Unparliamentary with Mark Kenny – 3 September 2024
Webinar/Online
Unparliamentary is the Australia Institute’s fortnightly show that gives you the scoop on what’s happening in federal politics. Unpack the big political and policy issues with Mark Kenny, Director of Australian Studies Institute at The Australian National University (ANU) and former Fairfax…
Call for Papers - The Fifth Annual Australia & the World Symposium: Still Lucky? 60 years since Donald Horne’s scathing critique
Symposium
ABSTRACTS DUE: FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 2024 SYMPOSIUM: WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2024 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…
August 2024 - Visiting Fellows Dinner
Other
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) will be holding its next ANU Visiting Fellows Dinner on 28 August 2024. The dinner is an opportunity to welcome Visiting Fellows across campus and encourage opportunities for further engagement with the ANU academic community. The dinner is also attended…
How to Withstand the Threats to our Shared Humanity: "The Only Way to Fight the Plague is with Decency"
Lecture
Presenting the HRC 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, as part of the HRC 50th Anniversary Celebration How to Withstand the Threats to our Shared Humanity: "The Only Way to Fight the Plague is with Decency" Periodically, current events propel old books to renewed public interest. After…
Politics in the Pub: The United States Election - What it means for Australia
Panel discussion
The United States Presidential election is underway and President Biden's poor debate performance has many pundits calling for him to step down as the nominee. Meanwhile the Supreme Court decreed that Presidents have absolute immunity for exercising their core constitutional powers and…
AuSI’s Mark Kenny in conversation with Allan Behm
Book launch
ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author Allan Behm will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new book The Odd Couple: the Australia-America relationship, a provocative narrative about recalibrating the relationship between Australia and the USA to deliver peace and prosperity rather…
Negotiating The Other Side of Me
Seminar
About the Seminar The practice-led research project, ‘When Words Fail Us, Expressing the Unspeakable: The Other Side of Me’ explores ways to communicate a story of personal trauma that sits at the limits of linguistic expression. It examines the conflicts of an individual trying to come to terms…