Dr Andrew Glikson
Homo is the only genus to have mastered fire—becoming its blueprint in terms of its effect on nature, physical,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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 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…
David Malouf , Author
This lecture was give at the official launch of the new ANU Bachelor of Classical Studies and the Classics Endowment.
Professor Graeme Davison, Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University
Fifty years after its publication Russel Ward's book The Australian Legend remains the classic account of our national origins. In tracing Australia's national ethos to the folksongs…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Professor Hugh White , Head of the Strategic and Defence Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
One hundred years ago this year the Great White fleet sailed into Sydney harbor to a rapturous reception from Australian's hoping that America would protect us from the threats we feared from rising…
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.…
Professor Ann Curthoys, Manning Clarke Professor of History, ANU
In recent debates over truth and fiction in history, the Holocaust has loomed large. It is often seen to be a litmus test for historians, in terms of historical method, truth, questions of moral judgement…
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…
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…
Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis
As controversy continues to swirl around Australia’s national broadcaster, a long-awaited history of its last 20 years provides much-needed…
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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