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A professional conversation with Dr Mike Smith

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In this video, filmed in October 2012, Professor Alistair Paterson and Dr Mike Smith engage in a professional conversation.

Mike Smith is a veteran desert archaeologist, with years of fieldwork under his belt. He has an intellectual passion for the detective work of archaeological research, and has spent much of his career peeling back the skin of the Australian desert to painstakingly reconstruct its human and environmental history.

He trained at ANU and UNE, before taking up the post of field archaeologist with the Northern Territory Museum from 1980-88. At the end of the 1980s, Mike joined the (then) Department of Prehistory RSPacS ANU, as a Research Fellow. There Mike developed his desert research into a fine-grained study of the archaeology of Puritjarra rock shelter, then the only Australian desert site with a long cultural and environmental sequence extending back to 30,000 years, well into the last ice-age.

After a stint as a university lecturer, Mike joined the National Museum of Australia in 1996, initially as head of the People and Environment section and later as Director of Research and Development. In 2007, he set up the Centre for Historical Research at the Museum, where he is now a Senior Research Fellow.

Mike is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. In 2006 the Australian Archaeological Association awarded him the Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Archaeology and in 2010 the Royal Society (South Australia) awarded Mike the Verco Medal for research in science.

Professor Alistair Paterson is based at the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at The University of Western Australia.

Deane Terrell AO interviewed by Taylor Hughson

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Taylor Hughson speaks with Emeritus Professor Deane Terrell as part of the School of History's ANU Summer Scholar Series.

Deane Terrell AO is Emeritus Professor of Econometrics and was Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University in 1994-2000. His main research contribution has been in the field of time-series. As Vice-Chancellor, he worked to integrate research and teaching schools, fostered links betwen Australian and international universities, and helped to bridge the gap between the higher education and business sectors.

John Mulvaney interviewed by Kathleen Jackson

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Kathleen Jackson speaks with Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney AO, CMG as part of the School of History's ANU Summer Scholar Series.

John Mulvaney AO CMG is an acclaimed archaeologist and historian of prehistory. Emeritus Professor Mulvaney pioneered the field of Australian archaeology. His extensive fieldwork has contributed significantly to understanding of Australia's early human occupation.

Australia and Europe in conversation: 50 years of EU-Australia relations, episode eleven

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50 years ago, in March 1962, Sir Edwin McCarthy took up his position as the first Australian Ambassador to the EU. Since then EU-Australia relations have had their ups and downs but today the relationship is broader, deeper and stronger than ever - but many challenges lie ahead.




Every month this year, two or three Ambassadors and/or High Commissioners from EU Member States, together with Australian Ambassadors to Europe and other experts, will gather at the ANUCES to talk about their country and why it joined the EU, their
current position and how their country interacts with Australia. Most of the events will be recorded and broadcast by Radio National's "Big Ideas" program, and filmed by the Sky A-Pac Channel.

Episode eleven, the final conversation for the year, features H.E. Mr Paul Madden, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to Australia, H.E. Mr Gian Ludovico de Martino di Montegiordano, Ambassador for Italy to Australia, H.E. Mr David Daly, Ambassador of the European Union to Australia and to New Zealand, and the Hon Richard Marles MP,
Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who together discuss the fifty years of relations between Australia and the EU. Joining them is Mr Paul Barclay from ABC's Radio National, who moderates the discussion.

ANUCES is an initiative involving four ANU Colleges (Arts and Social Sciences, Law, Business and Economics, and Asia and the Pacific) co-funded by the ANU and the European Union.

In Conversation: Andrew Carr and Professor Rob Ayson

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Dr Andrew Carr interviews Professor Rob Ayson about his new book 'Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power'. Hedley Bull was one of Australia's foremost scholars, making landmark contributions in the fields of arms control, nuclear strategy, world order and International relations theory. Bull's legacy is however a contested one. In this interview, Ayson discusses what drew him to write about Hedley, how to think about the wide range of contributions he made, Hedley's charming, though sometimes abrasive personality and the importance of Hedley's work for understanding the contemporary Asia-Pacific.

Robert Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies and directs the Centre for Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington.

China's choices

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Professor Gungwu Wang presents the Australian Centre on China in the World Annual Lecture for 2012.

