Justifying Thresholds
Seminar
Speaker: Caleb Perl You shouldn’t scapegoat someone innocent to prevent five killings. But maybe you should scapegoat someone innocent when the numbers get large enough – if, say, scapegoating would save a million, or a billion. That is, there might be thresholds where the numbers start to…
IALS Annual Symposium: Property Law, Climate Change, Tech Disruption
Symposium
Climate change and technological developments are presenting challenges to settled principles of property law both personal/moveable and real/immoveable. This year’s symposium draws together speakers from across the globe to discuss recent property law developments and responses in relation to…
2nd ANU African Studies Network Conference
Conference
2nd ANU African Studies Network Conference In the ever-evolving landscape of academic and professional gatherings, one event stands out on the horizon—the 2nd ANU African Studies Network Conference. Scheduled to take place on November 23-24, 2023, this conference promises to be an enlightening…
Bivariate Outcome Small Area Estimation using Spatial Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Seminar
Abstract TBC. Join Zoom meeting: https://anu.zoom.us/j/89587321433?pwd=MzhpUU1MRnRaNHovL0RTejJMeWpHUT09Meeting ID: 895 8732 1433 Password: 306745Join by Skype: https://anu.zoom.us/skype/89587321433
Women, Gender and Authority Workshop
Workshop
The one-day event will explore the relationship between gender and authority, and how the exercise of power affected the daily lives of women. Investigating the experiences of secular and monastic women, papers will focus on a range of themes, including marriage and widowhood, marital sex, mobility…
Reproduction Now! Workshop
Workshop
On Friday Nov 17th, Celia Roberts and Mary Lou Rasmussen (Sociology) will host a one-day interdisciplinary workshop to explore feminism and reproduction in the current moment. Today, we see increasing numbers of people making decisions to not have children, in part because of concerns related to…
Speech Acts on Social Media: Algorithms, Amplifiers, and Affordances
Seminar
Speaker: Michael Randall Barnes A great amount of communication now occurs on social media platforms. And sometimes these communicative acts cause and/or constitute harmful acts. The harms of social media raise a number of questions concerning the processes and aims of content moderation—the…