Arts And Social Sciences (ANU Podcasts)
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These are recordings of ANU public lectures and special events that are categorised by arts and social sciences
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Child soldiers and child protection in African conflicts | The global number of child soldiers has grown significantly in the course of the last two decades, despite a series… | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Predators, Reapers and post-heroic war - Professor Christian Enemark | Are air strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) changing the character of war? The… | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meet the Author Series 2011 - An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark | Canberra Times ANU Literary Event, Meet the Author Series 2011 in association with Manning Clark House, Canberra present: Professor Manning Clark (1915-1991), one of ANU’s cultural… | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An hour with Rick Gekoski | Dr Gekoski, one of the most entertaining speakers in the book world, discusses the Man Booker International Prize, the future of the book and his life and times in antiquarian book selling. … | 5/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Arab Spring: Implications for Australia’s National Security | Recent months have seen the people of the Arab world from Yemen to Egypt, and most recently in Libya,… | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011 Allan Martin Lecture - Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello | Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people… | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Betty Churcher - Notebooks - public lecture | Join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velázquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cézanne. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art that is not language: Anthony Forge and Kamasan painting | This lecture discusses the work of Professor Anthony Forge in the field of Balinese Kamasan painting. Anthony Forge argued that art has a visual quality, summed up by a quoted line from dancer Isadore… | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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India and China: Can two tigers share a mountain? | To outsiders, India and China show some striking similarities. Both are ancient civilizations reincarnated as modern republics in the mid twentieth century, and are now rising powers. Both have nuclear… | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Artful Science: Rethinking how the young learn | Anthropologists who study socialisation tend to do so in order to compare modes and values of child-rearing or to examine the role of language in child-rearing. Rarely have anthropologists attended… | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change 2010: Where do we go from here? | Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government… | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Footballers behaving badly: Changing attitudes towards women | Allegations of sexual misconduct by sportsmen seem to appear in the Australian news media on a disturbingly regular basis. Why is it that male athletes of major sports like football and rugby are often… | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post Copenhagen: Where do we go now? | What really went on at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference? Was it a fiasco or a positive step forward? Those are some of the questions that were addressed by a panel of experts at The Australian… | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New approaches to structuring government to close the implementation gap | The 85 per cent of Australia that is remote from the main centres of population is a place of recurrent crises leading to ad hoc special interventions. Broken up by state and territory boundaries it… | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Obama’s ‘New’ Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy: Why it is Unlikely to Work | Shifting resources from Iraq to the so called ‘war of necessity' in Afghanistan by President Obama, while significant, is unlikely to be effective. This is largely because the fundamental assumptions… | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rudd’s Concept of an Asia Pacific Community | In June 2008, the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, spoke of the need to begin a "regional debate about where we want to be in 2020". In particular, he outlined the need for an Asia Pacific… | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obesity as a Complex Problem | Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and… | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Classics Today | This lecture was give at the official launch of the new ANU Bachelor of Classical Studies and the Classics Endowment. | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Indigenous Australians & Mining: Developing a Sustainable Future? | Indigenous Australians residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are among Australia's most disadvantaged partly because of limited formal economic opportunity. In these… | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rethinking the Australian Legend | Fifty years after its publication Russel Ward's book The Australian Legend remains the classic account of our national origins. In tracing Australia's national ethos to the folksongs… | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost Opportunities and Possibilities in Australian Foreign Policy | Bruce Haigh argues that Australian foreign policy has been, and remains, inept in advancing Australia's national interest. Given the limited independence of Australia's Foreign Minister,… | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Antipodean Archaeology & the Wider World: Some personal reflections on the last 40 years | Aspects of Australian archaeology have had widespread repercussions upon archaeology beyond the Antipodes. In this talk Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy explored a series of ways in which Antipodean… | 9/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Problem of Human Remains in the Anzac Battlefield, Gallipoli | During several visits to the Anzac Battlefield at Gallipoli, Turkey, since 2003, Dr Peter Dowling has located human remains exposed in areas of high tourist activity laying on road banks and verges… | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Iran: An Islamic Government in Crisis | The Islamic government of oil-rich Iran is faced with its worst legitimacy crisis since the Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah's pro-Western monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic regime thirty… | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Antisemitism: medieval and modern | This lecture covered the essential features of medieval Christian antisemitism and the very different features of modern racial antisemitism, culminating in Nazi antisemitism. It concluded with… | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russia and the Medvedev Presidency - One Year On - Part 2 | Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote… | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russia and the Medvedev Presidency - One Year On - Part 1 | Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote… | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sentiments and Spectators: Adam Smith’s Moral Psychology | Adam Smith offers a wonderfully lucid argument for thinking that people can legitimately be praised or blamed only on the basis of the agent's "intention or affection of the heart" and not on the actual… | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Consciousness does not Extend Outside the Brain | There are good reasons for thinking that the physical basis of cognition can be reasonably taken to extend outside the brain to the body and the world. But not so for consciousness. This… | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should We Ban the Burka? | A public debate hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times.Muslim women's dress codes have come into the political spotlight in both Muslim-majority… | 7/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Today | HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record… | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One | In the first few years of the post-9/11 era, the established models for fighting ‘small wars' proved distressingly ineffective against resilient insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.… | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Global Migration of Skill | This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the… | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speaking, Listening, Writing, Reading: Communications and Colonisation | A large body of scholarship has suggested that the production and circulation of knowledge was fundamental to British empire building. Rather than exploring colonial knowledge as a body of texts… | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Human Evolution and the Atmosphere: A Return to the Pliocene? | The evolution of Australopithecines and subsequently the Genus Homo from about 4.5 million years ago was intimately related to an overall cooling trend associated with orbital forcing… | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants? The Seventh H. W. Arndt Memorial Lecture | A secular decline in emigration rates from the Third World since the 1990s has gone unnoticed. The recent rise in unemployment in high-wage countries has accelerated the secular decline. These trends… | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dialogue, Justice and Peace - Part 4 | Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat… | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dialogue, Justice and Peace - Part 2 | Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat… | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dialogue, Justice and Peace - Part 1 | Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat… | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dialogue, Justice and Peace - Part 3 | Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat… | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English | Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English was launched at ANU on 9 October 2008. The book is the first of its kind to trace the development of the Australian accent and the Australian… | 10/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Taste History & Culture in Indigenous Alcohol Use | This public lecture challenges some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of 'grog', by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste:… | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2008 | The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU… | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alchemist Magpies Collecting Archivists and Their Critics | Are archivists complicit in helping the victors write history, privileging some voices and silencing others? Are they alchemists transforming ‘turds and sticks' into the gold of societal heritage?… | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 44 Episodes |
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