Crown and Sword – Book launch

    All are welcome to attend the launch of this latest book by Dr Cameron Moore, Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong and The Australian National University.

    'Crown and Sword: Executive Power and the Use of Force by the Australian Defence Force' analyses the scope and source of the power by which the Australian Defence Force conducts activities at home and abroad, including seeking out and killing Islamic militants in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, detaining asylum seekers for periods at sea, and running the judicial systems of failed states.

    Tax, Social Policy and Gender – Book launch

    ANU Press, in conjunction with the Crawford School of Public Policy, is proud to be launching this collection of state of the art empirical, theoretical and policy thinking about gender equality in tax, transfer (social security) and social policy in Australia.

    Terra Australis Editorial Board

    Board Chair:

    • Professor Sue O’Connor, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific

    Board Members:

    • Dr Sally Brockwell (contact person), Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific
    • Associate Professor Geoff Clark, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific
    • Dr Ursula Frederick, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences

    ANU.Lives Editorial Board

    In response to the current popularity of biography, the ANU.Lives Series in Biography was established by the National Centre of Biography in 2008. It aims to publish lively, engaging and provocative biographies and memoirs and nurture best practice in biographical scholarship. Books published in the series will engage critically with issues and problems in historiography and life writing.

    Mobilities of Return

    In recent decades, the term ‘mobility’ has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, specific questions regarding ‘mobilities of return’—that is, the movement of people ‘back’ to places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as ‘home’—have tended to take a back seat within more recent discussions of mobility, transnationalism and migration.

    Solomon Islanders in World War II

    The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ‘outsider’ perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as ‘loyal’ helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiders’ perspectives.

    Social Sciences Editorial Board

    The Social Sciences Board recommends for publication by ANU Press high-quality manuscripts in the social science disciplines of Politics, International Relations, History, Demography, Sociology and Policy Studies. It is particularly interested in work that will advance the University’s goal of contributing to public policy and Indigenous Australia. While it supports manuscripts relating to other regions, it has a particular interest in research relating to Australia and its region.

    2017 CASS PhD Publishing Prize Winner

    The 2017 Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Science PhD thesis publication prize has been awarded to Dr Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak for a book to be developed from her doctoral thesis, 'Transcending the National Capital Paradigm: the evolution of local arts in Australia's National Capital'. The modified thesis will be published by ANU Press in the second half of 2018.

    Exploring the Earth Under the Sea – public lecture and book launch

    Professor Neville Exon explores the achievements of Australian scientists during Australia’s involvement with the International Ocean Discovery Program, a marine research collaboration involving 23 countries that explores Earth's history and dynamics using high-technology ocean-going drilling platforms. Continuous cores of sediment and rock can be taken in nearly all water depths, down to 3 km beneath the seabed, covering time periods back to 200 million years.

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