Centre News
New Appointments: Postdoctoral Fellows
The Laureate Centre for History & Population is delighted to welcome three new postdoctoral fellows. They will be joining us from July 2024. Matthew Birchall Matthew Birchall specialises in British imperial history, with a particular focus on chartered companies in…
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We’re Recruiting: Senior Project Officer
The Laureate Centre is recruiting a Senior Project Officer to provide high-level strategic, practical and efficient project support to the Centre Director, team and Centre stakeholders. Visit the UNSW Careers Website to Apply Why This Role Matters: The Laureate Centre…
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Call for Contributions to “Populating the 1980s: a Decade Revisited” Edited Volume
Contributions now invited for the Populating the 1980s: A Decade Revisited edited volume. Contact a.sarcar@unsw.edu.au for more information. About: For global negotiations over the population, the 1980s was a bridging decade. In the 1970s, population control through “family planning” as…
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We’re Recruiting: 3x Postdoctoral Fellows in Population History
Applications for these positions are now closed. The Laureate Centre for History & Population at UNSW Sydney is seeking three (3) Laureate Postdoctoral Fellows to undertake independent and collaborative research on aspects of the modern (post 1800) history of population…
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Our “Populating the 1980s: A decade revisited” online seminar series has wrapped for 2023, and will be returning in March 2024. The series, convened by Dr Aprajita Sarcar, considers the afterlife of demographic transition in different political geographies. Asking whether…
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An Intimate History of Evolution wins the 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Centre Director Alison Bashford’s latest book, An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family has won the 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. The Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award recognises works that combine…
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July @ the Laureate Centre
In July 2023, the Laureate Centre was delighted to welcome distinguished visiting scholars Prof Duncan Kelly & Prof David Nally from Cambridge, who joined conversations on population & the anthropocene, and helped workshop papers with Laureate Centre & affiliated researchers.…
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Prize Nominations For The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
Professor Alison Bashford’s book The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution (Allen Lane/University of Chicago Press) has been longlisted for two awards: the 2023 Cundill History Prize and the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award.
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What We Are Talking About: Population Through the Camera
At the recent “Population Through the Camera” workshop, 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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