The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific houses a remarkable assembly of scholars and resources devoted to the study of Australia's neighbourhood from Afghanistan to the Pacific. Dedicated to outstanding research and education, the College is a centre for Australia's intellectual engagement and scholarly dialogue with the societies, worlds of thought, economies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific.
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Post-coup democratisation? Lessons from Southeast Asia and the Pacific | A panel of nine experts discusses why some countries succumb to military rule while others follow the path of democracy. The forum covers the political histories of Burma/Myanmar, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Thailand. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Archaeological Research and Community Collaboration and Participation in the Republic of Vanuatu | At the close of the Lapita Conference in New Caledonia in 2002, indigenous archaeologists saw that there was a clear need to further promote archaeology more broadly at a community level, to create a wider awareness and understanding for all Pacific Islanders, young and old, of what archaeology involved, what it tries to achieve, along with its associated implications. For a long time Pacific Islanders have been wary of archaeology, often associating it with grave digging, a practice that of course in many Pacific cultures, is considered sacrilegious. Over the last 15 years the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC), in collaboration with a number of foreign researchers, and guided by the Vanuatu Cultural Centre’s research policy, has been running an active program of increasing public awareness in relation to archaeology. This has involved such activities as running training workshops for Vanuatu’s fieldworkers, school tours of excavations often including some level of participation, mounting exhibitions, producing publications in the three national languages (booklets, posters and comic books) and regular features on national TV, radio and newspapers. Through these collaborative awareness programs, an increasing number of Ni-Vanuatu are gaining a much greater appreciation of archaeology and its potential to contribute to a better understanding of our country’s 3000 year history. | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CDI Annual Address: Indonesian foreign policy and global democracy | The Centre for Democratic Institutions invites you to attend their annual address, presented by ANU Alumnus and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa. Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa was appointed as the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia on 22 October 2009. Prior to his appointment as Foreign Minister, he served as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations in New York (2007 – 2009). Among his recent responsibilities as the Permanent Representative of Indonesia was as the President of the Security Council in November 2007 and Chairman of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007–2008 (Indonesia served as an elected member of the Security Council in 2007–2008); Chairman of the Asia Group in October 2008; Co-Facilitator of the President of the General Assembly for the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in December 2008; and Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) for 2008 and 2009. He also led Indonesia’s delegation at various multilateral negotiations and participated actively at various academic fora on the subject of the United Nations. Dr. Natalegawa obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at the ANU in 1993; a Master of Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge in 1985; and a BSc (Hons) at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984. He also attended the Ellesmere College and Concord College in the UK between 1976-1981. The Centre for Democratic Institutions is located within the Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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HIV in Myanmar: Lives in the balance | The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders invite you to an event focussed on the critical need for HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) treatment in Myanmar today. Medecins Sans Frontieres, the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, will present the findings of its new report, Lives in the Balance. The report shows that there are 85,000 people in Myanmar who urgently need lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) but are unable to access it. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people living with HIV die every year in Myanmar because of lack of access to treatment. TB prevalence in Myanmar is more than three times the global average and Myanmar is among the 27 countries with the highest MDR-TB rates in the world. Myanmar, the least developed country in Southeast Asia, is one of the lowest recipients of Official Development Aid in the world. With recent political reform being reciprocated by greater engagement from the international community, there is an opportunity to put access to treatment for people living with HIV and TB at the top of donor priority lists. The report will be presented by MSF's Myanmar Medical Coordinator and MSF's Regional Coordinator. MSF has been working in Myanmar since 1992 and currently provides treatment for over 23,000 HIV patients; 6,000 more are due to start treatment in 2012. The event will be moderated by Dr Nicholas Farrelly, a scholar of Myanmar politics and society based in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Human rights and the rise of indicator culture | The demand for information grows daily as global interdependence rises and questions emerge for which local information is wholly inadequate. Local knowledge provides no help if a person is trying to decide which university to attend around the world, where to invest capital, or which country is the best place for a textile factory.There is a growing trend to develop global indicators to provide quick and accessible information about issues such as corruption, trafficking, and human rights compliance. Indicators are a technology designed to provide simple, quantitative knowledge to decision makers and the general public. They are based on numbers, which convey objective truth through scientific authority. They are seductive because they appear to offer certain knowledge about a complex and murky world. Yet, quantified knowledge is deeply interpretive and influenced by expertise and the politics of wealth and experience. As indicator culture expands, it redefines practices of governance at the global as well as local level. Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society at New York University. She is author of Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2006 J.I.Staley Prize) and Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwells, 2009), and is President of the American Ethnological Society. The Law and Society Association awarded her the Kalven Prize for overall scholarly contributions to sociolegal scholarship in 2007. Co-sponsored by ANU Gender Institute, RegNet and ARC Laureate projects awarded to Professor Hilary Charlesworth and Professor Margaret Jolly (ANU College of Asia & the Pacific). | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Changes in Japan's Energy Policy and its Implication for Australia | Professor Irie's Seminar will cover Japan's energy policy before the Fukushima Dai-Ichi NPP accident, the impact of the Fukushima accident, safety of nuclear power, possible scenarios for nuclear power, revision of basic energy plan and implications for Australia. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bougainville and New Caledonia: Political Settlements, Referenda and the Path to Self-Determination | Violent conflicts in New Caledonia (1980s) and Bougainville (1990s) were ended by political settlements between France and New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea and Bougainville. They could result in creation of two new sovereign, independent, small, and potentially wealthy (mineral rich) Pacific states before the end of the current decade. The French and PNG constitutions were amended to require referendums on independence for New Caledonia and Bougainville within the next nine years. In New Caledonia, the first of a possible three referendums will be held between 2014 and 2018, and in Bougainville, just one is required between 2015 and 2020. Until then, high levels of autonomy are available to New Caledonia and Bougainville. So lengthy transitions are now in progress, involving not only unique political arrangements within France and PNG, but also moving towards decisions on self-determination. Choices may include continued autonomy and full independence. But referendum outcomes could raise new uncertainties, as in New Caledonia the result could be another referendum a few years later, while PNG could reject even an overwhelming vote in favour of independence. The extended periods of deferral for the referendums were agreed because of internal divisions in both places. Deferral involved balancing risks of merely deferring conflict with opportunities to create space for emerging consensus. France, and to a lesser extent PNG, have made considerable effort to implement the autonomy arrangements. But the extended periods of deferral allow time for new dynamics to emerge - new challenges face France in 2012 (e.g. fiscal crisis may reduce capacity to fund autonomy) and PNG (e.g constitutional crisis and instability that may destabilise relations between Port Moresby and Bougainville) that could make autonomy less attractive, and create pressure for the referendums to be held as early as possible. Alternatively, fiscal, demographic or other pressures may generate efforts to delay them as long as possible. If the referendums are held, will they deliver outcomes that are generally accepted, or will they generate new conflict? Such questions have obvious implications for regional relations. This presentation will explore both significant commonalities and major contrasts in and between New Caledonia and Bougainville, addressing mainly domestic issues concerning constitutional arrangements, post-conflict reconciliation, the cost of funding the transition, the role of mining, administrative and electoral arrangements for conduct of the referendums, the culmination of the self-determination process (the likely choice between independence or a new deal to maintain the status quo), and implementation of the result. It will flag implications for regional and international politics (issues of autonomy, self-determination and political independence retain their hold on international politics). Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific islands. He has contributed as a broadcaster and journalist to Islands Business magazine, Radio Australia, The Age, Tahiti-Pacifique and other media, and is author or co-author of a number of books and other publications, particularly in relation to the Francophone Pacific. Anthony Regan is a constitutional lawyer who has been involved in conflict resolution work and post-conflict constitution-making processes in several countries. He advised the Bougainville parties in the negotiations for the Bougainville Peace Agreement, and continues to advise the Autonomous Bougainville Government. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pivots, the Indo-Pacific and "all in": mechanisms, maps and meaning in the United States | This presentation will provide a perspective on the underlying trends in US relations with the Asia-Pacific region. Specifically addressing the major successes and challenges confronting US-Asia relations, it will draw from the visit to the region by the US Secretaries of Defense and State, as well as President Barack Obama, to consider current policy issues - including the possible role of Congress. Satu Limaye was named Director of the East-West Center, Washington, DC in February 2007. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Center for Naval Analyses Corporation. From October 2005 to February 2007 he was a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and from July 1998 to October 2005 Director of Research and Publications at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a direct reporting unit of US Pacific Command. He has been an Abe Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and a Henry Luce Scholar and Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. Presented by the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Speaker/Host: Dr Satu Limaye, Director of the East-West Center, Washington, DC Venue: Lecture Theatre 1.04, Coombs Extension Building [7], Fellows Road, ANU Date: Monday, 5 December 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement - Part 3 | Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement Convenors: Francesca Merlan and Nicholas Peterson, The Australian National University Session 3: Anthropology and Public Debates Ethnographic agendas for and against policy readiness Paul Burke, The Australian National University In my diagnosis of why anthropology is not well-placed to contribute to policy questions I see two processes as important. The first is that when anthropologists become engaged in policy work they typically have to abandon ethnography and learn other methods. Understandably they tend to become state-centric and underemphasise people's capacity for action outside government funded programs. The second important process is how the topics of pure anthropological research are formulated and more specifically how the method of participant observation tends to lead anthropologists away from an account of transforming intercultural engagement. There is capture by elites in two senses: indigenous elites capture the anthropological fieldworker who reproduces their already dated view of their world and future generations of fieldworkers are captured by elite anthropologists who are committed to a certain style of cultural analysis which they feel under pressure to reproduce. So over time there is an increasing distance between culture as described by ethnography and actual practices. Another way of looking at this is to ask why anthropology has, generally speaking, not been able to successfully thematise generational differences, increasing practical dependency and deskilling of the younger generation, the decline in active socialisation of the young, not to mention rising alcohol abuse, violence and sexual abuse. Misguided or craven self-censorship may explain some of this, but not all. Cultural analysis that assumes radically dichotomised cultural fields inevitably tends towards problem deflation. More sophisticated intercultural analyses are difficult to project simply in the public sphere where a radically dichotomised view of culture tends to be the lingua franca. Working Together? Shaping Experience at Interfaces Francesca Merlan, Australian National University It is now more than 35 years since some of the main land claim activities were initiated in the region of Katherine town, and more than 20 since many were determined. Associations set up in the wake of those claims have had varying trajectories. I will briefly raise questions about the extent to which these organizations have provided forms of civic association on behalf of successful claimants, and the conditions under which they do so. In an effort to focus on the effects of these processes on the lives of indigenous people, I will also consider and exemplify forms of relationship of ordinary members of grassroots communities to these association, but also consider (especially in the town area itself) developing kinds of involvement in other locally-based forms of organization (e.g. churches, sporting associations) which depend much less explicitly on the land-related kinds of identity politics. Useless anthropology John Morton: La Trobe University Australian anthropology finds itself positioned between two polar extremes, particularly in relation to its relevance to matters Indigenous. On the one hand, the discipline is enjoined in a post-positivist age to be reflexive and critical; on the other hand, it is enjoined to occupy a collective role heavily conditioned by bureaucratic and legal dispositions which tend to be highly objectivist in tone. Either way, the discipline is defined as 'relevant'. For those aligned more or less exclusively with one side of the divide, the other side is invariably heavily compromised, but it is probably true that most of us are not skewed, theoretically or practically, towards an extreme position. This, so I argue, is how it should be, because overreliance on either critical reflexivity or compliant objectivism tends to make anthropologists | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific - Part 3 | Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific Convenors: Alan Rumsey, The Australian National University and Rupert Stasch, University of California San Diego Session 3 Citing as a Site: Translation and Circulation in Muslim South and Southeast Asia Ronit Ricci, Australian National University Networks of travel and trade have often been viewed as pivotal to understanding interactions among Muslims in various regions of South and Southeast Asia. What if we thought of language and literature as an additional type of network, one that crisscrossed these regions over centuries and provided a powerful site of contact and exchange facilitated by, and drawing on, citation? Among Muslim communities in South and Southeast Asia practices of reading, learning, translation, adaptation and transmission helped shape a cosmopolitan sphere which was both closely connected with the broader, universal Muslim community and rooted in local and regional identities. In this brief presentation I draw on examples from texts written in Javanese, Malay and Tamil between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, and preserved in manuscript and print forms. I look at a series of what I envision as 'citation moments' or 'citation sites' in an attempt to explore one of the many modes of inter-Asian connections. I wish to highlight how citations, simple or brief as they may often seem, are sites of shared memories, history and narrative traditions and, in the case of Islamic literature, also sites of a common bond to a cosmopolitan and sanctified Arabic. Translatability – a Key Issue in Linguistic Anthropology Anna Wierzbicka, The Australian National University If anthropology aims at 'understanding "others"' (Geertz 2000:96), then obviously anthropologists must be interested in the meaning of what those 'others' say. But to understand what speakers of a language other than our own say, we need to be able to translate it, or to have it translated, into our own language. For this, we need to know what their words – especially, their cultural key words – mean. Thus, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural understanding requires translatability; and the limits of translatability place limits on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural understanding. My own work and that of my colleagues suggests that despite the limits of translatability, languages are commensurable because they share a common conceptual core – a set of fundamental human concepts and their inherent grammar. This shared core, which can be articulated by a reduced version of any language, makes accurate translation of meanings and ideas, including those encoded in cultural keywords, in principle possible. In this talk, I will show how complex meanings and ideas can be accurately translated across language boundaries by means of an extended illustration: a text formulated in four different languages (English, Tok Pisin, Chinese, and Russian) without any differences in meaning whatsoever. The content of this text is highly culture-specific, yet the way it has been explicated makes it accessible to cultural outsiders. At the same time, this explication is intuitively verifiable by cultural insiders because in each case it has been formulated 'in their own words'. Thus, the four versions of the text in question illustrate the possibility of 'understanding "others"' via shared human concepts lexicalised, evidence suggests, in all languages. The panel will conclude with a discussion of all the papers in sessions 1-3 by two discussants as follows: Discussant 1: Nicholas Evans, The Australian National University Discussant 2: Rupert Stasch, University of California, San Diego. