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What We Are Talking About: Population Through the Camera
At the recent workshop “Population Through the Camera”, organised by the Laureate Centre for History and Population at UNSW, scholars from diverse backgrounds discussed how photography sees and unsees populations within a landscape. The workshop concentrated on the Asia-Pacific region,…
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The World at Six Billion
By Priyanka Nandy, 23 November 2022 ‘The Day of the Six Billion’ – observed by the United Nation on 12 October 1998 – came twelve short years after the five-billion mark, making it the fastest recorded billion-growth at the time.…
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8 Billion From The Middle East and North Africa: Between Life and Death in the Human Boiler
News of the birth of the planet’s eighth billion human will provoke a mixture of intellectual and emotional responses, among them awe, fascination, hope and bewilderment.
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The World at 5 Billion
‘The Day of Five Billion’ – marked on 11 July 1987, and celebrated as World Population Day since 1989 – was the first precisely-dated population milestone that was predicted before it happened. The third and fourth billion milestones, in 1960…
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Calls for a ‘One-Child Policy’ in India are Misguided at best, and Dangerous at Worst
Aprajita Sarcar, UNSW Sydney and Joel Wing-Lun, UNSW Sydney. First published in the Conversation, 15 November 2022. India will surpass China as the country with the world’s largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022…
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New Publication: Alison Bashford, An Intimate History of Evolution
Laureate Centre Director, Professor Alison Bashford, has just launched her latest book, An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family. Out with Allen Lane, this work charts 200 years of modern science and culture through the family…
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PhD Opportunity in Population History
The Laureate Centre for History and Population is delighted to invite applications for a Laureate Doctoral Scholarship in population history. The successful candidate will join the Laureate research team, under the supervision of Professor Alison Bashford, within the School of…
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Rethinking Population in an Age of Revolution, 23-24th June Conference Recap
Over Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th June, the Laureate Centre for History and Population hosted a conference on population theory in the age of revolutions – part of an ongoing project led by Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Stephen Pascoe.
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What We’re Reading: Dr Chi Chi Huang and Dr Aprajita Sarcar on Clarke and Haraway (eds.), Making Kin Not Population
In March 2022, the Laureate Centre reading group discussed Adele E. Clarke and Donna Haraway’s edited volume, Making Kin Not Population (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018). Here, Dr Chi Chi Huang and Dr Aprajita Sarcar reflect on that conversation.
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Professor Alison Bashford Receives the Royal Society of New South Wales, History and Philosophy of Science Medal
Professor Alison Bashford, Laureate Centre Director, was awarded the Royal Society of New South Wales History and Philosophy of Science Medal from the Governor, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley. At a ceremony at Government House on 23 February 2022,…
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Seminar: 100 Years of China’s Population Strategies
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Margaret Sanger’s first visit to China. Her visit prompted public discussions of birth control in the service of improving China’s population that continue to the present day. These conversations and subsequent policies expanded to…
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Opportunity: PhD Scholarships in Population History
The Laureate Centre for History and Population is excited to invite applications for two (2) PhD scholarships in population history. The successful candidates will join the Laureate research team, under the supervision of Professor Alison Bashford, within the School of…
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What We’re Reading – Visual Fragments: Hong Kong in British Culture, 1841-1941
QandA with Chi Chi Huang and Emma Thomas, 12 October 2021 Chi Chi Huang is an environmental and medical humanities historian of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research interests lie in the intersection of…
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What We’re Reading: QandA with Jarrod Hore on ‘Settlers in Earthquake Country’
Jarrod Hore and Chi Chi Huang, 28 September 2021. ‘Settlers in earthquake country’ examines how two slightly different colonial societies responded to seismic instability throughout the late nineteenth century. Focusing on two earthquakes in Aotearoa New Zealand and two in…
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Painting the Perfect Family
Aprajita Sarcar, 8 September 2021. The image you see was first published in April 1968. It appeared in a newsletter published by the Department of Family Planning, India. The department no longer exists and the newsletter died shortly after 1977.…
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