Ten Years after the Arab Spring: Results and Prospects
Webinar/Online
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, researched and taught in Beirut, Paris and Berlin, and has been since 2007 Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. His many books, published in over 15 languages, include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of…
Echoes of slavery in the colonisation of Western Australia’s north
Webinar/Online
As Western Australia agitated for self-government in the 1880s, its colonists were caught in a dilemma. They needed to show the Colonial Office, which had threatened to retain management of the north, that the colony effectively controlled the furthest reaches of its vast land mass and that it was…
Advancing research on healthy longevity in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Seminar
In this presentation, I will discuss my ongoing work exploring healthy longevity, funded ARC DECRA and ANU Futures Scheme grants. I’ll discuss the overall goals for these interconnected projects, and describe why research exploring healthy ageing, and social inequalities in the aging process, is…
James Stirling, first governor of Western Australia and imperial investor
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Admiral James Stirling arrived on Noongar land in 1829 to proclaim it the British colony of Western Australia. Officially, he represented the British government. Unofficially, he represented the commercial interests of his family, a collection of British naval officers, East India Company…
A modern conceptual framework for statistics on international migration and mobility
Seminar
In this presentation, I will talk about the work I have been involved in for the past two years with the United Nations Statistical Division and the Expert Group on Migration Statistics on developing a revised conceptual framework on statistics on international migration and mobility. The…
Pastoralism, Aboriginal labour and the shift towards convict transportation in Western Australia
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By the end of the 1830s, the bloody conquest of the Avon valley east of Perth was largely complete. A years-long campaign of state sanctioned violence against the Ballardong Noongar, which reached a climax in 1837, firmly established settler sovereignty over a fertile and well-watered region that…
Idling in Green Places
Workshop
Idling in Green Places: Or Pinning Down a Naturalist Alec Chisholm (1890-1977) was a self-educated polymath of a kind that has since vanished from Australia’s public life. Renowned first for his lushly Romantic writings on nature, he went on to win accolades that made him a household name in the…