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement - Part 2 | Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement Convenors: Francesca Merlan and Nicolas Peterson, The Australian National University Session 2: Anthropology and Policy Speaking to policy, or about policy? Anthropology's languages, audiences, and engagements David Martin, Anthropos Consulting AASNet, the internet discussion forum auspiced by the Australian Anthropological Society, was recently stirred from its habitual torpor by a lively debate on anthropological writing practices. While some argued for the use of accessible language, others were of the view that the complexity of the phenomena which are anthropology's concern requires an equivalent complexity in its theories and language. Yet, it seems to me, much of the debate, on both sides, proceeded on the implicit assumption that our audience is ourselves and others of our ilk. But if anthropology is to speak truth to the human condition in all its diversity and circumstances, I argue, we must also render our truths and insights accessible to others, including those who are the subjects of our analyses. From this perspective, the languages, mediums, strategies and circumstances of communication of anthropological insights assume a critical importance. In making this argument, I present four short case studies from my own anthropological practice outside the academy illustrating issues of language, audience, and engagement. These concerned the incorporation into legislation of measures to deal with high levels of alcohol consumption in a remote Aboriginal community, developing a participatory process to ascertain if there can be 'informed consent' around a particular development proposal on Aboriginal lands, working with the boards of Aboriginal corporations managing native title, and lastly examining implicit assumptions of causality in government programs designed to address high levels of domestic violence in some Aboriginal communities. The great silence: Australian anthropology and 'the state' Julie Finlayson: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) I will be addressing the following questions: Where have anthropologists made contributions to policy? What may anthropology contribute to policy, and in what senses may the discipline be well- or ill-placed to do so? Why is anthropology relatively marginal in contributing to policy, compared to a range of other disciplines? On-going debates in anthropological circles argue that applied forms of anthropological practice influence public policy in Australian Indigenous affairs. Less is said about how including the extent to which anthropological knowledge in general impacts on policy development. Having worked in the arena of Indigenous public policy over the past 8 years I reflect on questions like those above by describing what I observe as the cultural logic underpinning the practice of public policy formulation and Indigenous program development giving particular emphasis in my presentation to the status of research and the nature of the knowledge economy in bureaucracies. What to do about difference? Civil society, and community government in the future of remote Northern Territory growth towns Nicolas Peterson, The Australian National University The Northern Territory government has designated a number of remote Aboriginal communities as growth towns. It seems safe to assume that for the foreseeable future the population of most of these towns will remain predominantly Aboriginal. While such communities will continue to be centres of change, the co-residence of large populations of Aboriginal people also facilitates the reproduction of values and practices some of which create a 'seemingly intractable gulf between policy goals and actual community life' (M and R Tonkinson 2010:68). One of these gulfs relates to the emergence of any commitment to civil society. How important is the form of community government in these towns to them be | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific - Part 2 | Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific Convenors: Alan Rumsey, The Australian National University and Rupert Stasch, University of California San Diego Session 2 True Visayan and the Reification of an Imagined Speech Community Piers Kelly, Australian National University No sooner had the Filipino nationalists declared the independence of the Philippines in 1898 than they found themselves at war with the United States, former allies in their struggle against Spanish rule. The nationalists were quickly defeated, but the province of Bohol refused to recognise US sovereignty and operated as an island republic for over a year. Though Bohol eventually surrendered, the highland village of Biabas continued to assert its independence in an uncompromising way. Governed by Mariano Datahan the community produced its own flag and codified a system of laws. More remarkably, Datahan was said to have discovered paleographic evidence of 'true Visayan', Bohol's original and uncorrupted language which he retransmitted to his followers. With its own elaborate writing system, 'true Visayan' (now called Eskayan) was attributed to the ancestor Pinay who was said to have used the human body for linguistic inspiration. My research into the grammar and lexicon of Eskayan indicates that it was most likely devised after Spanish contact, and that Pinay and Datahan are alternate manifestations of the same individual. Further, the particulars of how Eskayan was designed have an important bearing on why it was necessary to (re)create it. Implicit notions of linguistic materiality, boundedness and interchangeability are reflected in the relexification process they undertook, and in the functional identification in Eskayan literature of language as a 'national flag'. In defiance of all imperial claimants to the island, Pinay and Datahan effectively reified an imagined speech community whose territorial rights were corporeally inscribed. A Battle of Languages: Spirit Possession and a Changing Linguistic Ideology in a Sepik Society (PNG) Darja Hoenigman, Australian National University In late 1980s linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick predicted the imminent demise of Taiap, a language with approximately 100 speakers in northeastern New Guinea, in favour of the national lingua franca, Tok Pisin. Around the same time, linguist Bill Foley made a similar prediction about Yimas, then spoken by about 250 people. Twenty-five years later, the Yimas language is still alive, though not spoken by children, and Kulick reports that Taiap is more actively spoken than he had expected. While sociolinguists have tried to model ways in which such small languages will die, this paper offers a perspective on what can keep them alive. It reports on a dramatic event in 2009 that represented a significant change to the existing sociolinguistic landscape of Kanjimei village in East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Possessed by a Christian spirit, a woman harshly reproached the most important village leaders. The ensuing verbal fight between the spirit and the village prayer leader became a battle of languages: the Christian spirit spoke the community's native language, Awiakay, and overpowered those in authority, who were the most frequent users of Tok Pisin. Up until then, Tok Pisin had been used as the main language of Christian services and prayers. All the indications were that it would replace Awiakay as the language of authority more generally. I discuss the reasons for which the sudden reversal of that expectation became possible. 'You're Gonna Speak in a Language that You Do Not Know': Translation in a Fijian Pentecostal Altar Call Matt Tomlinson, Monash University In December 2008, the United Pentecostal Church International of Fiji held a week-long crusade in Suva featuring preachers from the USA. In this paper, I analyse one of the performances, a sermon and altar call by a preacher named Kenneth Colegrove. His sermon was preached in En | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement - Part 1 | Anthropology, Publics and Aboriginal Policy: Evidence and Engagement Convenors: Francesca Merlan and Nicholas Peterson, The Australian National University Session 1: Engaged Work and Identification of Issues Hearing and seeing violence Jane Lloyd: Applied social anthropologist, central Australia This paper addresses one of a number of questions about how problems such as violence in Indigenous communities can be properly identified. Specifically how violence can be heard, seen and understood through applied anthropology and engaged work with Indigenous communities and organisations. The paper draws on examples from central Australia from the early 1980s through to the present to illustrate how violence has been represented, understood and responded to on a personal, community and regional level. The three rules of being Aboriginal Malcolm Frost: Private practice The Violence Intervention Program at the Ingkintja (Male Health) Branch of Central Australian Aboriginal Congress was set up in Alice Springs in early 2006 to treat Aboriginal offenders and victims of all types of inter-personal violence. Using a public health approach and strengths-based interventions the program has treated over 500 clients (99% indigenous), male and female of all ages, with an average staff of two psychologists. Community problems of ongoing violence and trauma, distortion of traditional cultural practice, superstition, abuse and neglect will be discussed in the context of the three rules of being Aboriginal. The advantages of being white when working in this field will be discussed and several brief case studies will be presented to illustrate some of the complexities of the current cultural climate. Some cautious suggestions for long-term change will be made. Discussant: John Boulton | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Religious Transformation in the Asia-Pacific | Religious Transformation in the Asia-Pacific Convenor: Phillip Winn, The Australian National University Panel theme: Anthropological research amply demonstrates it is no longer tenable to claim religion is antithetical to modernity. But the unfolding role of religion in relation to normative values and institutional configurations in 21st century Asia-Pacific remains uncertain. Contemporary transformations of religiosity in this region are tricky to consider for many reasons, not least because of their multilayered engagements with both universal and indigenous epistemes. At the same time, translocal religions such as Christianity, Buddhism and Islam are themselves products of diverse socio-historical formations, and therefore far from being singular or stable objects of analysis. The lingering impact of colonial constructions of orthodoxy, alongside historical specificities of locality, status and political culture add to the complexity. Nevertheless, issues of efficacy and intelligibility are increasingly prominent in local contexts, as are tensions between what is specific and what is shared within and between particular cultural expressions of religious tradition. This panel invites reflection on the manner in which ethnographic accounts of religious practice in the Asia-Pacific contribute to research agendas that illuminate human responses to the challenges posed by regional, sectarian, political and practice-based religious differences; the localising of universal ideas through vernacular traditions and the implications this holds for particular religions as a whole; the role of new media in shaping trajectories of orthodoxy and interpretation, struggles for coherence and the embrace of ambiguity; and the ways in which religious practice articulates with and disarticulates from specific configurations of politics and modernity. Presentations: Ethics, Iconoclasm, and the Photograph in the Material Religion of an Indonesian Society Kenneth George, University of Wisconsin Religious projects, understood as ways of world-making and dwelling-in-the-world, disclose themselves not just in words or ideas, but in visual and material things. As religions change, so too do their visual and material aims and hierarchies. This paper explores the ethical aims of iconoclastic and photographic gestures in the making and unmaking of the tau-tau, the celebrated funeral effigies and soul-doubles once central to the religious life of the Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The arrival of photography and the withdrawal of the effigy from graveside locations signal a shift in the 'distribution of the sensible' the way visibility is figured and deployed as well as a shift in conscience and one's comportment with effigies and images as translocal social formations (Christianity, tourism, art markets) refigure Torajan culture. Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora: Wenzhou Protestants in Paris, France Nanlai Cao, University of Hong Kong This paper explores the social and economic implications of indigenous Christian discourses and practices in the Wenzhou Chinese diaspora in Paris, France. Popularly known as China's Jerusalem, the coastal Chinese city of Wenzhou is home to thousands of self-started, home-grown Protestant churches and a million Protestants. Drawing on multisited fieldwork, the study provides an ethnographic account of a group of Wenzhou merchants who have formed large Christian communities at home, along with migrant enclaves in Paris. It shows how these Christian migrant entrepreneurs and traders have brought their version of Christianity from China to the West and how they perceive and deal with issues of illegality, moral contingency, native-place based loyalty and national belonging. Finanlly, it highlights the intertwined relationship between an indigenized Chinese Christianity and the petty capitalist legacy of coastal southeast China in a secularized European context. Looking after God's te | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific - Part 1 | Interlanguage and intercultural articulations in Asia and the Pacific Convenors: Alan Rumsey, The Australian National University and Rupert Stasch, University of California San Diego Session 1 Linguistic Anthropology at ANU – Past, Present and Future James J. Fox and Alan Rumsey, Australian National University Panel theme: In keeping both with the overall theme of our 60th anniversary conference, and the panel theme of 'articulations', we will briefly review the history of anthropology and linguistics at Australian National University, reflect upon the relation between the two, and consider its future. Anthropology and linguistics have been linked at ANU for as long as linguistics has existed here, the first linguist on its staff – Stephen Wurm – having been appointed to the RSPacS Department of Anthropology in 1957. With the later development of separate Departments of Linguistics – first within RSPacS and then within the School of General Studies – a wider range of theoretical orientations and sub-disciplinary specializations came to be represented. But to a greater extent than at most other universities, linguistics at ANU has remained 'anthropology friendly', through its central focus on field research on a wide variety of languages, and the attempt to understand language in relation to other aspects of culture and social life. Conversely, since the mid seventies there have always been anthropologists at ANU whose attempts to understand culture and social life have focused on language and discourse as key aspects of them. These have included Roger Keesing, James Fox, John Haviland, Adam Kendon, Geoffrey Benjamin, Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan, James Weiner, Ian Keen, and Andrew Kipnis. Reviewing just a few of the major strands of that work, and of recent and current collaborations between ANU linguists and anthropologists, we conclude with some proposals for the future development of linguistic anthropology at ANU. Language-ideological Processes in the Resistance against Language Policy and Standardization: the Case of Mandarin Chinese and Chinese 'Dialects' in Singapore Sherman Tan, The Australian National University The sociolinguistic situation in Singapore is extremely complex and involves language ideologies that are 'created, sustained, and ultimately abandoned in favor of alternative ideologies' (Wee, 2006), through official language policy and planning. This is evident in the government's attempts to promote Putonghua as the official Chinese variety in various domains, whilst discouraging the use of other Chinese 'dialects' – seeking to eradicate these codes from the overall linguistic landscape. This paper examines online discourses taken from Singaporean citizens' comments in web-blogs and discussion forums concerning the value/relevance of these stigmatized dialects. Interestingly, these online 'discourses of resistance', which seek to re-value these linguistic codes, trade on the same language ideologies that are sustained through the official discourses aimed at their de-valuation. Both of these discourses tend to view language as an alienable commodity and as a reified object, as something that can be actively manipulated, controlled and which possesses a specific value. Both discourses also involve the construal of linguistic difference through the semiotic processes of iconization, recursivity and erasure (Irvine & Gal, 2000). Overall, this paper suggests that although these discourses may differ in content, they presuppose a common ground of language ideology and its related processes, confirming the view that 'movements to save minority languages are often structured around the same received notions of language that have led to their oppression and/or suppression' (Woolard, 1998). Indeed, these shared language ideologies might be important for various agencies and actors, especially in their bid to enlist language for the purposes of sociopolitical action. 