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On Palantirism? A guide for the perplexed

MON, OCT 26
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM ET

A guide to 'Palantirism': how Palantir's founders' philosophy underwrites its embedding in state and corporate infrastructure.

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Hybrid·Economics & Trade / Climate & Energy

Air pollution and helping strangers: evidence from lost-letter experiments in Beijing and Delhi

MON, OCT 26
10:15 PM – 11:30 PM ET

Seminar on lost-letter field experiments in Beijing and Delhi testing whether short-run air pollution changes willingness to help strangers, with Simon Chang of the University of Western Australia Business School.

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Australia-Japan Research Center
Online·Education & Labor / Human Rights & Global Development / Economics & Trade

Who Minds the Children? Childcare Use and Women’s Employment in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

WED, OCT 28
10:00 PM – 11:30 PM ET

An ANU Indonesia Project and GIWL webinar for the UN International Day of Care and Support, presenting two papers on childcare arrangements and how early childhood services shape mothers' employment in Southeast Asia.

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Hybrid·Economics & Trade

Estimating the output maximising tax-to-GDP ratio in Bangladesh

TUE, NOV 3
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET

ACDE PhD seminar in which Sadia Islam presents a new Public Capital–Tax Distortion model estimating Bangladesh's output-maximising tax-to-GDP ratio, benchmarked against Scully and quadratic approaches using 1976–2023 data.

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Online·Education & Labor / Economics & Trade

Gender roles and parental time allocation: A paradigm shift for addressing gender inequality in the labor market

THU, NOV 5
1:00 AM – 2:30 AM ET

Professor Sevilla will present a new framework for understanding the persistence of gender inequality, moving beyond traditional childcare time-use measures.

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Hybrid·Governance & Democracy / Climate & Energy / Migration & Demographics

2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey

THU, NOV 5
9:30 PM – 10:30 PM ET

This seminar explores UPNG students' views on key issues affecting Papua New Guinea, highlighting findings from the 2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey.

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Hybrid·Climate & Energy / Economics & Trade

Empirical extinction risk

TUE, NOV 10
2:00 AM – 3:00 AM ET

Public lecture in which Professor Ben Groom of the University of Exeter presents new research modelling species extinction probabilities from IUCN assessments, and introduces the "value of a statistical species" for…

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In-person·Economics & Trade / Climate & Energy

4th Australia-Bhutan Research Conference

SUN, NOV 15
5:00 PM ET

The 4th Australia-Bhutan Research Conference will be hosted at the ANU in partnership with the Crawford School of Public Policy, Murdoch University and the Royal Bhutanese Embassy Canberra.

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In-person·Technology & Society / Governance & Democracy

CEO of Services Australia, David Hazlehurst: Artificial Intelligence, Trust and Public Service Leadership

MON, NOV 16
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET

Public lecture by Services Australia CEO David Hazlehurst on artificial intelligence, trust and public service leadership, hosted by ANU Crawford School's Policy and Governance Department, followed by Q&A and morning tea.

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Hybrid·Economics & Trade / Technology & Society

Industrial Robots and Firm Markups: Evidence from China's Manufacturing Sector

MON, NOV 16
9:15 PM – 10:30 PM ET

Seminar examining how exposure to industrial robots affects firm markups, operating costs and productivity across China's manufacturing sector, presented by Renato Rao for the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.

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Australia-Japan Research Center
In-person·Climate & Energy / Economics & Trade / Technology & Society

China Update 2026 – China's decarbonisation: strategy, objectives and the pathway to a low-carbon economy

WED, NOV 18
5:00 PM ET

At this annual event, leading academics, policymakers and government representatives discuss the latest research on the Chinese economy.

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Hybrid·Economics & Trade / Foreign Policy & Diplomacy / Finance & Monetary Policy

Conference in Honour of Andy Stoeckel - The Changing Global Economy

THU, NOV 19
5:00 PM ET

One-day conference honouring the late Professor Andy Stoeckel, bringing economists together to examine globalisation, trade and geopolitical forces reshaping the world economy, including a public panel on research's role in…

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Online·Foreign Policy & Diplomacy / Economics & Trade / Defense & Security

The US-Iran conflict and its socio-economic and political consequences for Asia and the Pacific - What the future holds

TUE, DEC 1
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET

ANU Crawford School's Public Policy Frontiers Series seminar with Columbia University's Professor Jeffrey Sachs on how the US–Iran conflict affects energy security, trade, finance and geopolitics across Asia and the Pacific.

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In-person·Human Rights & Global Development / Economics & Trade

2026 Australasian AID Conference

TUE, DEC 1
8:00 PM ET

Annual Australasian AID Conference in partnership with The Asia Foundation, bringing together researchers from Australia, the Pacific, Asia and beyond to share insights on aid and international development policy.

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