Past events
The Three Lives of Makers of Modern Strategy: history, historians, and the study of war in the 20th century
Since its first appearance in 1943, Makers of Modern Strategy has been a key reference work for scholars and soldiers seeking to deepen their understanding of war and strategy in the modern period...
Decolonising humanitarian protection? Survival vs rights of indigenous peoples in the context of protracted displacement in Asia
Registration is absolutely ESSENTIAL for this event. Please email jennifer.canfield@anu.edu.au to register.
This workshop investigates new perspectives on indigenous jumma communities in...
State-created vulnerability as a deterrent: The perceived vulnerability of single male asylum seekers
This seminar explores the extent to which the denial of the vulnerability label to certain individuals and groups can lead to an increase in their level of vulnerability, as through their...
Environmental change and migration in an agrarian society: The case of coastal Bangladesh
Abstract In recent years, agrarian communities in coastal Bangladesh have experienced frequent and intense climatic hazards. Scholarship on environmental migration argues that villagers often...
In conversation: Are we heading towards a strategic crisis over Taiwan?
Video recording of the panel discussion at National Press Club.
As the world nervously watches Hong Kong’s unravelling, a far bigger crisis is brewing only a few hundred kilometres away on...
Education in the Pacific
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,...
Indonesia's war for independence and the birth of UN peacekeeping
Seminar podcast.
Seventy years ago this month, on 27 December 1949, Indonesia became an independent state. Australia had played a notable diplomatic role in helping the Indonesians achieve...
Democracy in an Era of Charismatic Politics
Abstract Using Rodrigo Duterte and Narendra Modi as exemplars, the guest speaker will raise the issue of whether these are transformative figures, to be unraveled by making use of Weber’s...
Democratic responses to populist challenges
What are the emerging remedies to the pathologies of populism? Four authors of four new books reflect on how opposition parties, activist groups, global institutions and new political alliances...
After insolvency: Retrenchment and reconciliation during great power decline
In this seminar Dr Kyle Haynes examines how declining great powers balance the demands of competing with peer adversaries while pulling back from costly peripheral commitments. Contrary to the...