'As our wise people say…' The | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Anthropology of development: Australian and Southeast Asian perspectives - part 2 | Anthropology of development: Australian and Southeast Asian perspectives. Convenors: Patrick Guinness and Sarah Holcombe Session 2 Settling Maori Colonial Grievances: Historical, Cultural and Legal Complexities of Indigenous Issues Toon van Meijl, University of Nijmegen Since the New Zealand government made a beginning with redressing long-standing Maori grievances some fifteen years ago, it has come to light that any resolution creates new problems. The settlement process in New Zealand is hampered for two reasons. First, the government negotiates settlements only with tribal organizations, whereas 80% of the Maori population is currently living in urban environments in which tribal connections have lost a great deal of meaning. Second, the socio-political organization of Maori society has changed radically since the nineteenth century, which raises the question of the representation for descendants of the Maori who were originally dispossessed. This question is preceded by the more fundamental question about the nature of property rights in the nineteenth century. Who used to own the land and other resources: extended families, sub-tribes, tribes, or super-tribes? Subsequently, the issue of who are the rightful heirs of the original owners may be addressed. In this paper, a legal anthropological perspective will be applied in order to refine the quest for the right balance between categorical and concretized property relationships in past and present, or between historical justice and social justice. Development dead ends in remote Indigenous Australia Jon Altman, CAEPR, The Australian National University From time to time the lexicon of development creeps into the discourse to 'Close the Gap' in indigenous disadvantage in Australia. As with much else in Indigenous policy, proposals to deliver development are poorly conceptualized and implemented. In this panel provocation I critically engage with two examples of development thinking, the Miller Review of Aboriginal Employment and Training Programs in 1985 and the Australian Government's current Closing the Gap approach, to highlight how our involuted national thinking on these issues has regressed in the last 25 years as policy has swung from 'self determination' (or soft assimilation) to neoliberal assimilation. My argument is that a development approach might have applicability in part of regional and remote Australia. But to have any prospects for success, such an approach will need to engage with the subjects of the project of improvement; and to clearly identify populations targeted for development assistance. The current dominant policy goal of moral restructuring fails to engage with the diverse intercultural circumstances and economic hybridity, let alone production limitations, in many remote situations. Lessons from the 'anthropology of development' and its critique of the Washington consensus and structural adjustment programs will need to be learned quickly if the 'Canberra consensus' is to make any headway in addressing Indigenous precariousness in remote Australia. The Coombs Experiment Tim Rowse, University of Western Sydney Abstract: One of the foremost practitioners of applied Anthropology at the ANU in the last 60 years was Dr.H.C.Coombs who spent much of his retirement as a Visiting Fellow at CRES. More recently, his activism and influence has been negatively characterised in the phrase 'the Coombs experiment'. I will talk about why the phrase 'The Coombs Experiment' need not be taken in a polemical and pejorative way. I will make the argument that public policy towards Indigenous Australians is inescapably 'experimental' and that to acknowledge this helps to clarify our intellectual responsibilities. Discussant: Mike Heppell | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Centres, Margins and Histories in Asia - Part 2 | Centres, Margins and Histories in Asia Convener: Philip Taylor, The Australian National University Sessions 3-4 (for panel description see the entry for session 1) Session 3: The Anthropology of China and Its Margins (1.30-2.15) This session will discuss some of the ways in which an anthropology of China and its margins might enrich the discipline of anthropology more broadly. Each speaker will talk for about 10 minutes leaving 15 minutes for discussion and questions. How the study of China helps us rethink 'modernity', 'development' and 'governing' Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University In this paper I will discuss some of my planned research in a part of China that is developing rapidly. I focus on how this research might inform some of the big questions that anthropology asks about 'modernity'. I examine the ways in which aspects of what has been considered 'first order modernity' intersect with forms of social change that have been theorized under the rubrics of liquid modernity, risk society and second order modernity. Being a Part of the World: Cosmopolitanism, Christianity and Diaspora in Shanghai Sin-Wen Lau, The Australian National University This paper centres on the anthropological study of cosmopolitanism. It aims to move beyond scholarly focus on the pluralisms of cosmopolitanism and unpack the 'nuts and bolts' of what it means to be a part of the world. Focusing on the diasporic Chinese in Shanghai, this paper examines cosmopolitanism as lived through Christianity. It also moves to set out the contours of a new research direction that investigates how the Christian faith grounds cosmopolitanism in the Chinese context as a strategy of governance through globalised business interactions. Is a colonial framework a self-fulfilling prophecy or a point of departure? The case of Xinjiang Tom Cliff, The Australian National University In this presentation, I suggest that demonstrating (or disproving) the colonial nature of a given situation is of value only if the study moves beyond such a comparison. Recognising that an ethnographic approach has the potential to complexify such dichotomies as colonialism/not-colonialism, I propose that such complexity is a necessary but not sufficient condition of avoiding the dangers of making our models our conclusions. Session 4: Mobilising South Asia (2.15-3.00) This session aims to chart recent examinations of social mobility in South Asian society over the last two decades. The question of social mobility has occupied generations of anthropologists in South Asia, with particular attention to the hierarchical underpinning of its social structure. Since the advent of globalisation, and India's enthusiastic embrace of the neoliberal project, domains of investigation such as caste, kinship and ethnicity – the fundamentals of social life – are said to be diminishing in favour of class as the structuring principle for everyday life. Free from the strictures of 'tradition', South Asian society is experimenting with new modes of social motility, with peoples' aspirations, anxieties and hopes profoundly affected and reconfigured by global consumption trends, media worlds, and the transnational forces of capital. This session looks at the way in which anthropology remains relevant for studying such events and everyday experiences as they exist at both local and global levels. The session consists of short presentations on research directions by Assa Doron and Chris Gregory of the Australian National University and includes open discussion. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Centres, Margins and Histories in Asia - Part 1 | Centres, Margins and Histories in Asia Convener: Philip Taylor, The Australian National University Sessions 1-2 Panel theme: Anthropological research on Asia at the ANU is a dynamic, continuing project that extends from early ethnographic engagements with orientalist scholarship to the study of contemporary political subjectivities. As members of a multidisciplinary area studies institute, ANU anthropologists have had lively exchanges with Asia scholars from many disciplines, bringing to life the practical meanings of texts, faiths, nations and bureaucracies. Their ethnographies make central the experiences of rural people, petty traders, religious adepts and ethnic minorities in the peripheries of nation-states, telling the stories of borderlands and of people whose worlds are not contained within national boundaries. The histories charted have been plural, from processes of centralisation to resistance to marginalisation; from religious re-enchantment to demotic modernities. Scholars from Asia at the ANU have been central to mapping the cosmopolitan landscapes of their homelands and in helping to chart the futures of the anthropology of Asia. The panel is divided into four 45 minute sessions. Session 1: Southeast Asia (11.00-11.45) This session consists of a keynote presentation followed by comments by specialists on mainland Southeast Asia and open audience discussion. Keynote: Desire and the Ethnography of Southeast Asia Holly High, Sydney University, University of Cambridge The ethnography of Southeast Asia has recently featured debates about centres, peripheries and histories in terms of non-state spaces and the encroachments of 'markets'. In this debate, thick ethnographic accounts of local desire for (among other things) states and markets have been a reliable source of complications to any simple narrative of domination and resistance. However, desire has typically remained an implicit commitment or taking off point rather than a subject of explicit theorization. In this paper I use my own changing analysis of the desires that I encountered in the south of Laos to consider some of the potentials and pitfalls of desire as an analytic concept for ethnographers. Discussants: Tyrell Haberkorn, Andrew Walker, Philip Taylor, The Australian National University Session 2: The Thai-Yunnan Area (11.45-12.30) This session will address anthropological research on the Thai-Yunnan area and the borderlands of China and Southeast Asia. Each speaker will talk for about 10 minutes leaving 15 minutes for discussion and questions. Yunnan in the Mekong Region: from periphery to centre? Philip Hirsch, Australian Mekong Resource Centre, University of Sydney In the 1980s and early 1990s there was a flurry of interest in Thailand about Xishuangbanna / Sipsongphanna as a kind of repository of ancient Tai culture. This was a time when China was still an 'opening up' destination for tourism and academic collaboration, when Yunnan was geographically peripheral both within the Chinese and Southeast Asian contexts, and when Xishuangbanna was similarly a kind of cultural frontier for both. Thirty years later, the tides have turned. The lower Mekong countries are something of a resource frontier for China, and both Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces are integral to the Greater Mekong Subregion's program of economic integration. This talk explores the changing motifs that have been part of a growing interaction that places Yunnan within the Southeast Asian realm. The Thai-Yunnan Project and the Region Nicholas Tapp, The Australian National University; Centre of Ethnicity and Development, East China Normal University This paper reflects on the history of the Thai-Yunnan Project at the ANU in the light of wider considerations about area studies in the Southeast Asian context and the emergence of Thai Studies. It raises questions about global history and cultural areas with some reference to recent discussions of 'Zomia'. In conclusion it stresses | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Where to with comparative Austronesian studies? | Where to with comparative Austronesian studies? Convenor: Kathryn Robinson Panel theme: The Comparative Austronesian Project (1989-1991) brought together researchers from around the world including participants from Southeast Asia and Oceania. Under the leadership of James J. Fox in the Department of Anthropology, the Project was interdisciplinary, involving archaeologists, linguists and historians. Comparative Austronesian studies have been a continuing focus of research within Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (now Research School of Asia and the Pacific in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific). Building on this body of comparative research, what are the prospective research issues for this field of study? Presentations: A dozen audacious propositions on the 'Austronesians' James J. Fox, The Australian National University It is a sign of some success to come out of a research project with different ideas than when one began. In the case of the Comparative Austronesian Project, however, critical research continues and this research has a long way to go. From time to time, it is useful to point out where this research is going. In this presentation therefore, I venture a number of incautious observations on Austronesian issues. Each of these observations is 'audacious' in the sense that it goes against the grain of various accepted wisdom in the field. Rethinking Austronesia—again: conflicts and convergences between assumptions, methodologies, and the data Charles E. Grimes, The Australian National University, Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (Darwin, AuSIL), Language & Culture Unit, Kupang (UBB) In the past, assumptions about concentrations of language diversity, and a lack of Formosan data have influenced assumptions about the Austronesian homeland and dispersal patterns. Recently more and more scholars are finding some widely accepted ideas about Austronesian subgrouping are not matching the data in important ways. Other subgroups, like Oceanic, remain very solid. The data are forcing us to ask questions such as: Do widely accepted claims about Austronesian subgroups reflect 'best practice' in the Comparative Method? If we cannot reconstruct parent languages for certain subgroups, and cannot draw a tree with simple branches, then how should we view them? If not subgroups, what are they? If certain higher-level subgroups are problematic, does this help explain why we are unable to identify lower-level subgroups within them? What happened in the middle? Can a better understanding of contact issues inform our discussion? If high-level subgroups do not stand up to scrutiny, then shouldn't the distribution of the data also require a re-examination of much vocabulary that has been assigned to the level of PMP? Selected anthropological data nicely illustrate some of the problems. As we refine the comparative linguistics of Austronesia, this will also better inform comparative anthropological discussions on things like symmetric and asymmetric marriage alliance, clans and origin groups, material culture, and contact between Austronesian and non-Austronesian societies (which could include both Papuan and Aboriginal societies). Linking research of Taiwan aboriginal cultures to the Austronesian world—the Amis as a case study Shu-Ling Yeh, National Taitung University Taiwan is widely recognised as the homeland of the Austronesian societies now dispersed over the island world from Madagascar to Easter Island. Yet anthropological knowledge of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan has long been divided between two bodies of scholarship which, by virtue of language difference, have unfortunately been largely inaccessible to one another — that conducted in Japanese and Chinese by specialists in Taiwan, on the one hand, and that conducted over the rest of the Austronesian region mainly by anthropologists and historians writing in English on the other. From 1988 to 1992, the Comparative Au | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: The gift in finance | In the aftermath of a global financial crisis of an unprecedented scale, an ethnographically informed analysis of the workings of financial markets and their socio-cultural consequences is an urgent anthropological task. In this lecture, Hiro addresses several unexpected ways the classic anthropological subject of the gift may contribute to ongoing debates about financial markets and their regulation. Drawing on his longitudinal study of the Japanese financial markets, he examines how theoretical insights about the nature of debt, reciprocity and materiality in the study of the gift may be extended to the understanding of corporate debt and ownership and associated financial transactions. Ultimately, illuminating how the anthropological impulse to extend the gift to a broader range of phenomena itself finds its analogue in the logics of finance. Hirokazu Miyazaki received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 1998. He is currently Director of the East Asia Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He has conducted ethnographic research on indigenous Fijian gift giving and Japanese financial derivatives trading. He is the author of The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge (2004) and Arbitraging Ambiguity: Japan, Finance, and the Critique of Capitalism (forthcoming). | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Gender in Oceania | Gender in Oceania Convenor: Margaret Jolly, The Australian National University Presentations: Female subjects in Highlands anthropology: from 'sexual antagonism' to 'violence against Women' Martha Macintyre, University of Melbourne When anthropologists from the Australian National University first studied the lives of people in Melanesia, the political context was that of a parochial colonialism. For administrators and the people of Papua New Guinea, it was