Forty years ago, two choices made history. Australia chose China over Taiwan and China chose the United States over the Soviet Union. Both led to happy results for the two countries that decided to make their great leaps. China faces new choices today. In the context of the rapid changes in China since 1972, Professor Gungwu Wang uses a quote from Yu Yongding as his text: "China must choose between higher growth and faster structural adjustment. It cannot have both at the same time." Professor Wang discusses China's cultural growth and political adjustment, and argues that it can have both at the same time.

As a growing power, whatever road China takes will have a great impact. The future that Professor Wang believes its history and the people's capacity can build is one in which China is open to global development and does not retreat into the false modernity of nationalism and ideology that has plagued the world for the past century.

Professor Wang is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. Prior to his appointment at NUS, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (1986--1995). Professor Wang received his BA (Hons) and MA degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his PhD at the University of London (1957). His recent books in English include Community and Nation: China, Southeast Asia and Australia (1992); The Chinese Way; China's Position in International Relations (1995); Diasporic Chinese Ventures edited by Gregor Benton and Liu Hong (2004). He also edited Global History and Migrations (1997); and (with Zheng Yongnian) China and the New International Order (2008).

150th Anniversary of the US Emancipation Proclamation

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On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the US Emancipation Proclamation, Ambassador of the United States to Australia Mr Jeffrey Bleich honours ANU alumna and human rights lawyer Dr Anne Gallagher AO for her work on international human trafficking law.

Renowned performer Kamahl recites President Lincoln's famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, which marked the freedom of slaves.

A leading expert on the subject of human trafficking, Dr Gallagher was named one of 10 'Trafficking in Persons Heroes' who have made a significant contribution in the struggle against modern slavery by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in June.

Dr Gallagher influenced international human trafficking law and policy when she served as Advisor on Trafficking to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1998 to 2003. From 2003 to 2011, she led an AusAID project to help develop more effective criminal justice responses to human trafficking. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2012.

Nothing to do with Odysseus: Archaeology in the central Ionian islands

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Professor Catherine Morgan OBE from the British School at Athens presents 'Nothing to do with Odysseus: Archaeology in the central Ionian islands'. Filmed at The Australian National University on Friday 31 August 2012.

The central Ionian Islands (Zakynthos, Kephallonia, Ithaca, Lefkas and Meganisi) form a close group at the end of the Corinthian Gulf, running in a chain from the northern Peloponnese to southern Epirus. Despite their physical proximity, their cultural and political histories, and the patterns of connection between them, are very varied. They thus form an ideal test ground for many ideas about insularity and island life, considering also the impact of their physical geography and of the wider political contexts to which they belonged (from independent city-states to federations and empires).

Exploration of these islands -- and Ithaca in particular - has long been focused on Homer, with the quest for the palace of Odysseus dominating archaeological research. But after many years of relative neglect of other periods and questions, the past two decades have seen a renaissance with new survey projects conducted on all of these islands, many rescue excavations, and programmes of scientific analysis. A comparable growth in research in the neighbouring areas of Akarnania, Epirus, and the islands of Paxoi and Corfu gives a rich new context in which to interpret the resulting data.

This lecture uses these new results to explore aspects of the islands' history and distinctive culture from the Early Iron Age to the Late Roman and early modern periods.

This seminar was part of the Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) seminar series, jointly hosted by the Colleges of Arts and Social Sciences and Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.

Catherine Morgan's research focuses on the history and archaeology of Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece, and notably the Corinthian Gulf and the Ionian Islands. She has a particular interest in Greek religion and ritual, and especially the spatial development of early Greek sanctuaries. She has also written on ethnicity, landscape studies, and pottery production, technology and use. Professor Morgan is currently working on a monograph on the settlement history of Ithaca which combines the results of BSA campaigns before World War II with new research conducted in collaboration with the ΛΕ' ΕΠΚΑ.

How to console oneself and others - Professor Han Baltussen

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Professor Han Baltussen presents the 2012 Classics & Ancient History Lecture 'How to console oneself and others: ancient and modern perspectives on managing grief'.

He considers the ways in which humans across history have been dealing with grief. The universal nature of our response to loss can be studied by looking at methods of consolation.Professor Baltussen uses a comparative angle to show that the approach of this 'healing arts' has something to offer the modern age.

