Berlin Summer School: European Migration, Culture and Citizenship
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OVERVIEW OF SUMMER SCHOOL This intensive Summer School brought undergraduates to Berlin to learn about European immigration and integration challenges. Study topics included: Islam in Europe; multiculturalism; relationship between culture and citizenship; memorialisation versus community-based…
A General Mortality Model & Moving Verbal Autopsy from Research to Routine Use
Seminar
This seminar will have two parts. First, presentation of a formal mortality model, and second, discussion of efforts to rapidly improve information on cause of death where there are few data describing how people die. High quality data describing all-age mortality are not available for many low and…
Ashley Barnwell: Keeping the nation’s secrets
Workshop
Keeping the nation’s secrets: ‘colonial storytelling’ within and about Australian families Recent studies of the ‘genealogy craze’ focus on how family historians appeal to ancestors to fashion their own identities, but ‘doing family history’ can also be a form of national identity work. In Finding…
Excellence and Gender Equality: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
Conference
26-28 June 2019: Australian National University, Canberra, ANU Gender Institute Signature Event This conference aims to reshape current approaches to gender inequality in academia, and shifs the attention that has often been paid primarily to women in STEM to issues in HASS disciplines. By…
Reconstruction of Race in the US Census 1790-2020
Seminar
In setting out the structure of the new Republic, the American Constitution required that a federal government carry out a full census of the resident population. From the first enumeration in 1789 the census has distinguished people according to race, initially in the categories free white males,…
Developing life tables for the Indigenous population: A journey in learning
Seminar
Although all deaths in Australia are likely to be registered, not all Indigenous deaths are identified as Indigenous when they are being registered. To deal with this problem of under-identification of Indigenous deaths, official life tables for the Indigenous population were based on indirect…
The Oocyte Economy: in conversation with Prof Catherine Waldby
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In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes—the reproductive cells specific to…