a form of domination quite different from that experienced in Africa, or the New World. In the words of Mervyn Meggitt '... they tried with some success to regulate the actives of European missionaries, miners, planters and traders in order to minimize or at least delay their disturbance of the indigenous highlands cultures.' He and other anthropologists were '... on hand to exploit the situation and study these tribal societies while they remained in something like their pristine state.' (Meggitt 1969:1) The pervasive scientism, and the emphasis on social organisation and cultural norms as the appropriate subjects for anthropological inquiry, produced ethnographies that had enormous influence on the discipline more broadly. In these, women's lives and experiences were often subsumed in generalisations about roles, status, normative cultural constraints and the institutions of men. From the 1970s, feminist critiques, new theoretical directions and dramatic political and economic changes within Papua New Guinea transformed the scope of anthropology – its interests, subject matter and the circumstances of research. Women first emerged as subjects and increasingly their subjectivity has come under ethnographic scrutiny. Papua New Guinea is part of a globalising world and the illusion of a dyadic colonial/colonised divide has been shattered. The global concern with female disadvantage, manifest in numerous United Nations conventions, has generated new concerns about women's human rights, violence against women and discrimination against them in specific countries. Papua New Guinea's women are now anthropological subjects in quite different contexts – politically and academically. I shall present some thoughts on the changing views of women and the ways that human rights discourses have shaped contemporary research. Plotting Genealogies of Gender in the Pacific: A View from ANU Margaret Jolly, The Australian National University In this presentation I will consider changing approaches to gender in the Pacific evinced in anthropological scholarship from the ANU from the 1980s to the present. In the wake of the tumultuous wave of the feminist movement coursing through scholarship across several disciplines, Roger Keesing, then Head of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies, together with Michael Young and Marie Reay, instigated a major research project from 1983-4, entitled Gender Relations in the Southwest Pacific: Ideology, Politics and Production. This engaged several Australian and international scholars. Many important publications emerged from that including Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift (1988) which proved enormously influential within anthropology and beyond in fields such as of philosophy, law and sociology. Through a magisterial review of ethnographic materials from Papua New Guinea and beyond, Strathern plotted a world of Melanesia in which Western capitalist binaries of nature and culture, subjects and objects, persons and things did not prevail. It challenged dominant Western models of gender as a cultural layer on sexed bodies and individuated persons, insisting rather on the irreducible character of the relation and a model of the 'dividual', persons who were rather permeable and partible, 'multiply constituted', composed and decomposed in event cycles, incorporating aspects of other persons and personified objects. That book generated much debate then and since, and continues to be a foundational text. A vigorous research progra | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Visual Anthropology - Part 2 | Visual Anthropology Convenor: Pip Deveson Session 2 Session chair - Nicholas Peterson Presentations: Why is a painting, like an exhibition, like a film: visual anthropology as dialogue Howard Morphy, Australian National University In recent years two apparently separate theoretical interests of mine have come together in sometimes surprising and productive ways: my interest in film as ethnographic method and archive and my focus on ritual as action through art. In this presentation I will consider the insights that have arisen from my involvement in filming Yolngu ritual and on their use of film-making in the process of cultural transmission. The topics of the paper will range from the materiality of different representational processes, through the agency of Yolngu people in the making of their cultural record to the relationships between material archives and cultural memory. Turning a Lens on the Past: The Beginnings of Ethnographic Filming in RSPacS Anthropology James J. Fox, The Australian National University This presentation will look at the beginnings of ethnographic filming in RSPacS Anthropology with the arrival of Tim and Patsy Ash in 1976. Discussion will focus on initial start-up efforts of this filming program: early visions and ambitions, the quest for equipment and funding, diverted field efforts, and then will proceed to look at the eventual succession of filming that occurred – particularly the films on eastern Indonesia and on Bali and thereafter the video-filming on Java – and how this filming accorded with research directions of the time. A Multi-species, Etho-ethnographic Approach to Filmmaking Natasha Fijn, The Australian National University When embarking on fieldwork in Mongolia, I intended to use a video camera as an 'objective', scientific tool for studying the social behaviour and communication between humans and other animals, much as video would be used in zoological fieldwork. I significantly modified my use of a video camera in the field through both the theoretical and practical guidance of observational filmmakers, David and Judith MacDougall and Gary Kildea, based at the Australian National University. This paper features video segments from etho-ethnographic footage filmed in the Khangai mountains of Mongolia in 2005. Through a description of the stylistic and logistical techniques employed while filming key video segments, this paper demonstrates an original approach to the study of humans and other animals in the production of video-based etho-ethnography; accompanied by a description of how filmmaking can be used in conjunction with participant observation as a methodology for this kind of cross-disciplinary fieldwork. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Cultural epidemiology: A chimera or productive f(r)iction? | Cultural epidemiology: A chimera or productive f(r)iction? Convenor: Cathy Banwell, The Australian National University Presentations: Smoking in Legislated Spaces Simone Dennis, The Australian National University This paper concerns the complexities associated with exploring a morally positioned and emotive practice –that of smoking cigarettes. Smoking is bound up with a multiply of issues and positions, including (but not limited to) the role of the state in the regulation of bodies and their practices and in the moral positioning of those practices, and the rights of the individual. It is about particular understandings of bodies and their relations with other bodies. In an antismoking positioning, smoking practice is situated within frames of corporeal boundedness and individuality, and particular emotions and moral positions are drawn upon to locate the smoking body relative to other (non-smoking) bodies, and to the practice of smoking itself. Based on ethnographic research, I explore the profound experiences of sociality, corporeal connection and rupture, and the wide range of emotional experiences that are central to practices of smoking. I also draw attention to the ways in which public policy and action regarding smoking might be understood, acted upon, resisted and altered, in ways that make it meaningful in the lived experiences of smokers, especially in the context of public spaces and engagements, in a present in which there is scarcely a behaviour more regulated than smoking. The responses of smokers to new legislative reconfigurations of public space, and to other cessation policies, are not those intended by policy makers, and demonstrate both the creativity of responses, and the dangers of assuming too much about how people will behave. Accounting for culture: the place of ethnographic research in 'evidence-based' responses to HIV Katherine Lepani, The Australian National University The UNAIDS global catch cry 'Know your epidemic, know your response' appeals to national HIV programs to improve efforts at generating evidence of HIV prevalence and transmission dynamics based on behavioural surveillance surveys and the epidemiological mapping of risk. In this presentation, I draw on my ethnographic research in the Trobriands Islands of Papua New Guinea, and my involvement in HIV policy development at the national level in PNG, to question the dominance of quantitative methodologies in the global mission to know local epidemics. I consider the persistent tension between the 'cultures of measurement' to use Philip Setel's term, and the cultures of meaning and lived experience that shape sexual geographies and local understandings of HIV. I examine the bounded notion of culture as an epidemiological category of risk for HIV transmission, with particular reference to the Trobriand context. I juxtapose key behavioural surveillance concepts for identifying and targeting individual risk with cultural forms of sexuality and sexual practice that reflect values of relational personhood predicated on kinship and networks of exchange. I aim to demonstrate the importance of cultural knowledge and ethnographic insights for informing HIV policies and programs, not merely as supplements to quantitative data but as comprising the theoretical and ethical framework for evidence-based practice. Cultural epidemiology: an oxymoron? John Boulton, Kimberley Health / University of Sydney Culture describes the emergent response of a society to the circumstances of their environment, and the 'standardized ways of acting learned through membership of a human group'. During the Anthropocene adaptation in human societies has been biological (acquisition of lactose tolerance) or cultural through changes in behaviour to overcome bio-maladaptation. Its failure has been camouflaged by the protection from a structural response including healthcare. Epidemiology describes the patterns of disease and provides evidence-based constructs of causa | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Visual Anthropology - Part 1 | Visual Anthropology Convenor: Pip Deveson, The Australian National University Session 1 Session chair - Melinda Hinkson Presentations: Far from Iconophobia: Warlpiri Acrylic Paintings "for sale" as archival performances in neo-colonial Australia Françoise Dussart, University of Connecticut In this paper I reflect on how and why certain painting practices have emerged in the Central Australian Aboriginal settlement, Yuendumu. A study of acrylic paintings "for sale" as performances illuminates how contemporary Aboriginal paintings are impacted and constitutive of local and global histories. I argue that acrylics produced by Warlpiri painters from Yuendumu leave archival traces of dynamic social transformations and profound negotiations of identity. Painters and paintings tell stories of struggle, resistance, connectedness, appropriation, and change. They are stories of a neo-colonial world, of which we are all a part. The arc of abstraction in a Western Desert graphic system John Carty, Australian National University The phenomenon of Western Desert painting in Australia has been underpinned by the dynamic tensions of concealment and revelation, conservation and experimentation. These tensions are increasingly manifest on the surface of the canvas in terms recognisable to Western traditions as 'abstraction'. But it is, perhaps surprisingly, at this point of convergence that the analysis of desert painting runs dry. Over the past 30 years there has been a clear statistical decline in the occurrence of iconographic and geometric forms in Balgo acrylic painting, and significant increases in the proliferation of those aesthetic elements that used to accompany such iconography: outlining, concentricity and dotting. Dotting in Balgo art has been transformed from the means by which semantic elements of a painting were highlighted, to becoming the very grounds of that meaning itself. Dots, like form itself for the cubists and their modernist progeny, have become the subject or content of Balgo paintings. Although these processes of abstraction are commonly acknowledged, there has been no sustained ethnographic analysis of abstraction in contemporary desert painting. Anthropologists have continued to measure the visual forms of desert painting as an abstraction from other more (seemingly) static traditional media (rock art, body painting, sand drawing). But this comparative tendency is no longer as self-evidently applicable as it once was; over decades acrylic painting has evolved its own logic as a cultural practice, its own rules and aesthetic patterns and possibilities, within which abstraction can be understood as part of a culturally coherent artistic strategy. How we were in life just then: recovering intangible social knowledge of the past through the 're-documentation' of historical films and photographs Pam McGrath, Australian National University Twenty-five years ago the anthropologist Fred Myers reflected on Western Desert social organisation that focusing on 'outward form alone' reveals little about the dynamics of Aboriginal life. The comment seems to speak directly to the normative confusion that continues to exist between the appearance of Aboriginal lifestyles and the invisible social forces that shape them. Films and photographs, despite their compelling sense of reality, have little capacity to transcend outward appearances to offer insight into the social relationships that informed their making. This does not, however, necessarily render photographic images redundant in the writing of historical ethnographies. Drawing on examples from a collection of images taken by native patrol officer Robert Macaulay in the area of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in the mid-1950s, I demonstrate how in the right hands photographic images can in fact convey a great deal about the intangible stuff of life. Many of Macaulay's images are of Ngaanyatjarra people he met on the road as they journeyed between various camps and settlements | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Asia and Pacific Migrants to Australia | Asia and Pacific Migrants to Australia Convenor: Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University Panel theme: SF Nadel's 1951 research agenda for the Department of Anthropology included a focus on post war European migration. One of the first PhD graduates, Jean Martin, acted on this vision with her PhD on migrants in Goulburn. Her work on migration also reflected Nadel's support for 'applied anthropology' which he had explored on his visit to the USA en route to taking up his ANU appointment. The profile of migration to Australia has changed dramatically since the 1950s, with significant immigration from Asian and Pacific counties post-1975. Jean Martin was a pioneer of studies of this migration stream. This panel explores the new horizons of anthropological studies of Asian and Pacific migrants in Australia, while acknowledging the contribution of scholars like Jean Martin Presentations: Jean Martin: a transformation in migration scholarship Mandy Thomas, The Australian National University A unique aspect of the work of Jean Martin was that she influenced public policy at the same time as developing cutting-edge academic social science. Her fulfillment of this dual role will be explored in this paper which will examine her leadership role in migration studies, and her legacy for the generation of scholars that followed. Second generation transnationalism: challenges to transnational studies Helen Lee, La Trobe University Research on transnationalism has tended to focus on migrants, whereas their children have received far less attention. My research on second generation Tongan transnationalism has led me to question not only the category of 'second generation' but also some of the assumptions underlying transnational theory. My paper will discuss the concepts of indirect, intradiasporic and forced transnationalism, which I have developed to describe some of ways migrants' children engage with transnationalism. Migration & the multicultural stage: Chinese Indonesians' performance in Perth Monika Winarnita, The Australian National University/ La Trobe University This paper investigates how migrants emphasize a trans-local identity to perform as 'ethnic' representatives on the Australian multicultural stage. In performing Jakarta's Ondel-Ondel dance, Chinese Indonesians use an Indonesian localised identity as a form of transnational belonging. Migrating to Perth and performing on the Australian multicultural stage provides the space to be of 'Indonesian ethnicity' in Australia but representing Indonesia as a Chinese Jakartan dancer/musician. Being Jakartan (local identity) is an important part of identifying as a Chinese (ethnic identity) Indonesian in Australia (transnational identity) Stereotypes and migrant settlement: the stigma of 'Mail Order Bride' Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University In her 1954 PhD thesis, Jean Martin provided a critical analysis of the stereotype of 'Displaced Persons' that attached to migrants fleeing post war Europe, and how this affected their integration into the Australian community. Half a century later, when Australia's immigration profile includes substantial numbers of Asian migrants, women who come to Australia on spousal visas from Asia are subject to the negative stereotype of Mail order Bride, while their Australian husbands (who in the early phases this migration trend included many single male European migrants) are characterised as possessing an inferior masculinity. This paper investigates the profound effect these stereotypes have on the ways in which these men and women seek to build marital and (often transnational) family relationships. