Past events
Book Launch: Transforming Hawai’i: Balancing Coercion and Consent in Eighteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Statecraft by Paul D’Arcy
This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. Three interrelated themes in...
From Silent to Salient: Re-engaging Local Stories of Chuukese Women
Chuukese history is an area that continues to be underdeveloped, and the limited written history is largely focused on the colonial presence in the islands. This colonial history, however, is...
Inside the DMZ: Rethinking Security through Visual Autoethnography
This project draws on Professor Roland Bleiker’s personal experience of working in the Korean DMZ to rethink security issues on the peninsula. Using his own photographs and engaging the politics...
Postgraduate Information Evening - Start Studying in 2019
Considering graduate study in 2019? Explore your Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs study options at ANU Postgraduate Information Evening.
Coral Bell School staff will be there to...
When Things Get Personal: Politics and Democracy in Small States
In this seminar, Wouter Veenendaal will present the main findings of his newly published book Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (OUP; co-authored with Prof. Jack Corbett)....
Papua New Guinea and the Belt and Road Initiative: the road to ruins or riches
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the second Pacific nation to join China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure program. Given the concerns sparked by the two countries’ deepening...
Vietnam Update 2018: Vietnam in the World
The Vietnam Update in 2018 will be held on Tuesday 13 November at The Australian National University, building on more than 25 years of the successful update series.
Forty years after đổi...
The Diplomatic Prospects for the Rules-Based Trade and Investment Order
The rules-based trading system established in the post 1945 period has been an important factor in maintaining a stable, opening trading system, which in turn has contributed to economic growth....
Looking at the Sky, Listening to the Sea: Customary Environmental Knowledge, Climate Change in the Pacific and Connections of Atmosphere, Oceans, Species and People
The Pacific Ocean is the largest single geographic feature on our planet. It represents half of the world’s oceanic area, occupies one-third of the earth’s surface and helps support hundreds of...
Beyond the Propaganda: What does Kim Jong Un want — and why?
For the first six years of his rule, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un defied and terrorized the world by building and testing ever-more threatening nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Then, in late...
