Masterclass: An overview of population level mortality data
Workshop
'An overview of population level mortality data: availability, quality, emerging problems' This Master Class will summarise the experience of the work on the Human Mortality Database Project. The Human Mortality Database (HMD, www.mortality.org) is the world´s leading data resource on mortality in…
Method of decomposition for the assessment of life expectancy trends with example of analysis of life expectancy stagnation in England and Wales
Seminar
Demographers often compare populations using aggregated scalar indices, for instance, the life expectancy or total fertility rate. These indices are functions of event-rates across various dimensions including age, cause of death, population group, etc. The classic decomposition task is to…
Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
Abstract This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the…
Tim Rowse: Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the politics of…
Diversifying Australia: Immigration and demographics in the post-White Australia policy era
Seminar
A free public lecture on how immigration has shaped the changing face of Australia since the end of the White Australia policy era Australia has one of the largest percentages of immigrant populations in the developed world with a highly regulated system of immigration control, and regular…
Diversifying Australia: Immigration and demographics in the post-White Australia policy era
Lecture
A free public lecture on how immigration has shaped the changing face of Australia since the end of the White Australia policy era Australia has one of the largest percentages of immigrant populations in the developed world with a highly regulated system of immigration control, and regular…
Russia in Asia and the World: A Symposium dedicated to Yevgeny Primakov
Symposium
The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) will hold a symposium on Friday, October 25, entitled 'Russia in Asia and the World: A Symposium dedicated to Yevgeny Primakov'. Yevgeny Primakov (1929 – 2015) was an outstanding Russian scholar and statesman. Having…