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Immersia 2025

Immersia 2025—Voices from the Festival
Highlights from this year's edition of CHL Immersia
Don Gardner

Vale, Donald Stanley Gardner (1949–2025)
Remembering a great anthropologist and human being
Teachers and secondary students at Wintua inspect the historic photographs. Photographer, Paul Mitchell
Teachers and secondary students at Wintua inspect the historic photographs. Photographer, Paul Mitchell

Bringing historic photographs home to Southwest Bay, Vanuatu
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau collaboration with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre to return rare historic photographs to remote communities in South West Bay, Vanuatu enriches local historical narrative.
ANU Climate Alumni Leadership Program 2025

ANU Climate Alumni Leadership Program 2025
Join the ANU Climate Alumni Leadership Program 2025 and attend COP30
Umar

The passing of our friend and colleague Umar Assegaf
5 September 1959–1 August 2025
Alumna Kate Walton
Alumna Kate Walton

Building bridges in the Asia Pacific: Kate Walton’s journey from CAP to global impact
Kate Walton

Upcoming Events
Kien Situ
Mon, 28 Jul - Fri, 14 Nov 2025

金 (Metal)

Kien Situ transforms the CIW gallery into an environment of rupture and reincarnation.
"A 'Betjak' driver reads one of the Conference posters." Page 11 of the Asian-African Conference Bulletin, No. 9. April 25, 1955; published by the Indonesian Ministry of Information. Sourced via Wikipedia Commons.
"A 'Betjak' driver reads one of the Conference posters." Page 11 of the Asian-African Conference Bulletin, No. 9. April 25, 1955; published by the Indonesian Ministry of Information. Sourced via Wikipedia Commons.
Wed, 15 Oct 2025

Bandung at 70. Or, what really happened at the world’s most famous international conference

The ANU Southeast Asia Institute Research Seminar Series is a recurring seminar series that showcases the work of scholars working on political, social, and cultural issues in Southeast Asi
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Courtney Fung
Thu, 16 Oct 2025

Courtney Fung - "Taking the Initiative? Understanding China's promotion of 'Global Governance Initiatives'"

This talk explores the recent 'global governance initiatives' turn in PRC foreign policy, where these platforms are promoted by Beijing as 'global public goods.' 
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On Behalf of the Living
Fri, 17 Oct 2025

On Behalf of the Living: Film Screening & Q&A

On Behalf of the Living: Film Screening & Q&A
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Nuclear explosion with mushroom cloud on scorched earth
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Mon, 20 Oct 2025

The Bomb: Will Asia Go Nuclear?

This Launch is jointly sponsored by the Coral Bell School's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and Australian Foreign Affairs.
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Wed, 22 Oct 2025

Strategic Imagination: Essays in Honour of Brendan Sargeant

Join us for an evening to celebrate the life of Brendan Sargeant and to consider his big idea of 'Strategic Imagination'. 
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Children watching a bulldozer pushing remains of a destryed sheéter in Ein Hilweh camp, Lebannon
Children watching a bulldozer pushing remains of a destryed sheéter in Ein Hilweh camp, Lebannon
Wed, 22 Oct 2025

Constructing gender justice

2025 CAP Professorial Lecture Series 
This lecture series aims to celebrate our esteemed academics and showcase their areas of expertise in research and teaching.
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025

Critique and Complicity: Pluriversality and the ethics of theoretical practice

This public lecture will be delivered by invited guest Professor Kimberly Hutchings of Queen Mary University of London
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