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: Fifty Years of Kinship Studies in PNG | Fifty Years of Kinship Studies in PNG Convenor: James F. Weiner, The Australian National University Panel theme: This informal panel begins by looking back at the history of kinship and social structure studies of PNG societies at ANU since the 1960s. We move from this to commenting on the rise of more contemporary anthropologies such as social mapping and landowner identification, studies of migration, and urban PNG ethnography in the last 20 years. During this later period, the gathering of kinship data on a much larger scale, as John Burton has described it, has reoriented Melanesian anthropologists towards a different view of local and regional relatedness. Studies of ceremonial exchange systems and exchange objects dominated PNG social structure studies in the 1970s and 1980s. But the panelists would like to talk about how that orientation has been transformed in the present by our focus on emerging economies of a different sort in PNG. We may also discuss the role of methodological training in the ANU anthropology departments, how that has changed in the last 20 years and the manner in which this has affected the extent to which anthropologists are still interested in theorizing about PNG social structure. In the last 30 minutes, we open the discussion up to the audience. Panelists: James Weiner (Convenor), John Burton, Jadran Mimica, Linus Digimrina, Nicole Haley | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthropology@60: History for the future | This is the Opening Lecture of the conference "60 years of Anthropology at ANU: Contesting Anthropology's futures". Human beings make plans for the future all the time. Psychologists have demonstrated that the ability to plan for the future is closely linked to the human capacity to recall past event. Ton's own research in Papua New Guinea shows that human societies need collective memories of their past in order to imagine and create a different future. Ton's central case study is the Paliau Movement in Manus, from the 1940s to the present. Whereas Margaret Mead emphasised that this Movement abolished tradition and broke with the past in order to create a new society (New Lives for Old 1956), Ton's focus is on the new history created by Paliau and his followers. This history not only provided a motivation and blueprint for change, it also identified and created the collective agency that could carry out this change. Ton will further discuss whether anthropology should limit itself to studying cases of social and cultural change like the Paliau Movement or whether it may also contribute to change through participatory processes of knowledge creation and design. Ton Otto is professor and research leader (people and societies in the tropics) at James Cook University, Australia, and professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1986. His research focuses on issues of social and cultural change, including religious movements, political and economic transformation, warfare, the politics of tradition and identity, the management of natural resources, and processes of design and intervention. He also writes about methodological and epistemological questions and engages with material and visual culture through exhibitions and films. His recent publications include the co-edited volume "Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology" and the prize winning films "Ngat is Dead" and "Unity Through Culture". Speaker/Host: Professor Ton Otto Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building (8a), Fellows Road, ANU Date: Monday, 26 September 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two geopolitical fallacies: the rise and rise of China and the inevitable decline of America | The public debate in Australia about the rise of China and the inevitable decline of America has become increasingly polarised. In one view, there are those who believe that China’s rise and rise is inevitable and that it will come to dominate Asia. In this scenario, America has to accept its inevitable decline and accommodate China. At the other extreme, there are those who believe China will become an aggressive and expansionist power and the US and its allies (including Australia) must prepare to counter it with military force, if necessary. This lecture examines the reasons for the rise and fall of great powers historically; it then looks at the strengths and weaknesses of both China and the US and how they might compete for influence in Asia. It concludes by canvassing competing theories for the future strategic order in Asia – including the balance of power, a concert of powers, and a cooperative regional strategic organisation. Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. His previous positions include: Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defence, Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, and Head of the National Assessments Staff (National Intelligence Committee). He is the author of five books and four reports to government, as well as more than 120 academic articles and monographs about the global strategic outlook, the security of the Asia-Pacific region, the US alliance, and Australia’s defence policy. He wrote the 1986 Review of Australia’s Defence Capabilities (the Dibb Report) and was the primary author of the 1987 Defence White Paper. His book The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Superpower was published in 1986 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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U.S. Staying Power in the Asia-Pacific | Daniel Twining is Senior Fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He is also a consultant to the U.S. government on international security affairs. He previously served as a Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, as Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator John McCain, and as a staff member of the United States Trade Representative. He holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, an MPhil with distinction in East Asian international relations from Oxford, and a BA with highest distinction from the University of Virginia. Dr. Twining is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and the Weekly Standard and has written for the Washington Post, Financial Times, Times of India, Newsweek, the Washington Quarterly, and elsewhere, as well as in a range of academic journals and monographs. He is currently writing a book on U.S. grand strategy in Asia after the Cold War. He has lived in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Northeast Asian Security in 2011: China, the Six-Party Talks, and Korea's Centrality to U.S., Japanese, and Russian Strategic T | The possible resumption of the Six-Party Talks raises questions about what each country seeks from this process. Given China's role as the driving force for resuming the talks, the emphasis will be on China's strategic thinking. With the United States now encouraging South Korea to return to diplomacy, the Obama administration's thinking will be stressed too. South Korea, Japan, and Russia will be discussed as well. For background publications in 2011, see Jonathan Pollack, No Exit, on North Korea, my book on The Korean Nuclear Crisis, rev. edit., for the evolution in four states of strategic thinking through the Cheonan sinking, and articles by me in Orbis and Asia Pacific Review on China's recent assertive strategic thinking. Gilbert Rozman is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D and has taught since 1970. He spent the year 2010-11 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, concentrating on current Chinese writings on national identity and international relations. His research covers mutual perceptions and bilateral relations in Northeast Asia. | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five months after 3.11: Japan's triple disaster and the challenges of Japanese civil society | On 11 March, Japan was hit by unprecedented triple disasters, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0, 30-meter-high tsunami and the explosion of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Damages have been tremendous. As of 26 July, 20,444 people are confirmed dead or missing, and more than 100,000 people are still in evacuation. It seems Japan cannot return to the days before 11 March in many senses. What impact have the triple disasters had on the Japanese society, and how has the Japanese civil society dealt with the challenges it has faced? What lessons can be learnt from these disasters? This lecture will explore these questions from the perspectives of the Association for Aid and Relief (AAR) and Japan Platform, two of the best-known humanitarian NGOs in Japan which have been actively involved in the disaster relief. Professor Yukie Osa, BA, MA (Waseda), PhD (Tokyo) Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University; Chairperson of the Board, Association for Aid and Relief (AAR), Japan; and a Board member of Directors, Japan Platform (JPF). She worked for AAR from 1991-2003. As the head of emergency assistance operations, she was involved in programs in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, Mozambique, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Afghanistan. During and after the Ottawa Process, she led the Japanese Campaign to Ban Landmines, as a member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 2008, she took up a position of the Chairperson of the Board of AAR. AAR has been active in relief operations in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. From 2006 to 2011, she was also the Chairperson of Board of Directors for Japan Platform, which is a consortium of 33 Japanese NGOs, MOFA and Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) to provide humanitarian assistance to natural disasters and humanitarian crises. This public lecture is hosted by the Department of International Relations, in association with the Australia-Japan Foundation and is part of the workshop on Cultures of Humanitarianism; Perspectives from the Asia Pacific. Speaker/Host: Professor Yukie Osa, Rikkyo University / Association for Aid and Relief, Japan Venue: Law Link Theatre, Law Building [7], Fellows Road, ANU Date: Tuesday, 9 August 2011 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Fight for Sri-Lanka | The Fight for Sri-Lanka Sri Lanka should be an island paradise. Almost alone among the post-colonial countries of the developing world, it stood poised for greatness on the world stage when it gained its independence from Britain in 1948, boasting stability, democracy, a judiciary and an efficient economy. Instead, in pursuit of power and fundamentalist Buddhism, an oligarchy of Sinhalese political leaders and monks hijacked democracy. In response a ruthless enemy was born: the Tamil Tigers. The result – one of modern history’s longest civil conflicts – spawned a host of horrific innovations: suicide bombers, child soldiers, death squads, violent Buddhism, and murdered journalists. But ethnic conflict is only part of the story. Twenty-seven years on, with Iran, Burma, Libya, and China as its closest allies, democracy has been reduced to a cabal of brothers who control the economy, the courts, and the media. Today they tout their bloody conquest of the Tamil Tiger guerillas as an example for other nations with ‘terrorist’ problems. Gordon Weiss, a veteran journalist and UN official for two decades, was firmly entrenched in the conflict as spokesperson for the UN in Colombo. He was a close observer as, in just four months in 2009, tens of thousands of civilians perished along with the last of the Tamil Tigers. His account unravels the compelling history which lead up to that horrific moment, peeling back the Sri Lankan government’s cloak of silence to reveal the truth of those tragic events. His perspective was forged over two decades as a journalist, aid worker, and international civil servant in numerous notorious hotspots such as Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, Kosovo, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Sudan. After studying law, history, politics, military strategy, anthropology, philosophy and literature he acquired an MA in International Relations with a focus on security. Speaker/Host: Gordon Weiss, UN representative in Sri Lanka (2009) Venue: Law Link Theatre, Law Building [7], Fellows Rd, ANU Date: Wednesday, 3 August 2011 Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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AMUNC 2011 Keynote Lecture: Arms control and disarmament | Delegates shall be treated to a key note address by the Hon Professor Gareth Evans. Among his many accomplishments, Prof Evans is Chancellor of ANU and has co-chaired two major International Commissions, on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), and Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10) whose report Eliminating Nuclear Threats was published in December 2009. More information on Professor Evans is available below. Delegates will then be challenged in ways that will build upon the experiences of committee debates and negotiations. They will have the opportunity to debate, along with their nation’s other representatives, a key issue before the United Nations. More importantly, each country will have to draw upon its intelligence briefing materials, with no guarantee that their information is known among the UN’s other representatives! Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC has been Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2010, and a Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne since July 2009, and is President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009. He previously spent 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention, and initiating new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture. He has written or edited nine books - most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, published by the Brookings Institution in 2008 (paperback edition 2009) - and has published over 100 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform. He has co-chaired two major International Commissions, on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), and Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10) whose report Eliminating Nuclear Threats was published in December 2009. He was a member of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2004), the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction (2006), the Zedillo Commission of Eminent Persons on The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond (2008) and the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. He is Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. In January 2010 the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Stichting announced that Gareth Evans was the recipient of the 2010 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear, citing his pioneering work on the Responsibility to Protect concept, and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control and disarmament. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia Pacific Week 2011 - Asia Pacific Week Gala Dinner | The final event for the week, the Gala Dinner provides an opportunity for delegates to relax and unwind, and to reflect in a social setting on the concepts and challenges discussed throughout the course of the week. In 2011, Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser will be Guest of Honour at the Asia Pacific Week Gala Dinner. Mr Fraser will reflect on what made Asia Pacific community-building a priority, where regional cooperation is at today and what needs to be done now. The Gala Dinner will be held at Old Parliament House, an exquisite venue which will give the ANU APW delegates a rare glimpse into the historical side of the Australian Government with which we are familiar today. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Asia Pacific Week Gala Dinner | The final event for the week, the Gala Dinner provides an opportunity for delegates to relax and unwind, and to reflect in a social setting on the concepts and challenges discussed throughout the course of the week. In 2011, Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser will be Guest of Honour at the Asia Pacific Week Gala Dinner. Mr Fraser will reflect on what made Asia Pacific community-building a priority, where regional cooperation is at today and what needs to be done now. The Gala Dinner will be held at Old Parliament House, an exquisite venue which will give the ANU APW delegates a rare glimpse into the historical side of the Australian Government with which we are familiar today. