Yemen: Current and Future Challenges
Seminar
Labelled the ‘worst humanitarian crisis in the world’ by the EU and characterised by the UN as ‘entirely man-made’, the ongoing crisis in Yemen continues to drag on unabated. The UN has warned that Yemen, already one of the poorest countries in the Arab world prior to the conflict, is on the brink…
The Inaugural Ken Inglis Memorial Lecture - All the Things We Cannot See: The Dunera story and the challenge of visual history
Lecture
Dunera Lives posited that visual material is the archival text out of which the narrative emerges. Following W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, this approach to historical writing entails traps as well as opportunities. What is there in the Dunera story that is either left out or expressed in ambiguous ways…
Europa Policy Lab: Populism in Democratic Countries: Foundations and Measures
Seminar
Listen to the audio recording of this event on ANU Soundcloud This Europa Policy Lab is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union A series of elections over the last few years have emphasized a political change in many voters across different countries. Surprising election results…
Europa Policy Lab: Fuel and Food: Global Commodities Price Transmission Perspective
Seminar
This Europa Policy Lab is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union European Union and United States policies have created a new price transmission channel connecting fuel and food commodity markets. Professor Janda will present the results of econometric time series analysis of…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary
Arts & entertainment
On 10 December 1948, the UN General Assembly, presided by Australia’s HV ‘Doc’ Evatt, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Born out of ‘barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind’, the UDHR promised to usher in a new era founded on the ‘equal and inalienable…
Understanding Geographical Indications: Sifting the Latest Evidence
Seminar
Geographical Indications (GIs) are a ‘make or break’ issue for the European Union (EU) in its trade negotiations. As Australia has recently commenced trade negotiations with the EU, understanding EU perspectives on GIs is essential. The ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) has recently…
Some Patterns of Shia Muslim Tithe (Khums) in Iran and Australia
Seminar
Money has a privileged place in analyses of modernity. In both the Weberian and Marxist traditions of social theory, money’s increasingly abstract and free-floating character, and calculative behaviours associated with its use, are symbolic of modernity’s own hyper-rationalistic structures and…