Research stories
Making nice and making enemies
Dr John Besemeres is an Adjunct Fellow in the ANU Centre for European Studies. Vladimir Putin’s actions in the Middle East reflect his view that all relationships are zero-sum games. Ukraine has largely disappeared from our antipodean media in recent months, and is much less prominent even in…
ANU CASS academics win prestigious joint research grant
Professor Keith Dowding and Dr Matthew Kerby from the ANU School of Politics and International Relations are among the 100 winners of grant funding by the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme. Professor Dowding’s team was the College’s sole winner, and was among five from the…
ANU School of Music scores popular music studies regional and global conferences
One Direction, Madonna and John Lennon will be on the bill at ANU this December. Obviously not performing, they are instead among artists to be discussed at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s (IASPM) regional branch conference to be hosted in Canberra for the…
An Aboriginal view of the Canning Stock Route
A new National Museum of Australia (NMA) exhibition curated by ANU anthropologist Dr John Carty will reimagine the world's longest historic stock route through the paintings of the Aboriginal people whose land it cut through. Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route explores the…
The case for quotas in politics: the absence of women isn’t merit-based
By Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations Last weekend’s ALP national conference unanimously adopted a resolution to have women make up 50% of Labor parliamentarians by 2025. Women already make up 43.1% of Labor MPs in all Australian parliaments, as well…
An overdue appreciation of ST Gill, Australia’s first painter of modern life
By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, School of Literature Languages & Linguistics ST Gill may be the quintessential Australian colonial artist, known to anyone who has been educated in Australia and seen textbooks on Australian history full of Gill illustrations of…
Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy
By Christian Barry, ANU School of Philosophy Many millions of people throughout the world will illegally download the fifth season of Game of Thrones, released today by HBO. Legally speaking, what they will be doing is a violation of intellectual property rights, or “piracy”. But will they be…