02
Dec
2019
Indonesia's war for independence and the birth of UN peacekeeping
Dr Peter Londey, ANU
This seminar will focus on the part played in the development of UN multinational peacekeeping by the peacekeepers themselves on the ground in Indonesia.
03
Dec
2019
Education in the Pacific
Mr lati Bergmans, Mr Timoci Bure, Afamasaga Dr Karoline Fuata’i, Anna Gibert
In this panel senior public servants from the education departments of Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu will discuss some of the key education challenges facing their countries and the Pacific generally, while also describing recent innovations and future priorities.
Speakers
•Mr lati Bergmans is...
05
Dec
2019
In conversation: Are we heading towards a strategic crisis over Taiwan?
Brendan Taylor, Coral Bell School; Linda Jakobson, China Matters; Hugh White, Coral Bell School; All
As the world nervously watches Hong Kong’s unravelling, a far bigger crisis is brewing only a few hundred kilometres away on the island of Taiwan.
10
Dec
2019
Environmental change and migration in an agrarian society: The case of coastal Bangladesh
Towheedul Islam
At the crossroads of agrarian change and environmental migration literature, my thesis contributes to the growing field of political ecology of migration by advancing more nuanced theoretical understandings of immobility. The thesis concludes that the immobility of some households in communities...
