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…
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…