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Please join Dr Simon Coghlan (Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems and Co-Deputy Director of CAIDE) in welcoming renowned philosopher Professor Peter Singer AC who will give a talk at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics. Professor Singer is joined by AI ethics researcher Tse Yip Fai and Law Professor Christine Parker to discuss the ethics of AI and its impacts on nonhuman animals.

This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Lecture Overview:

The Long Shadow of Childhood Trauma: Perspectives from the Global South and Beyond.

Professor Soraya Seedat will discuss how childhood trauma and maltreatment are powerful and enduring determinants of psychopathology, and are associated not only with elevated PTSD risk, but also with more severe symptom profiles, complex presentations, and high levels of psychiatric comorbidity, particularly in contexts characterised by ongoing adversity, interpersonal violence, and structural inequality.
Yet much of the empirical narrative on early life trauma is shaped by data generated in high-income countries, with limited attention to contextual, cultural, and structural influences on exposure, expression, and outcome.

In this talk, empirical and conceptual work on childhood trauma, with a particular focus on research conducted in a global South context, will be synthesised.