AFRAN Forum 2020
Webinar/Online
Each year, AFRAN runs an annual National Forum to exhibit and discuss current cooperation and areas of future cooperation upscaling potential. The theme for 2020 is “Oceania: a strategic arena for collaboration and navigation of 21st Century research and innovation challenges”. This year, the…
Schuman Lecture - Solidarity and Unity: charting a course for the EU in troubled times
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies is delighted to present this contribution to our Schuman Lecture Series, to be delivered by Ambassador of Germany to Australia, His Excellency Dr Thomas Fitschen. In this year’s Schuman Lecture, His Excellency Dr Thomas Fitschen will speak about the role…
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia
Seminar
Abstract: The bodies of Indigenous Australians have been an object of western scientific enquiry for the entirety of the colonial encounter. Drawing on both famous and obscure episodes in the history of scientific research on Indigenous bodies and populations, this talk will tell a larger story of…
2020 Transnational Research Institute on Corruption Webinar Series: “Police Corruption: How to reduce it” with Professor Leslie Holmes
Webinar/Online
Police corruption can be found in every corner of the world. According to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, more people pay bribes to the police than to any other officers of the state. To compound the problem, and for reasons that will be elaborated in this webinar,…
How Artifacts Afford
Book launch
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things Please join us to launch Dr. Jenny L. Davis’ new book, “How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things” (MIT Press 2020): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-artifacts-afford Book Description: Technologies are intrinsically social. They…
Oral Presentation Paul Campbell - Tracing time: Using longitudinal data to understand changes in individual characteristics and circumstances, and make inferences about population-level change
Seminar
ABSTRACT Population-level change is driven by individual-level decisions. The advent of a range of longitudinal datasets, such as panel data and linked data, has made it possible to study change at the individual level in much richer detail. In this presentation, I will first provide a broad…
Online: James Morrow - The Domestic Foundations of International Law: Non-Intervention versus Territorial Integrity
Seminar
The UN Charter and the Covenant of the League of Nations sought to legalize norms of territorial integrity and non-intervention. The growth of the size of domestic winning coalitions over time resulting from the decline of traditional systems, the spread of democracy, and the expansion of…