Past events
Exclusive or Inclusive? Shan ethnic organisations in eastern Myanmar during the 2010s political transition
Abstract During the political transition in the 2010s, Kengtung, a remote town in eastern Myanmar, has seen an unprecedented emergence of Shan ethnic organisations. These Shan groups work on a...
Australia and the war in Afghanistan
** PLEASE NOTE, THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW THE MOLONGLO THEATRE, JG CRAWFORD BUILDING, 132 LENNOX CROSSING, ANU, ACTON **
Despite being Australia’s longest war, the part that...
Insecurity and the Invisible: Testing the Boundaries of a Concept
The modern study – and practice – of security has been largely concerned with the protection, preservation and sustaining of the temporal, the material and the tangible. Although the longstanding...
From self-made entrepreneurs to professional business managers: the emergence of a social group identity in rural China
Abstract This seminar discusses my PhD thesis, which explores the construction of a social group identity among entrepreneurs in post-Mao rural China. Drawing on research in a rural county in...
Migrant Worker Rights and Norm Contestation in Southeast Asia: Establishing Meaning-in-Use through Social Interaction
This study starts from the puzzling observation that the norm of migrant worker protection has produced multiple understandings in both meaning and application in three Southeast Asian countries:...
Faith in action: understanding the relationship between faith and practice for evangelical humanitarian organisations
Abstract
The increased interest in the role of religious actors, ideas and practices in the International Relations (IR) discipline is a promising development of contemporary scholarship....
Workshop: How does the ‘Pacific’ fit into the ‘Indo-Pacific’? The changing geopolitics of the Pacific Islands
In the 2013 Defence White Paper the Australian government identified its zone of strategic interest as the Indo-Pacific, which it described as ‘connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans through...
Controversial Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, in conversation with Michael Wesley
As Australia and others track Russia’s movements closely, join independent Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and Professor Michael Wesley to discuss the interplay between its domestic...
Saffron Salaams: Why Hindu nationalists need Muslim friends
Abstract The paramilitary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps or RSS), is notorious for its many crimes against Muslim communities in India. Large scale riots, poisonous vitriol...
Security Mapping and Colour Encoding: A Critical Cartography of Interventions
Every international intervention comes with its own security regulations, which contribute in turn to structuring the political geography of the intervention, delimiting areas of interaction...
