Diversification of causes of death in low mortality countries
Seminar
Lifespan variation has been decreasing in industrialised societies, as individuals became more homogeneous in their age at death. But are individuals also becoming more homogeneous in their causes of death? In this paper, we study the variation of causes of death and show that, due to the major…
Dr Anna Olsen PhD - The social life of naloxone
Seminar
Hardon, van der Geest and Whyte, anthropologists who study medicines, contend that like other commodities, medicines acquire meaning as they enter into the life of people. As such, it is fruitful to follow medicines around in order to study their culturally situated uses. Medicines transform not…
Fernando Martinez Coma - Transaction Costs in Electoral Coordination: How Turnout Shapes Party System Change
Seminar
This presentation examines the forces shaping party system change. We argue that the transaction costs in electoral coordination depend on the turnout level in the previous election. The greater the number of peripheral voters entering the electorate, the less likely a change in the party system in…
Mass incarceration of First Nations people: the legacy of invasion for Australia’s criminal justice system
Seminar
Abstract “The justice system is broken” is a common phrase heard in advocacy regarding the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. However, today’s criminal justice system was built on colonial policies of dispossession, slavery, discrimination and oppression of First…
Renewable energy developments on the Indigenous estate in northwest Western Australia
Seminar
Abstract Energy is an intrinsic driver of economic, political and social development. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Indigenous estate of northwest Western Australia - a region that hosts world class wind and solar resources as well as significant energy mineral deposits, all in close…
International Workshop on Subnational Life Tables
Workshop
Hosted by the ANU School of Demography and the Human Mortality Database team, this workshop focused on mortality at the subnational level, with particular interest in studies using country-specific databases related to the Human Mortality Database (HMD). Presentations Links for other…
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria - presented by ANU Majlis
Seminar
In this Majlis, Dara Conduit will discuss her new book The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, (Cambridge University Press, August 2019). The book examines the experiences of the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 2011 Syrian uprising. The Brotherhood had played a role in every iteration of…