AI could help us understand what whales are saying. But should we talk back?
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Double book launch for:
False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk by Claire Parfitt
Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations by Lian Sinclair
When: 630pm, Tuesday 29 October, 2024
Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Registration: https://gleebooks.com.au/event/claire-parfitt-and-lian-sinclair-double-launch/
Join a panel of experts for a conversation that tackles the moral and ethical obligations integral to research and investing priorities.
When: 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm, October 14, 2014
Where: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315, University of Sydney
Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/weapons-climate-justice-and-investing-ethically
We are living in an era of overlapping crises: from climate catastrophe to devastating wars, alongside the age-old ravages of inequality at home and across the globe. As these struggles escalate, many ordinary people are questioning their own responsibility, and possibility of their complicity, in these disasters. What prospects are there for responding? What avenues for meaningful action?
With the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, these concerns have come into sharper focus. This panel of experts will examine some of these uncomfortable questions, and our moral and ethical obligations to address adverse human rights and climate justice impacts.
Panellists:
A marine biologist and photographer gets up close and personal with mysterious pygmy seahorses.
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Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.
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Taking stock of the moment for science and science policy.
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The see-through amphibian goes big to protect its eggs.
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The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the articles nominated by AIPEN members for the longlist for the 2023 prize, now celebrating its 10th year.
The prize will be awarded to the best article published in 2023 (online early or in print) in international political economy (IPE) by an Australia-based scholar.
The prize defines IPE in a pluralist sense to include the political economy of security, geography, literature, sociology, anthropology, post-coloniality, gender, finance, trade, regional studies, development, and economic theory, in ways that can span concerns for in/security, poverty, inequality, sustainability, exploitation, deprivation and discrimination.
The overall prize winner will be decided by the selection committee, comprised of AIPEN members. Before that decision can be made, we now require AIPEN members to vote on the longlist to establish the final shortlist of four articles for delibera
15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Workshop
Adelaide University / Flinders University, February 6-7 2025
Richard Powers on his 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest novel, Playground.
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