Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
Workshop
Australian author and historian Cassandra Pybus will discuss her soon-to-be published book Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse. The Indigenous museum curator, Gaye Sculthorpe, has described the book as giving this much misunderstood and misrepresented figure ‘the proper attention she…
Reviewing Economics in the light of Indigenous perspectives: Can this help us make better decisions concerning the environment?
Seminar
Abstract Environmental problems like the current climate crisis are making it more clear than ever that our relationship with the Earth needs to change. This implies, among the other things, questioning how we make decisions that affect the environment, recognizing that the methods we are using—…
The case for monitoring lifespan inequality
Seminar
Abstract Human population health is generally monitored by average mortality levels, typically in terms of life expectancies or age-standardised death rates, which mask substantial variation in length of life. Variation in ages at death, captured by a metric of lifespan inequality, should be used…
Global Terrorism Index 2019 ANU launch
Symposium
IEP's 2019 Global Terrorism Index presentation at the Australian National University, Canberra About this Event The Institute for Economics and Peace invites you to attend the presentation of the 2019 Global Terrorism Index at the Australian National University in Canberra. Speakers…
Inaccurate politicians. Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Five Countries
Seminar
One of the ways in which democratic representation potentially comes about is politicians following up on their perceptions of what the people want. A precondition is, naturally, that their public opinion perceptions are accurate. But are they? We tackle this question in a comparative study…
Current trends in Nordic mortality
Seminar
In 2014, Sweden lost its place among the world’s top ten leading countries in terms of female life expectancy for the first time since records began. It reflects longstanding and ongoing shifts in mortality that increasingly separate the Swedish mortality experience from the mortality pattern of…
Humanizing HIV Surveillance? Assoc Prof Martin French
Workshop
Dr. Martin French, Sociology & Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. This workshop presents preliminary portions of an in-progress book manuscript on HIV surveillance. Written primarily for an audience of advocates and activists engaged in the global movement to end HIV…