Women’s recollection of farming and managing for drought in Australia during 2006-2010: What role for local government?
Seminar
Speaker: Janet Congues, PhD Pre-submission Seminar Location: Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building, #22 (HA2175) This presentation focuses particularly on analysing the findings of the interviews of women who farmed in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia between the drought years of 2006-2010…
Developments in educational and occupational mobility in Australia: are the chances of young people from low socio-economic backgrounds improving?
Seminar
Dr Wotjeck Tomaszewski, Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Larry Saha Room, HA2175, Haydon Allen Building (22), The Australian National University Abstract: Even in a highly developed country like Australia, social origins and family background…
Can policing be decolonized?
Seminar
Dr Amanda Porter, University of Technology, Sydney Larry Saha Room (HA2175), Haydon Allen Building, #22 The Australian National University Abstract: This presentation draws on the findings of my PhD research conducted over the past four years on the everyday operation and politics of…
Measuring Poverty as if Gender matters: perspectives from fieldwork in Fiji
Seminar
Speaker: Dr Priya Chattier, Pacific Research Fellow, State Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Larry Saha Room, HA2175 Haydon Allen Building (22) The Australian National University Abstract This paper presents empirical findings on one aspect of the…
Global oocytes: medical tourism and the transaction of fertility
Seminar
Professor Catherine Waldby, Professorial Future Fellow, The University of Sydney Larry Saha Room (HA2175), Haydon Allen Building #22, The Australian National University Abstract Since the early 1980s, IVF procedures allow one woman to donate her oocytes (eggs) to another, and so enable women with…
Public lecture: Limits on the West
Seminar
Location: Haydon-Allen Tank Lecture Theatre John Higley, Emeritus Professor of Government & Sociology, University of Texas at Austin and Visiting Fellow in Sociology Abstract What can be said about the West's future? Will the political, economic and social resilience that…
Nothing to Lose? An Ethnography of Gambling in Clubs
Seminar
Larry Saha Room, HA2175 Haydon Allen Building (22), The Australian National University Speaker: Elizabeth (Ellie) Kirk, PhD Candidate, ANU Abstract Gambling is a significant part of many Australian communities. Recent political debate has explored the role of poker machines (pokies) in problem…