Past events
The Role of the Arts in Cambodia’s Transitional Justice Process: Repairing the Soul of a Nation
At the end of the Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979), less than ten percent of Cambodia’s artists, dancers, musicians, and film makers remained in Cambodia. Marked as ‘undesirables’, members of the...
The use of foreign judges on courts of constitutional jurisdiction in Pacific island states
The global norm is that, by law or by practice, judges will be citizens of the state they serve. Yet, in Pacific island states foreign judges regularly sit on the highest domestic courts and...
Asia's economic outlook: what are the risks?
Amid slowing global growth, weaker external demand and rising protectionism, the near-term prospects for the East Asian region are expected to be softer, while the longer term economic...
Distinguished Guest Seminar: Professor Andrew J. Strathern & Professor Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern)
DPA is honored to host a late-notice seminar with leading University of Pittsburgh-based anthropologists Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, on the subject of Current Arenas of Research:...
Finishing the job or mission creep? How American Presidents justify humanitarian intervention exit strategies
Humanitarian interventions to stop mass atrocities are among America’s most controversial uses of military force overseas since the end of the Cold War. While there is much research analysing...
Book Launch: Illiberal Transitional Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
In this book, Rebecca Gidley examines the creation and operation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid domestic/international tribunal tasked with putting senior...
Strategise your career: International Security Studies mid-degree career info session
ANU Careers and the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) warmly invite all current mid-degree International Security Studies students to attend the upcoming info session, ‘Strategise your...
Whose Past, Which History? Modern Historiography as a Code
History-writing, this seminar suggests, is not the re-creation of a past that is lying mute, waiting for the historian to give it voice. Historiography is instead a code or genre or technology...
After American Primacy: Imagining the future of Australia's defence
Australian defence policy sits at a crossroads. For over seventy years the ‘Lucky Country’s’ strategic position had been anchored by the US-led international order that has been in place since the...
Art and the Aftermath of War: Painting, Memory and the First World War in the Dominions
The emergence and development of government directed art schemes during the First World War in many belligerent nations formed part of a larger mission to collect war records to celebrate and...
