Continuing last year’s winning streak, Japan Centre students took first and third place in the open division of the Canberra division of the Japan Foundation’s 40th annual Japanese Language Speech Contest.
Andy Petredis and Maya Siyi Chen (both students in Mark Gibeau’s Written Japanese D class) took first and third places respectively. Andy will go on [...]
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
CHINA INSTITUTE
Generously supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government
THE ART OF PEKING OPERA AND KUN OPERA
京昆艺术
Visit by Jingkun Theatre (Hong Kong)
and members of the
Shandong Peking Opera Troupe
Artistic Director: Tang Yuen-ha 邓宛霞
Principal Artist: Geng Tianyuan (Hong Kong) 耿天元
Director of Shandong Peking Opera Troupe: Jiao Tiyi (Shandong) 焦体怡
Zhang [...]
The ANU Japan Centre & the Embassy of Japan present the 32nd Annual Japanese Evening, with ZaKubuki 2009, Dancing with a Sleeping Blade, at 6.30 p.m. on 23 and 24 September, in the Street Theatre, Childers Street.
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 [...]
On 27 August 2009 the Prime Minister delivered the 2009 Annual Burgmann College Lecture at the Australian National University (ANU). In his speech, the Prime Minister stressed the need for more collaborative partnerships between the ANU and the Australian Government, particularly in promoting excellence in policy analysis and policy advice. His speech also highlighted the [...]
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.
Read the original article …
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 [...]
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