Christopher Chevalier: Connected Histories – Recovering Oral History and Social History in Solomon Islands
Other
Pre-PHD Submission Presentation "My research explored different approaches to oral history to recover individual and social history in Solomon Islands since the end of the Pacific War in 1945. I gathered archival materials, life histories, and oral testimonies of older islanders and expatriates…
Dr Jathan Sadowski- Biopolitical Platforms: The Perverse Virtues of Digital Labour
Seminar
By mediating everyday activities, social interactions, and economic transactions, digital platforms play an increasingly dominant role in contemporary capitalism. These platforms have excelled at extracting value from assets and labour that have been deemed un(der)productive. While the burgeoning…
Lawrence Goldman: Robert Peel
Workshop
Peel: One British Prime Minister and Four Personalities Robert Peel was Conservative prime minister briefly in the 1830s and then again between 1841 and 1846 during which period he is famous for the repeal of the Corn Laws, the tariffs imposed on imported foodstuffs. His character and motivation…
Masterclass: An overview of population level mortality data
Workshop
'An overview of population level mortality data: availability, quality, emerging problems' This Master Class will summarise the experience of the work on the Human Mortality Database Project. The Human Mortality Database (HMD, www.mortality.org) is the world´s leading data resource on mortality in…
Method of decomposition for the assessment of life expectancy trends with example of analysis of life expectancy stagnation in England and Wales
Seminar
Demographers often compare populations using aggregated scalar indices, for instance, the life expectancy or total fertility rate. These indices are functions of event-rates across various dimensions including age, cause of death, population group, etc. The classic decomposition task is to…
Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
Abstract This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the…
Tim Rowse: Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the politics of…