Jacqueline Kent: Biography - some things they don't tell you ...
Workshop
This talk will be in two parts. Drawing on my own experience as a biographer, I’d like to go through some of the pitfalls of researching and writing biography, and offer some suggestions about dealing with them. Firstly, there’s choice of subject, which can be fraught. What happens if you discover…
Saudi Arabia: an assessment of recent developments and future challenges
Meeting
Five years into Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has accelerated its domestic transformation. Notwithstanding the reforms undertaken to date, many challenges remain. This lecture will provide an overview of Saudi Arabia’s domestic and foreign policy priorities, as the country seeks to diversify its…
Listening to and from Palestine
Panel discussion
This panel will contextualise recent events in Palestine within a wider political, historical, and legal context. Panellists will highlight the implications and repercussions of what is happening across Palestine and the challenges they pose for peace and justice in the region.
Iraq at the Crossroads: Reflections and Prospects
Webinar/Online
Hafsa Halawa is an independent consultant working on political, social and economic affairs, and development goals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Horn of Africa regions. She is also concurrently a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute, and a Nonresident Fellow at…
Life expectancy among disease-diagnosed (Life Left) AND Mapping the prevalence of smoking with increased precision in sparsely sampled regions of Australia
Webinar/Online
Mental or physical disorders shorten people’s life spans. Yet, previous attempts at assessing life expectancy of people with disorders have failed at addressing the fact that diseases occur at different ages. This project resolves this methodological shortcoming and develops precision metrics,…
World Portuguese Language Day
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies, the Embassies of Portugal, Brazil and Timor-Leste cordially invite you to a celebration of World Portuguese Language Day. The speakers include: Anne McNaughton, Director, ANU Centre for European Studies; Dr Caroline Schuster, Director…
Estimating subnational adult populations in data-sparse contexts
Webinar/Online
Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. However, in many countries, data on population counts are limited and are of poor quality, and so levels and trends subnationally are unclear. We present a Bayesian…