Past events
Conserving and sharing Burma's heritage
With the unprecedented number of scholars and students across ANU now working on projects and research related to Myanmar, the Myanmar Brownbag Series aims to provide a relaxed and regular...
Not Sleepwalking: The origins of the First World War Revisited
Abstract: After many years of broad consensus among serious historians, the origins of the First World War are once again fiercely contested. In this lecture Professor Gary Sheffield...
Recalling the War: the PNG in WWII Oral History project
In November 2013, Ovoru Indiki, thought to be among the last of the famous €˜fuzzy wuzzy angels' who supported Australian soldiers fighting along the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1942...
Practices of labour dispute resolution in Vietnam
My research looks at the processes through which workers' collective disputes are resolved in Vietnam. Since the Labour Law was first issued in 1994, workers' strikes and labour disputes have...
The Fallacies of €˜State-Building' in Solomon Islands
The 2003-13 Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is widely depicted as an ambitious €˜state-building' project in the mould of interventions in Bosnia, Iraq, East Timor and Kosovo...
The Impact of Gender on Responses to Drought in Rural China
This research is concerned with the question of how gender shapes people's responses to natural disasters. Response here is defined as what people do, say and think as a result of something that...
Research Methods and your PhD: Reflections on the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Reseach (IQMR)
Jo and Ben were selected as delegates of ANU's College of Asia Pacific to attend the 2014 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) at Syracuse University's Maxwell School in June...
Locating the Chinese in Rangoon: the Sino-Burmese
The People's Republic of China has loomed large on Burma's horizon since the defeat of the Kuomingtang in 1949 and seems to be drawing increasing attention in contemporary discussions about the...
Reactionary Dynamics in Malaysia: A Threat to Democracy
The spate of arrests (and convictions) under the...
The winds of change: evolution and flux in intellectual property rights models at global and local levels
This seminar will examine the current debates and stimulants for change around intellectual property rights models at both a global level and at local and regional levels in the Pacific islands...
