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.â
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
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.â
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.
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.
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.
06
Sep