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by Communications and External Liaison Office
These are recordings of ANU public lectures and special events
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Assessing counter-insurgency and state-building efforts in Afghanistan
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry discusses current counter-insurgency and state-building efforts in Afghanistan. He examines the challenges posed over time by discontinuities in strategies, something he experienced first hand during his three tours of duty in Afghanistan beginning in 2002. He also...
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Non-proliferation, disarmament and Australian security
In recent years Australia has taken a leading role in national, regional and international non-proliferation and disarmament, in particular through the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in May 2010 and the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND).…
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ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King Ep3
Three of the pillars of Thai society are in the spotlight in this new vodcast series titled ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King. This is episode three of three.The third and final episode focuses on Phramahakasat - King. The panel - Dr Tyrell Haberkorn, Dr Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Dr...
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ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King Ep1
Three of the pillars of Thai society are in the spotlight in this new vodcast series titled ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King. This is episode one of three.
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Proud past, bright future? - John Faulkner
Senator John Faulkner presents the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the history of the labour movement in Australia. His talk also opens the ‘labour history and its people’ conference hosted by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in association with the National Centre for...
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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...
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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 United States has recently carried out drone strikes against targets inside Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. The use of hunter-killer drones like the Predator and the Reaper is a means of...
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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.
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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, seeking to shake off decades of repression and political dictatorships to embrace rapid transformation. From the less violent transitions which have occurred in Jordan and Bahrain, to the brutal...
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2011 Allan Martin Lecture - Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people over the course of his adult life. Most lived and worked at his famous home, Monticello. This paper examines Jefferson's complicated relationship to slavery - what he wrote about it and how he lived it at the plantation that occupies an iconic place in…
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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.
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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'.
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Professor Sir Michael Marmot in conversation with ANU academics
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...
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Attitudes toward health and ageing: PART 2
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system, including: *How satisfied are Australians with the system? *Do Australians support reforms? *What…
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Attitudes toward health and ageing: PART 1
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system, including: *How satisfied are Australians with the system? *Do Australians support reforms? *What…
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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 Duncan who said ‘If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it'. His...
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The case against health insurance
Insurance has been a dominant concept in health care in the industrialized world since the late 19th century, originating in the Bismarckian welfare state. Today, insurance is a method for organizing and financing health care; more importantly it is a metaphor that heavily influences how we...
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Afghanistan on the brink
Professor Amin Saikal AM fom the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies ANU gives a public lecture on 'Afghanistan on the brink'. Afghanistan is in a state of crisis. The same applies to the current US-led population-centric counter-insurgency strategy in dealing with this crisis. Based on the...
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Abandon the Alliance? How China’s rise will shape Australia’s future
Professor Hugh White's recent Quarterly Essay, Power Shift: Australia's future between Washington and Beijing looks at Australia's strategic choices in the Asian Century. In this lecture professor white explores the implications for Australia's US alliance. He argues that we can all see how…
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Smiths in Stasiland: Archival reminders of an uncomfortable Australian past
Dr Peter Stanley is currently researching Australia's Great War through the experience of people with the family name Smith, and German-Australians called Schmidt. Through diaries, letters, memoirs, family histories and official records, a different history of the Great War emerges that contrasts...
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The future of thinking in an information age
Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture talked about what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these technologies and ‘thinking' in a historical context. Professor Cathy Davidson argues that many…
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Democratic Confidence and Overconfidence
The historical record of democracies in dealing with crises and other threats is good: democracies win wars, avoid famines, recover from economic disasters and adapt to meet new challenges. This should give grounds for confidence in the ability of democracies to meet the challenges of the future,...
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s New Strategic Concept
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is a politico-military alliance of countries from Europe and North America. It provides a unique link between these two continents for consultation and cooperation in the field of defence and security, and the conduct of multilateral crisis management...
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Public Goods: Some inter-temporal considerations
This lecture reviews the literature on the voluntary contributions to public goods by repeatedly-interacting contributors and discusses how the economic theory of choice of sequences of actions sheds light on the outcomes of voluntarism. Professor Long will draw attention to abstract public…
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Burma Elections: If not free or fair, then what?
This forum considers scenarios for and beyond Burma's anticipated 2010 elections. While the elections are part of the military regime's "7-point Road Map", many aspects of how they will play out, their prospects and limitations, remain unclear. What will be their aftermath? How will the domestic,...
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Truth Maker Semantics
In this lecture, Professor Kit Fine will explore the notion of truth-makers. What are truth-makers? He will argue that truth-makers are helpful for understanding how things are true but not for understanding what is in the world.
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Thailand in Crisis- Episode 6
In the final Thailand in Crisis vodcast, ANU PhD students Nattakant Akarapongpisak, Pongphisoot Busbarat and Preedee Hongsaton join host Nicholas Farrelly for a panel discussion about Thailand's political present and future. Farrelly is also joined by regular Andrew Walker who discusses the...
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Climate Change and the Australian Reform Agenda
This lecture is the ninth annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture presented by the Australian National University. The introduction of an emissions trading scheme in Australia constitutes a significant economic reform. Unlike other key reforms with such a broad impact across the economy, there has not...
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Thailand in Crisis Episode 5
Professor Peter Warr discusses how economics has impacted Thailand and on perceptions of the Thai government while Professor Andrew Leigh talks about development economics in the fifth Thailand in Crisis vodcast. Host Nicholas Farrelly is also joined by regular Dr Andrew Walker to talk about...
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Democracy in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Prospects
After two years of peace and almost a decade since independence there is hope that the days of occupation, violence, disease and starvation have passed for the young country of Timor-Leste.Dr José Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste will give a major speech on the...
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Thailand in Crisis- Episode 4
Professor Thongchai Winichakul is the special guest for the fourth Thailand in Crisis vodcast. With host NIcholas Farrelly, he discusses the 1976 protests, his time in detention, his reaction to the recent crackdown on the Red Shirt protests and his hopes for the future of Thailand. Farrelly is...
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Unravelling the mysteries of chromsomes
The DNA in our cells is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. The role of the physical structure of chromosomes in diseases and genetics is being explored thanks to recent advances in technology that allow scientists to look at how the DNA is packaged into chromatin- the structures...
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Thailand in Crisis- Episode 3
Dr Tyrell Haberkorn and Professor Hilary Charlesworth are the guests in the third Thailand in Crisis podcast - discussing issues of human rights and international law in the Thai context. Host Nicholas Farrelly is also joined by regular Dr Andrew Walker to talk about rural poverty in Thailand's...
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The Eighth H.W. Arndt Memorial Lecture: Rehabilitating the Unloved Dollar Standard
The international dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange. But erratic U.S. monetary and financial policies, have upset the U.S. and a world economy thus makes foreigners unhappy. Paradoxically, the asymmetrical nature of the dollar...
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Thailand in Crisis- Episode 2
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. In the second episode of the series, host Nicholas Farrelly discusses military and security matters with...
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Thailand in Crisis- Episode 1
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. In the first episode of the series, host Nicholas Farrelly discusses the current political situation in...
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