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Bettina Beer »
Bettina Beer received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Hamburg and habilitated in 2001 with a project on ‘Body concepts, interethnic relations and theories of racism’. She has conducted long‑term fieldwork in the Philippines and PNG, and researched on cultural diversity in the German‑speaking Europe. She received a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation and became professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Heidelberg in 2006. Since 2008 Bettina Beer has been professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Lucerne. She is co-editor of the journal Sociologus.
Christopher Findlay »
Christopher Findlay is Honorary Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Somkiat Tangkitvanich »
Somkiat Tangkitvanich is President of the Thailand Development Research Institute.
Barry Jones »
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.
He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
John Braithwaite »
John Braithwaite is a leading criminologist, Emeritus and founder of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at The Australian National University (johnbraithwaite.com).
Geoffrey Clark »
Geoffrey Clark is an archaeologist who works on islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans. His research interests include the timing and impact of inital colonisation, how monumental structures reveal ancient political systems and the impact of climate events on the development of insular societies.
Mirani Litster »
Mirani Litster is an archaeologist with a background in Australian and Indian Ocean archaeology. Her research interests include the archaeology of early globalisation, Australian frontier conflict studies and the archaeology of cross-cultural encounters.
Meet the Author: Adele Chynoweth »
Adele Chynoweth was a lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. She was a secondary school teacher before training as a theatre director and completing a PhD in contemporary Australian drama. She was curator of the National Museum of Australia’s
Ryuji Hattori »
Ryuji Hattori is professor at Chuo University, Japan. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kyoto University Faculty of Law and a doctorate in political science from Kobe University. His main publications include Understanding History in Asia: What Diplomatic Documents Reveal (Tokyo: Japan Publish Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019); Eisaku Satō, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize (London: Routledge, 2021); China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon’s Visit to Beijing (London: Routledge, 2022); Japan and the Origins of the Asia-Pacific Order: Masayoshi Ohira’s Diplomacy and Philosophy (Singapore: Springer, 2022).
Stephan Frühling »
Stephan Frühling is Associate Dean, Partnerships and Engagement in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, where he researches and teaches in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He was the Fulbright professional fellow in Australia–US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, in 2017, ‘Partner across the Globe’ research fellow in the research division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015, and a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper.