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/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/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/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/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/the_national_interest_strategic_non_violence_and_the_independence_of_east_t/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_national_interest_strategic_non_violence_and_the_independence_of_east_t/#When:04:53:12Z Dr Fernandes provides a critical evaluation of what is often portrayed as a noble moment in Australia's history of overseas interventions. He shows that a series of Australian strategists and policymakers had argued that Australia's national interest required it to support the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. He shows how this conception of the national interest was challenged by a coalition of activists who maintained a long-running campaign of non-violent opposition to official policy. He demonstrates that Australian policymakers were compelled to send in a peacekeeping force in 1999 under the pressure of a tidal wave of public outrage. This outrage did not arise spontaneously; rather, it was the result of a conscious process of strategic non-violent action by a transnational coalition of activists. He concludes with lessons and implications for the future. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2008-09-04T04:53:12+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_australia_us_relationship_its_place_in_our_histories_in_the_context_of_/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_australia_us_relationship_its_place_in_our_histories_in_the_context_of_/#When:01:39:14Z One hundred years ago this year the Great White fleet sailed into Sydney harbor to a rapturous reception from Australian's hoping that America would protect us from the threats we feared from rising economic giants in Asia. In 1941 that hope come true. Today Australians still regards American primacy in Asia as the foundation of their security, and they have become perhaps Americas most consistent and supportive ally as a result. But our relationships with Asia has changed a lot since then, and the choices that Australians will face in the Asian Century may be more complex than those we make back in 1908, or in 1941. How do Australian see their relationship with the US today, and how might it evolve over the decades to come?     Seminar, History & Archeology, International Business, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-08-20T01:39:14+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/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/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/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/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/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/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