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 09 - Antagonism despite Alignment? Simulating crisis over Takeshima/Dokdo | This session introduces Asia Pacific Week participants to a war-game simulation exercise. War gaming is a methodology that has been employed for several decades at the highest levels of government and in the corporate world. The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre periodically runs wargame exercises as a teaching tool in the classroom. In this wargame, Asia Pacific Week participants will be invited to play the role of senior policymakers as they respond to a major strategic crisis between Japan and South Korea over the disputed Dokdo/Takeshima islands. Such a crisis would not be entirely unexpected given the long history of friction between these two countries, but it could have significant ramifications for Asia’s security order. Japan and South Korea are both American allies. Who would Washington choose? China is the leading trading partner of Japan and South Korea, but its relations with both countries have historically been troubled also. Would Beijing get involved? Could it afford not to? And would other players in the region such as North Korea and Taiwan try to take advantage of the crisis to advance their own precarious positions? Last but not least, what, if anything, would such a crisis mean for Australia? Staff members from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, including Professor William Tow, Admiral Chris Barrie and Dr Brendan Taylor will explore with participants these and other questions through the lens of a wargame simulation exercise. The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 08 - Japan, after the Tohoku Earthquake | On 11 March 2011, Japan experienced the worst earthquake of its history— a 9.0 magnitude shake just off the Northeast Pacific coast. This was followed by a 10 metre tsunami crushing the coastline. Subsequently, the Fukushima nuclear power plants failed resulting in radioactive discharge. This panel considers Japan in the aftermath of this ‘triple punch’. It explores economic, political and demographic as well as the personal effects of the disasters on Japan and Japanese society. It considers whether this is the end of Japan as we know it, the beginning of a new era, or simply another unpredictable natural disaster that will be accommodated as other natural tragedies in Japan’s past. The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 07 - Asia Pacific Master Blogging Challenge | The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific hosts some of the world’s most prominent Asia-themed academic blogs. With New Mandala, East Asia Forum and South Asia Masala leading the way, the College is home to an emerging tradition of achievement in academic blogging. Blogging breaks new ground for many academics. Its immediacy, the opportunities to take ideas to a wide public, and the potential for open debate and discussion are all big advantages of blogging. In 2011, Asia Pacific Week will witness the first annual Asia Pacific Master Blogging Challenge. This will be a chance for some of the best bloggers from around the College, and beyond, to showcase their talents in a live and interactive format. The bloggers will be expected to demonstrate skill, flair, precision and time management in an auditorium atmosphere where the audience will crown the College’s 2011 Master Blogger. The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 06 - An Indonesian Perspective on Asia | Indonesia is going through a period of enormous change. How can we best make sense of it? Andrew MacIntyre, Ariel Heryanto and Greg Fealy will offer their perspectives on this, engaging the audience in broad-ranging and lively discussion. Among the key themes to be covered are: - Democratization and Indonesia’s developmental trajectory - New currents in Indonesian film, culture and society - Surprising influences of Islam on political and social change - Indonesia’s changing engagement with the region and the world. The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Concluding speech by The Hon Wayne Swan MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer | China Update 2011 Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Session 4 - China: Challenges and Opportunities | Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Session 3 - Growth Comparison, Urbanisation, and the China-US Economic Relations | Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 05 - The Hazardous Pacific | The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Session 2 - China’s outward FDI, Foreign Aid and Energy Security | Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Session 1 - Global Macroeconomic Development and Readjustment | Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 04 - India Goes Outwards | Over the last decade there has been an increasing focus on India’s economic and military expansion, and its consequences for South Asia and the world. India is becoming a major player in the United Nations, G20 forum and other major multilateral summits. The rise of the middle class, together with Indian companies increasingly becoming multinational enterprises, is fostering an external interest and curiosity when it comes to the growing prominence of India on the world stage. India is being asked to shoulder global responsibilities in areas such as climate change, global security and trade. As a multicultural and multiethnic democracy, these responsibilities present interesting case studies and diverse learning environments for scholars and academics interested in the region. This session will investigate the many implications of the rise of India, and the effects it will have on regional neighbours and trading partners. The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Update 2011 - Welcome and Opening Address | Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic stage, the first three decades of the 21st century are almost certain to bring with them the completion of that rise, not only in economic, but also political and geopolitical terms. China’s integration into the global economy has brought one-fifth of the global population into the world trading system, which has increased global market potential and integration to an unprecedented level. The increased scale and depth of international specialisation propelled by an enlarged world market has offered new opportunities to boost world production, trade and consumption; with the potential for increasing the welfare of all the countries involved. However, China’s integration into the global economy has forced a worldwide reallocation of economic activities. This has increased various kinds of friction in China’s trading and political relations with others, as well as generating several globally significant externalities. Finding ways to accommodate China’s rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. The China Update delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China. Speaker/Host: China Economy Program Venue: Manning Clark centre, theatre 1, Union Court, ANU Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 03 - Gendered Citizens: Human Rights and Violence in the Pacific and Asia | This session looks at changing gender relations in several countries of Asia and the Pacific. It examines questions of gendered citizenship for women and for men in the context of gender violence, conflict and the HIV epidemic, as well as in the context of the countervailing processes of making peace and promoting human rights in the region. Asia Pacific Week The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. Speaker/Host: Speakers include Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Deborah Brautigam and Ross Garnaut Venue: Crawford School From: Sunday, 10 July 2011 - 12:00 PM To: Thursday, 14 July 2011 - 11:00 PM Website: http://asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au/ | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 - Session 02 - From Sorcerers to Cybercrime | The legal and regulatory systems of the Asia-Pacific offer a rich mix of legal pluralism and complex issues of governance. In this panel, scholars from the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at ANU present examples of interdisciplinary research that combines regional knowledge and evidence-based theory to contribute to good governance at the local level. Asia Pacific Week The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. Speaker/Host: Speakers include Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Deborah Brautigam and Ross Garnaut Venue: Crawford School From: Sunday, 10 July 2011 - 12:00 PM To: Thursday, 14 July 2011 - 11:00 PM Website: http://asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au/ | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Week 2011 -Session 01 - The Transformation of Economic and Political Power in Asia | Asia Pacific Week The ANU Asia Pacific Week is a four-day showcase of the Australian National University's work on Asia and the Pacific. It is an ANU student-driven initiative that will bring together leading regional experts and a 100 of the world's top university students from around the world to engage in a series of academic and networking events focused on the Asia Pacific region. The China Update will also be held during this time adding to a week of experiences related to Asia and the Pacific. This year's conference will feature a Q & A style forum on the future of the Asia-Pacific region; a flagship conference panel on the transformation of political and economic power in Asia led by Peter Drysdale and Hugh White. Other leading figures who are expected to join the event include: Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Ross Garnaut, Deborah Brautigam, Kent Anderson, Nicholas Farrelly, Michael L'Estrange, Jane Golley and Stephen Howes. Speaker/Host: Speakers include Peter Drysdale, Hugh White, Deborah Brautigam and Ross Garnaut Venue: Crawford School From: Sunday, 10 July 2011 - 12:00 PM To: Thursday, 14 July 2011 - 11:00 PM Website: http://asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au/ | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yingluck or Abhisit? Thai Election overview from New Mandala - 02 | Yingluck or Abhisit? Thai Election overview from New Mandala with Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly - New Mandala - Session 02 | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yingluck or Abhisit? Thai Election commentary from New Mandala - 01 | Yingluck or Abhisit? Thai Election commentary from New Mandala with Andrew Walker & Nicholas Farrelly from New Mandala - Update 01 | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Regulating Overseas Development Assistance - peer review versus rights | RegNet Seminar Regulating Overseas Development Assistance: peer review versus rights Sue Rimmer Date: Thursday, 30 June 2011 Abstract: This seminar attempts to apply regulatory theory to the realm of overseas development assistance (ODA), international aid programs delivered by governments. I trace the history of aid in the post-war era and trace ideas of accountability and effectiveness, leading to the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agenda for Action and now the Busan Forum in November 2011. I analyse the international architecture that currently underpins ODA, which is proliferating and increasingly messy with the rise of 'non-traditional donors', vertical funds like the Climate Adaptation Fund and non-state actors. The key body has been the OECD Development Assistance Committee, which works on a peer review basis but the G20, UN, IFIs and other international bodies compete in the development/humanitarian space. One clear trend is the securitisation of aid, the increasing instrumentalism and blurring of security agendas and humanitarian responses, in countries such as Afghanistan. A countervailing trend is towards accountability and transparency. UN agencies and international NGOs increasingly work on the basis of a human rights-based approach. There is a strong agenda of accountability to beneficiaries and human rights, especially economic and social rights.More countries are moving their aid programs out of the discretionary world of foreign policy and on to a legislative basis, for example, the UK. What will the regulatory future of ODA look like? Which trends will dominate? I offer some radical suggestions for debate. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 Narayanan Oration - India and the global financial crisis - what have we learnt? | 2011 K R Narayanan Oration ‘India and the global financial crisis – what have we learnt?’ Dr D. Subbarao will present the 2011 K R Narayanan Oration - ‘India and the global financial crisis – what have we learnt?’. He is the 22nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Prior to this appointment, Dr Subbarao was the Finance Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Dr Subbarao has earlier been Secretary to the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (2005-2007), lead economist in the World Bank (1999-2004), Finance Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh (1993-98) and Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India (1988-1993). Dr Subbarao has wide experience in public finance. In the World Bank, he worked on issues of public finance in countries of Africa and East Asia. He managed a flagship study on decentralisation across major countries of East Asia including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Cambodia. Dr Subbarao was also involved in initiation of fiscal reforms at the state level and has written extensively on issues in public finance, decentralisation and political economy of reforms. Speaker/Host: Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) Venue: Manning Clark Centre, Theatre 3, Union Court, ANU Date: Thursday, 23 June 2011 | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reform and reconciliation in Sri Lanka | Reform and reconciliation in Sri Lanka - The Hon Professor Rajiva Wijesinha In June 2007 President Mahinda Rajapakse appointed Professor Wijesinha Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP), and in June 2008 he became concurrently the Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights. In April 2010, having given up his other positions, he became a Member of Parliament. He was earlier this year appointed Adviser on Reconciliation to the President. He belongs to the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka, and has served as its President and Leader, and also as a Vice-President of Liberal International. He is currently Chair of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats. He has conducted workshops on Liberalism in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Indonesia, on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNS), the German Liberal Foundation, for whom he also edited Liberal Values for South Asia (revised recently as Liberal Perspectives on South Asia and published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press, Delhi). Rajiva Wijesinha won an Open Exhibition in Classics to University College, Oxford when he was 16. After his first degree, which also led to an MA in 1977, he moved to Corpus Christi College, Oxford as E K Chambers Student (Edmund Kerchever Chambers), and obtained a BPhil. degree in English, followed by a PhD in 1979. He is a Sri Lanka writer in English, distinguished for his political analysis as well as creative and critical work. An academic by profession for much of his working career, he was most recently Senior Professor of Languages at the University of Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka. Presented by Sri Lanka High Commission and the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Speaker/Host: The Hon Professor Rajiva Wijesinha Venue: Molonglo Lecture Theatre JG Crawford Building, Lennox Crossing, ANU Date: Monday, 23 May 2011 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session H - Conclusions | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session G - The Continued Importance of International Assistance | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session F - New Mandala, The National Library of Australia and the launch of 'Ending | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session D - The Role of the Media | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session C - Economic Update | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session B - Political Update | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference - Session A - Opening remarks and keynote address | 2011 ANU Myanmar/Burma Update Conference The first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, held on 7 November 2010, represented continuity rather than a break with the past. But they allowed the military regime to hand over power to a new “civilianised” government on 30 March 2011, with many former military officers in Ministerial positions. National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, released from detention soon after the elections, remains free but more than 1,200 prisoners of conscience remain in detention. New parliamentary assemblies, with 25 per cent of seats occupied by military appointees, have convened at national and regional levels, but are not likely to be effective in cope with the numerous pressing questions facing Myanmar/Burma. Will the handful of elected representatives from opposition parties be able to use their positions creatively to effect change? Will regional and minority aspirations be satisfied through the regional assemblies? Will ongoing tensions between center and periphery be resolved or will they worsen? Will the military still control developments and monopolise state resources? What scope is there for any political, legal and economic change and reform? How can international assistance help? | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thailand at the limit - One year after the April-May 2010 protests | Just over a year ago, in the midst of the stand-off among Thai government forces, red-shirted members of the United Democratic Front Against Dictatorship (UDD), and other murky actors, Thai Studies scholars at ANU gathered for 'Thailand on the Verge' [See video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxal4JgbzA] to talk about the unfolding crisis in the streets. One year later, Thailand is no longer on the verge. Instead, the country appears to be reaching a political, social, historic and economic limit [the utmost extent; a geographic or political boundary; a determining feature or differentia in logic; something that is exasperating or intolerable].There is a growing war on the border with Cambodia, the PM Abhisit government and the UDD are locked into conflict with one another, possible elections are on the horizon, and competing versions of the truth of April-May 2010 are being offered by different factions. Long-term crises – the rise in the use of terrorist tactics and the laws to address them, economic inequality, and the precarity of ethnic minorities and migrants – remain unresolved. Join scholars from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU College of Law for a panel discussion about the political, economic, historic, and cultural limits of the present situation. Speakers will make brief comments and then the floor will be open for questions. Speakers: Dr Pongphisoot Busbarat, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies Dr Nicholas Farrelly, School of Regulation, Justice, and Diplomacy Dr Jane Ferguson, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Mark Nolan, ANU College of Law Dr Craig Reynolds, School of Culture, History and Language Dr Andrew Walker, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies Dr Peter Warr, Crawford School of Economics and Government Moderator: Dr Tyrell Haberkorn, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies Venue: Hedley Bull Centre, Lecture Theatre 1 Date: Thursday, 5 May 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The urgency of interdisciplinarity | Distinguished Professor John Hartley is an ARC Federation Fellow (2005-10), and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. He was foundation Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty (QUT) and was awarded QUT’s first distinguished professorship in 2006. Professor Hartley is the author of 20 books and upwards of 200 papers, translated into more than a dozen languages, in the fields of media, culture, journalism and creative industries. He is the editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage Publications). