01
May
2023
A history of LGBTIQ+ service in the Australian Defence Force
Professor Noah Riseman
The Australian armed forces have gone on a long journey in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) service, alternating between rejection, persecution, tolerance, and acceptance. Yet, these approaches have never been uniform, chronological, or necessarily...
03
May
2023
US-China Rivalry: Security Dilemma or Power Transition?
Professor Khong Yuen Foong
The China-US competition in the last decade hews closer to power transition than it does to security dilemma dynamics.
09
May
2023
Genocidal Divisions of Labor: Grey Zones and Anti-Rohingya Violence in Western Myanmar, 2012-2017
Matt Schissler
Organizing mass violence requires significant logistical capacity. This implies an organized division of labor. Usually, it requires state involvement. It does not, however, require that everyone involved believe the same things, in equal measure, nor that they have the same intentions and...
12
May
2023
Fiji’s December 2022 election and its aftermath: The anatomy of FijiFirst’s defeat and the challenges ahead
Jon Fraenkel
Speaker: Jon Fraenkel, Victoria University of Wellington
Fiji’s December 14th 2022 election saw the defeat of 2006 coup leader turned civilian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s Fiji First Party and victory for an opposition coalition led by Sitiveni Rabuka, the 1987 coup leader and 1992-99 Prime...
16
May
2023
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
At the height of the 2020 protests, the Thai government implemented vigorous online censorship to curb public criticism of the monarchy. In doing so the government cited its obligation to safeguard Thailand’s ‘cyber sovereignty’, which is the focus of this talk. I argue that this concept is...
18
May
2023
What’s next for New Caledonia? 25 years after the Noumea Accord
Nic Maclellan
Speaker
Nic Maclellan
Islands Business magazine (Fiji)
PLEASE NOTE: This is a hybrid event and will take place in-person as well as on Zoom.
About the event
On 5 May 1998, a decolonisation process in New Caledonia was initiated through the Noumea Accord – a framework agreement between the...
23
May
2023
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
A lecture by Pavin Chachavalpongpun followed by a panel discussion with outstanding scholars who will discuss the changes to the Thai monarchy and the root causes of the political turbulence of the past few decades.
25
May
2023
Dialogue without negotiation: Illiberal peacebuilding in Southern Thailand
Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat
This talk examines the peace process in violence-ravaged southern Thailand. Initiated under the civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra in 2013, the peace process has largely been dominated by the military since the 2014 coup. Developing upon Lewis et al.’s concept of Authoritarian Conflict...
30
May
2023
The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia
Kate Grealy
Over the past decade, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) has become central to Western counter-terrorism efforts in Muslim-majority nations such as Indonesia. P/CVE emerged as a national security initiative during the Global War on Terror (GWOT) as part of efforts to prevent ‘...
