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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:...
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...
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...
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...
