year is 1869. In the Punjab, a young girl of approximately fourteen years dies in the possession of a British Army major at Ferozepur Cantonment. The Lahore civil court acquits the officer on all charges. Through the hitherto unexamined case of Regina v. Roger Wally Glasse, this talk…
Divergence and Convergence in Health among Mozambican Self-Settled Refugees and the South African Host Population in Rural South Africa, 1994-2018
Seminar
Evidence on the long-term health consequences of forced displacement remains limited, particularly for refugees who permanently settle within host communities. This thesis examined changes in mortality, morbidity and chronic disease care among Mozambican self-settled refugees in rural South Africa,…
Ancient Greek Law and Justice in Modern Democracies
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies warmly invites you to a public lecture “Ancient Greek Law and Justice in Modern Democracies" by his Honour, Justice Andrew S. Kostopoulos, Justice of the Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea, during his visit to Canberra in August.In this public…