Professor Paul Dibb
, Emeritus Professor, Chairman of the Advisory Board, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies
It is now 20 years since the sudden and catastrophic collapse of the former Soviet Union. A huge amount of analytical…
Professor Simon Reich
, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark campus
The global number of child soldiers has grown significantly in the course of the last two decades, despite a series…
Professor Christian Enemark
, Associate Professor, National Security College, ANU
Are air strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) changing the character of war? The…
Mr David M Malone
, President of the Canadian International Development Research Centre
To outsiders, India and China show some striking similarities. Both are ancient civilizations reincarnated as modern republics in the mid twentieth century, and are now rising powers. Both have nuclear…
Professor Mark McKenna
, Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney
Canberra Times ANU Literary Event, Meet the Author Series 2011 in association with Manning Clark House, Canberra present: Professor Manning Clark (1915-1991), one of ANU’s cultural…
Dr Rick Gekoski
, One of the world’s leading bookmen, writer, rare-book dealer, broadcaster and academic
Dr Gekoski, one of the most entertaining speakers in the book world, discusses the Man Booker International Prize, the future of the book and his life and times in antiquarian book selling. …
Professor Amin Saikal, Dr Mathew Gray and Dr Rodger Shanahan
Recent months have seen the people of the Arab world from Yemen to Egypt, and most recently in Libya,…
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
, Professor of Law and Professor of History at Harvard University.
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people…
Betty Churcher
Join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velázquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cézanne.
Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero
, NATO Deputy Secretary General
NATO was formed in April 1949 in response to the rapidly emerging Soviet threat to the nations of Western Europe and North America. Its founding treaty declared that an attack against one of its member…
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Professor Trevor Wilson and Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Former Australian Ambassador to Burma Trevor Wilson is the guest while Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim gives his reaction to the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in the third Burma votes 2010 vodcast…
Professor Adrian Vickers and Ms Siobhan Campbell
, University of Sydney
This lecture discusses the work of Professor Anthony Forge in the field of Balinese Kamasan painting. Anthony Forge argued that art has a visual quality, summed up by a quoted line from dancer Isadore…
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Morten Pedersen and Professor Desmond Ball
Des Ball and Morten Pedersen are the guests in the first ‘Burma votes 2010' vodcast. This video was recorded on 2 November 2010 and is hosted by Nicholas Farrelly. It is the first in a series…
Professor Amin Saikal AM
, Head, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU
Professor Amin Saikal AM fom the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies ANU gives a public lecture on 'Afghanistan on the brink'.
Afghanistan is in a state of crisis. The same applies to the…
Professor Hugh White
, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU
Professor Hugh White's recent Quarterly Essay, Power Shift: Australia's future between Washington and Beijing looks at Australia's strategic choices in the Asian Century. In this lecture professor…
2010 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The objective…
Dr Peter Stanley
, Head, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
Dr Peter Stanley is currently researching Australia's Great War through the experience of people with the family name Smith, and German-Australians called Schmidt. Through diaries, letters, memoirs,…
Professor Cathy N. Davidson
, Duke University
Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture talked about what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these…
Dr David W Runciman
, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
The historical record of democracies in dealing with crises and other threats is good: democracies win wars, avoid famines, recover from economic disasters and adapt to meet new challenges. This should…
Professor Kit Fine
, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
In this lecture, Professor Kit Fine will explore the notion of truth-makers. What are truth-makers? He will argue that truth-makers are helpful for understanding how things are true but not for understanding…
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta
, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
After two years of peace and almost a decade since independence there is hope that the days of occupation, violence, disease and starvation have passed for the young country of Timor-Leste.
Professor John Braitwaite and Dr Michael Cookson
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
States rarely disintegrate in the way that former Yugoslavia did in the 1990s. Many thought Indonesia would disintegrate in the wake of a large number of violent internal conflicts at the turn of the…
Professor Penelope Mathew
, Freilich Foundation Professor
Australia's handling of the asylum-seekers on board the Oceanic Viking and recent 'freeze' on Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications has sparked vigorous and ongoing debate. In her inaugural lecture…
Professor Norm Amundson
, University of British Columbia, Canada
A world authority on Career Development, Professor Norm Amundson, who was recently visiting from the University of British Columbia, spoke to thirty keen ANU Alumni and Friends on the topic of…
Dr Kim Toffoletti
, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at Deakin University
Allegations of sexual misconduct by sportsmen seem to appear in the Australian news media on a disturbingly regular basis. Why is it that male athletes of major sports like football and rugby are often…
Professor Shirley Brice Heath
, Professor at Large, Stanford and Brown Universities
Anthropologists who study socialisation tend to do so in order to compare modes and values of child-rearing or to examine the role of language in child-rearing. Rarely have anthropologists attended…
The Hon Fred Chaney AO
, Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia
The 85 per cent of Australia that is remote from the main centres of population is a place of recurrent crises leading to ad hoc special interventions. Broken up by state and territory boundaries it…
Professor M. Nazif Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University
Shifting resources from Iraq to the so called ‘war of necessity' in Afghanistan by President Obama, while significant, is unlikely to be effective. This is largely because the fundamental assumptions…
Emeritus Professor R.G. Gregory, Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences
Professor Gregory will look back and analyse employment, skill imbalances, hours worked and welfare interactions in each of the economic booms and slumps over the last four decades and…
Richard Woolcott AC , Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for the Asia Pacific Community
In June 2008, the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, spoke of the need to begin a "regional debate about where we want to be in 2020". In particular, he outlined the need for an Asia Pacific…
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology & Director, Unit for Biocultural Variation & Obesity, University of Oxford
Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and…
Bruce Haigh, Political Commentator and Former Diplomat
Bruce Haigh argues that Australian foreign policy has been, and remains, inept in advancing Australia's national interest. Given the limited independence of Australia's Foreign Minister,…
Host: Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director
Indigenous Australians residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are among Australia's most disadvantaged partly because of limited formal economic opportunity. In these…
Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, UK
Aspects of Australian archaeology have had widespread repercussions upon archaeology beyond the Antipodes. In this talk Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy explored a series of ways in which Antipodean…
Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Adam Smith offers a wonderfully lucid argument for thinking that people can legitimately be praised or blamed only on the basis of the agent's "intention or affection of the heart" and not on the actual…
Professor Amin Saikal, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
The Islamic government of oil-rich Iran is faced with its worst legitimacy crisis since the Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah's pro-Western monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic regime thirty…
Virginia Haussegger, Julie Posetti and Dr Shakira Hussein
A public debate hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times.
