http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ en celeste.ecuyer@anu.edu.au Copyright 2009 2009-11-05T03:40:10+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/president_obamas_new_afghanistan_pakistan_strategy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/president_obamas_new_afghanistan_pakistan_strategy/#When:06:10:07Z 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 long held by the Bush administration policy makers about the nature of the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, their conception of terrorism and how to defeat it, and how to reclaim American and global security remain unchanged. Without honest reconsideration of such assumptions within the broader American political culture, any re-appraisal of current policies which could result in a more effective comprehensive strategy for addressing the increasing violence and political stability in the region will be unlikely. Public Lecture, International Law, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-10-23T06:10:07+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/rudds_concept_asia_pacific_community/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/rudds_concept_asia_pacific_community/#When:23:13:42Z 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 Community, in which there would be "dialogue, cooperation and action on economic and political matters and future challenges related to security." This speech, delivered to the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre in Sydney, certainly began a debate in Australia. During the speech, he appointed Richard Woolcott AC as Australia's envoy, to conduct discussions with governments in the region. Woolcott will speak about the Prime Minister's Community concept, the attitudes towards it in the region, and the likely future of debate in the area. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-10-15T23:13:42+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/obesity_complex_problem/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/obesity_complex_problem/#When:00:47:42Z 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 expenditure, this does not explain why it is easy to overeat and underexercise. Explanatory models that feed into energy balance include those of obesogenic environments, thrifty genotype, obesogenic behaviour, obesogenic culture, nutrition transition, political economic structures and biocultural interactions of genetics, environment, behaviour and culture. The last of these models has obesity as an outcome of the complex systems which constitute modern life, and in which biology, environment, sociality, economics, infrastructure, culture and behaviour interact. An attempt to understand obesity as complex system has come with an initiative of the British government, in which a qualitative systems map of obesity for the British population has been generated. In this presentation, various models of population obesity are considered in relation to the idea of obesity as complex system. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, Medical & Health Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine and Life Science 2009-09-29T00:47:42+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_classics_today/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_classics_today/#When:02:26:19Z This lecture was give at the official launch of the new ANU Bachelor of Classical Studies and the Classics Endowment. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-16T02:26:19+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/indigenous_australians_mining_developing_a_sustainable_future/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/indigenous_australians_mining_developing_a_sustainable_future/#When:02:46:11Z 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 areas mining may be the major - and sometimes only - contributor to mainstream economic development. However Indigenous communities have gained only limited long-term economic benefits from mining activity on land that they own. Furthermore, while many Indigenous people place high value on realising non-economic benefits from mining agreements, there may be only limited capacity to deliver such benefits.In this forum four contributors to the monograph Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining discussed case studies from large, ongoing mining operations in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory to draw out issues relating to the complex and often problematic relations between major mining corporations and Indigenous people. These include the challenges that Indigenous people face in engaging in multifaceted ways with mine economies, including to their cultural identity and values and the role of the state. Public Lecture, Indigenous Studies, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-15T02:46:11+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/rethinking_the_australian_legend/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/rethinking_the_australian_legend/#When:02:39:42Z 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 and ballads of the 'nomad tribe' of bush workers, Ward and his Leftist contemporaries were rejecting the high culture of international modernism and reviving an older, romantic paradigm of national origins. How did their responses to the events of their time, especially the popular front against fascism, the Second World War, and the beginning of the Cold War, influence their interest in folklore and their belief in the need for a binding national myth? Yearnings for an ancestral past rooted in the land remain a key feature of national culture. What can the story of The Australian Legend tell us about the continuing dilemmas of living in a 'new' country? Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-15T02:39:42+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/lost_opportunities_and_possibilities_in_australian_foreign_policy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/lost_opportunities_and_possibilities_in_australian_foreign_policy/#When:02:30:27Z 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, and the trend of governments to be perpetually in election mode, Australian foreign policy is too often managed to maximum domestic political gain by the Prime Minister, with negative fallout reserved for Ministers. What has changed since the election of the Rudd Government? How does Australia manage the dual rise of India and China? What understanding does the Rudd government have of the Middle East, or of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Haigh argues that Australia could be capable of meeting the substantial challenges it faces, but that its governments ceaselessly misuse, bungle or outsource policy formulation. His lecture addressed these problems, and suggested the way forward to a truly Australian Foreign Policy. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-15T02:30:27+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/antipodean_archaeology_and_the_wider_world/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/antipodean_archaeology_and_the_wider_world/#When:22:48:42Z 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 archaeology has impacted upon archaeology elsewhere, particularly in Britain and Europe, focusing on three major areas: (1) prehistory and parallel issues which Australia and New Zealand have in common with Europe; (2) the last 250 years and the influence of Antipodean archaeology in the examination of initial contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples; and (3) current attitudes to the past, particularly in relation to who ‘owns' the past, and the repatriation or reburial of prehistoric remains and items. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-07T22:48:42+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/problem_of_human_remains_in_anzac_battlefield_gallipoli/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/problem_of_human_remains_in_anzac_battlefield_gallipoli/#When:00:42:47Z 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 which follow the lines of Allied and Turkish frontline trenches. These remains are in constant danger of being further disturbed or destroyed by the actions of roadworks, coaches and tourist activites. Despite National Trust representations to government authorities to initiate a conservation strategy to protect and conserve these remains little has been done. Dr Dowling discussed these issues and proposed a conservation strategy. This lecture was presented by ANU Centre for Archeaological Research and the Canberra Archaeological Society. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-01T00:42:47+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/iran_an_islamic_government_in_crisis/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/iran_an_islamic_government_in_crisis/#When:00:03:54Z 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 years ago. While it has the capacity to survive the crisis, it may find itself weakened to the extent that it may not be able to cope effectively with mounting domestic problems and foreign policy pressures. Not only is the Iranian population bitterly polarised for and against it, but a serious split has also developed within the ruling clerical elite. If the Iranian leadership fails to accommodate a liberalist Islamist path of reform and inclusion, it could seriously imperil the survival of the Islamic regime in the long run. This lecture sought to discuss the roots of the political upheaval confronting the Iranian government and to assess its future direction. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-09-01T00:03:54+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/antisemitism_medieval_and_modern/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/antisemitism_medieval_and_modern/#When:23:45:13Z 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 an assessment on the connection between historical antisemitism and the antisemitism of today. This was the Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance 2009. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-08-31T23:45:13+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/russia_and_the_medvedev_presidency_one_year_on/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/russia_and_the_medvedev_presidency_one_year_on/#When:05:00:32Z 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 social programs, and to ensure that Russia sustains its position in the world. A year later, Medvedev's record in delivering on these promises is coming under intense scrutiny. What does Russian resurgence actually mean? How well has Russia ridden out the global financial storm? Is authoritarian rule in Russia on the wax or on the wane? What are Moscow's foreign policy objectives in dealing with the West, the Asia-Pacific, and former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine? Does Russian energy imperialism exist, or is it a product of Cold War-like paranoia? Who controls the Kremlin - Medvedev or Putin? The answers to these, and many other relevant questions, will be discussed to coincide with the first anniversary of Medvedev's inauguration as the President. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-08-13T05:00:32+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/sentiments_spectators_adam_smiths_moral_psychology/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/sentiments_spectators_adam_smiths_moral_psychology/#When:04:48:56Z 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 effects of the action, over which fortune, rather than the agent, has control.  He then notes that our judgments of people do not respect the force of this argument.  Our judgments of merit and demerit are regularly, and systematically, influenced by circumstances over which the agent has no control.  He argues this is a good thing.  Strikingly, Smith never goes back to the original argument to explain where it has gone wrong.  He simply moves on.  Similarly, when Smith acknowledges that the considerations that recommend regulating our own sentiments of morality by those of the impartial spectator seem to demand appeal to an ideal observer, who is fully informed and equi-sympathetically involved with all concerned, while he argues that the impartial spectator we rely on is predictably less than ideal.  Again, Smith never goes back to reconcile the tension.In both cases, principled argument recommends a conclusion belied by practice.  And practice is vindicated, Smith argues, by appeal to its contribution to "the happiness and perfection of the species."  In both cases too it is plausible to see his defence of actual (unprincipled) practice as grounding out in a familiar version of utilitarianism.   On this view, morality, no less than the market, works as if an invisible hand is guiding us towards the very outcomes utilitarianism vindicates.  Yet, Sayre-McCord argued, reading Smith in this way fails to capture the subtlety and complexity of his view and saddles him with an overarching theory of value he has no reason to accept. This was the 2009 John Passmore Lecture presented by the ANU Philosophy Program. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-08-13T04:48:56+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/why_consciousness_does_not_extend_outside_brain/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/why_consciousness_does_not_extend_outside_brain/#When:02:25:24Z 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 lecture goes into the logic of experiments that show that even if cognition is extended, consciousness is not.  Smart was right: if consciousness is physical, it is a brain process. JACK SMART LECTURE Professor J J C Smart was Professor and Head of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU from 1979 until 1986. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in 1990 he was made a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia for services to philosophy and education. The Jack Smart Lecture is held annually in his honour. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-07-20T02:25:24+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/should_we_ban_the_burka/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/should_we_ban_the_burka/#When:03:14:13Z 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 and non-Muslim societies. At one end of the spectrum the state has sought to enforce Islamic dress codes while at the opposite end the state has sought to ban certain items of women's religious dress.Under the Taliban, Afghan women were forbidden to appear in public unless they were wearing the all-enveloping burka. Now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proclaimed that the burka and other forms of face-covering are not welcome in France.In Australia, too, Muslim women's dress has been at the centre of a heated political and social debate.This public debate brought together three leading figures to discuss questions such as whether we should ban the burka or respect the right to wear it, if the burka is a form of male oppression, what would be the effect of banning a piece of women's clothing and does the state have a place in a woman's wardrobe? Moderated by Professor Hilary Charlesworth. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-07-16T03:14:13+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/kingdom_of_saudi_arabia_today/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/kingdom_of_saudi_arabia_today/#When:02:34:05Z 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 of public service.  A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC, Prince Turki was appointed as an Advisor to the Royal Court in 1973 and subsequently served as the Director of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) from 1977 to 2001.  In 2002, Prince Turki was appointed Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, and from 2005 until 2007 served as Ambassador to the United States. Prince Turki currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, the International Crisis Group, and the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.   He is also a Commissioner at the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Philosophy & Religion, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-06-05T02:34:05+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/accidental_guerrilla/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/accidental_guerrilla/#When:04:23:31Z   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. As the insurgents fought Western armies to a stalemate, it was clear that a new approach was necessary. Dr David Kilcullen, a former Australian army officer, and one of the world's most influential experts on guerrilla warfare, became a key architect of the West's revamped military strategy. As the senior advisor to General David Patraeus in Iraq, Kilcullen's revolutionary approach to counterinsurgency was an intellectual foundation for ‘the Surge' of 2007.Kilcullen uncovered the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the global challenge, the ‘War on Terrorism,' and small wars across the world in Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Thailand, East Timor, and Pakistan. He will explain that today's conflicts are a complex hybrid of contrasting trends that America has tended to conflate, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles, and thereby enormously complicating our challenges. The West has continually misidentified insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances-‘accidental guerrillas'-as members of a unified worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-06-02T04:23:31+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/global_migration_of_skill/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/global_migration_of_skill/#When:04:12:05Z  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 different measures of ‘brain drain' and how they are related to wage and income differences across countries around the world. Based on new data sources, differences in the prices of skill across countries were estimated and were used to explore how skill price differentials affect the magnitudes and skill-intensity of permanent migration to the United States and Australia and the magnitudes and direction of the flows of foreign students. Particular attention was also paid to the circular flow of migration and to understanding the role of higher education in fostering the outflow of international students and their return to their home countries. Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2009-06-02T04:12:05+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/communications_and_colonisation/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/communications_and_colonisation/#When:03:34:00Z A large body of scholarship has suggested that the production and circulation of knowledge was fundamental to British empire building.  Rather than exploring colonial knowledge as a body of texts or through the lens of representation, this lecture will examine the practices, structures, and processes that shaped knowledge in southern New Zealand in the nineteenth century.  In particular it will explore how various forms of communication molded the dynamics of community building at the most distant edge of empire as well as determining the pattern of relationships between local Maori communities and recently arrived Euro American colonists.  It will also consider how shifting patterns of cross-cultural communication shaped debates over race, land, and the place of Maori in colonial politics.  This discussion will open out into a broader consideration of the place of knowledge and communication in a range of colonial sites and historiographies. This was the 2009 Allan Martin Lecture. Allan Martin (1926-2002) was an intellectual, institutional, and social pioneer whose career as a historian spanned the second half of the 20th Century.  When most Australians went to England for their postgraduate work, he chose ANU, where he was the first doctoral student in History in the Research School of Social Sciences.  He accepted the Foundation chair in History at LaTrobe University in 1966 and returned to RSSS as a senior fellow in 1973.   Arts and Social Sciences 2009-05-29T03:34:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/human_evolution_and_the_atmosphere_a_return_to_the_pliocene/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/human_evolution_and_the_atmosphere_a_return_to_the_pliocene/#When:02:54:05Z   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 of the Milankovic cycles, natural long-term rhythms of global climate change caused by changes in the position of Earth relative to the sun. These included extreme conditions which forced humans to migrate and adapt through development of sophisticated communications (language) and technological innovation, culminating in the mastering of fire and thereby gaining control over the environment. Since the 18th century there has been a release into the atmosphere of over 300 billion tons of fossil carbon buried over hundreds of millions of years. The consequent increase in atmospheric CO2 levels by nearly 40 percent since 1750 threatens the delicate carbon cycle balance of the atmosphere, which allowed the development of the large ice sheets some 34 million years ago and the development of Neolithic agriculture and civilization from about 9,500 years ago. Current climate trajectories are leading toward atmosphere/ocean conditions similar to those of 3 million years-ago (mid-Pliocene). Public Lecture, Earth & Marine Sciences, History & Archeology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-05-29T02:54:05+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/vanishing_third_world_emigrants/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/vanishing_third_world_emigrants/#When:04:03:15Z A secular decline in emigration rates from the Third World since the 1990s has gone unnoticed. The recent rise in unemployment in high-wage countries has accelerated the secular decline. These trends have gone unnoticed partly because observers have been obsessed with immigration rates, and partly because of their belief that aging in rich countries will augment the demand for more immigrants. This lecture shows that the Third World supply side matters even more, just as the previous two centuries of history has shown. Third World migrants will begin to vanish from our midst as the 21st century unfolds. This lecture was filmed and broadcast by Slow TV and A-PAC Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-04-03T04:03:15+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dialogue_justice_peace/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dialogue_justice_peace/#When:01:27:04Z 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 of this insecurity, it is imperative for the world community to engage in constructive dialogue, but this must be based on two foundations:  a deep comprehension of civilisations, religions and cultures; and justice. Indeed, in our insecure world, full of extremism and conflict, only serious dialogue, mutual understanding and justice can generate peace and prosperity. This lecture was hosted by Professor Lawrence Cram, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President of The Australian National University and Professor Amin Saikal, Director of ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. The lecture was followed by Former Prime Minister of Australia, The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser AC CH, giving the vote of thanks and launching Professor Amin Saikal's book The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule. The book has a new introduction and preface by Professor Saikal, in which he reflects on what has happened in Iran since the fall of the Shah and relates Iran's past to its political present and future. The lecture was presented by the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia), ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.  Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2009-04-01T01:27:04+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speaking_our_language_the_story_of_australian_english/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speaking_our_language_the_story_of_australian_english/#When:05:10:45Z 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 vocabulary of Australian English, and to link these to the major movements in Australian history and culture. Written by the Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at ANU, Dr Bruce Moore, the book covers the birth and evolution of the ‘Aussie’ accent, as well as the development of the vocabulary of Australian English. Oxford University Press (OUP) head Dr Henry Reece also used the occasion to announce that OUP was gifting a free online version of the Australian National Dictionary to Australia to mark the publisher's centenary in this country. The Australian National Dictionary is a partnership between OUP and ANU. Public Lecture, Language & Linguistics, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-10-14T05:10:45+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/first_taste_history_culture_in_indigenous_alcohol_use/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/first_taste_history_culture_in_indigenous_alcohol_use/#When:02:26:03Z 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: How Indigenous Australians Learned About Grog by Maggie Brady (published by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation). This publication was released the morning before the lecture and is a series of six books. The series is designed to educate and empower Indigenous people on alcohol issues, to illuminate the influence of history and social learning on drinking behaviour, and to contribute to greater understanding and reconciliation between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians. Public Lecture, Behavioural & Cognitive Sciences, Indigenous Studies, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-09-24T02:26:03+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_14th_annual_lions_oratory_competition_2008/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_14th_annual_lions_oratory_competition_2008/#When:02:06:30Z 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 