CAIS careers night - 4 November 2020
Webinar/Online
The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies offers undergraduate, postgraduate and HDR programs that enable students to specialise in the study of the Middle East and Central Asia. CAIS programs include coursework subjects covering the politics, international relations, languages and cultures…
Oral Presentation Siddharth Shirodkar - Unlocking Indigenous entrepreneurial potential: Insights into the economics of discrimination in Australia for potential entrepreneurs
Seminar
ABSTRACT The recent success of the Indigenous business sector shows that entrepreneurship offers a means for greater Indigenous self-determination, wealth and job creation, and economic empowerment. But despite recent strong growth, rates of Indigenous business ownership remain well below that of…
Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia
Seminar
Abstract: In this talk I will share some of the work-in-progress from my research into how inherited family secrets, stories, and memories inform Australians' understandings of colonial history. So far, efforts to address historical silences focus on how we can change narratives at the macro level…
Online: Kyle Peyton - The Generalizability of Survey Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Seminar
The significant disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led many social scientists to turn toward online survey experimentation for empirical research. Generalizing from the experiments conducted during this period of persistent crisis may be challenging, both because of changes to the…
Online: Jennifer Piscopo - Elect Women, not Leftists: Mapping Latin America Elites’ Attitudes towards Gender Equality
Seminar
Which legislators support progress on gender equality and why? This paper measures legislators’ attitudes about women’s roles and support for gender equality policies, using recent survey data from 972 legislators in 13 Latin American countries. Importantly, the results show that not all gender…
The Courage to Hear? Animal Advocacy, Foucault and Parrhēsia
Seminar
Abstract: A common tactic utilised by animal advocates involves the display of graphic footage or imagery (such as video footage from a slaughterhouse or factory farm) which depicts to its audience the “truth” of human violence towards animals. However the utility of these political tactics…
Online: Sunshine Hillygus - Mobilizing the Youth Vote in the United States: Barriers and Opportunities
Seminar
Young Americans seem poised for unprecedented levels of civic and political participation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 election? Historically, youth voter turnout has…