Understanding Volunteerism and the "Bad Investment" Narrative: Typologies for Investments in Youth-led Peacebuilding
Seminar
International peacebuilding efforts are increasingly focused on the pursuit of inclusive practices to enable good governance for sustainable peace. Central to these efforts are attempts by youth advocates and their allies to encourage more meaningful investments in youth-focused partnerships.…
Raining on Winchester Races: Jane Austen’s Climates
Seminar
Romantic-period literature played a pivotal role in the formation of contemporary markets for land through its celebration of the natural environment and water views. Reacting to the enclosure movement and mass urbanisation in England, Romantic literature rhetorically commodified “wild” and “…
Environmental Exchanges Seminar - Devika Shankar
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
The Lives and Labour of Australia’s Energy Workforce
Lecture
Hear Beck Pearce talk on the 30 August about Australia’s energy workforce, the latest talk in a series about society and climate. Morning tea is included so bring a mug! In this talk, Beck provides notes from the field and insights from a labour study of the industrial transformations set in train…
RMIT Webinar: The Role of Private Actors in Multilevel Governance Structures
Webinar/Online
Join the EU Centre at RMIT for their 4th Webinar examining how private actors can enhance the effectiveness of multilevel governance structures Date and time: Tues, 28 Aug 2023 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM AEST Location: Online via Microsoft Teams Registration is FREE via Eventbrite When examining…
Welcoming the Foreigner: A Possibility of Multispecies Hospitality
Seminar
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…
2023 DEMO-ECR Symposium
Symposium
As part of the 2023 New Zealand Population Conference Population futures in an uncertain world organised by the Population Association of NZ (PANZ), we are organising a DEMO-ECR (Demography - Early Career Researcher) symposium as a pre-conference event to be held at the conference venue, at the…