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…
Integrating Art Production and Economic Development in Remote Australia: A National Survey of Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists.
Seminar
Arts and cultural production has significant potential to contribute to the economic sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote areas of Australia. However, little is known as to how the cultural assets in Indigenous communities can be mobilised as a source of…
Harry Rigby Seminar Series - China’s Rise and Regional Security: A View from Moscow
Lecture
Listen to the audio recording of this event on ANU Soundcloud This Harry Rigby Seminar is jointly hosted by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU Centre for European Studies. Presented by Professor Alexei D. Voskressenski, this seminar will briefly explain the evolution of Russian…
Konrad Adenauer Lecture - Uncertain Times. Germany, Europe and the World Order
Lecture
About the lecture The current epoch, which as yet has no name, began well with the peaceful re-emergence of a united German state in the centre of Europe. What went wrong? This lecture will reflect on the distinctive features of the era that began in 1989/90, the reemergence of authentic global…
Re-Framing Indigenous Biography
Conference
The National Centre of Biography, in collaboration with our ARC Project 'An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography', is hosting a conference on Indigenous biography. The aim of our conference is to explore and re-think Indigenous biography, considering what aspects make it distinct, what…
A new look at the distribution and determinants of income in Australia: Evidence from linked tax, social security and Census data
Seminar
Recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has been leading the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP). This project involves linking of data from the Census to administrative data from three sources - an individual tax payer database, an income support database, and a government-funded…