Book Launch: Joseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime minister
Book launch
Book launchJoseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime ministerWednesday, 12 February 2025, 11:00 am (AEDT)Location: Level 1, Members' Hall adjacent to the 'I am Woman' exhibitionRSVP: by Monday 10 February to parliamentary.librarian@aph.gov.auPlease join us as Senator the Hon Sue Lines,…
International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2025 Biennial Conference
Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and More-Than-Human Worlds Interactions, Perspectives, Futures Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus, Sydney, Australia 5-7 February 2025 Australian Studies has long been concerned with histories and stories about human…
Winter Institute - 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century'
Workshop
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: WINTER INSTITUTE 'Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century' 7—10 JANUARY 2025 The University of Tokyo, Japan About: The Winter Institute is an annual collaboration between ANU, the University of Tokyo, New York University and the University of Bonn. The…
First Eight Lecture: A Maker and a Breaker — the many faces of Billy Hughes
Lecture
About the LectureWilliam Morris ‘Billy’ Hughes, the ‘Little Digger’, is impossible to sum up satisfactorily. The country’s most controversial prime minister, he was full of contradictions, prone to tall-tale telling, and his stance on the issue of conscription in 1916-17 divided the Australian…
'Australia and the World' 2024 Annual Lecture: Dr Nick Bryant
Lecture
On Wednesday 20 November 2024, Dr Nick Bryant, Former BBC Correspondent, delivered the 2024 ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture: "The Consequential Country" at the National Press Club of Australia.The popular event was moderated by AuSI Director, Professor Mark Kenny and…
The Fifth Annual Australia & the World Symposium: Still Lucky? 60 years since Donald Horne’s scathing critique
Symposium
When at the age of 43, Donald Horne wrote his most famous work, The Lucky Country, the Australian federation was barely two decades older. Horne simultaneously bemoaned and acknowledged the passive, yet surprisingly fortuitous decisions that had shaped the new antipodean state. As luck would…
AuSI’s Mark Kenny in conversation with Rory Stewart
Other
Rory Stewart: Politics on the Edge On the eve of the US election, join Rory Stewart and Mark Kenny, Canberra Times' political analyst and a Professor at the ANU Australian Studies Institute for a no-holds barred discussion on crisis, politics, and the world order Rory will be taking to the stage…