Afghanistan in 2019: Diplomatic perspectives & strategic constraints
Seminar
Afghanistan’s contested power structures have vexed policymakers and scholars under a backdrop of retrospective overextension of US power. In a post-US led world order, the normative means of negotiating Afghanistan’s future have seen greater plurality both internally and externally. Internally,…
Crown-Indigenous Relations in Canada: Advancing Reconciliation, Recognizing Rights, and Respecting Indigenous Self-Determination
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Diverse Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now known as Canada for untold millennia. Since at least the early 17th century, they have been living alongside European colonizers, settlers, their descendants, and eventually new Canadians from all over the world. What began as a series…
Launch event: Latin America in Australia Policy Briefings
Seminar
Latin America in Australia: Policy Briefings Launch This Policy Briefings series outline the dynamics of migration, integration and identity for 14 Latin American countries and is the product of a unique research collaboration between ANU and the Embassies of Latin America, supported by funding…
Role-Taking in Everyday Life: Graduate Fellows Panel
Panel discussion
The Role-Taking Project (RTP) is an ongoing initiative for the systematic study of role-taking, or symbolically placing the self in another’s position. Supported by an ANU Futures Scheme grant and led by Dr. Jenny Davis (ANU Sociology) and Dr. Tony Love (University of Kentucky Sociology), a core…
Building Indigenous post-graduate pipelines: Some strategies for success
Seminar
Abstract The Universities Australia Indigenous Strategy 2017 - 2020 sets a broadly ambitious agenda for achievement in Indigenous Higher education. Aspirational targets for access, retention and success of undergraduate students were established, with concomitant institutional commitment. There is…
Workshop: Barriers to and Priorities for International Trade in Services
Workshop
This Jean Monnet workshop is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Intensive Workshop: Canberra, 24-26 July 2019 This Workshop brought together academics, policy-makers, trade negotiators, data specialists and trade consultants for an intensive discussion on some of the most…
Self-in-Self, Mind-in-Mind, Heart-in-Heart: The Role-Taking Project
Lecture
Role-taking refers to the process of symbolically placing the self in another’s position. The concept was introduced by George Herbert Mead in 1934 and is now foundational in the sociological canon. However, role-taking has received little systematic attention, instead persisting as axiomatic in…