http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ en martyn.pearce@anu.edu.au Copyright 2012 2012-01-29T22:24:03+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/sophie_mcneill_reporting_from_conflict_zones_telling_the_stories_of_the_vic/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/sophie_mcneill_reporting_from_conflict_zones_telling_the_stories_of_the_vic/#When:00:38:06Z Sophie McNeill is an award winning foreign correspondent who has covered some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous stories from areas such as Iraq, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gaza and she has been based most recently in Jerusalem, Beirut and New York. Sophie’s incredible talent, her courage as a journalist and her commitment to tell the stories of those affected by conflict and injustice have been recognised in the wide range of awards she has received, including a Walkley Award – the highest honour for an Australian journalist. Sophie has also been a 2006 New York Film Festival finalist; been honoured as the 2008 YEN Young Woman of the Year and YEN Journalist of the Year; and been awarded Western Australia's Young Person of the Year Award (when she was just 16). Her work has been praised as ‘exceptional’ by leading journalists such as John Pilger. Sophie’s achievements are particularly remarkable given this seasoned foreign correspondent made her first documentary in a conflict zone when she was 15 years of age and is only 26.  Public Lecture, Journalism 2011-11-16T00:38:06+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_arab_spring_implications_for_australias_national_security/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_arab_spring_implications_for_australias_national_security/#When:03:49:10Z Recent months have seen the people of the Arab world from Yemen to Egypt, and most recently in Libya, seeking to shake off decades of repression and political dictatorships to embrace rapid transformation. From the less violent transitions which have occurred in Jordan and Bahrain, to the brutal civil war prevailing in Libya, the international community has become involved in the moves toward security as well as individual and collective rights for the Arab people. This National Security College public seminar brings together leading experts on the region to discuss the events, key drivers of change, the military action, the Responsibility to Protect, and energy politics. The panel will also consider the national security implications for Australia. Public Lecture, History & Archeology, Humanities, Journalism, News & Media, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2011-05-20T03:49:10+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_two/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_two/#When:04:04:34Z Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy. This multidisciplinary two-day symposium on 7-8 October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU mapped the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated age. The symposium brought together international relations academics, media scholars and media practitioners, policymakers and defence staff. It explored cultural, political, strategic, and technological transformations in media platforms and media participation and assess their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of political conflict. The symposium addressed questions such as: What is 'new' about new media? How have the transformations in media technology influenced media-military relations? How have these transformations impacted upon traditional media actors? How are war, conflict, terrorism and violence represented; what are the consequences of these representations? In what ways has new media technology empowered marginalised voices in war, conflict, and terrorism? And how has the transformation of the media landscape impacted on the way states conduct their foreign policy? This event was hosted by ANU with the support of the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.   Symposium, Journalism, News & Media, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-10-09T04:04:34+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