Deep History of Two Australian Aboriginal Groups, Quantum Entanglement of Spacetime, and a Series of Fortunate Events
Seminar
The ancient history of Aboriginal Australia is mostly presented as a linear narrative by archaeologists with scientific evidence seen as the go-to dependable source. Indigenous perspectives of their deep past have usually been marginalised in this story or offered as a colourful backdrop to the…
Population-Level Burden and Inequities in Maternal Health Care Utilisation and Child Health Outcomes in Zambia
Seminar
Inequities in maternal and child health pose significant challenges to overall health improvement. Despite the preventable nature of most maternal and child deaths, these challenges persist, leading to poor maternal and child health outcomes. Compared to several high-income countries that have…
Intersex Narratives in the Global South: Departures from Medical Imperatives
Seminar
Emphasis on medicalisation of sex and gender in North America—inspired by John Money’s work with intersex and transgender patients in the 1950s—has influenced intersex medicalisation globally. Using interviews with doctors, intersex adults, and families of intersex people, I examine the medical…
Power, Costs, Collective Action, and Solidarity: A Footnote to ‘Two Logics of Collective - Arash Abizadeh
Seminar
Speaker: Arash Abizadeh It has seemed to some that the more costly it would be to exercise one’s agential power over some issue, the less agential power one has. I argue against this cost thesis and diagnose the intuition behind it as reflecting a truth about having general-power over a…
What is a Good Example? On the Use of Examples in Political Science and Political Theory
Seminar
While there is a large literature on the use of cases, there is very little on the use of examples in social science and political theory (there is some discussion in the literature on Hobbes, who cautioned against using examples; quite a lot in moral philosophy). Cases and examples are different:…
18th Latin American Film Festival in Australia
Arts & entertainment
The Latin American Film Festival (LAFF) is an initiative of the Latin American Embassies in Australia to showcase their culture, lifestyle and the evolution of the film industry in their respective countries. The Embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El…
Indigenous Sovereignties, Pacific Mobilities and Mediterranean Diasporas: Towards a Transcultural History of Queensland’s Sugar Districts
Seminar
Studies of migration from the Mediterranean region to Australia have often been framed within a national frame of analysis. That is, the story of Greek, Italian, Maltese, and Lebanese migrations to Australian shores have been considered as central to nation building narratives that centre migration…