Argentina's presidency of the G20: panel discussion
Panel discussion
Outcomes and lessons learned from Argentina’s presidency of the G20 in 2018 The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) is hosting a panel discussion on the outcomes and lessons learned from Argentina’s presidency of the G20 in 2018. The event will be followed by light…
Overcoming data limitations to estimate annual migration flows amongst ASEAN countries, 2000-2015
Seminar
This paper seeks to provide a better understanding of migration data and patterns amongst the ten countries constituting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The paper elucidates annual migration movements and pathways, which have remained largely unknown due to the lack of data to…
Whither Kashmir?
Seminar
India confronts serious challenges in the Muslim majority Kashmir Valley, as two recent events in the southern Pulwama District confirm. On 14 February, a suicide bomber killed 40 Indian security personnel. Apart from the number killed, this incident was significant as the bomber was a local ethnic…
Gwenda Tavan: ‘Curse the Press!’
Workshop
‘Curse the Press!’: Arthur Calwell’s battles with the Australian media and the perils of resentment politics Arthur Augustus Calwell was Australia’s Minister for Information (1943-49) and its first Minister for Immigration (1945-49). These roles required strong governmental and press co-operation…
From mission control to Aboriginal control?: The ‘safety zone’ and bilingual education at Shepherdson College, Galiwin’ku, 1973-1983
Seminar
Abstract A confluence of factors brought bilingual education to some remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory throughout the 1970s—including the work of missionary linguists in assisting to develop literacy in a small number of Aboriginal languages. However, what remains…
Voices from Jakarta: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Seminar
Voices from Jakarta is a documentary film based on The Greater Jakarta Transition to Adulthood Longitudinal Survey. The study examines the life courses of young people, how changes in the lives of young Indonesians affect their progression to becoming independent, secure adults and in what ways…
Lenses of change and the business of process: Towards an ecological praxis of engagement
Seminar
Abstract: Engagement with Indigenous peoples is embedded in an ecological holistic world consisting of webs of social, political, cultural and economic relationships. The connectivity to which ecological thinking often refers does not only exist between humans and the natural world as is often…