Assessing International Adjudication: The World Court at 100
Lecture
The Permanent Court of International Justice, based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, heard its first case a century ago. Its post-war successor, the International Court of Justice, is at the busiest point in its history, with 16 contentious cases before it, from every region of the globe. It also…
What is the use of an international perspective?
Seminar
In several highly influential publications—from articles, to edited volumes, to books—and through innovative collaborative research programs, Professor Glenda Sluga has enriched an appreciation of the ‘the international’ as a framework for historical research. Her work has deepened an appreciation…
Australians as International Economic Thinkers
Lecture
Through the 20th century, Australians punched above their weight in the invention of the international order, as we have hardly known it. This lecture aims to go deeper into that international past—what we know and don’t know—by investigating Australians as international economic thinkers. In…
Beyond the Lines: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Studying Violence and Collective Meaning in Social Networks (Sarah Parkinson, John Hopkins University)
Seminar
Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of…
The 2023 Schuman Lecture - The EU and Australia: like-mindedness in the global geopolitical arena
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies is honoured to have the Secretary General of the European External Action Service, Mr Stefano Sannino present the 2023 Schuman Lecture. We live in times when the concept of global crises extends well beyond the traditional notion of global challenges. The…
Belief and its Linguistic Representation - Frances Egan
Seminar
Speaker: Frances Egan Abstract: Beliefs play a central role in our commonsense practice of predicting and explaining behavior. For example, we appeal to Alice’s belief that vaccines are dangerous to predict and explain her refusal to get…