Linguistic Justice for Non-Resident Citizens: Protecting Language Interests Away from Home
Seminar
Over the past twenty years, a number of political theorists have been focusing on the just political treatment of linguistic diversity in liberal democratic societies. This body of work, known as ‘linguistic justice’, has mainly examined two specific categories of linguistic groups: autochthonous…
A South Asian Neutral Power in the United Nations: India’s Peacekeeping Mission on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)
Seminar
The end of World War II by Germany’s and Japan’s surrender brought a major socio-political transformation in the colonialised nations of Asia. The independence of the Korean Peninsula from the Japanese imperialism was not smoothly implemented for a peaceful settlement. Rather, the ideological camps…
Upholding and recognising Aboriginal Peoples’ right to fish: Case study focused on South Coast Aboriginal People, NSW Australia
Seminar
Recording available here. Overview: Settler Colonialism is generally blind to Aboriginal people’s rights and the asserted legal basis for the transfer of property from Aboriginal People continues to be examined and challenged. Meanwhile Aboriginal Peoples…
Bounded Utilities and Ex Ante Pareto
Seminar
This talk shows that decision theories on which utilities are bounded, such as standard axiomatizations of Expected Utility Theory, violate Ex Ante Pareto if combined with an additive axiology, such as Total Utilitarianism. A series of impossibility theorems point toward Total…
School of Demography Flash Session: Two Presentations
Seminar
Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to Multiple Multistate Method Many studies have examined individual measures of health expectancy such as disability and morbidity among older populations. However, very few included multiple dimensions of health when calculating health expectancy.…
What is interpretivist interviewing? (Frederic Schaffer)
Seminar
This talk explores the promise of interpretivist interviewing for political science. That promise is to elucidate, up-close and self-reflectively, how people experience and understand phenomena that range from migration to democracy to genocide. It does so by exploring with interviewees how they…
Lifetime Prerogatives and Moral Offsetting - Theron Pummer (University of Saint Andrews)
Seminar
Speaker: Theron Pummer Our everyday lives are filled with constant opportunities to help anonymous strangers, by giving to charity, volunteering, and so on. They are also filled with constant opportunities to reduce the harm we do to anonymous strangers, via our carbon emissions,…