The Role of Education in Rapid Fertility Decline in Iran: A Cohort Perspective
Seminar
Iran’s total fertility fell sharply from 7 children per woman in the mid-1980s to replacement level in less than two decades. The fertility decline was ubiquitous across all age and social groups and all geographic settings, but it was the better educated women who first experienced a shift to a…
Memorial Celebration of the Life of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan
Other
The School of Philosophy at the Australian National University would like to invite you to celebrate the life and work of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan. Geoff passed away on 29 July 2022 after a brief battle with leukaemia. He was an outstanding scholar, who did ground-breaking work at the…
A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Fieldwork: Centering Community, Reflexivity, and Loving Accountability (Laura J. Shepherd and Colleagues)
Seminar
International Studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Geography, and other disciplines to craft a thoughtful set of reflections and considerations that researchers take with them ‘into the field’ when they embark on ‘fieldwork’. In this essay…
Happiness Pluralism - Caroline West (University of Sydney)
Seminar
Speaker: Caroline West Attempts by philosophers to analyse the concept of happiness have traditionally been monistic, in the sense of seeking a single set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for its correct application. Sadly, there are counterexamples to…
Explaining Variation of Colonial Narratives in Postcolonial States: Denunciation and Valorisation in Southeast Asia
Seminar
Research on the negative impacts of colonialism is well-established across the social sciences. In spite of this, considerable variation exists in how postcolonial states situate their colonial histories within national narratives. Some states frame their colonial experience negatively, denouncing…
You May Get Away With it in Tasmania, But Do Not Try It in Victoria! Bigamy in Australia 1812-1959
Seminar
Between 1816 and 1959, Australian courts prosecuted a substantial number of individuals who participated in a legally binding marriage ceremony despite the fact of a previous legal commitment of an identical nature. Historian Henry Finlay notes that in England and in the colonies, people wrongly…
The Individual Goods of Attention and How to Distribute Them
Seminar
We live in an age where attention is a central commodity – where social media companies like TikTok and Facebook take this attention as a product to be sold to interested buyers, and where attention is inextricably tied up with knowledge work (such as that of programmers, architects, and…