Events
The Australian National University’s Asia Pacific Week is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at high-achieving students from around the world who have an interest in Asia and the Pacific. Now in its seventh year, the 2017 conference explores the theme of ‘A Changing Landscape’. The conference will draw in diverse and innovative perspectives to examine […]
Call for Papers – Encounters Within and Across South Asia
Workshop to be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney 13-14 July 2017 Paper proposals are invited for a two day workshop on the theme of ‘Encounters in South Asia’. Encounters can be generative, sites for the production anew of relations, subjectivities, histories, communities, possibilities, and political-economic structures. They can also be destructive, […]
Australia India Institute Annual Commonwealth Government Presentation Monday 20 February 2017
The Department of Education and Training’s International Group invites you to attend a presentation on “Australia’s role in engaging with India’s vast youth demographic” to be delivered by Professor Craig Jeffrey, Director, Australia India Institute and Ms Brigid Freeman, Researcher, Australia India Institute. Indian tertiary education is undergoing a period of rapid development and reform. […]
Trevor Swan and Indian planning: the lessons of 1958/59 Seminar
TRADE & DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR Date: Tuesday 31 January, 2017 Time: 2-3:30pm Venue: Coombs Seminar Room A Speaker: Professor Raghbendra Jha, ANU Abstract: Trevor Swan is commonly considered to be Australia’s most distinguished economist. As part of a visiting professorship at MIT during 1958-59 he spent nine months in India to assist in the formulation of India’s […]
Indians in War and Revolution in the Asia-Pacific Region Workshop
Event type: Workshop Date: February 20, 2017 Location: Australia Subject Fields: Asian History / Studies, Law and Legal History, Military History, South Asian History / Studies, Southeast Asian History / Studies When Japanese forces invaded Southeast Asia in 1941, hundreds of thousands of Indian people were present in the region. Some were soldiers of […]
ANU South Asia Research Institute Hosts 2016 India Update
On 10-11 November, 2016 the ANU South Asia Research Institute (SARI) hosted the 2016 India Update in the Hedley Bull Centre. The program, entitled Ideas from India brought together experts from across the world to discuss real-world issues facing India. The event began with a public lecture by Nivedita Menon of Jawaharlal Nehru University on […]
SARI Lecture: Sanskrit and the city: reading Kāvya for a behavioural history of early India
Shonaleeka Kaul Basham Room, Baldessin Precinct Building (110), Ellery Crescent, ANU Monday, 21 November, 2016 – 13:00 to 14:30 Shonaleeka Kaul is the author of Imagining the Urban (Seagull Books, 2010) where she turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years […]
Bharat Mata ki beti (daughters of Mother India) is a contradiction in terms, for the Motherland produces only sons – Hindu savarna (uper caste) sons to protect their mother’s ever fragile honour. Who are the daugters, especially the unruly daughters? in this lecture Professor Nivedita Mennon will explore potential and actual resistances to the Hindu […]
SARI Public Lecture: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta: Natural Resources and Crony Capitalism in India
SARI is proud to present the distinguished Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s lecture on Natural Resources and Crony Capitalism in India. This lecture will be held on Wednesday 24 August 5.30 – 7pm at the Coombs Extension: Room 1.04, Building #8, ANU and is open to the general public. There […]
SARI presents: Chakrabarty: Climate change and the humanities
While the phenomenon of planetary climate change is defined primarily by natural scientists and is often addressed, in practical terms, by the policy sciences, this lecture asks: What can the more humanist disciplines – or the humanities, as a branch of thought – contribute to our understanding of the phenomenon and how are they, in […]
