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…
Dr Anders Engvall, Daungyewa Utarasint, Saran Santisart & Professor Des Ball
Three of the pillars of Thai…
Senator the Hon John Faulkner
, Senator for New South Wales
Senator John Faulkner presents the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the history of the labour movement in Australia.…
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…
Professor Yukie Osa
, Rikkyo University / Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
On 11 March, Japan was hit by unprecedented triple disasters, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0, 30-meter-high…
Arun Abey
, Chairman ipac Securities, Global Strategy Consultant, Director of the Smith Family
Why do happy people make better investors and better entrepreneurs? Why do most investors achieve less than half…
Professor Geremie R Barmé
Professor Geremie Barme gives the Inaugural CIW Annual Lecture, Australia and China in the World: whose literacy? This…
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,…
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, Professor AJ Brown
'Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles' is the first biography of the honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG; written by one of Australia's leading public law and polictical science acholars, AJ Brown. …
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.
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Benjamin Zawacki and Dr Aung Si
Amnesty International Southeast Asia researcher Benjamin Zawacki and Dr Aung Si - the grandson of former Prime Minister of the Union of Burma U Nu - are the guests in the fourth and final Burma votes…
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 Nicholas Farrelly
'Burma votes 2010' presenter Nicholas Farrelly gives a special post-poll update to the vod and podcast series. This episode was recorded on 9 November 2010 and in the second in the series. 'Burma…
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…
Facilitated by Ms Julie McCrossin
, Freelance Journalist
ANU presents a roundtable series that will contribute significantly to the health reform agenda in Australia. The fourth event in the series is ‘Youth mental health: is anybody listening?'…
A Panel of Burma Scholars from ANU
This forum considers scenarios for and beyond Burma's anticipated 2010 elections. While the elections are part of the military regime's "7-point Road Map", many aspects of how they will play out, their…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
In the final Thailand in Crisis vodcast, ANU PhD students Nattakant Akarapongpisak, Pongphisoot Busbarat and Preedee Hongsaton join host Nicholas Farrelly for a panel discussion about Thailand's political…
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…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Professor Peter Warr discusses how economics has impacted Thailand and on perceptions of the Thai government while Professor Andrew Leigh talks about development economics in the fifth Thailand in Crisis…
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.
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Professor Thongchai Winichakul is the special guest for the fourth Thailand in Crisis vodcast. With host NIcholas Farrelly, he discusses the 1976 protests, his time in detention, his reaction to the…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Dr Tyrell Haberkorn and Professor Hilary Charlesworth are the guests in the third Thailand in Crisis podcast - discussing issues of human rights and international law in the Thai context. Host Nicholas…
Nicholas Farrelly, Des Ball and Marcus Mietzner
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. …
Nicholas Farrelly
, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at ANU
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. In…
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…
Julian Burnside AO QC
, Barrister
'In conversation with ...' is a series of events presented by the Law Reform and Social Justice Program at the ANU College of Law, to profile people in Australia who are active in addressing…
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 Swaran Singh
, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
How does a nuclear power & non-signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty engage in international debate on the issue?
Following the US-led campaign for global nuclear disarmament…
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…
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 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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