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,…
The Coevolution of Networks of Interstate Support, Interstate Threat and Civil War
Seminar
Interstate networks of support and threat coevolve. The interstate relationships meanwhile shape and respond to intrastate conflict, as states have an interest in propping up allies and undermining rivals---a common dynamic manifested in proxy wars. A lens of international politics as the…
In conversation with Chris Wallace
Book launch
Chris Wallace will be in conversation with Tanya Plibersek on Chris's new book, Political Lives. Australian Prime Ministers and their Biographers, an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. What was the story behind Bob Hawke's famed biography? Why does Paul…
The Revolution Will Be Advertised: Consumerism and Political Revolt in Western Europe after 1968
Seminar
Historians have often struggled to interpret the relation of the political revolts of 1968 to the consumer revolutions of the era. Was ‘1968’ the product of consumerism or a revolt against it? Was political revolt defeated by the hedonistic appeals of consumer society? Did the revolts of 1968 only…
First Nation Development Futures in Australia: Risks, Opportunities and Self-Determined Innovations
Seminar
Recording available here. Overview All development involves change—by its nature it is experimental and unsettling. This means the collective decisions of First Nations about future development are both brave and risky. In 1986 — twenty years before its Declaration on the Rights of…
Making Sense of Imperfectly Observed Networks
Seminar
The canonical form of network data is obtained from sociometric studies in small and well-defined settings. Examples include friendship relations in classrooms, advice ties in workplaces, and trade between countries. In the course of a long tradition of empirical analysis of networks, dating back…
Failing to Tell the Truth: A Transparent Approach to Truth-Tellers, Liars, and Curry
Seminar
The first sentence in this abstract is true. What does the previous sentence—a contingent truth-teller—say? Well, truth is transparent: to say a sentence is true is just to reassert what that sentence said. Hence, to fully determine what a sentence says—what proposition it expresses—we…