Past events
From Silent to Salient: Re-engaging Local Stories of Chuukese Women
Chuukese history is an area that continues to be underdeveloped, and the limited written history is largely focused on the colonial presence in the islands. This colonial history, however, is...
Postgraduate Information Evening - Start Studying in 2019
Considering graduate study in 2019? Explore your Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs study options at ANU Postgraduate Information Evening.
Coral Bell School staff will be there to...
When Things Get Personal: Politics and Democracy in Small States
In this seminar, Wouter Veenendaal will present the main findings of his newly published book Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (OUP; co-authored with Prof. Jack Corbett)....
Papua New Guinea and the Belt and Road Initiative: the road to ruins or riches
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the second Pacific nation to join China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure program. Given the concerns sparked by the two countries’ deepening...
Looking at the Sky, Listening to the Sea: Customary Environmental Knowledge, Climate Change in the Pacific and Connections of Atmosphere, Oceans, Species and People
The Pacific Ocean is the largest single geographic feature on our planet. It represents half of the world’s oceanic area, occupies one-third of the earth’s surface and helps support hundreds of...
Hollywood in the Pacific: Sustainable film and television industry in the Pacific
In 2016, the Pacific Community (formerly Secretariat of the Pacific Community or SPC), with funding from the Commonwealth Foundation released a scoping report entitled ‘Cinema Pasifika: Developing...
The Negotiation of Identities among Cham Muslim Migrant Women in Urban Vietnam
Abstract Vietnam is a multi-ethnic nation and the Cham is one of fifty-four state-recognized ethnic groups. In this project, my main aim is to understand the life experiences of Cham [Sunni]...
What we know and where to go: lessons from partnering for peace in the Pacific Islands and a way forward
Volume V of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations explores the Australian government’s efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from...
State-business relations in Post-Suharto Indonesia: The Political Economy of the Construction Sector in Jakarta
Abstract This study analyses the increasing economic role of the government in Jakarta under Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Governor Basuki T. Purnama (Ahok) during 2012–2016. It does so by...
WIIS: Shaping Australia’s Role in Indo-Pacific Security in the Next Decade
Frances Adamson has led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China...