Lions Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The event was hoseted by Esther Sainsbury, last years winner of the 2007 Lions Oratory Competition and judged by an esteemed panel of public-speaking experts. The oratory saw speakers addressing a range of subjects incorporating the Lions' messages of truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence - the core values of all major religions.Prizes included: First prize - The ManikKam Reddy Award: $1,500Second prize: $800Third prize: $500Donated by the Lions Club of Canberra Woden People's Choice Award: $400Donated by the Australian National University and the Lions Club of Canberra Woden Public Lecture, Humanities, Society & Culture, Student Life, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, ANU College of Law, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, ANU College of Science, University, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics, Campus Life, Law, Medicine and Life Science 2008-09-24T02:06:30+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/alchemist_magpies_collecting_archivists_and_their_critics/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/alchemist_magpies_collecting_archivists_and_their_critics/#When:01:51:55Z Are archivists complicit in helping the victors write history, privileging some voices and silencing others? Are they alchemists transforming ‘turds and sticks' into the gold of societal heritage? Or are they just born collectors lucky enough to be paid to indulge their personal antiquarian passions? In this lecture, Michael Piggott reviews some recent criticisms of collecting archives and archivists, drawing on the theoretical literature, personal and professional experiences, and knowledge of Australia's two largest university collecting archives: the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at ANU and the University of Melbourne Archives. Public Lecture, Librarianship & Curatorship, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-09-24T01:51:55+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/strategy_policy_and_institutions/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/strategy_policy_and_institutions/#When:05:33:55Z 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 that are irrelevant to the security challenges of 2050 - these are critical obstacles to a consistent, credible and effective approach to national security. Our very concept of "security" is outmoded.  The solution is as easy as it is radical.  It demands three straightforward steps.  First, invest in the capacity of the public service to provide strategic advice.  Second, ensure that the policy elements that give expression to strategy are properly coordinated.  And third, reorganise the national security policy enterprise by demolishing the departmental silos and the artificial barriers between the security policy departments. The first Rudd Government is in a unique political and historical position to achieve this. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-08-21T05:33:55+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/running_the_war_in_iraq/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/running_the_war_in_iraq/#When:05:33:11Z The war in Iraq is as awful as any war, but that is never an excuse to wage it illegally or immorally. The only thing that will make the Iraq war worse than it is will be to ‘lose’. Major General Jim Molan's involvement was in the second year of the war – by then it was a vastly different war from the invasion. There has never been just one ‘Iraq War’. Since 2003 there have been different conflicts in different places at different times. Some have been won, and some others lost. The trends may be more positive now. The most important thing about conflict, according to Jim Molan, is that you must know what you believe in and you must practise it on the ground. He states that we are about the rule of law and we must act legally. Democratic societies cannot sustain a long, costly war unless they are convinced it is a just war. Major General Molan's book, Running the War in Iraq, is a story of how a 21st century war is run, and the part that an Australian general played in it. Major General Molan gives a stark, insider’s account of modern warfare and all it entails — the ghastly body count, the complex decisions which will mean life or death, the divide between political masters and foot soldiers — and the small, hard-won triumphs. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-08-18T05:33:11+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/divided_we_stand/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/divided_we_stand/#When:00:31:00Z 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 brutal fact is that the Federation in the end was a political compromise; it was a product of some ferocious horse-trading and Canberra is its monument. This lecture looks at the politics - as distinct from the legal and financial aspects - of Australia's federal arrangements. How the political compromise was arrived at, how it was implemented, how it has evolved into something quite different from what was originally conceived, and how it has been a constant arena of political contention, exploited by populist premiers and cynical prime ministers alike. It concludes with a political assessment of the state of the union in 2008 and a look at what the future might hold. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-07-02T00:31:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/1919_mexico/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/1919_mexico/#When:04:15:55Z 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. To a despairing world, it offered a unique site to safely experiment with all sorts of enchantments. In this culturally promiscuous capital not only the meaning of Mexico was at stake, but also the meanings of major modernist concepts –revolution, the popular, avant-garde, authenticity, race and desire. In Arabian Nights of 1919, Mexico City Professor Tenorio, tells a series of interconnected tales of an urban world that included Mexican poets and artists; radical foreigners plotting revolution; love and betrayal; experimentation in art, poetry, sexuality and politics; well-known luminaries such as Frida Kahlo and Ramón del Valle Inclán; less well-known Anita Brenner and José Vasconcelos; a Bengal Braham who founded the Mexican Communist Party and a Colombian bohemian who broke all literary and moral canons. Allan Martin (1926-2002) was an intellectual, institutional, and social pioneer whose career as a historian spanned the second half of the 20th Century. When most Australians went to England for their postgraduate work, he chose ANU, where he was the first doctoral student in History in the Research School of Social Sciences. He accepted the Foundation chair in History at LaTrobe University in 1966 and returned to RSSS as a senior fellow in 1973. This was the 2008 Allan Martin Memorial Lecture.   Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-05-26T04:15:55+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/risk_uncertainty_national_security/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/risk_uncertainty_national_security/#When:03:10:00Z Officially we are still fighting a "War on Terror", but few people in Australia would say we are still living in an "Age of Terror". Oil prices have quadrupled, but we have not seen the same panicked queuing at petrol stations as when this last occurred. This lecture launches an important new book, Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives , by discussing how risk and uncertainty inform the democratic politics of national security; and more specifically, how the management of national security is framed by the changing ways in which society assesses uncertainty and risk. It explores the emotion of fear in individual and social contexts, and examines how different security fears lead to different structures of national security. At this lecture, Professor Wesley launched Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives edited by ANU Professors Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson. Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Earthscan 2008), is a wide-ranging volume drawing perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, emergency management, futures, history, intelligence, law, law enforcement, music, philosophy, physics, policy, politics, psychology, statistics and theology. Key problems that are a subject of focus are environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. Opening and closing sections of the book provide major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking and develop an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty, uncertainty as a motivating or de-motivating force, and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-05-09T03:10:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/realism_peace/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/realism_peace/#When:22:27:00Z In this lecture, Professor White discusses the morality and ethical challenges of war, as examined by Professor Coady in his new book, Morality & Political Violence. Political violence, in the form of wars, insurgencies, violent revolutions and counter-revolutions, and terrorism constitutes a major human challenge today as so often in the past. The challenge is not only to life and limb, but also to morality itself. Professor Coady puts the problems posed by this challenge into the frame of reflective ethics. Against the background of a contemporary approach to just war thinking, he examines the right to make war, moral dimensions to the conduct of war, terrorism, mercenary warriors, conscientious objection, the rights of combatants and non-combatants, the ideal of peace and much else. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-05-06T22:27:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/memories_lost_found/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/memories_lost_found/#When:01:00:01Z The talk looks back over the period of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments and discusses what has been learned and what has been forgotten. It offers conjectures on likely economic outcomes during the first term of the Rudd government. Issues canvassed include monetary policy, inflation, labour market reforms and their outcomes and the changing overlap between the labour market and the welfare system. Public Lecture, Economics, Policy & Political Science, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-04-28T01:00:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/closing_the_gaps/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/closing_the_gaps/#When:01:09:00Z 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. Related to this is a subsequent declared need to improve housing conditions for Indigenous Australians with the establishment of a housing policy commission as the first step. In this forum, leading academics discuss the scale and nature of the issues facing the new government as it attempts to achieve these aims. PART ONE 1-2.30pm THE INFANT MORTALITY CHALLENGE Indigenous Infant Mortality: what is known from available data Dr Elizabeth Sullivan, Director of the National Perinatal Statistics Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, University of New South Wales. The Indigenous Infant Mortality Target: what needs to be achieved Associate Professor Heather Booth, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, ANU Culture as Cause: the debates on improving aboriginal health Professor Francesca Merlan, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU PART TWO 3-4.30pm THE INDIGENOUS HOUSING CHALLENGE The Scale and Composition of Housing Needs Dr Nicholas Biddle, Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU Housing Tenure in Remote Areas: directions and dilemmas Dr Will Sanders, Senior Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU The Delivery and Performance of Indigenous Housing and the Persistent Relevance of Culturally Specific Factors Professor Paul Memmott, Director, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, University of Queensland Public Lecture, Creative Arts, Indigenous Studies, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-04-09T01:09:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/2008_pamela_denoon_lecture/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/2008_pamela_denoon_lecture/#When:23:36:01Z Lecture One Recipes For Revolt: What Made the Women's Movement Move? In this lecture, Marian Sawer draws on her forthcoming history of Women's Electoral Lobby to explore what happened in the 1970s when women rebelled and ‘a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’ were no longer enough. Lecture Two ifeminism - Gen X, Gen Y And The Women's Movement. Roslyn Dundas explores what the future holds for feminism in an age of Myspace and Facebook, Paris Hilton and Pink. Marian Sawer AO is an internationally acclaimed expert on women, politics and policy. Her most recent books include Women's movements: Flourishing or in abeyance? and Out from the gilded cage: A history of Women’s Electoral Lobby . Marian is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Sciences, ANU and Leader of the Democratic Audit of Australia. Roslyn Dundas was the youngest woman ever elected to a Parliament in Australia, has been an active community campaigner in the ACT and plays a leading role in the Women’s Electoral Lobby – ACT. Roslyn currently works for the ACT Human Rights Commission as an adviser to the Commissioner for Children and Young People. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-03-09T23:36:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/wake_of_economic_reform/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/wake_of_economic_reform/#When:05:54:01Z   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 disciplined government, ample revenues, an effective regulative apparatus and – perhaps – the capacity for government to steer the economy towards a brighter future. In this lecture, Professor Pusey weighs these prospects against the negative impacts of neo-liberalism on our institutions and then examines from the three viewpoints of: our national political experience, the administrative apparatus, and popular expectations. Professor Pusey then considers the dynamic energies inherent in the challenges, respectively, of climate change, infrastructure development, and economic policies based on enhancing of quality of life. Michael is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In the early 1990s Michael Pusey's book Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind , started a national debate on economic rationalism and brought the term into public usage. His most recent book, The Experience of Middle Australia , examines the impact of economic restructuring on incomes, jobs, families, communities, politics and Australian culture. Public Lecture, Economics, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-12-14T05:54:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_platinum_age/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_platinum_age/#When:23:33:00Z In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the 'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits for global emissions within which the world will need to live if the risk of dangerous climate change is to be kept within acceptable bounds? What principles could be reasonably applied to the allocation of a global emissions budget amongst countries? What global emissions budget would make sense for Australia? What would these principles suggest for Australia’s climate change policy? Dr S.T. Lee comes from a distinguished family in Singapore that has for many years supported various community, educational and research causes. Since the early 1990s, Dr Lee has supported a number of scholarly projects around the world, and in 2007 endowed an annual lecture at ANU named the S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific. This annual lecture will provide opportunities for distinguished figures from the Asia-Pacific to speak on developments and trends in the region and draw attention to crucial issues that affect us all. Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-11-29T23:33:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/just_war_theory/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/just_war_theory/#When:23:45:00Z For several thousand years, philosophers, lawyers, and theologians have developed a theory of the just war, where rules are set for deciding when a war should be fought and what tactics can be employed in war. During the entirety of that period chemical and biological weapons have been banned. In this public lecture, reasons are given for thinking that just war theory cannot support a complete ban on such weapons, unless a similar ban on the use of bombs is also endorsed. