Past events
Conference: Entrenched Illiberalism in Mainland Southeast Asia
In the mid-1990s Myanmar was a dark spot on an otherwise increasingly bright outlook for liberal democratic change in mainland Southeast Asia, in particular, in Thailand and Cambodia. Today things...
Postgraduate Information Evening
Acton Theatre, JG Crawford Building, 132 Lennox Crossing
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is Australia’s leading centre for research and teaching on the world’s most dynamic region....
Recreational Fundamentalism: Hijrah counterculture and the Islamisation of middle-class lay-Muslims in Jakarta
AbstractHijrah is a lifestyle-oriented trend of middle-class lay-Muslims pursuing self-improvement through Islam. In recent years, the hijrah phenomenon broke into the mainstream as an increasing...
Insecure Thai-ness: Contradictions within a mode of dependency
Abstract My starting point for this presentation is to question how a particular ethic, or set of ethics, decides and dominates the way Thai people live together. Building on the work of Judith...
Book Launch - Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918
Book launch by Major General Mick Ryan. MAJGEN Ryan was appointed as the Commander of the Australian Defence College in 2018, after having variously served in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan....
The politics of Indonesia’s relationship with China
Abstract For decades, structural realists have argued that states are likely to either balance against or bandwagon with larger, potentially threatening states. However, studies on state responses...
Environmental Populism: Could It Save the World?
Populism is popular but generally gets a bad press — for good reasons. But could populism actually be a progressive force in domestic and even international politics? Recent movements such as...
The First Political Order - How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider...
International Women's Day event: Women’s Political Participation in the Pacific
The Australian National University’s Department of Pacific Affairs, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade invite you to a special 2019 International Women’s Day Pacific Leadership...
The Poverty of China’s Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
Abstract Since the late 1980s, an increasing number of migrant workers have been moving from villages to towns and cities in China. In 2010, 153 million rural-to-urban migrant workers worked...
