Ukraine: Navigating Current Affairs
Webinar/Online
The ANU International Relations Society is excited to host a panel event on the crisis in Ukraine, attended by the Ukrainian Embassy in Australia and expert ANU academics. Come along to find out more about the crisis in Ukraine and its regional and international security implications. Our…
The Efficacy of Vaccines on Mortality during the ‘Spanish’ Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Seminar
Abstract The United States Centers for Disease Control (the CDC) have estimated that the ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918-1919 infected a third of the world’s population and killed at least 50 million people, more than were killed in World War I. The stoical acceptance of this disaster and its fading…
Childlessness, delayed childbearing and assisted reproduction in Australia
Webinar/Online
The mean age at birth continues to increase in low fertility countries. In Australia, in 1991 less than a quarter of women having their first child were over the age of 30, but this had recently risen to more than 60 percent. As family formation keeps being delayed, the ability of couples…
February Majlis - The Growing Cyber Threat to Security of the GCC States
Seminar
The global threat of cyber attacks from hostile international and domestic actors against states, commercial enterprises and private persons is rising exponentially. Foreign states use cyber operations against governments, private companies and individuals to steal information, influence…
Mercy Health Grand Rounds Presentation
Webinar/Online
On 17th February 2022, Dr Debbie Noble-Carr and Dr Katherine Carroll returned (albeit virtually) to Mercy Hospital for Women in Victoria, to share our study findings with interested health professionals at one their first Grand Rounds presentations for 2022.
Environmental Exchanges: Coll Thrush
Seminar
‘Wakes: Maritime Violence, Colonial Origin Stories, and Unfinished Business on the Northwest Coast’ Professor Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia This seminar is the first in the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges series. Please note that…
January Majlis: Artistic Activism and the Politics of Erasure in the Western Balkans
Seminar
This paper examines how contemporary artists from the Western Balkans have sought to engage with the legacy of ethnonationalist violence. Specific focus is placed upon the ways in which war crimes committed in the countries of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s have been interpreted in…