Han Baltussen has a PhD in Ancient Philosophy from Utrecht University (the Netherlands). He is the Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities. He was a resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2006) and of the Royal Flemish Academy (2010).

He is the author of several books, including on Theophrastus, second head of the Peripatos (2000), the late antique Platonist and commentator Simplicius (2008), and is co-editor of two volumes on philosophical commentaries (2004). He is also editor of Greek and Roman Consolations. Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (Nov. 2012), and co-translator of Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 1.5-9 (Sept. 2012). His current work is concerned with Aristotle's school and forms of censorship in antiquity.

Framing Lives part 2

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The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at The Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA). Contemporary auto/biography and life narrative studies is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field. Founded in 1999, IABA is the leading international forum for scholars, critics and practitioners.

Framing Lives features distinguished speakers and events at The Australian National University, National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive. The conference draws attention to the extraordinary turn to the visual in contemporary life narrative: to graphics and animations, photographs and portraits, installations and performances, avatars and characters, that come alive on screens, stages, pages, and canvas, through digital and analogue technologies. At the same time, framing suggests the ways that lives are lived, recorded and viewed through multiple frames including those of language, politics, place, gender, history and culture. Conference themes include depiction and display, ethics and rights, living archives, place and displacement, media and celebrity, digital identity and social media, and creative life narrative.

Anatol Lieven - Pakistan: A Hard Country. In conversation with Andrew Carr

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Professor Anatol Lieven, Professor of War Studies at King's College London, discusses his new book Pakistan: A Hard Country with Dr Andrew Carr of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.

The conversation discusses the current status of Pakistan and its likelihood for survival, the risks and challenges posed by Afghanistan and, building on Professor Lieven's book 'America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism', they discuss the upcoming US election and America's role in the Asia-Pacific.

Professor Lieven also spoke as part of the panel for the '2012 US election and Asia: Pivot, concert or conflict' event, which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMhIlprU2EI&feature=plcp

Dr Ben Wellings - RMS Titanic and Europe on the eve of the Great War, at ANU

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Dr Ben Wellings gives public lecture entitled 'RMS Titanic and Europe on the eve of the Great War' at The Australian National University on 12 April 2012.

At 2.25 in the morning on 15 April 1912 the stern of the RMS Titanic slid below the icy waters of the North Atlantic taking over 1500 souls with her. In hindsight it is tempting to see the Titanic as a metaphor for Europe on the eve of the Great War, steaming hubristically towards disaster, a microcosm of the continent and symbolic of its relations with the wider world. Today both episodes are treated as tragedies: events about which we know the outcome but are powerless to help the actors. Thus on the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, and the impending centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, what can an understanding of the liner's collision with the most famous iceberg in history tell us about Europe one hundred years ago -- and Europe and the world today?

Dr Ben Wellings is Deputy-head of the School of Politics and International Relations and Convenor of European Studies at the Australian National University. His current research interests include the links between Euroscepticism and contemporary English nationalism (English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: losing the peace, Peter Lang, 2012) and the diplomatic dimensions to Anzac commemoration. As well as working in academia, Ben has been a curator at the National Museum of Australia, a researcher at the House of Commons and a merchant seaman, helping maintain England's supply lines to cheap French lager during the mid 1990s.

Target earth: the asteroid impact history of Australia - Dr Andrew Glikson, ANU

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ANU Public lecture: Target earth: the asteroid impact history of Australia - Dr Andrew Glikson. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 14 July 2010 and presented as part of the ANU Alumni Research Series.

In this lecture, Dr Andrew Glikson discusses how large asteroid collisions have driven the evolution of Earth's crust and how these impacts link to mass extinction events. The origin of several major episodes of volcanism, faulting, climate changes and extinctions can be traced to asteroids collisions with Earth. Australia has an excellent record of asteroid impacts dating back to the beginnings of Earth's formation. Recent discoveries of large impact structures in Western Australia, including 359 million year old and 120km wide Woodleigh, 75km wide Gnargoo and 50km wide Mount Ashmore have shed light on the origin of past mass extinctions and climate changes.

