CASS Events

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Australia's bid for election to the UN Security Council - What will it mean for Australia?
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
APCD Lecture Theatre, Building 130, Hedley Bull Centre
Australia was last elected to the Security Council in 1984 and it is standing for election again in 2012. Over the past 25 years the world environment and the Security Council have changed dramatically. more»

&nbspCONCERT George Ingham: Seminar
Saturday, 3 October 2009 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ANU School of Art Gallery
There will be a seminar to discuss past and current approaches to furniture design.The invited speakers are: Grace Cochrane,David Upfill-Brown, and David Williams: discussion will be chaired by Dennis Formiatti. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Three myths about urban Aboriginal people in Canadian cities
Friday, 2 October 2009 at 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
CAEPR Seminar Room, First Floor, Hanna Neumann Bldg 21
Perspectives of Indigenous realities rarely focus on life lived in major metropolitan centres. Instead there is a tendency to frame rural and remote locations as central to the survival of Indigenous cultures and societies. However recent censuses show that in many countries Indigenous populations are now mainly urban populations. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Will the last man standing please write the damn legislation!
Friday, 2 October 2009 at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
National Europe Centre, 1 Liversidge St
Will the last man standing please write the damn legislation!: An intensely personal reflection on the past, present and future of rural research more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Beyond Guarding Ground - A Vision for a National Indigenous Cultural Authority
Friday, 2 October 2009 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
ANU Arts Centre Building 16
This lecture will sketch out the ground gathered by Indigenous copyright cases and examine international model laws and draft provisions. Ms Janke argues for greater infrastructure to support and defend Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. more»

&nbspOTHER Launch of ANU Indigenous Alumni Network
Friday, 2 October 2009 at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Jabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre - Lower Melville Hall
The Jabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre will be celebrating 20th Year Anniversary, with the Launch of the ANU Indigenous Alumni and a morning tea. more»

&nbspCONFERENCE Sex Discrimination Act Silver Anniversary
Thursday, 1 October 2009 - Friday, 2 October 2009
Old Parliament House & The Visions Theatre at the National Museum of Australia
This conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act. In addition, it takes stock of the Act in light of recommendations for change made by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in 2008. It also considers the future of the SDA in light of other significant proposals mooted at the federal level, namely, an Equality Act and a Charter of Human Rights. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Recent political developments in Mindanao
Thursday, 1 October 2009 at 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM
PSC Reading Room, Level 4, Hedley Bull Centre
In this update, Amina Rasul will examine recent developments in Mindanao since the collapse of the August 2008 peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Movement. She will focus on the impact of conflict on Mindanao's population, particularly the Muslim community, and the outlook for the future, including prospects for peace and the potential impact of the national elections scheduled for May 2010. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Sound Leadership Can Empower Women: A View from the Law and Justice Sector in Papua New Guinea
Thursday, 1 October 2009 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Seminar Room B, Coombs Building
In this paper, I am looking at the opportunities that are available to women in PNG's Law and Justice Sector, and how those at the helm have assisted in empowering women. I argue that there are two approaches to empowerment more»

&nbspOTHER ANU Stands Up For Change
Thursday, 15 October 2009 at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Union Court
ANU Stands Up For Change is an Anti-Poverty week event, giving students and staff the opportunity to learn about and take part in the global movement to end extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Trevor Swan Public Lecture "Leadership" Edward P. Lazear Stanford University
Thursday, 1 October 2009 at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Innovations Theatre Building 124, Eggleston Rd
A Trevor Swan Public lecture presented by Edward P. Lazear whose roles include being the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Standford University's Graduate School of Business and Morris A. Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. more»

&nbspCONFERENCE AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 - Thursday, 1 October 2009
Manning Clarke Centre
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) invites you to register for the National Indigenous Studies Conference 2009 on the theme Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections. more»

&nbspSEMINAR G2 but no EU? What a China-US Strategic Partnership Would Mean for Europe
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research (Building #131)
In this seminar, Dr Wacker analyses recent calls-including from such foreign policy luminaries as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski-for the establishment of a heightened bilateral relationship between the United States and China. She considers what implications such a development might have for Europe. more»

&nbspOTHER Special Double Indonesian Book Launch at Asia Bookroom
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie ACT
A Special Night of 2 Books and 2 Authors. Prof Patricia Spyer of Leiden and New York Universities will launch Kathryn Robinsons 'Gender Islam and Democracy in Indonesia'. Prof Ben White, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague will launch 'Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java'. more»

&nbspCONCERT Tintinnabultaion/ Featuring the DRUMatiX Percussion Group
Friday, 25 September 2009 - Monday, 28 September 2009
ANU Arts Centre, Union Square
The DRUMatiX Live at the ANU Arts Centre includes Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra by Lou Harrison, Kalabash by Nigel Westlake and more. 2 concerts: Friday 25 September, 7.30pm & Saturday 26 September, 1pm more»

&nbspCONCERT Sweet Love Doth Now Invite, Songs of Love and Heartbreak from Tudor England
Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
St Andrews Church, State Circle, Forrest
The Australian National University Choral Society presents a program of popular love songs from the 16th century, called, 'Sweet Love Doth Now Invite, Songs of Love and Heartbreak from Tudor England.' more»

&nbspFILM Paris 36 (Faubourg 36)
Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
HC Coombs Theatre, Building 8a, Fellows Rd
The stage manager of the recently closed Chansonia theatre in Paris has just lost his wife to another man and his son to the State. Determined to rise above adversity, he enters into a volatile partnership with a local gangster kingpin to reopen the theatre. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Art Forum
Friday, 25 September 2009 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
ANU School of Art Lecture Theatre
Canadian artists EJ Lightman and Anne O'Callaghan are in Canberra as part of an exchange project between The Tree Museum in Canada, the Glassworks Canberra, the ANU School of Art and Craft ACT. They will be making site based work in Namadji and will be visiting the Printmedia Workshop. more»

&nbspSEMINAR Evidence, deduction, and inference: Lockheed Hudson A16-97 and the men who died in it on 13 August 1940
Friday, 25 September 2009 at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Theatrette, Old Canberra House
'In the whole history of government in Australia, this was the most devastating tragedy.' So wrote Sir Robert Menzies 27 years later of the 'dreadful calamity' in which three senior Cabinet colleagues, the Chief of the General Staff and six other men died in August 1940. more»

&nbspPUBLIC LECTURE Art Forum
Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
School of Art lecture theatre
Isobel Crombie is Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria. more»