Past events
Sydney Advisory Day 2018
At the Sydney Advisory day you will have one-on-one access to advisors, as well as representatives from our academic Colleges. We will be there to answer your questions, no matter how general or...
Canberra Advisory Day 2018
At the Canberra Advisory day you will have one-on-one access to advisors, as well as representatives from our academic Colleges. We will be there to answer your questions, no matter how general or...
Digesting the New Caledonia Referendum Result: Process, Outcome and Implications
With 56.4 per cent of New Caledonians voting to remain a part of France and 43.6 per cent voting for full independence, the long-awaited referendum was much closer than many expected.
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Book Launch: Transforming Hawai’i: Balancing Coercion and Consent in Eighteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Statecraft by Paul D’Arcy
This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. Three interrelated themes in...
From Silent to Salient: Re-engaging Local Stories of Chuukese Women
Chuukese history is an area that continues to be underdeveloped, and the limited written history is largely focused on the colonial presence in the islands. This colonial history, however, is...
When Things Get Personal: Politics and Democracy in Small States
In this seminar, Wouter Veenendaal will present the main findings of his newly published book Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds (OUP; co-authored with Prof. Jack Corbett)....
Papua New Guinea and the Belt and Road Initiative: the road to ruins or riches
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the second Pacific nation to join China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure program. Given the concerns sparked by the two countries’ deepening...
Looking at the Sky, Listening to the Sea: Customary Environmental Knowledge, Climate Change in the Pacific and Connections of Atmosphere, Oceans, Species and People
The Pacific Ocean is the largest single geographic feature on our planet. It represents half of the world’s oceanic area, occupies one-third of the earth’s surface and helps support hundreds of...
Hollywood in the Pacific: Sustainable film and television industry in the Pacific
In 2016, the Pacific Community (formerly Secretariat of the Pacific Community or SPC), with funding from the Commonwealth Foundation released a scoping report entitled ‘Cinema Pasifika: Developing...
What we know and where to go: lessons from partnering for peace in the Pacific Islands and a way forward
Volume V of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations explores the Australian government’s efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from...
