Past events
Thinking the Unthinkable: Could Australia ever contemplate nuclear weapons?
John Gee Memorial Lecture
Professor Hugh White’s latest book How to Defend Australia has raised some challenging questions. One of them is whether there could be circumstances under which...
Another vote for independence: New Caledonia's second referendum on self-determination
The French Pacific dependency of New Caledonia will hold a second referendum on self-determination in September 2020. A meeting this month in Paris between the French government, the independence...
Naik Sungai: The river war in Borneo
Audio recording of the seminar.
Landing in Borneo in 1945 as part of the Oboe series of operations the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions confronted an operational environment in which...
Advancing Equal Outcomes in the Pacific
In this seminar we will hear from Leituala Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago-Elisara, director of the Pacific Community’s Social Development Programme (SDP). The SDP’s goal is to ‘advance gender equality,...
War Makes States: Conflict 2019 report
This seminar is co-sponsored by the CAP Philippines Project
The Conflict Alert 2019 Report highlights the decline of violent incidents in Muslim Mindanao in the Southern Philippines after...
Book Launch: Geopolitics and the Western Pacific
Join us for the launch of Geopolitics and the Western Pacific: China, Japan and the US by author Dr Leszek Buszynski.
Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the...
Book Launch - Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands by Kerryn Baker
Please join us at the book launch of Kerryn Baker’s Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, University of Hawai`i Press.
About the book
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ANU DPA Bougainville Independence Referendum Symposium
On 23 November 2019, an unprecedented referendum will take place in Bougainville and Papua New Guinea, the culmination of more than 20 years of work towards peace. Bougainvilleans will be asked...
King Vajiralongkorn and the new political landscape
King Vajiralongkorn was crowned on 1 December 2016, although the official ceremony was not until 4 May 2019 (note that the official coronation was a three-day celebration from 4-6 May 2019)....
Sino-European relations through the lens of cybersecurity
How a midsized European country became a cyber player in the global arena (Spoiler: it´s assymetric!)
Audio recording of the lecture.
Daniel P Bagge was appointed as the Cyber Attache of...