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Medical & Health Science, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-11-26T23:45:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/advance_australia_where/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/advance_australia_where/#When:03:10:00Z Fifteen years ago social researcher Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia , which analysed with forensic skill what was happening within Australian society. In this public lecture he takes another long, hard look at us to see how far we’ve come. What will the next generation of Australian children be like? Why have we lost interest in politics? Why are our houses getting bigger while our households are shrinking? Can the decline of the public education system be reversed? Are we spending too much public money on the arts? Mackay maintains that while we enjoy unprecedented levels of prosperity and the promise of more to come, we are still battling an epidemic of depression, taking on record levels of debt, and yearning for a deeper sense of meaning in our lives. While many Australians complain about feeling powerless and isolated, Mackay sees some encouraging signs that we are learning how to absorb the impact of the revolutionary changes that have reshaped us. Public Lecture, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-09-28T03:10:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/harry_potter_holocaust/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/harry_potter_holocaust/#When:05:25:01Z 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 in history, narrative form, the representability of the past, and much more. More generally, difficult pasts, such as Australia's frontier colonial past, pose such major challenges for historians that some have argued they are better dealt with through fiction than history. This lecture considers what historians can learn from novelists, and novelists from history, with special attention to the latest and last book in the Harry Potter series. This is the 6th Annual Lecture presented by the ANU Archives Program and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-09-25T05:25:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/indigenous_affairs/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/indigenous_affairs/#When:05:31:00Z In this lecture, Lieutenant General John Sanderson argues that the national approach to Indigenous issues can broadly be described as ‘assimilationist’ – the belief that the only hope for Indigenous people is to become like mainstream Australia, taking on the trappings of a rationalist northern hemisphere culture that is increasingly at odds with the environment in which it finds itself. Recent initiatives are merely a market forces derived version of this paternalistic approach that has its origins almost from the time of the First Fleet. The cultural disempowerment associated with this approach has left Indigenous people in a state of trauma that is reflected in the appalling physical and mental health statistics and the increasing engagement with the justice and prison systems. The alienation of Indigenous people from the mainstream in Australia is paralleled by the alienation of Australians from the continent itself and portrays a latent danger to the young country as the world power balance shifts towards Asia. Reconciliation is not simply about overcoming Indigenous disadvantage – it is about national unity and the redemption of the entire nation. A commentary will be provided by Professor Mick Dodson AM, Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at ANU. Public Lecture, Indigenous Studies, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-08-24T05:31:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/knowledge_democracy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/knowledge_democracy/#When:06:10:00Z Having informed citizens is important to the health of any democracy. Scholars and journalists frequently suppose that affluent countries have systems of public knowledge on which their citizens can draw. In this lecture, Professor Phillip Kitcher suggests that the functioning of these systems is more problematic that assumed and that there are serious issues about the direction of inquiry, about the certification of knowledge, and about the dissemination of information that arise from our commitments to democracy. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-08-21T06:10:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/emissions_trading/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/emissions_trading/#When:00:00:01Z Will emissions trading harm or benefit the economy? Can emissions trading get Australia to a low emissions future? What is the right way toward an effective post-Kyoto international scheme? This is an opportunity to engage with leading experts as they present their perspectives.   Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, ANU College of Science, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-08-21T00:00:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_atheology/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_atheology/#When:03:03:00Z 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 a danger to the human race. The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam is a tightly argued work that is sure to stir heated debate on the role of religion in Australian society. This ANU Public Lecture was delivered by Michel Onfray in French with a direct translation into English. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-06-18T03:03:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama/#When:02:03:01Z On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse and Professor Abdullah Saeed joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a dialogue that addressed the pervasive view that religion is necessarily a cause of violent dissention and conflict. This dialogue encompassed the fundamental messages of peace, compassion and wisdom at the heart of each of the world's great religious traditions. The podcasts for this event are in three parts Welcome by Professor Michael Coper Guest Speakers (Venerable Alex Bruce, Rabbi Jonathat Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse, Professor Abdullah Saeed) His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Moderated Dialogue and Concluding Remarks (this page) Symposium, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, ANU College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-06-13T02:03:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama_guest_speakers/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama_guest_speakers/#When:01:53:00Z On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse and Professor Abdullah Saeed joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a dialogue that addressed the pervasive view that religion is necessarily a cause of violent dissention and conflict. This dialogue encompassed the fundamental messages of peace, compassion and wisdom at the heart of each of the world's great religious traditions. The podcasts for this event are in three parts Welcome by Professor Michael Coper Guest Speakers (this page) His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Moderated Dialogue and Concluding Remarks Symposium, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, ANU College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-06-13T01:53:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama_welcome/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dalai_lama_welcome/#When:01:45:01Z On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse and Professor Abdullah Saeed joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a dialogue that addressed the pervasive view that religion is necessarily a cause of violent dissention and conflict. This dialogue encompassed the fundamental messages of peace, compassion and wisdom at the heart of each of the world's great religious traditions. The podcasts for this event are in three parts Welcome by Professor Michael Coper (this page) Guest Speakers (Venerable Alex Bruce, Rabbi Jonathat Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse, Professor Abdullah Saeed) His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Moderated Dialogue and Concluding Remarks Symposium, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, ANU College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-06-13T01:45:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speechmaking/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speechmaking/#When:03:18:01Z 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 for 2007) are the following: When can a speech be said to have affected history? What has become of that once popular institution the public meeting and that once popular form the sermon? What is the future for speechmaking in an age of speechwriters, doorstop interviews, sound grabs, power points and the internet? Allan Martin (1926–2002) was an intellectual, institutional, and social pioneer whose career as a historian spanned the second half of the 20th century. When most Australians went to England for their postgraduate work, he chose ANU, where he was the first doctoral student in History in the Research School of Social Sciences. He accepted the Foundation chair in History at LaTrobe University in 1966 and returned to RSSS as a senior fellow in 1973. Ken Inglis enjoyed Allan's friendship for more than 40 years. They were long-time colleagues in the history department of the ANU's RSSS, and worked closely together on the 10-volume bicentennial project initiated in the department, Australians. A Historical Library . Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Journalism, Language & Linguistics, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-05-24T03:18:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_dirty_politics_of_climate_change/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_dirty_politics_of_climate_change/#When:03:32:01Z 2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power players who influence environmental policy? Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? In this lecture Clive Hamilton, best-selling author of Scorcher, the Dirty Politics of Climate Change , reveals the real influences on the politics of climate change in Australia. Public Lecture, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Science, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-05-17T03:32:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australians_fraser/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australians_fraser/#When:03:50:00Z What does it mean to be Australian in 2007? How do we as Australians see ourselves? How are we as a nation, culture and society, perceived by others? How have recent actions and policies affected attitudes within Australia and the perception of other people of Australia? Former Prime Minister of Australia Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser discusses the implications of independence as a state. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-05-01T03:50:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/monkey/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/monkey/#When:04:23:00Z Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed a lethal allergy, and the monkeys she was to study were evasive, mean and aggressive. The only difference between them and her housemates was that at least she could tell her housemates apart. In this talk, science writer Vanessa Woods will explain how to survive a year in the jungle: a world of love, loss, bitter rivalry and vicious battles – and that’s just the monkeys. Public Lecture, Behavioural & Cognitive Sciences, Biological Sciences, Botany & Zoology, Environment, Society & Culture, ANU College of Science, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-03-14T04:23:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/all_for_nothing/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/all_for_nothing/#When:04:18:00Z To what extent have Australian feminist struggles achieved a substantive and lasting gender equality? The gender report for the Democratic Audit of Australia considered this question, investigating legislation, representation, policy machinery and the women’s non-government sector. The picture that emerges from this assessment is deeply worrying. Whereas Australia was once a world leader in the global struggle for gender equality, it is now clear that in recent decades the nation has resiled from this commitment and undone many earlier achievements. Was it all for nothing? Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-03-14T04:18:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/europe_global_actor/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/europe_global_actor/#When:04:49:01Z 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 area – in terms of economic relations, crisis management, global environment and climate issues. What are the challenges for the external relations of Europe? How to tap the potential of the Europe-Australia relationship? This address is a unique opportunity to listen to the views of the President of the Republic of Finland whose country held the presidency of the EU for the last six months of 2006, steered thousands of meetings to coordinate the EU's policies, and conducted hundreds of sessions to discuss international topics with other countries. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-02-19T04:49:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/improving_relations/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/improving_relations/#When:05:23:00Z 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 and collaboration. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-02-14T05:23:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_dimension_stateness/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_dimension_stateness/#When:05:13:01Z While Professor Francis Fukuyama’s changing evaluation of the arguments of his one-time Neocon colleagues has illuminated major issues about American policy and the war in Iraq, his general thinking about weak states and foreign intervention has received less attention in Australia. In this lecture he continues his review of policies and practices on international aid and the rebuilding of weak, failing and failed states. As Professor Fukuyama has argued, “state-building is one of the most important issues for the world community”, but the history of the last 30 years has shown that the ‘conventional wisdom’ and much expenditure have not resulted in the building of efficient, just and economically vigorous states. Professor Fukuyama does not concede that because foreign aid has had slight (and sometimes a negative) impact it should be abandoned. He has put the case for long-term commitment, pragmatic assessment of what works, stimulation of demand in recipient states and sensitivity to local cultural forces. Now, he returns to the broad issues of aid and state formation, and draws on observations resulting from his research and travel in Melanesia and elsewhere. The organisers, State Society and Governance in Melanesia at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, are grateful to the Australian Government through AusAID for its support of this event. Public Lecture, Economics, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2006-12-18T05:13:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/aiatsis_and_the_support_of_indigenous_studies/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/aiatsis_and_the_support_of_indigenous_studies/#When:05:33:00Z Steve Larkin, Principal, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), explores the unique role of AIATSIS in promoting scholarship that has been relevant and responsive to its national Indigenous constituency. The interaction between the Institute and ANU has resulted in many new initiatives and collaborations that have promoted the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. In recognition of this the two institutions are about to formalise a Memorandum of Understanding. Public Lecture, Indigenous Studies, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-11-23T05:33:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/kicking_the_bastards_out/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/kicking_the_bastards_out/#When:05:47:00Z 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 believes that this approach to reform is misguided. She argues that a better strategy is to allow more discretion in office and concentrate on three goals: one, select better legislators to begin with; two, communicate with both legislators and bureaucrats in settings where they have a strong incentive to listen; and three, kick out the legislators who don’t do their job well. This is the annual John Passmore Lecture, presented by the Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. John Passmore was Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, from 1959 to 1979. The Passmore Lecture has been held annually in his honour since 2000. