Drawing the Climate Crisis
Seminar
My paper considers technical images that remake human-nature relationships along urban shores. They produce particular kinds of coastal futures through their modes of drawing humans, animals, plants, and matter. They are also drawings that erase relationships for the benefit of developmental goals…
Bright Scholars in the City: a social mobility intervention for the children of the rural poor in Vietnam
Seminar
Bright Scholars in the City: a social mobility intervention for the children of the rural poor in Vietnam This paper arises from the author's recent experience of completing an impact study of an international NGO's pro-poor social mobility program, based in Quảng Nam province and Đà Nẵng City in…
Nutag: Homeland to Horses and Humans in Mongolia
Seminar
One aspect that mammals have in common, including ourselves, is the recognition of a home. In Mongolia the herding encampment (khot ail) is the joint ‘home’ for herders and herd animals alike, while seasonal migration of the encampment coincides with the grazing and movement of the herds within…
Studying collective behavior and social structure using tools from complex systems science
Seminar
Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez is a researcher on social complexity at the Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City. Holds a B.Sc. degree in basic biomedical research from UNAM and a PhD in biology from the University of…
The uncertain regime of sudden security: what happens after the grant of permanent visa to former asylum seekers in Australia
Seminar
The uncertain regime of sudden security: what happens after the grant of permanent visa to former asylum seekers in Australia An estimated 30,000 asylum seekers have been living for up to ten years under conditions of prolonged uncertainty in Australia, due to freezes and other delays in visa…
Human Dispersals Out of Africa
Seminar
The dispersal of Homo sapiens ‘Out of Africa’ and across Eurasia is one of the most significant topics in human evolutionary studies. The nature, timing and routes of our migrations has been the subject of numerous debates, involving archaeologists, geneticists, biological anthropologists and earth…
Roundtable discussion: Rewriting Jurisprudence: Centring Refugee and Migrant Knowledges and Lived Experience
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Roundtable discussion: Rewriting Jurisprudence: Centring Refugee and Migrant Knowledges and Lived Experience This event is presented in person and online. Zoom details below Speakers Associate Professor Kate Ogg ANU College of Law, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Higher…