Sharing Pain: A Command for Concern
Seminar
When a person communicates that they are in pain, it is often assumed that the speaker is providing an assertion or report. Call this the cognitivist stance of pain utterances. Nevertheless, many sentential pain utterances seem to have both indicative and imperative communicative content in virtue…
Multi-scalar Spatial Integration of Overseas-born Populations in Australia
Seminar
With the sources and characteristics of immigrants becoming more diverse today, the traditional assimilation theory found only limited evidence in explaining immigrants’ settlement and integration in the residing country. Prior research has shown that in a skilled migration context, like Australia…
Cancelled - Catherine Mills (Monash University)
Seminar
Speaker: Catherine Mills Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.
Democratic Breakdown, Presidentialism, and Human Rights Abuses
Seminar
It is well-established that presidential democracies fail more frequently than parliamentary democracies, but there is little consensus on why. We argue that the threat of regime failure changes the composition of executive-legislative bargains more in presidential regimes than in parliamentary…
An Indigenous Voice – The experience of Chile
Webinar/Online
The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) and the First Nations Portfolio invite you to join them in the second of a series of webinars to compare and contrast the experiences of Australia and Latin American countries with significant Indigenous populations in addressing…
‘Much Self-denial’: Sir Frederick Wheeler’s Power
Seminar
Sir Frederick Wheeler (1914-1994) rose to the most senior ranks of the ‘mandarins’ who oversaw the transformation of Australian government in the decades following World War II. Coming to Canberra early in the recruitment of graduates into war-time government, and later as chairman of the Public…
Connected: Rooftop solar, prepay and reducing energy insecurity in remote Australia
Seminar
Recording available here Overview Australia is a world leader in the per-capita deployment of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) with more than three million households realizing benefits including reduced energy bills and improved energy security. However, these benefits are unevenly distributed.…