Chris Watson - 'A Great Pioneer: Australia's third prime minister' Book Launch
Book launch
Join in on Wed 14 June for the launch of Chris Watson – A Great Pioneer by Dr David Headon. RSVPs (to DPSParliamentaryLibraryEvents@aph.gov.au) would be appreciated by 12 June. About the Book Chris Watson (1867-1941) was Australia’s third prime minister. Though his term lasted a bare four months…
June 2023 - Visiting Fellows Dinner
Other
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) invites you to join us for the June Visiting Fellows Dinner. 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 by…
Meet the author - Stan Grant
Book launch
Stan Grant will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new book The Queen is Dead, a searing, viscerally powerful, emotionally unstoppable, pull-no-punches book on the bitter legacy of colonialism for indigenous people. The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to…
Australia-India Encounters: Past, Present, Future
Conference
Organised by The Centre for Australian Studies, Department of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan in collaboration with the ANU Australian Studies Institute. The history of Australia-India encounters dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Even before the 1840s,…
2023 Menzies Lecture: Professor Frank Bongiorno, “Australia: A New Political Geography?”
Lecture
Hosted by the Menzies Australia Institute at King's College London. Some of the most eloquent advocates of Australian Federation in the 1890s imagined that there was nothing more natural than ‘a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation’, as the first prime minister, Edmund…
Listening with Intent: Kim Mahood in conversation with Martin Thomas
Book launch
About the Event Kim Mahood is a writer, artist, mapmaker, former H. C. Coombs Creative Fellow at ANU and outstanding Australian Studies scholar. Her new book of essays, Wandering with Intent, takes the reader to remote places and communities where she is engaged in long-established…
AuSI’s Mark Kenny in conversation with Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie and Chris Wallace
Other
ANU/The Canberra Times Meet the Author Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie and Chris Wallace will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on their edited book, The Morrison Government. Governing through crisis, 2019-2022, in which leading thinkers assess the policies and leadership of the…