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). Supported by Gender and Cultural Studies Unit, School of Culture History and Language, ANU. Speaker/Host: Professor John Hartley AM Venue: Asia Pacific Centre for Diplomacy lecture theatre, Hedley Bull Centre Date: Thursday, 14 April 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia-Pacific Report on Rural Poverty | Asia-Pacific Report on Rural Poverty The President of The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Dr Kanayo F Nwanze will present key messages from IFAD's 'Asia-Pacific Report on Rural Poverty'. Acceptances please to asarc@anu.edu.au Speaker/Host: Dr Kanayo F Nwanze Venue: Hedley-Bull Centre, Seminar Room 2 Date: Tuesday, 5 April 2011 Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The economic, social and environmental determinants of human development and health equity | Three internationally renowned speakers discuss how environmental, political, economic and cultural characteristics of societies shape conditions in which people live, work and age. Inequities in these factors play a major role in producing health inequities in Australia, across the Asia Pacific region and globally. If set up well, economic development, trade, working conditions, urbanisation and health care for example could simultaneously improve development, social inclusion and health, but if done badly these factors can all increase health inequities. Professor Sir Michael Marmot (MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA) Sir Michael Marmot is director of theInternational Institute for Society and Health. In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen for services to Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities. Internationally acclaimed, Sir Michael is president of the British Medical Association and was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization. Professor Tony McMichael AO Professor McMichael is an NHMRC Australia Fellow at ANU. He was Director of the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and has a pioneering international role in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 2011. Professor Stephen Howes Professor Howes is Director of the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Economics and Government at ANU. Prior to joining the Crawford School, Stephen was Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development. He is currently a member of the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness established by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This lecture is being jointly hosted by ANU and Asia Pacific HealthGAEN Speaker/Host: Professor Sir Michael Marmot in conversation with ANU academics Venue: Hedley Bull Centre Date: Monday, 4 April 2011 Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China and the Middle East - Discussions on the relationship between China and the Middle East in light of recent events | China and the Middle East: Discussions on the relationship between China and the Middle East in light of recent events The Australia-China Youth Association and the ANU Middle East Learning Community present: China and the Middle East Discussions on the relationship between China and the Middle East in light of recent events, featuring: Professor Peter Drysdale (Head of East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, ANU) Professor Amin Saikal (Director of the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, ANU) Dr Anthony Burke (Associate Professor, Politics Program, UNSW@ADFA) Venue: Dining Hall, Bruce Hall, Daley Road Date: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The politics of hope and liberation - The path towards democratising Malaysia | Nurul Izzah, the fast-rising star of Malaysian politics, young Parliamentarian and vice-president of opposition party PKR, has emerged from her father Anwar Ibrahim's shadow to champion a new democratic Malaysia, challenging 50 years of racialised politics and corruption with a plural, inclusive politics rooted in universal civil and human rights. Barely out of high school in 1998, she fought her father's imprisonment before the world stage, following his sacking and jailing as Malaysia's deputy prime minister by Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Known for her fiery speeches advocating 'ketuanan rakyat' - or the primacy of the people over corrupt government - Nurul Izzah's grassroots activism handsomely defeated a senior cabinet minister and won her the key parliamentary seat of Lembah Pantai in 2008. Nurul Izzah will talk about her vision for a better modern Malaysia, and the uncertain future it faces in the wake of the 'reformasi' movement, burgeoning corruption scandals, a faltering economy, and draconian security laws she hopes to abolish in Parliament. Speaker/Host: Nurul Izzah Anwar Venue: Manning Clark Centre Theatre 3, ANU Date: Monday, 21 March 2011 Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nurul Izzah Anwar in conversation with Nicholas Farrelly | In this video from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Nurul Izzah Anwar discusses her political life and the challenges that lay ahead for Malaysian politics with Nicholas Farrelly, editor of New Mandala. Nurul Izzah Anwar is the Vice-President of the opposition PKR and the member for Parliament for Lembah Pantai. The video was recorded at the Hedley Bull Centre, The Australian National University in March 2011. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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France in the Pacific | France in the Pacific Fonds Pacifique Lecture by Denise Fisher, former senior diplomat (DFAT) Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (#130), ANU Date: Wednesday 16 March 2011 Time: 5:00pm | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the Only Tool That You Have is a Hammer... The Militarisation of American Foreign Policy | With the creation of the Northern Command in 2002 and the Africa Command in 2007 the US military became the first truly global military presence in history. US Combatant Commanders are often called (and sometimes call themselves) 'proconsuls' in a worldwide network of US military bases. This situation poses many problems for a republic that is historically suspicious of military power. My presentation will address three of these problems. First, I will discuss the so-called 'two cultures' issue. Is there a growing 'gap' between the US armed services and American society, and if so, what can be done about it? Second, I will consider some of the problems caused by the military’s dominance of the interagency policy making process in Washington. What kinds of reforms are needed to adapt the US national security bureaucracy to twenty first century threats and challenges? Finally, I will comment on some of the problems caused by an over-reliance on military instruments for the management of US foreign policy. Is it possible to ‘rebalance’ the relationship between the military and civilian agencies that are involved in foreign affairs? I will conclude with some comments on the claims that America has become, or is in danger of becoming, a militaristic society. Speaker/Host: Professor Douglas Stuart Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre, Building #130 Date: Wednesday, 16 March 2011 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pope, the Emperor and Australia's Strategic Destiny | This public conversation marks the launch of a new book War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders by Dr Andrew Phillips. The book provides a timely analysis of the nature of international orders and the forces that transform them, drawing on the histories of the collapse of Latin Christendom and the old Imperial Chinese-led order in Asia. In this conversation Dr Phillips will sketch his arguments and their implications for contemporary concerns, and Professor Hugh White will reflect on how they illuminate the vital questions about Asia’s future order which are raised by China’s rise. Speaker/Host: Dr Andrew Phillips & Prof Hugh White Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre, Building #130 Date: Friday, 11 March 2011 Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raja Petra Kamarudin in conversation with Nicholas Farrelly | Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) in conversation with Nicholas Farrelly at the Hedley Bull Centre, ANU. Friday 4th March 2011. | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Indonesia’s Development Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities | State Minister of National Development Planning and Chairperson of National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia She is a professor and was the Chairperson on the Department of Economics and Development Studies at the Faculty of Economics, Padjadjaran University, Bandung. Prof Armida obtained her B.A. in Economics from University of Indonesia, an M.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Economics from University of Washington. She has been involved in numerous research projects funded by, among others, UNDP, the World Bank and AusAID, both at home and overseas. She is the president of Indonesian Regional Science Association. Speaker/Host: Professor Armida Alisjahbana Venue: Weston Theatre, Crawford Building Date: Thursday, 3 March 2011 Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beating Malaysian Authoritarianism with People Power: A Blog Activist’s Tale | Raja Petra Kamaruddin is founder and editor of online news blog Malaysia Today. "Malaysia’s Julian Assange", RPK (as he’s usually known online) has been accused by the Malaysian government of being a security threat. He is also Malaysia’s most famous online political activist, and a forceful advocate of transparent, accountable government. His website Malaysia Today hosts many allegedly official documents detailing government corruption and scandal. Most infamously, he has attacked the Prime Minister Najib Razak online, alleging the PM’s involvement in the sensational murder of a young Mongolian woman, Altantuyaa Shaariibuu, and sworn a statutory declaration to the effect that the PM's wife, Rosmah Mansor, was present when Altantuyaa’s body was blown up by the PM’s security staff. He will speak as chairman of the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM), which is now working towards full representation in Malaysia's 13th general election. MCLM wants to revive and re-engage Malaysians disillusioned with an UMNO-dominated federal government and return them to a government that holds fast to the spirit and intent of the Constitution. With the next general elections looming this year, there’s a palpable sense of urgency. MCLM is driven by human rights lawyers and other professionals, political veterans, civil society activists and ordinary citizens with social justice in their sights, targeting a corruption-free, transparent government, free and fair elections and the end to racial politics. But is the MCLM merely a newer manifestation of the ‘People Power’ that marked 2007’s massive street demonstrations and rallies organised by BERSIH (the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections) and HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force)? How does it differ from all other grassroots popular movements that came before it? The media has painted the MCLM as a ‘third force’ that has created a schism in an Opposition coalition that in 2008 broke the government's 51-year stranglehold on federal Parliament that allowed it to re-write the Constitution at will. Will the movement be a force to be reckoned with by both the ruling party and the Opposition? And will it change Malaysian politics for the better? Speaker/Host: Raja Petra Kamaruddin, hosted by the Department of Political and Social Change Venue: Manning Clark Centre Theatre 3 Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2011 Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Challenges of Implementing the Bougainville Peace Agreement | Challenges of Implementing the Bougainville Peace Agreement The Honourable John Momis, President, Autonomous Region of Bougainville 03:00pm - 05:00pm 01 March Coombs Ext Rm104 Abstract Elected President of Bougainville in June 2010, John Momis faces many challenges in implementing the Bougainville Peace Agreement (2001), the political settlement to the destructive and divisive Bougainville conflict of 1988 to 1997. The Agreement provides for de-militarisation of Bougainville, special autonomy for Bougainville, and a referendum on Bougainville independence no earlier than 2015 and no later than 2020. Challenges include: continuing divisions in Bougainville and presence of many hundreds of weapons; slow progress in developing autonomy; limited capacity in the Bougainville Administration; rapid turnover of ministers and senior public servants at the National level; limited economic development, and low ABG revenues; major choices on the future of mining; and rapid approach of the period within which the referendum must be held. John Momis, from Buin, in South Bougainville, has been a key figure in PNG and Bougainville politics for over 40 years. Trained (in PNG and Australia) as a Catholic priest, he was a member of the National Parliament 1972-2005. Regarded as 'father' of the PNG Constitution because of his role as de facto chair of the PNG Constitutional Planning Committee from 1972 to 1974, he has held many other National Government offices, including deputy prime minister, leader of the opposition, several ministries, and Ambassador to China (2007 to 2009). A significant figure in most aspects of Bougainville politics since the 1960s, in recent years he was Governor of the Interim Bougainville Provincial Government 1999-2005, and (with Joseph Kabui) co-leader of the joint Bougainville team in the negotiations for the Bougainville Peace Agreement (1999-2001). | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Liaison Role of the Pacific Islands Forum Representative Office with the RAMSI and the Government of the Solomon Islands | 11:00am - 12:30pm 24 February Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Building, ANU In order to improve effective information flows and liaison between key stakeholders in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), the 2007 RAMSI Review Task recommended the establishment of a new consultative mechanism. This was the 'triumvirate group' comprising the SIG Permanent Secretary to RAMSI, the Pacific Islands Forum Representative to SIG, and the RAMSI Special Coordinator. The Pacific Islands Representative Office (RO) seeks to facilitate regional consultation with SIG, as well as oversight processes. This has been a challenging task at times, particularly during the Sogavare administration. The change of SI government in late 2007 provided the opportunity for developing more effective forms of consultation. SIG's adoption of the PIF RAMSI Review Report and the formulation of the SIG-RAMSI Partnership Framework gave new impetus to the liaison process. SIG's move to establish a Truth and Reconciliation process added to an already busy agenda. Cultural and local issues remain and continue to generate their own momentum, but the three-way working structure of SIG, PIF and RAMSI, their consultation and delivery frameworks provide avenues for meaningful relations, solutions and learning. The role of the PIF RO in Solomon Islands, as with RAMSI, brought SI leaders closer to the operational front and with it their credibility. Dr Lesi Korovavala works with the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship in the Pacific. He was previously employed as the UNHCR Protection Liaison Officer for the Pacific Region, Pacific Islands Forum Representative to Solomon Islands; Chief Executive Officer of Fiji's Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Management and Immigration, and, before that, was a senior officer in the Fijian military. He has a PhD in politics and an MA in Defence and Security Analysis from Lancaster University, England. His research interests include civil-military relations, State building in developing states and conflict resolution. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Global Diplomacy under Threat? | Vidar Helgesen is Secretary-General of International IDEA. From 2001 to 2005, he was Norway's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. His portfolio included human rights and democracy, refugee issues, peace and reconciliation processes, and UN policy. Before that, he practiced as an Attorney-at-Law. He also served as Special Adviser to the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Mr Helgesen was appointed to the Central Executive Committee of the Young Conservatives in Norway and ran the Conservative Party's national campaign for the EU referendum in 1994. His publications include ‘Kosovo og folkeretten’ (‘Kosovo and International Law’), Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and ‘Til krig for menneskerettighetene’ ("Waging War for Human Rights"), Institute of Public and International Law, University of Oslo. Speaker/Host: Mr Vidar Helgesen Venue: APCD Lecture Theatre, Room 1.29, Ground Floor, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130 Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2011 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A More Secure World | According to some media pundits the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. Recent conflict research data and analysis appear to lend support to the media’s pessimism. * Armed conflict numbers increased by 25 percent from 2003 to 2008 after declining for more than ten years. * Intercommunal and other conflicts in which a government is not a warring party, increased by more than 100 percent from 2007 to 2008. * Over a quarter of the conflicts that started between 2004 and 2008 have been associated with Islamist political violence. * Four of the world’s five deadliest conflicts in 2008–in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia–involved Islamist insurgents. * According to Niall Ferguson and others, the impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries will generate increased political instability and violent conflict. But Andrew Mack, argues that while some of these developments do indeed provide a cause for concern, the pessimist view fails to take into account some remarkably positive changes in the global security environment. * International conflicts (which include wars of colonial liberation) have declined dramatically over the past 60 years - from an average of 6 per year in the 1950s, to less than one in the new millennium. * In the 1950s the average war killed some 10,000 people a year; today the figure is less than 1,000. * While the number of minor conflict numbers has increased since 2003, high-intensity conflicts (those that kill 1,000 or more people each year) have declined by almost 80 percent since then end of the Cold War. Professor Mack’s presentation will examine the nature of these changes, their causes and their implications for international security policies. The most recent Human Security Report on which this talk is based will be published in April by Oxford and can be accessed at www.hsrgroup.info. * Professor Mack was head of the International Relations Department at ANU from 1991 to 1997 and Director of Strategic Planning in Kofi Annan’s Executive Office from 1997 to 2001. He is currently Director of the Human Security Report Project at Simon Fraser University’s new School for International Studies. | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NATO in a Globalised World | NATO was formed in April 1949 in response to the rapidly emerging Soviet threat to the nations of Western Europe and North America. Its founding treaty declared that an attack against one of its member states would be considered an attack against them all. Sixty two years later, the threats facing NATO’s members have changed considerably. Direct attack by an outside state seems unlikely and instead the alliance currently confronts a diverse array of challenges, ranging from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to piracy, cyber attacks, and the disruption of energy supplies. It maintains a training mission in Iraq, a peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and leads the complex international effort in Afghanistan. Some argue that the end of the Cold War left NATO without a role and it has spent the past decade trying, unsuccessfully, to find a new one. Others advocate that NATO is critical to the maintenance of global peace and security in the 21st century. In his only public lecture in Australia, NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero will address the current and future role of NATO in a globalised world. Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero is a career diplomat who has represented Italy in Beijing and Washington, at the United Nations in New York, and at NATO in Brussels. In 2007 he was appointed as the NATO Deputy Secretary General. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Re-Imagining Northeast Asia: Japan and the New Area Studies | The Northeast Asian region today stands at a crucial turning point. The rise of China and tensions on the Korean Peninsula pose major challenges to Japan’s relationship with its region. The contemporary reshaping of Northeast Asia will have profound implications for the future development of Japanese Studies, and for approaches to Japan as a field of research. This paper draws on ideas from New Area Studies to explore some frameworks for the study of Japan in the context of a changing Northeast Asia. Tessa Morris-Suzuki was born in England and lived and worked in Japan before emigrating to Australia in 1981. She is professor of Japanese history in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where her research focuses on Japan’s frontiers and minority communities and on questions of historical memory in East Asia. She also edits Asiarights, an online journal published at the ANU. She is the author of Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War. Her two most recent books are To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, and Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Post-war Era (both 2010). | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Provincial Governance in Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea's provinces are tasked with providing a huge range of services, which most are now unable to perform. Not only do they lack sufficient staff and funding, but they suffer from a political structure which is quite dysfunctional. PNG is a nominally decentralised state but core political powers and funds remain with the National Government, leaving most provinces relatively powerless unless they have significant minerals or petroleum revenues. PNG's provincial government 'reforms' in 1995 removed directly elected provincial assemblies, and although the changes were notionally intended to further increase local power they created a system in which political decision-making is controlled by the Members of the National Parliament. However rivalry between MPs can stymie government action, even when funding is available. Similarly, in-fighting within provincial administrations can paralyse the bureaucracy, and contributes to the drastic decline in services. Political frustration has led to some recent moves towards provincial autonomy and even calls for secession. Bill Standish will introduce the broad topic with some examples, and Patrick Matbob will present a case study of Madang Province. Patrick Matbob is a Lecturer in the Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea. He had 25 years experience as a journalist with PNG newspapers before joining the DWU and is a correspondent for the regional magazine Islands Business, published in Fiji. His current research interests include Asian investments in PNG, governance issues in PNG, and contemporary media issues. Bill Standish is a Senior Research Fellow in Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific. His current research covers the broad topic of 'Governance' in PNG. | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Demonstrations: Making Japan’s Invisible Civil Society Visible | Research into Japan’s invisible civil society shows that, through large demonstrations, the thousands of small groups that advocate a multitude of causes in contemporary Japan can suddenly become visible to the general public and the mass media. But how can tiny groups, with virtually no formal organisation, mobilise thousands of people for mass events that are not spontaneous collective behaviour, but well-planned acts of political advocacy? Professor Steinhoff explores the post-war history of such demonstrations, the networks that link invisible civil society groups, and the social processes and institutions that make such demonstrations possible, despite the absence of large, hierarchical institutions. She uses visual images to illustrate the wide range of participants, issues, and styles that co-exist in contemporary street demonstrations, and examines interactions with the security forces and the public. She also considers the larger role such demonstrations play, including reinforcement of constitutionally-protected democratic practices. Professor Steinhoff is a Japan specialist, and virtually all of her research concerns either Japanese society or Japanese Studies in the USA. She has done a number of large-scale survey projects, including three studies of Japan specialists in North America. Her major research is on social movements in Japan, and she has researched the Japanese protest cycle of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and radical left groups that emerged in that cycle and went underground and became part of Japan’s invisible civil society. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Japanese society. | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Organised Crime and Conflict: Revenge of the Periphery | In this lecture, Professor Williams will discuss the role of organised crime in three critical conflict areas: Iraq, Afghanistan and Mexico. In a situation where the rule of law is weak, due to political unrest and insurgency, organised crime flourishes, and, indeed, frequently uses the “cover” of a political insurgency to generate a huge amount of money through criminal activities, such as kidnapping, extortion, theft, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and so on. Furthermore, either in collaboration with organised criminal groups or independently of them, terrorist and insurgent groups are likely to resort to criminal activities to generate money for their cause. Either way, an appreciation of the role of organised crime in conflict situations is critical to understanding the nature of the conflict, and provides an opportunity to disrupt both the criminal and insurgent groups. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 8 - Panel Discussion | 3.30–5.00 Panel Discussion/commentary Doug Porter, Terence Wesley-Smith, Nic Maclellan & Bruce Baker The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 7 - Interventionism | 2.00–3.20 Interventionism in historical perspective Peter Lindenmann, The Flight of the Gardian (New Caledonia) Danny McAvoy, Historical Perspectives on Relations between Australians and Solomon Islanders: Implications for Intervention The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 6 - Bougainville and | 11.20–1.00 Bougainville & Solomon Islands Terence Wesley-Smith, Intervention for What? State, Economy and New Beginnings in Autonomous Bougainville Sinclair Dinnen and Anthony Regan, Bougainville & Solomon Islands’ Interventions Compared Karene Melloul, Transitional Phase in Solomon Islands’ Policing The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 5 - Solomon Islands | 09.00–11.00 Solomon Islands Matthew Allen, On the Causes of the Conflict in Solomon Islands Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Re-Presenting Conflicts and the RAMSI Intervention in Solomon Islands Jon Fraenkel, Revisiting the Case for Intervention in Solomon Islands Comments: Ashley Wickham The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 4 - Panel Discussion | 4.00–5.00 Panel Discussion & Commentary Anne Brown, Edith Bowles & Sue Ingram The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 3 - Timor-Leste (con | 1.40–3.40 Timor-Leste (cont.) Henri Myrttinen, ‘Muscling in’: Gender and the Provision of Security in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste Edith Bowles, Conflict, Intervention, and the Legacy of the Resistance in State Formation in Timor-Leste Bu Wilson, Crime Fiction: Regulatory Ritualism and the Failure to Develop the East Timorese Police The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Session 2 - Timor-Leste | 11.20–12.40 Timor-Leste Sue Ingram, Building the Wrong Peace: the role of UNTAET in pre-independence East Timor Hiroko Inoue, Contested Institutions: Formal and Informal Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in East Timor The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict, Interventionism and State-building: Lessons from the Melanesian Pacific and Timor Leste: Welcome, Framing Conflict & | 09.00–09.10 Welcome and Introductory Remarks Sinclair Dinnen & Matthew Allen 09.10–09.40 Framing Conflict & Intervention Doug Porter and Sinclair Dinnen, WDR Melanesian Case Study http://wdr2011.worldbank.org/melanesia 09.40–11.00 Intervention and State-Building Anne Brown, Interrogating Interventionism: Antinomies of Conflict and Intervention in the Western Pacific Morgan Brigg, Interventionism, ‘State’, Contingency: Exploring Emergent Order The genesis of this workshop was a panel on Critically Interrogating Interventionism at the European Society for Oceanists Conference at St Andrews, Scotland, in July this year. This brought together scholars working on the local impacts of international stabilisation and state-building interventions in the Melanesian Pacific and in East Timor. Following St Andrews, it was decided to convene later in the year with a larger group of interested researchers and practitioners. The Canberra workshop is an opportunity to connect with global and regional policy debates around the nature of developing-country conflict and international responses to it. Engaging critically with these debates is particularly timely given the imminent publication of the 2011 World Development Report on ‘Conflict, Development and Security’. The gradual scaling down of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands after more than seven years of deployment is another ground for reviewing what has been learnt from these various engagements. Speakers include researchers and development practitioners with extensive experience in Timor-Leste and the Melanesian Pacific. Through the sharing of learning and insights, the Workshop aims to promote constructive dialogue between policy and research communities with a view to developing policy-relevant research agendas. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The norms of death: Capital punishment in China | The norms of death: Capital punishment in China The 71st Annual George E. Morrison Lecture. The death penalty is employed for a wide variety of crimes in China, and the country today executes more people than the rest of the world combined. Public opinion surveys from the 1990s showed near total support for its use. Some claim such opinions are deeply rooted in ‘Chinese culture’. However, in this lecture the presenter will claim that this represents a misconception of Chinese culture and that capital punishment has more to do with politics. Opinions in China regarding the death penalty have changed dramatically over the last decade as they have in the rest of the world. Dr Borge Bakken is Director of the Criminology Masters Programme at the Department of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively on crime, control, deviance and cultural norms in China. Among his books are The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Crime, Punishment and Policing in China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). He is currently working on a book on punitive norms with the working title The Punitive Society. Speaker/Host: Dr Borge Bakken Venue: Hedley Bull Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre, Corner Liversidge Street and Garran Road Date: Wednesday, 1 December 2010 Time: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burma votes 2010 - Episode 4 | Amnesty International Southeast Asia researcher Benjamin Zawacki and Dr Aung Si - the grandson of former Prime Minister of the Union of Burma U Nu - are the guests in the fourth and final Burma votes 2010 vodcast from The Australian National University. Dr Aung Si, grandson of former Prime Minister U Nu, discusses his experience of campaigning with his parents who were candidates in the 2010 election. Later, Benjamin Zawacki discusses the human rights situation in Burma. Burma votes 2010 is a series of vod and podcasts from The Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific. It is presented by ANU researcher Nicholas Farrelly. For more on Burma and Southeast Asia politics: asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010 K R Narayanan oration: India's prospects in the post-crisis world | -- | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burma votes 2010 - Episode 3 | It is 20 years since Burma held its last national election. Over the past decades a military dictatorship has retained supreme power. In this series of vodcasts and podcasts from the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra we hope to make sense of the election and what it may mean for the future of the country. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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War, Peace, Cooperation: State Making & International Relations of Asia since 1945 | Dr. Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. From 2001 to 2007 he was founding director of East-West Center Washington. Prior to that he was director of the integrated research program in East-West Center Honolulu and has been a senior fellow at the East-West Center since 1989. He was Senior Fellow at ISIS Malaysia from 1985 to 1989 and a career officer in the Malaysian Armed Forces from 1962 to 1982. Muthiah Alagappa has extensive research experience in Comparative and International Politics of Asia. He has led numerous multi-year, multi-national, collaborative research projects and has published widely in highly reputed university presses and international journals. His recent books include The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia; Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space; and Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features, all published by Stanford University Press. He is now working on a book manuscript tentatively titled War, Peace, and Cooperation: State Making and International Relations in Asia since 1945. He contributed to and guest-edited a special issue of International Studies (Vol.46, Issues 1 and 2, 2009) published by Jawaharlal Nehru University and Sage Publications in New Delhi on international studies in India and is presently guest-editing a special issue of International Relations of Asia Pacific on the development of international studies in Asia (to appear in 2011). Dr. Alagappa initiated and led two book series (Asian Security, Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific) published by Stanford University Press and one peer reviewed monograph series published by the East-West Center. He held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Stanford University, Keio University, and the Nanyang Technological University. He was Leverhulme visiting professor at University of Bristol in the fall of 2008 and will be Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand in fall/winter 2010-11. Prior to his academic career Muthiah Alagappa served as a commissioned officer in the Malaysian Armed Forces in field, command, and staff positions. He graduated from Federation Military College (Malaysia) in 1962 and attended the British Army Staff College (Camberly) in 1973-74. He received an MA in Politics from the University of Lancaster and a Ph.D. in International Affairs from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burma votes 2010 - Episode 2 | t is 20 years since Burma held its last national election. Over the past decades a military dictatorship has retained supreme power. In this series of vodcasts and podcasts from the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra we hope to make sense of the election and what it may mean for the future of the country. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Electoral Systems and Constitutional Change: Conflict or Peace-Building? & Trends in Pacific Politics – Bougainville and Solo | Elections in Solomon Islands & Bougainville 2010 Electoral Reform, Political Parties, Forming Government, and Peace-building Thursday 4th November 2010 3.30 Electoral Systems and Constitutional Change: Conflict or Peace-Building? Chair: Sue Ingram Solomon Islands, Ashley Wickham, Ofani Eremae, Derek Sikua. Bougainville, Rose Pihei, James Tanis, Patrick Nisira. 4.30 Closing: Trends in Pacific Politics – Bougainville and Solomon Islands Elections in the Region. Jon Fraenkel & Anthony Regan Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU Campus | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Electoral Administration and the Integrity of Voting Systems and Scrutiny | Elections in Solomon Islands & Bougainville 2010 Electoral Reform, Political Parties, Forming Government, and Peace-building Electoral Administration and the Integrity of Voting Systems and Scrutiny Chair: Michael Maley Sir Allan Kemakeza, ‘Solomon Islands 2010’. Ross Mackay, ‘Bougainville 2005 and 2010’. Ted Wolfers ‘PNG Reform Proposals’. Norm Kelly. Thursday 4th November 2010 Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU Campus | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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