Dr Glikson is a Visiting Fellow with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Planetary Science Institute and Climate Change Institute. Dr Glikson graduated from the University of Western Australia and since graduation, has held positions as a Principal Research Scientist at Geoscience Australia, conducted extensive geological surveys in outback Australia, specialised in studies of the early Earth, the effects of asteroid and comets on terrestrial evolution and the origin of mass extinction of species. More recently, Dr Glikson has been studying the effects of climate on human evolution.

The ANU Alumni Research Series is a program of public lectures aimed to showcase current and major research achievements from The Australian National University. The series is hosted by the ANU Alumni office and features researchers from across all disciplines of the University.

Global climate change: Perspectives from the past. Bradley Opdyke, April 2010

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People often wonder how todays climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to search back 55 million years to find a time interval where the rate temperature changes were anywhere near the rate of change that is occurring now. This time interval is called the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).

In this lecture, Dr Bradley Opdyke will compare data from the Eocene to data collected from around Australia in the Late Quaternary (the past half million years). He will finish the lecture with some facts and figures concerning the modern climate and some of the misinformation that has been liberally spread in the public arena.

Dr Opdyke graduated from Columbia University with a bachelors degree in Geochemistry in 1984. He then moved to the University of Michigan where he earned a masters degree in Geology in 1987 and a PhD 1990. His areas of study concentrated on marine chemistry (carbonate chemistry) and carbonate rocks. Dr Opdykes research has spanned Paleoceanographic studies from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary. He is also acknowledged to be a global expert on ocean acidification.

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Wilma Robb's story - Forgotten Australians - part 3

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Wilma Robb, a survivor of the notorious Hay Institution for Girls and a tireless campaigner for Forgotten Australians tells her moving and harrowing personal story at ANU on December 9, 2009.

Ms Robb was speaking at 'Forgiven and Forgotten?', a special public lecture at ANU. For more details on the event see: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=53597

Wilma Robb's story - Forgotten Australians - part 1

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Wilma Robb, a survivor of the notorious Hay Institution for Girls and a tireless campaigner for Forgotten Australians tells her moving and harrowing personal story at ANU on December 9, 2009.

Ms Robb was speaking at 'Forgiven and Forgotten?', a special public lecture at ANU. For more details on the event see: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=53597

Professor Ezra Vogel: The Legacy of Deng Xiaoping - ANU Public Lecture

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Professor Ezra Vogel gives this public lecture entitled The Legacy of Deng Xiaoping at The Australian National University on 6 June 2012.

Under Deng's leadership, for the first time in the modern era, China's people became wealthy and the nation became strong. China had never been a global power until it became one under Deng's leadership. In the two decades after Deng set the country on its new path, it became the second largest economy in the world and, for the first time in history, it has become a predominantly urban society. How did Deng achieve this?

Many high officials believed in reform and opening, but it was Deng who provided the political leadership that made this possible. He had become a dedicated communist revolutionary. In 1973-75, under Zhou Enlai's tutorship he learned about foreign policy. After Zhou and Mao died, no other leader had the knowledge, range of contacts, and skill to match Deng's ability to deal with foreign leaders. Beginning in 1978 he developed good relations with all the major countries, enabling China to open wide and send large numbers of students to the outside. He used these contacts to enable China, unlike the Soviet Union, to learn quickly from everywhere and to bring foreign science and technology to China. He was bold in learning from other countries. Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a larger impact on the world

Ezra F Vogel has been a professor at Harvard University since 1967 and is currently Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus. He has served as director of Harvard's Fairbank Center (1972-1976, 1995-1999), of the US-Japan Program (1980-1987) and of Harvard's undergraduate program in East Asia Studies (1972-1989); he was the founding director of the Asia Center (1997-1999). He has authored books on China and Japan, including Japan's New Middle Class, Canton Under Communism, Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform, Is Japan Still Number One?, and Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. He lectures frequently in Asia in Chinese and Japanese. Vogel was National Intelligence Officer for East Asia in Washington, DC in 1993-1995, director of the American Assembly on China in 1997, and co-director of the Asia Foundation Task Force on Asian Policy in 2000.

This video jointly presented by:
The Australian Centre for China in the World, the Research School of Asia & the Pacific and the School of International, Political & Strategic Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.