Dec 13 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 13 DECEMBER 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
The continuum argument is invalid - John Broome
Seminar
Speaker: John Broome Derek Parfit argues by means of something he calls a ‘continuum argument’ that a particular appealing premise in population axiology implies a conclusion that he and many other people find repugnant. He treats this as a paradox, and takes up the…
The Unity of Dreams - Cecily Whiteley
Seminar
Speaker: Cecily Whiteley When we are asleep, we are not uniformly unconscious — rather, our sleep is interspersed with bursts of conscious mental activity. This activity takes different forms throughout the night: some experiences are complex, bizarre, and emotionally vivid simulations which…
Alexander Zuzenko, the Communist International and the Workers’ Republic of Australia
Seminar
Abstract TBA about a week prior to the seminar.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – The experience of Australia, Latin America and beyond
Lecture
In 2000 the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. To mark this day the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) invites you to join the Embassies of Ecuador and El Salvador, and the Global…
Interpretive International Relations: Narrative and Explanation (Ian Hall, Griffith University)
Seminar
Interpretivists hold that the social world is a world of meaning. They maintain that social behaviour is best explained in terms of the meanings that actions have for the people who perform them. Interpretivists try to access those meanings – and thereby explain behaviour – by examining agents’…
Reckoning with the past: Soviet communism in postcolonial Australian perspective
Workshop
Reckoning with the past: Soviet communism in postcolonial Australian perspective Academic workshop 24 November 2023, 9am-5pm, The Australian National University Expatriate East European writers like Kapka Kassabova and Lea Ypi have portrayed their countries of birth (Bulgaria, Albania) as…