Prostitution and Empire: An Informal Conversation
Activity
Join Dr Eva Payne and Professor Rae Frances to talk about Eva's new book, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press, 2025).How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers,…
Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro… and now Delcy Rodríguez
Lecture/seminar
This presentation first introduces the book Authoritarianism Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, edited by John Polga-Hecimovich and Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí. Published in April 2025, the book adopts a comparative perspective, focusing on how authoritarian…
Relationality, Movement and Transnationality in Biographies across PNG and Australia: Stories through Nahau and Wesley Rooney
Seminar
It seems straightforward: for years now, I’ve been saying that I’m working on Papua New Guinean politician Nahau Rooney’s biography. But really, I’ve been trying to make sense of telling a story that moves across epistemic spheres and transnationally across PNG and Australia. I experience movement…
Beyond the Fatal Shore: Former Convict Departures from the Australian Colonies
Lecture/seminar
Of the 168,000 convicts transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868, approximately five per cent—some 8,000—left the colonies. Prevailing accounts suggest that most convicts remained because Australia was attractive or because leaving was prohibitively costly. Given this, the thesis asks: What…
Capturing and tracking population and health events in the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System: a demographic and geographic research platform in rural South Africa.
Seminar
Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) systems are a response to low levels of vital event registration in areas where data for health planning is critically scarce. HDSS aim to provide high quality longitudinal data on population dynamics of health and social transitions to inform policy…
What kind of representationalism has a good chance of being true
Seminar
Representationalism about perceptual experience is conventional wisdom these days. Despite this, some version is likely true, but what version? Professor Frank Jackson discusses this question after a short reminder of why representationalism is so attractive. He ends by noting an issue for…
Clarity of Alternatives: How Perceived Party Policy Differences Shape Economic Voting
Lecture/seminar
Economic voting theory posits that voters reward or punish governments based on their economic performance. While clarity of responsibility has been shown to condition this relationship, less attention has been paid to how perceived policy differentiation between parties shapes it. Dr Thiago da…