Events May 2017

26
May
2017

Fuel switching and infant health: evidence from the LPG subsidy in Indonesia

Imelda, University of Hawaii.

Imelda uses the largest fuel-switching program in Indonesia to identify a causal impact of cooking fuel choice on infant mortality.

29
May
2017

Japan's secular stagnation and monetary policy

Ikuko Fueda-Samikawa, Japan Center for Economic Research.

Since the end of the 1990s, Japan has been in a period of secular stagnation with a decline in the natural rate of interest.

29
May
2017

The subjective well-being of informal carers: evidence from Australia

Azadeh Abbasi Shavazi, PhD candidate, Research School of Economics, ANU.

About the speaker

Azadeh Abbasi Shavazi, PhD candidate, Research School of Economics, ANU.

Light lunch available.

29
May
2017

Climate Café - Can societal addiction therapy transform our approach to climate change?

Professor Robert Costanza, Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy, Crawford School, ANU.

Despite global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change, we’re on track for temperature increases that easily exceed the agreed ‘safe’ threshold of 2°C. Clearly existing approaches to the problem are not working fast enough.

29
May
2017

Lecture and Q&A with Professors Brian Schmidt and Michael Wesley in Jakarta, Indonesia

Professor Brian P. Schmidt & Professor Michael Wesley
The Australian National University requests the honour of your attendance at the Lecture:
 
Evidence and Expertise in a Post-Truth World
by 
Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS
30
May
2017

Climate adaptation: to transform or not transform. A salutary case study

Mark Howden
This presentation covers an in-depth, longitudinal study of an agricultural company’s attempt to implement transformational adaptation in response to climate change.
30
May
2017

Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training

This training session is for University staff.
 
30
May
2017

On the sources and mechanisms of economic growth in China

Dr Ligang Song, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

The presentation reviews the experience of Chinese economic growth during the past forty years from the perspectives of the neoclassical growth model, the endogenous growth model, and institutional approaches.

30
May
2017

Dead duck or just resting: has economic liberalism run into a dead end?

Professor Bruce Chapman AM, Sir Roland Wilson Chair of Economics, ANU; Dr Ken Henry AC, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Chair, ANU; Laura Tingle, Political Editor, Australian Financial Review; and Professor Helen Sullivan, Director, Crawford School, ANU.

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating recently declared that liberal economics no longer holds the answers to our problems. Is this the case? If so, what new paradigm is needed to lift the world economy out of its current malaise?

31
May
2017

Non participation in the market for mortality-contingent insurance

Geoff Kingston, Macquarie University.

About the speaker

Geoff Kingston, Macquarie University.

Light lunch available.

31
May
2017

Careful What You Wish For: Salafi Islamisation and the Shifting Structures of the Malaysian State

Assoc Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

Please note the new start time of 3.00pm.

31
May
2017

Eunuchs from the Ming Dynasty to Qing's Ethno-Dynastic Order, 1500–1800

Jennifer W. Jay
This paper will examine the presence and representation of eunuchs from 1500 to 1800. It will argue that the process of sinicization does not adequately explain the practice of employing eunuchs in the Qing court. The diminished roles and functions of Qing eunuchs are better explained by the Manchu Altaic system, which shared residual tribal traditions with other conquest dynasties—the Khitan Liao, the Jurchan Jin, and the Mongol Yuan. In particular, the paper will re-examine the place of eunuchs in the Qing ethno-dynastic order on the basis of their representation in two paintings in the University of Alberta’s Mactaggart Art Collection—Kangxi’s Southern Inspection Tour Scroll 7 and Qianlong’s Southern Inspection Tour Scroll 2.
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