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-11-08T05:47:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/integrity_american_elections/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/integrity_american_elections/#When:06:19:01Z 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 in America asking how effective the process of running elections in the United States is and how it compares to the management of elections in Australia. In light of the problems in Florida during the presidential election of 2000 and the subsequent passage of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Professor Mayer posed the fundamental question: how can American voters know that the right candidate won? This lecture is presented by the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-10-27T06:19:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/reconciliation_canadian_style/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/reconciliation_canadian_style/#When:02:08:00Z Like Australia, Canada faces challenges in resolving the grievances of First Nation peoples harmed by past policies. Phil Fontaine, the National Chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations, has been at the heart of negotiations which have resulted in the Canadian government offering C$2 billion in compensation to former students of Residential Schools. Phil was visiting Australia with Charlene Belleau, Director of the Residential Schools Unit of the Assembly of First Nations, and Professor Kathleen Mahoney, chief negotiator for the residential schools settlement. Public Lecture, Indigenous Studies, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-10-25T02:08:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/east_timor/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/east_timor/#When:03:29:00Z In his first visit to Australia as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the current political situation in his country. Dr Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and accomplished diplomat, was handed one of the biggest challenges of his life on 10 July 2006, he became Timor-Leste’s second Prime Minister. He came to the position amid high expectations that he restore political stability, reconstitute the security forces, promote development, eradicate corruption and revive public faith in the country’s fledgling democracy. Although conditions remain bleak, he is widely viewed as the best person for promoting reconciliation and restoring hope. In accepting the difficult task of Prime Minister, he put aside personal ambition by withdrawing from the shortlist of candidates for the United Nations Secretary-General. This lecture was presented by the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Public Lecture, Biological Sciences, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2006-10-13T03:29:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/whose_abc/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/whose_abc/#When:03:53:00Z As controversy continues to swirl around Australia’s national broadcaster, a long-awaited history of its last 20 years provides much-needed insight and background to the current debates. Distinguished historian Ken Inglis first chronicled the ABC in his 1983 book This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983. In his new volume Whose ABC?, he covers intricate details of the reigns of David Hill and Jonathan Shier and the stormy politics of the broadcaster’s relations with the government over the last two decades. Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-10-12T03:53:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/cowboy_cloners_the_ethics_morality_of_scientific_communities/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/cowboy_cloners_the_ethics_morality_of_scientific_communities/#When:03:44:00Z Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned, there has been much debate in the media and public spheres about the ethics and morality of genetic research. But little attention has been paid to how scientific communities accomplish this important area of 21st century research. In this lecture, Professor Peter Glasner considers some of the organisational and ethical issues that arise from debates about the selection, modification and engineering of human and other species, and their implications for improving health and extending human life. Examples range from the applications of stem cell technology in India and the UK, enabling the emergence of ‘cowboy cloners’, to analysis of proteomics and systems biology, and the issues surrounding the creation of ‘virtual’ life. Public Lecture, Medical & Health Science, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-10-12T03:44:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/archeology_beneath_the_sea/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/archeology_beneath_the_sea/#When:03:36:00Z 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 shipwrecks uncovered by the museum, includin the fifteenth century Pandanan wreck, with its cargo of Chinese ceramics, which was accidentally discovered by a pearl farm diver off the coast of Pandanan Island in the southern Philippines. Another key discovery discussed is the wreck of the San Diego, a Spanish warship that sank off the waters of Fortune Island during a battle with a Dutch ship, the Mauritius in 1600. This lecture was presented by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2006-10-12T03:36:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/when_art_meets_science/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/when_art_meets_science/#When:04:58:00Z Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both motivated by a desire to make sense of the world in which we live. A sculptor and a scientist, Dr Wetherell talks about his experiences working with various artists and scientists on a range of interdisciplinary projects - from the monumental sculptures of body arts to growing living cells over a computer-generated head. This lecture was sponsored by the ANU College of Science as part of National Science Week 2006. Public Lecture, Biological Sciences, Creative Arts, Science Communication, ANU College of Science, Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine and Life Science 2006-09-22T04:58:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/storytelling_history_writing_which_came_first/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/storytelling_history_writing_which_came_first/#When:04:01:00Z 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 authorised version of the past. Once upon a time people began telling stories. These early tales stuck to the truth, narrating actual events. Soon, storytellers became aware that to hold the attention of their audience they needed to jazz things up with liberal dashes of adventure and wonder. If reality didn’t conform, the truth could be bent to more attractive designs. Dr Manfredi proposes that despite the need for history, the continuation of the storytelling tradition is a testament to the human imagination. This lecture was presented by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the Italian Embassy. Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Humanities, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-09-04T04:01:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/hobbess_leviathan/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/hobbess_leviathan/#When:05:45:00Z What is freedom? The philosopher Thomas Hobbes attempted to pin the concept down in his seminal work Leviathan, defining freedom as the absence of opposition, particularly the absence of external impediments to motion. In this talk, Professor Quentin Skinner argued that this ‘negative’ understanding of freedom as non-interference is now so widely accepted that it is easy to forget that Hobbes’ original argument was intensely polemical. Professor Skinner attempted to excavate the missing side of the dialogue, uncovering the polemical motivations underlying Hobbes’s revolutionary account. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-08-16T05:45:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/mabo_case/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/mabo_case/#When:06:03:01Z 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 world, especially in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. In this lecture presented by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Peter Russell considers the background and consequences of the Mabo case, contextualising it within the international struggle of Indigenous peoples to overcome their colonized status. He weaves together a historical narrative of Eddie Mabo’s life with an account of the legal and ideological premises of European imperialism, outlining the implications of the Mabo ruling for judicial, constitutional and Indigenous politics. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Indigenous Studies, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Law 2006-03-23T06:03:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_voices/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_voices/#When:06:09:01Z Pamela Denoon Lecture 2006 in association with International Women's Day Issues of sex and gender are rarely considered relevant to invasions, conflict or state-building. In this, the Pamela Dunoon Lecture for 2006, Professor Hilary Charlesworth argued that the roles of women and the values assigned to these roles shape our understanding of violence at the international level. She focused on the invasion of Iraq, its aftermath, and the ongoing attempts to rebuild that country. She also examined the way that ideas about femininity and masculinity have influenced the international community’s actions. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-03-17T06:09:01+10:00