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Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Pacific Studies Convener in the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific writes:
The latest drama surrounding Fiji is starting to conjure up images for me of the Bermuda Triangle.
There is a mysterious dead zone of [...]
Hope and perseverance drive the enormous number of young Indians with ambitions to work in government, reports Kate Sullivan (of the Faculty of Asian Studies).
It’s a Saturday aItafternoon in early October and Prakash is taking me to his afternoon preparatory class at Vajiram & Ravi, one of the dozens of institutes in Delhi that train [...]
On Saturday 3 October Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, was interviewed on the ABC Saturday Extra program about the handling of ‘Asia’ in the new national history curriculum:
Historian Anthony Milner has a passion for Australian stories and passing them on to the next generation of kids. But, [...]
The Australian National University has formed a partnership with Indiana University in the United States to create a Pan-Asian Studies Institute.
The ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, who recently travelled to Indiana to signed the memorandum of cooperation, said he hoped the Institute would forge an international reputation for expertise in Asia.
Both universities have strengths [...]
[Burmese living in Thailand] without papers go into hiding if Manchester United loses a game of football,” said Burma expert Dr Jane Ferguson rather cryptically at last week’s Burma Update Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Then she explained how Thai police generally support Manchester United and have a syndicate betting on the team. [...]
On 25 August 2009, Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, gave the keynote speech at the Asia Educational Foundation National Forum, Leading 21st Century Schools, in Canberra.
If we are to promote the cause of Asia literacy in Australian education it matters [...]
Reprinted from the Australian Higher Education Supplement 2 September 2009.
The authors are Professor Kent Anderson, Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University and Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne.
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Languages are back in the news. As part of [...]
Professor Kent Anderson, Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies in the College of Asia & the Pacific at the Australian National University was interviewed on Monday 31 August for Hack, Triple J’s current-events program about last week’s Japanese election.
Japan elected a new government after more than 50 years of single-party rule, removing the country’s [...]
As Japan prepared to go to the polls on the weekend, The Australian National University launched a new Japan Institute to bring together leading academic expertise on the Land of the Rising Sun.
The institute, more than one year in the making, will form a network of leading Japanese scholars, looking at the full range of [...]
Pacific analysts must become more creative in their approach to thinking about Fiji and its future, an academic from The Australian National University argued in Canberra today.
Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Pacific Studies Convenor at ANU, said that solutions for Fiji won’t be found in adversarial thinking, framed around a pro or anti-military viewpoint. She said that [...]
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