Mapping Social Cohesion 2022
Seminar
The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study is the pre-eminent source of information on social cohesion in Australia. Running since 2007 and with surveys of the Australian population conducted annually since 2009, the study provides a rich and long-running set of data…
“Chileans’ anger at inequality boils over”: The “Estallido Social” and the role of perceptions and the legitimacy of economic inequality in social protests
Seminar
In October 2019, the “Estallido Social” demonstrations began in Chile. The protests originated from a growing critique of the government economic development model and the levels of inequality in the country. The social demands were varied and included several areas of Chilean society, from writing…
Effects of posttraumatic stress disorder and mental disorders on the labor market integration of young Syrian refugees
Seminar
Civil war-experience in the Syrian home country, insecurity and critical life events during migration or adverse events in the receiving country might affect refugees’ mental health. This paper addresses the effects of psychological distress and mental disorders on refugees' labor market…
Belonging to the Future - Susan Brison (Dartmouth / Princeton)
Seminar
Speaker: Susan Brison This talk was sparked by my recently reading Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus for the first time since high school. I’d never forgotten the first two sentences: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralization in Argentina
Seminar
Why do subnational territories consent to a de facto centralization of policy authority that curtails their local economic sovereignty? This talk contribues to this normative and theoretical debate by proposing the concept of delegative federalism, defined as a model of federal governance suitable…
Vladimir Mischenko (a.k.a. Bill Marshall): Russian Émigré and Spy for ASIO
Seminar
The biographies of migrants – as individuals who move through countries, across borders and continents – can be difficult to piece together. There are often gaps in their backgrounds and stories which remain mysterious, or parts of their lives which are not explicable. This same is true of the…
Over the Global Counter: Boots the Chemists in New Zealand and Fiji, 1936-1964
Seminar
From the 1920s Boots The Chemists was Britain's largest retail chain pharmacy. A common feature of every British high street, Boots was a popular distributor of a huge variety of health, hygiene, and beauty products, as well as everyday domestic goods and gifts. Yet between the two World Wars,…