Understanding the impact of late-life social integration on cognitive health by using longitudinal datasets
Seminar
Cognitive health is a critical and growing global issue, driven by population ageing and evidenced by the growing burden of dementia. Both normal ageing and neurodegenerative disease contribute to memory decline, yet longitudinal studies reveal substantial heterogeneity in these trajectories.…
Symposium on Gender and Population
Symposium
Gender gaps in Australia’s population are evident across many dimensions — from life expectancy and health outcomes to education, work, income, and family life. These differences affect the nation’s demographic trends, social equity, and economic development. Moreover, gender identities themselves…
Babies, Bots and the Birth of Consciousness
Lecture/seminar
When does consciousness first emerge in human development? Professor Tim Bayne develops one answer to this question, and suggests that this answer has interesting implications for the question of artificial consciousness. Tim Bayne is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, with a…
Natureculture: rethinking socio-ecological relations
Lecture/seminar
This Social Sciences Week public panel brings together a group of scholars and landscape practitioners whose work challenges the artificial distinctions often made between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’. Looking at a diversity of actors, from estrogens and wild animals to carbon credits and urban…
Who should vote, who can vote, and who does vote? Democratic inclusion principles and the electoral participation of migrants
Lecture/seminar
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) defines the ‘basis of the authority of government’ as being ‘the will of the people’ (Art 21.1) and emphasises that ‘everyone has the right to take part in the government of his [sic.] country, directly or through freely chosen representatives’ (Art…
Police Violence and White Supremacist Terrorism
Seminar
This paper will argue that there is an ongoing and mutually reinforcing relationship between state and nonstate white supremacist terrorism in the United States. Historically, white supremacist terrorism, perpetuated by organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan, has been both tolerated and perpetrated…
A Memory of Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of Japanese Conservatism, 1918–1975
Seminar
On 8 July 2022 Abe Shinzō, Japan’s longest serving postwar leader, was gunned down during a last-minute campaign stop in the western city of Nara. His murder laid bare the Cold War-era alliances which underpinned the country’s long history of conservative rule, a history and inheritance personified…