Past events
Villager responses to drought: An ethnographic study in southwest China
Abstract This thesis explores the social underpinnings of disasters associated with natural hazards. In existing disaster studies, it is common to classify people into different vulnerable groups...
The Persistence Ethic: Debts and everyday politics in a rural East Javanese village
Abstract In this midterm review seminar, I will present my research that investigates the politics of persistence in a rural village in East Java. I conceive of persistence as indebtedness,...
Soldiers not Citizens: Indigenous service in the Australian defence forces 1899-2017
In the past century, little was known of the service of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders Australians in the Australian defence forces. This was largely because for many decades...
From Norm Contestation to Norm Implementation: Recursivity and the Responsibility to Protect
This presentation responds to the burgeoning norms literature in International Relations (IR) that conceptualises the norm life-cycle as a non-linear dynamic process that is open to contestation...
Adversarial Linkages: The urban poor and electoral politics in Jakarta
Abstract How do social movements rooted among poor and marginalized citizens bargain and forge coalitions with politicians, and win concessions from them, when electoral competition is...
Australia’s Future Submarines: Getting this Key Capability Right
Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University & Michael Keating, Former Head of the Australian Public Service talk about Australia’s future submarines and...
Constitution reform, debates and contestation in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands Independence Order, 1978 was adopted with limited community input. As such, it may have avoided local intricacies that are now at the forefront of debates around the draft...
In their time of need: Australia’s overseas emergency relief operations, 1918–2006
Since 1918 Australia’s defence forces have been used by successive governments as the first point of call in responding to overseas disasters, including to deliver and distribute food and medical...
Why do we support Donald Trump? The perverse consequences of alliance politics
Donald Trump is possibly the most unpredictable, unprepared, and temperamentally unsuited person ever to be elected president of the US. Even his own political party is aghast at some of his...
Global Guardian or Global Failure? Evaluating the UN Security Council: In conversation with Ian Martin, Executive Director of Security Council Report
In this Distinguished Visitor Public Conversation, renowned United Nations peacebuilding practitioner Ian Martin will share his insights on the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations...
