Image: Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson, Untitled, 2016. acrylic on Belgian linen, 151 x 244 cm. ANU Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Craig Edwards in memory of Edmund Charles Edwards and Alan Edmund Edwards, teachers, 2018. Photo by Rob Little. Courtesy the artist and Yanda Art, Alice Springs.
Image: Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson, Untitled, 2016. acrylic on Belgian linen, 151 x 244 cm. ANU Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Craig Edwards in memory of Edmund Charles Edwards and Alan Edmund Edward
Mon, 13 Nov - Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Weaving The Mat: Indigenous Diplomacy - Executive Education Course

This Executive Education course has been postponed, due to circumstances beyond our control, until April 2024.
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Fiji
Access to information, archival outreach on Rotuma Island 2015. Courtesy of the National Archives of Fiji
Fri, 14 Jun 2024

History of Ignorance: A History of the Belittling of Modern Pacific Knowledge

Please join PhD candidate Opeta Alefaio as he provides an update during his research journey.
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Manjeet Pardesi
Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Interconnected Asian History and “Open” World Orders

Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS) Seminar Series
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Cover pages of the books to be launched at the event
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Tue, 25 Jul 2023

A Voyage Through the Pacific: Triple Book Launch
We cordially invite you to an evening celebrating the highly anticipated launches of three extraordinary publications.
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Australian War Memorial 148420
Australian War Memorial 148420
Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Medical fears of the malingering soldier: ‘Phony cronies’ and the Repat in 1960s Australia
Effie Karageorgos addresses the historical fear and criticism of malingering soldiers and veterans in Australia, focusing on the period following World War I.
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Tue, 30 Nov 2021

Absolute monarchy and the legal state in Thailand
Thongchai Winichakul addresses the establishment of Thailand's modern legal system in the early twentieth century, highlighting its purpose to secure the absolute power of Bangkok's rulers rather than protect against colonialism.
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Tue, 19 Oct 2021

Grasping at the wind: Trends in the historiography of modern Southeast Asia

Robert Cribb is currently undertaking the writing of a chapter that delves into the historiography of modern Southeast Asia for the upcoming edition of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, sche
Race, Space, and the Malayan Emergency: Expelling Malay Muslim Communism and Reconstituting Malaya's Racial State, 1945–1954
Race, Space, and the Malayan Emergency: Expelling Malay Muslim Communism and Reconstituting Malaya's Racial State, 1945–1954
Wed, 3 Nov 2021

Coercing mobility: Territory and displacement in the politics of Southeast Asian Muslim movements
Speakers discuss the politics of Muslim movements in Southeast Asia shaped by displacement, previewing a special issue of Itinerario on coerced mobility, focusing on the incorporation of Patani in Siam, Dutch colonization efforts in Aceh, and anti-colonial movements in Java and Malaya. Dr Amrita Malhi, Dr Joshua Gedacht, Dr Francis R. Bradley, and Dr David Kloos join as contributors, with Professor Robert Cribb hosting the panel.
PSC Seminar Series
Tue, 7 Dec 2021

Constructing a grassroots Muslim majoritarian project
Chris Chaplin explores the growth and influence of transnational Islamic revivalist movements in Indonesia, focusing on Wahdah Islamiyah. He examines their grassroots strategies, framing their Islamic message to shape national political opinion and foster broader socio-political mobilization, providing insights into democratic debate and Islamic social movements in contemporary Indonesia.