Past events
Raphael Lemkin in the Outback: The state project to eliminate homeland living in remote Indigenous Australia
Seminar
In the 1970s Aboriginal people were permitted and sometimes assisted to decentralise to live and struggle to make a living on their ancestral lands. But in the last decade homeland living has been discursively demeaned and policies have been put in place to undermine the possibility for residing…
Books that Changed Humanity | Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
Lecture
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at The Australian National University. The Humanities Research Centre invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way…
Europe and the Great Powers: Playing our Trump Cards
Lecture
Professor Dr Sven Biscop obtained his degree in political science/public administration at Ghent University, winning the best thesis award for his work on European defence. Subsequently awarded the Paul-Henri Spaak PhD scholarship of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, his dissertation…
John Safran in conversation with Kim Huynh
Lecture
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT John Safran in conversation with Kim Huynh on John's new book Depends What You Mean by Extremist. Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables. "John Safran, a Paladin dwarf and an ISIS supporter walk into a Catholic Church. Neo-Nazis are on the same side…
Measuring social attitudes with Voter Advice Application data
Seminar
This study directly compares survey data on social attitudes collected from an opt-in sample of Voter Advice Application (VAA) users and a randomly recruited, probability-based online panel of respondents. While much research to date has focused on the demographic representativeness of VAA data,…
Restorative policing: ACT Chief Police Officer and expert criminologists in conversation
Other
We are thrilled to be hosting this exciting panel discussion between the ACT Chief Police Officer, Justine Saunders, and expert criminologists Larry Sherman and Heather Strang from Cambridge University. The panel will debate the positives and negatives of restorative justice from the perspective…
Data Protection Regulation in the EU: Impact on Australia and non-European jurisdictions
Seminar
The European Union’s regulatory framework for protection of personal data is undergoing major reform. It is a framework which many regard as setting a benchmark for “best practice” globally, significantly shaping the regulatory policy of non-European countries, including Australia. As part of the…