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Vijay Naidu »
Vijay Naidu has worked for more than 40 years at the University of the South Pacific as tutor, lecturer, reader, professor, head of schools, dean, pro-vice chancellor and acting vice chancellor. For many years he was Professor and Director of Development Studies. He is active in a number of non-government organisations, and has served as consultant to government, non-government organisations and UN agencies.
Launch of 'True Biographies of Nations?' »
Emeritus Professor Tom Griffiths will launch ‘True Biographies of Nations?’ The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography, edited by Karen Fox. The book brings together practitioners from national biographical dictionary projects around the English‑speaking world to reflect on the
Peter Bellwood »
Peter Bellwood (PhD Cambridge 1980) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University in Canberra. His current research is focused on global patterns of human migration throughout human prehistory, but his many years of archaeological fieldwork have been concentrated in Southeast Asia and Oceania. His most recent books include First Islanders (Wiley Blackwell 2017); The Global Prehistory of Human Migration (ed., Wiley Blackwell 2015); First Migrants (Wiley Blackwell 2013); and 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange (co-edited with Eusebio Dizon, Terra Australis 40, 2013). Peter Bellwood was also the recipient of a festschrift volume, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory (Philip J. Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck [eds]), published as Terra Australis 45 (2017).
Elizabeth Truswell »
Elizabeth Truswell has spent much of her working life as a geoscientist, with an Honours degree from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from Cambridge University. After postdoctoral study in the US, she worked as a palaeontologist and environmental geoscientist with Geoscience Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1985, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia in 2009.
In 2000, she received an Honours in painting from The Australian National University and has held a number of solo exhibitions since then. Her works are held in Australia, the US, France and Italy. She has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University, dividing her time between ongoing scientific research and making art.
James Flexner »
James Flexner is senior lecturer in historical archaeology and heritage at the University of Sydney. James specialises in landscape archaeology and the historical archaeology of Oceania. He has done extensive archaeological fieldwork in the south of Vanuatu, as well as Hawai‘i and Tasmania.
Michelle Arrow »
Michelle Arrow is an Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. She is the author of three books, including Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (2019). In 2014, Michelle won the NSW Premier’s Multimedia History Prize (with Catherine Freyne and Timothy Nicastri) for her radio feature ‘Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships’.
Angela Woollacott »
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. Her most recent book, Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (2015), was shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards—University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. Her biography Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who Changed Australia, which has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant, will be published by Allen & Unwin in August 2019.
Launch of 'Understanding Oceania' »
ANU–USP Launch of 'Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University' Programme MC: Michelle Tevita-Singh, Alumni Relations Coordinator 3.00pm Garlanding of ANU Vice Chancellor, Professor Brian Schmidt 3
Book Launch: Zhang Peili »
The launch of Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video (edited by Dr Olivier Krischer) features a launch address by Dr Caroline Turner, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. In 2014, New York-based artist Lois Conner gifted one of pioneering Chinese artist Zhang
Helen Randerson »
Helen Randerson is a Sydney-based researcher whose interests have focused on inner-city areas as places of radical activity, including their industrial and trade union histories.