Muslim women's dress codes have come into the political spotlight in both Muslim-majority…
Professor Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, Department of Philosophy, New York University
There are good reasons for thinking that the physical basis of cognition can be reasonably taken to extend outside the brain to the body and the world. But not so for consciousness. This…
His Royal Highness Prince Turki AlFaisal, Chairman of the Board, The King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies Riyadh
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record…
Professor Mark R. Rosenzweig, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University
This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the…
Dr David Kilcullen, Counterterrorism Strategist
In the first few years of the post-9/11 era, the established models for fighting ‘small wars' proved distressingly ineffective against resilient insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
Dr Andrew Glikson, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Research School of Earth Science
The evolution of Australopithecines and subsequently the Genus Homo from about 4.5 million years ago was intimately related to an overall cooling trend associated with orbital forcing…
Professor Stuart Harris, Dr Robert F. Miller and Dr Kirill Nourzhanov, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote…
Dr Peter Dowling, Heritage Officer, ACT National Trust, Canberra
During several visits to the Anzac Battlefield at Gallipoli, Turkey, since 2003, Dr Peter Dowling has located human remains exposed in areas of high tourist activity laying on road banks and verges…
H.E. Dr Seyed Mohammad Khatami, Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat…
Professor Steven T. Katz, Director Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University and Alvin & Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish & Holocaust Studies
This lecture covered the essential features of medieval Christian antisemitism and the very different features of modern racial antisemitism, culminating in Nazi antisemitism. It concluded with…
Professor Ian Chubb AC, Dr Henry Reece and Dr Bruce Moore
Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English was launched at ANU on 9 October 2008. The book is the first of its kind to trace the development of the Australian accent and the Australian…
Dr Maggie Brady and Professor Robin Room, The Australian National university and The University of Melbourne
This public lecture challenges some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of 'grog', by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste:…
Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition
The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…
Dr Clinton Fernandes , Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW, ADFA
Dr Fernandes provides a critical evaluation of what is often portrayed as a noble moment in Australia's history of overseas interventions. He shows that a series of Australian strategists and policymakers…
Allan Behm
Australian security policy is increasingly irrelevant to the looming realities of the 21st century. A lack of strategic direction, a mish-mash of unconnected policies, and policy institutions…
Dr John Hart , Reader in Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Hart will explore the main features of the Australian political system through comparison with the United States. He will compare and contrast the struggle of self-government in Australia and the…
Dr Norman Abjorensen, School of Social Sciences, ANU
Was the federation of the six Australian colonies into a Commonwealth of Australia really such a good idea? What were the alternatives? Might there have been a better way of doing things? The hard and…
Professor Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago and, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, Mexico City
Mexico furnished the era of social and cultural change that started ‘right around 1910’ with its first popular revolution. By 1919 Mexico City had become a refuge for the world’s radicals.…
Various speakers
In delivering an apology to the Stolen Generations the Prime Minister set a concrete target to halve the gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade.…
Professor Michael Pusey, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
Has economic reform run its course? What potential remains for the resumption of nation building progress? Contrary to expectations Canberra emerges from 20 years of neo-liberalism with…
Hosted by Jack Waterford, Editor at large, The Canberra Times
On 21 June 2007 Prime Minister John Howard and Minister for Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough declared a ‘national emergency’ in relation to child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory. In…
Michel Onfray
If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, French philosopher Michel Onfray starts from the premise that not only is God still very much alive but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose…
Professor Ken Inglis
Allan Martin's two principal subjects as a historian, Sir Henry Parkes and Sir Robert Menzies, were both great orators. Among questions asked in this lecture (the Allan Martin Memorial Lecture…
Her Excellency, Ms Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
The European Union (EU) has huge potential to enhance its influence in the world with its 27 Member States and almost 500 million citizens. Europe is also increasingly connected to the Asia-Pacific…
The Hon. John Brumby MP, Victorian Treasurer
Relations between the Commonwealth and state governments have been a continual source of tension in our federal system. The relationship can wax and wane, from confrontation and friction to cooperation…
Professor Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Advocates of reform want to subject their representatives to constant scrutiny, allowing voters to judge every word spoken, coalition joined, and compromise approved. Professor Jane Mansbridge…
Professor Kenneth Mayer, Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Professor of Political Science & Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On the eve of the 2006 U.S. elections, Professor Mayer, this year’s holder of the Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Professorship in Political Science, reviews the state of the electoral process…
Dr Eusebio Dizon
For more than 20 years, the National Museum of the Philippines has been conducting underwater archaeology in Philippine waters with international collaborators. In this lecture, Dr Eusebio Dizon discusses the…
Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Milan
Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi traces out the interlinked lineage of 'story' and 'history', arguing that the latter became important when societies needed to reinforce collective identities through an…
Emeritus Professor Peter Russell, University of Toronto
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when the High Court discarded the doctrine of terra nullius in the Mabo case. The ruling had repercussions for Indigenous peoples within Australia and around the…
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