Poland in the EU: Supporting or Contesting the European Order
Lecture
Over the last several decades, Poland’s role in Europe has been significant though changing considerably. Yet, it is not only the role of Poland within the European order that has been shifting, but the European order itself has also undergone a noticeable transformation. Poland can be regarded in…
School of Demography Seminar Tuesday 17 March (Postponed)
Seminar
Please note: the School of Demography Seminar Series has been postponed for the foreseeable future. Please check back here for more information.
Brexit, Ireland and the Politics of Belonging
Lecture
The ANU Australian Studies Institute is pleased to host acclaimed Irish author, Fintan O’Toole, for a seminar on ‘Brexit, Ireland and the Politics of Belonging’ The crisis of Brexit has revealed deep divisions within the United Kingdom not just about membership of the EU but about the idea of…
Institutional Design and Attitudinal Expectations: Linking Models of Judicial Appointments to Voting Expectations on National Apex Courts
Seminar
The Impact of Ideology on Judicial Behaviour on the High Court of Australia It is widely accepted outside of Australia that the voting behaviour of justices on apex courts is affected by the justice’s political preferences (or ideology). In numerous countries—including the United States, Canada,…
Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
Workshop
Australian author and historian Cassandra Pybus will discuss her soon-to-be published book Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse. The Indigenous museum curator, Gaye Sculthorpe, has described the book as giving this much misunderstood and misrepresented figure ‘the proper attention she…
Reviewing Economics in the light of Indigenous perspectives: Can this help us make better decisions concerning the environment?
Seminar
Abstract Environmental problems like the current climate crisis are making it more clear than ever that our relationship with the Earth needs to change. This implies, among the other things, questioning how we make decisions that affect the environment, recognizing that the methods we are using—…
The case for monitoring lifespan inequality
Seminar
Abstract Human population health is generally monitored by average mortality levels, typically in terms of life expectancies or age-standardised death rates, which mask substantial variation in length of life. Variation in ages at death, captured by a metric of lifespan inequality, should be used…