Public Lecture

Dementia Month Seminar: Technologies and programs that could help make life as a carer easier
21 Sep

Dementia Month Seminar: Technologies and programs that could help make life as a carer easier

This seminar will focus on technologies that could help make life as a carer easier for a person living with dementia. There will be an opportunity afterward to view and discuss new technologies and programs being developed to help carers of people with dementia.

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Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research Public Lecture and Research Showcase
18 Sep

Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research Public Lecture and Research Showcase

We are pleased to invite you to our Public Lecture and Research Showcase 2018. This year we will feature an address from Julianne Schultz AM, FAHA to mark her appointment as Professor of Media and Culture to the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Julianne will deliver the following address: What do we want to be when we grow up? The role of the humanities in a more mature national conversation
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Myanmar's armed forces and the Rohingya crisis
13 Sep

Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Myanmar's armed forces and the Rohingya crisis

Despite the high hopes that followed the 2015 elections, Myanmar has stepped back into its dark past. This poses real challenges for the international community.
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Drawing on his recent report for the United States Institute of Peace, Dr Andrew Selth argues that unless attitudes inside Myanmar shift significantly, a fair and durable solution to the Rohingya question, let alone a full, public and legal accounting for past events, will remain a distant prospect.
Perspectives:Asia Lecture: Referenda on independence in New Caledonia and the autonomous region of Bougainville
06 Sep

Perspectives:Asia Lecture: Referenda on independence in New Caledonia and the autonomous region of Bougainville

Violent conflicts in New Caledonia (1980s) and Bougainville (1990s) were ended by political settlements between France and New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea and Bougainville and could result in creation of two new small and potentially wealthy (mineral rich) Pacific states before the end of the current decade.

Our panellists will share their insights on the upcoming referendums the role Australia can play as a near neighbor, within this historic process.
Circular Economy - whose responsibility?
06 Sep

Circular Economy - whose responsibility?

Celebrating Griffith Sustainability Week, we have the pleasure of Rebecca Gilling, Deputy CEO of Planet Ark as the guest presenter for our next community forum.
Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Hierarchies of misery in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines
06 Sep

Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar: Hierarchies of misery in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines

Whose suffering counts in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines? In this presentation, Nicole Curato enquires into the unequal distribution of compassion among "communities of misery' in a nation that has been beset with a series of tragedies. I compare two case studies: disaster survivors from Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and the families left behind by police and vigilante killings of Duterte's controversial war on drugs.