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…
Connie Chong, Andaleeb Akhand, Arjuna Dibley, Brendan Moloney, Chelsea Mullavey, Melanie Poole, Harriet Riley & Jennifer Zhu, Master of Ceremonies and Contestants in the 2009 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Fifteenth 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…
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…
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia, gave the 2009 Burgmann College Annual Lecture.
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…
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…
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…
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
2007 K R Narayanan Oration Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global…
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…
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