HDR Thesis Proposal Review Seminar
Seminar
This Thesis Proposal Review seminar presents the rationale and planned approach for a thesis project titled Exploring the effectiveness of Australia’s skilled migration policy: successes, challenges and unexpected outcomes. Migration in Australia contributed more to the population growth rate than…
Amnesia and the Ordinary Conception of Time - Carl Craver (WUSTL)
Seminar
Speaker: Carl Craver The thesis that the “ordinary conception of time” requires the capacity for episodic memory is common in neuroscience and philosophy alike. In neuropsychology, this thesis is expressed in the contrapositive thesis that people with episodic amnesia are “trapped…
Transitioning from Parliament: The Victorian Experience and Beyond
Seminar
A career in parliament is inherently transitory, and parliamentary turnover is critical for a healthy democracy. Yet many MPs fail to prepare for the time when they must leave parliament. This lack of preparedness exacerbates the challenges of post-parliamentary life. First, this presentation…
Neoliberalism with Japanese Characteristics
Seminar
The shift to the right in the world’s political and economic landscape in the 1980s was premised on a deep tension. If neoliberal policies called for global integration through free trade and mechanisms of world governance, neoconservative arguments championed traditional cultural and economic…
Environmental Exchanges Seminar: Clark Alejandrino
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 'climate'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided closer to the date…
Genealogy as Method: Historicising Political Subjectivities and the Political Unconscious (Adele Webb)
Seminar
Within the political science scholarship on democracy, there is a modest but growing concern about the need to make more complex our understandings of citizens' political engagement, and the meaning and purposes that steer a particular political community. This talk explores the opportunities and…