The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA), Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art would like to invite you to a special forum to celebrate 10 years of Perspectives:Asia.
Retrospective: The Regional Political and Economic Relationship
Since its inception, ‘Perspectives: Asia’ has hosted a diverse range of speakers on various topics that look at Australia’s relationship with its Asian neighbours. As 2014 marks the tenth year of the series, we would like to acknowledge this important milestone with a special retrospective event that focuses on Australia’s relationship with its region, in particular China, Indonesia and Japan. Join Professor Michael Wesley, Director, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, ANU who will chair this special event and our panellists as they provide their reflections on what have been the key issues that have shaped regional policy and economic relationships these past 10 years and their predictions on what key issues will shape the next 10 years.
Professor Colin Brown is an Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Asia Institute. He has held positions in a number of universities in Australia and Indonesia since 1974, including Parahyangan University in Indonesia and Curtin, Flinders and Griffith Universities in Australia. His primary fields of teaching and research expertise are in the modern history, politics and economics of Indonesia, and Australia-Indonesia relations.
Professor Rikki Kersten is Dean of the School of Arts at Murdoch University in Western Australia and specialises in Japanese political history, security policy and foreign policy. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science and Faculty of Law, and Keio University and spent five years in the Australian Foreign Service, completing a posting in the Political Section of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, before returning to academic life. Rikki has taught modern Japanese history at Sydney and Leiden Universities, has served as Research Manager and subsequently Director of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney and Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies and the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU.
Professor Richard Rigby is Executive Director of the ANU China Institute, Associate Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and a Professorial Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy. Richard joined Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs in 1975, where he worked until the end of 2001: postings included Tokyo, Beijing (twice), Shanghai (Consul-General 1994-1998), London, and Israel (Ambassador, 2000-2001). He then joined the Office of National Assessments as Assistant Director-General, responsible for North and South Asia, where he worked until taking up his current position with the ANU China Institute in April 2008. While engaged in government work, he continued to pursue his academic interests with a series of translations, book reviews and articles on China-related topics.
- Thursday 24 July, 6:00-7:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
- Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank
Places are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment. RSVP to Natasha Vary by Thursday 18 July 2014 on telephone 07 3735 5322 or email events-gai@griffith.edu.au
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