Piracy, Punishment, and Structural Hermeneutics (Matt Norton, University of Oregon)
Seminar
Hermeneutics is one of the wellsprings of interpretive methods in contemporary social science. The space between biblical interpretation and the interpretation of social life, though, opens wide opportunities and demands for creative developments and elaborations to make hermeneutics a compelling…
Workshop: Migrant life narratives as place-making in post-colonial Australia
Workshop
There is an increasing interest and need to assess the potential of migrant narratives to expand our understanding of contemporary post-colonial Australia, particularly in the context of ongoing public debates concerning “the cleavage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples” (Curthoys) and…
The Puzzle of Musical Repetition - Jenny Judge
Seminar
Speaker: Jenny Judge Take any piece of music, from any genre you like: pop, classical, jazz, bluegrass, shoegaze, grunge, death metal. Odds are, that piece will be saturated with repetition at every level, from the micro to the macro. Melodies are often stated only to be immediately…
Signalling a Mushroom Cloud: Explaining the Effect of Nuclear Signals on Crisis Outcomes
Seminar
When does signaling with nuclear weapons help states achieve their political aims during international crises? Rather than exploring the coercive effect of the background threat of nuclear destruction, this paper develops a military signaling theory of nuclear coercion. The theory argues that…
Forty Years since First Contact: Revisiting the classic documentary by Bob Connolly and the late Robin Anderson, in conversation with Professor Martin Thomas
Seminar
First Contact (1983) is the Oscar-nominated documentary about the Leahy brothers, gold-hungry Queenslanders who explored New Guinea in the 1930s. Armed with guns and trade goods, they were typical colonials in search of El Dorado. But in one way they were different: they travelled with a movie…
Fertility Intentions to Decisions: Investigating Factors that Affect China-born Women’s Fertility Intentions in Australia
Seminar
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Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
Seminar
In Southeast Asia, a plantation boom over recent decades has transformed landscapes and life-making on an immense scale, with some 16 million hectares of land under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. In Sumatra, the historical origin of Indonesia's oil palm complex and where the societal…