ANU School of Demography Seminar
Presenters David Lucas & Helen Ware
Date Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Time 1:00pm–2:00pm AEDT (UTC+11)
Location Room 4.69, RSSS Building, ANU, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT, and via zoom
Abstract
In 2009 a survey of population scientists ranked Professor John Caldwell, universally known as Jack, as the most respected demographer of all time. This presentation focuses on the earliest and most important segment of Jack’s work, his African research…
Biography
Dr David Lucas is currently a Visitor in the School of Demography. Before joining the ANU as a demographer in 1976 he worked as an Economist/Statistician for the Governments of Basutoland (now Lesotho) and Kenya, and as a Population Council adviser at the University of Lagos, Nigeria
Prof. Helen Ware is Inaugural Professor of Peace Studies at the University of New England in Armidale. She was previously Australian High Commissioner to Zambia and Malawi and Ambassador to Angola. In the1970s she was Field Director of the Changing African Family Project under ANU Professor Jack Caldwell which covered 12 African countries
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Contact
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