Protesting School Access for First Nations Communities, 1900s-1950s
Seminar
Schooling today, as in the past, is a central site of protest and struggle for First Nations self-determination and justice. First Nations’ leaders have repeatedly identified Australia’s schooling system as a root cause of failed social transformation. As scholars of contemporary Indigenous…
Oct 11 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 13 SEPTEMBER 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
Seminar
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation –where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to…
Population & Pandemic: The demographic impacts of COVID-19 in Australia
Symposium
COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on populations, from cradle to grave, around the world. In Australia, communities and governments reacted quickly at the outset, protecting lives and livelihoods. In the process though, international borders were shuttered, communities locked down and family and…
Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research - A Conversation
Seminar
Diana Rose and Michelle Banfield will discuss Diana’s book Mad Knowledges and User Led Research (Palgrave, 2022) which combines theory, research and activism around 'madness' and proposes the conditions needed to address the development of Mad epistemologies (knowledges). This is ONLINE ONLY.…
What is life? Narrowing the scope - Emily Parke
Seminar
Speaker: Emily Park The nature of life has been debated for thousands of years. Surveys of the literature have counted over 100 proposed answers to the question "What is life?". Recently the literature has divided into some arguing for pluralist or pragmatic approaches, and others…
Appeasement as a Balancing Strategy
Seminar
Virtually all models of power shifts in international politics have assumed only two actors. In such settings, when expected shifts in power are sufficiently large, conflict becomes very difficult to avoid. This paper demonstrates how the addition of third parties can facilitate peaceful power…