Past events
Governance, Security, and Asymmetrical Warfare in Central Asia and the Middle East Conference
Conference
This conference seeks to bring together recent and cutting edge scholarship on the new realities emerging in the Middle East and Central Asia. It will prize interdisciplinarity in studying the interconnectedness of the emerging social, political, economic, and cultural structures. Moreover, it will…
Inspiring Women Reflect: Hon Dame Annette King in conversation with Hon Ros Kelly AO
Seminar
The ANU Australian Studies Institute and ANU Gender Institute, in partnership with PwC are pleased to present Inspiring Women Reflect featuring The Hon Dame Annette King, New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia, in conversation with The Hon Ros Kelly AO. The Inspiring Women Reflect event series…
Peel: One British Prime Minister and Four Personalities
Seminar
Robert Peel was Conservative prime minister briefly in the 1830s and then again between 1841 and 1846 during which period he is famous for the repeal of the Corn Laws, the tariffs imposed on imported foodstuffs. His character and motivation continues to attract lively debate and widely varying…
Darwinism’s Generations: Responding to Evolution, 1859-1909
Seminar
1859 marked the start of a profound cultural crisis in Britain. Of the various triggers of this crisis, none was more significant than the publication of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary bombshell, On the Origin of Species. The transformations the Origin wrought, not just in biological sciences, but…
Diversifying Australia: Immigration and demographics in the post-White Australia policy era
Lecture
Australia has one of the largest percentages of immigrant populations in the developed world, with both a highly regulated system of immigration control and regular censuses to track changes over time. This fascinating public talk will give an overview to how immigrant populations have evolved…
Russia in Asia and the World: A Symposium dedicated to Yevgeny Primakov
Seminar
The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) will hold a symposium on Friday, October 25, entitled 'Russia in Asia and the World: A Symposium dedicated to Yevgeny Primakov'. Yevgeny Primakov (1929 – 2015) was an outstanding Russian scholar and statesman. Having…
Building a better ‘middle ground’: the next step for theory and museums
Lecture
Theories relating to cultural intersections such as the cultural interface and contact zone theory have moved museum thinking and practice in to a new era of reflection and awareness. This new era has made important gains all round – for Indigenous people, museum workers and museum audiences. These…