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SSGM hosts public seminars, workshops and conferences and when possible makes available related papers, notes and transcripts. The opinions expressed at such events and in related publications are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program.

Date Time & location Title & presenter
29 May 2:00pm-3:00pm
APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Public Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series - Household vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks: Findings from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu

Presenter(s): Simon Feeny, Associate Professor, RMIT University & Lachlan McDonald, Development Economist, Fred Hollows Foundation and Oxfam Australia

Enquiries: Pyone Myat Thu,ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

05 Jun -07 Jun 12:00am-12:00am
University House, 1 Balmain Crescent, The Australian National University, Canberra

Conference
Sorcery and Witchcraft-Related Killings in Melanesia: Culture, Law and Human Rights Perspectives Conference

Presenter(s): Richard Eves & Miranda Forsyth (Convenors)

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

25 Jun -26 Jun 12:00am-12:00am
Hedley Bull Centre (130), Garran Road, ANU

Conference
State of the Pacific Conference

Previous events for 2013

Date Time & location Title & presenter
01 Feb 1:00pm-2:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
Research on mobility, regional labour markets, and diaspora

Presenter(s): David Craig, Research Associate Professor at the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, University of Otago

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

04 Feb 5:00pm-6:30pm
HC Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building (8a), Fellows Road, ANU

Is the Resource Boom good for Melanesia?

Presenter(s): Various Speakers

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

04 Feb 7:00pm-9:00pm
HC Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building (8a), Fellows Road, ANU

Film screening
Canning Paradise

Presenter(s): Olivier Pollet - Australian Centre for Independent Journalism

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

05 Feb 7:00pm-9:00pm
HC Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building (8a), Fellows Road, ANU

Film screening
Bikpela Bagarap (Big Damage)

Presenter(s): David Fedele - Award-winning documentary film maker

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

08 Feb 8:45am-5:45pm
The Common Room, University House, Liversidge Street, ANU

Workshop
The South Pacific: From ‘arc of instability’ to ‘arc of opportunity’? Is it time for Australia to shift its priorities from security to development in the South Pacific?

Enquiries: joanne.wallis@anu.edu.au

12 Feb 4:00pm-5:00pm
Seminar Room 1.04, Coombs Extension Building (8), Fellows Road, ANU

Seminar
Crisis and stagnation: Explaining Australia’s engagement with the Pacific islands

Presenter(s): Jonathan Schultz, University of Melbourne

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

14 Feb 4:30pm-6:00pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
Mining in Bougainville: Current Issues and Future Directions

Presenter(s): Various Speakers

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

26 Feb 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

More than just Policing – Police Reform in Post-Conflict Bougainville

Presenter(s): Sinclair Dinnen, Senior Fellow, SSGM & Gordon Peake, Visiting Fellow, SSGM

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

01 Mar 12:00pm-2:30pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Public Forum
Opportunities in Pacific Studies: ANU & Beyond

Enquiries: nicholas.mortimer@anu.edu.au

05 Mar 11:00am-12:00pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: The Missing Link: Companies and Capitalists in Papua New Guinea

Presenter(s): Scott MacWilliam, Visiting Fellow, SSGM

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

05 Mar 11:00am-12:00pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: The Missing Link: Companies and Capitalists in Papua New Guinea

Presenter(s): Scott MacWilliam, Visiting Fellow, SSGM

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

26 Mar 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
Importing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Limits and Possibilities in Solomon Islands

Presenter(s): Louise Vella

12 Apr 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: Rausim! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea

Presenter(s): Sarah Logan

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

16 Apr 2:00pm-5:00pm
Sparke Helmore Law Theatre 1, ANU College of Law (6a), Fellows Road, ANU

Seminar
Fiji: The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversity – Report Launch and Workshop

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

16 Apr 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
A Socio-Ecological Study of Children’s Growth in Rural East Timor

Presenter(s): Debra Judge and Pyone Myat Thu

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

18 Apr 2:00pm-3:00pm
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: Securing a new ordering of power in Timor Leste: the role of subnational spending

Presenter(s): Doug Porter, Adjunct Professor, SSGM

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

22 Apr 10:30am-12:00pm
Seminar Room 1.13, Coombs Extension Building (8), Fellows Road, ANU

Seminar
Minding the gap: culture and gender in Vietnam

Presenter(s): Huong LE THU

Enquiries: Nick Guoth (pah.seminar.coord@anu.edu.au)

23 Apr 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: Preconditions for an informal economy: 'trucking and bartering' in New Guinea

Presenter(s): John Conroy, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School, ANU

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

01 May 1:30pm-2:30pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
Gender Equality and Ending Violence against Women – the Eastern Highlands Experience

Presenter(s): The Hon Julie Soso Akeke MP, Governor Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

02 May 2:00pm-4:00pm
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room), HC Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU

From suppression to emulation: The ethnic Chinese in Cambodia

Presenter(s): Farib Sos

Enquiries: Dr Nicholas Farrelly (nicholas.farrelly@anu.edu.au)

07 May 3:00pm-4:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: The Pacific Plan and non-self-governing territories in the Pacific

Presenter(s): Nic Maclellan, Pacific Journalist and Researcher

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

09 May 10:00am-11:00am
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU

Seminar
SSGM Seminar Series: Hyphenated Identities: Place and Person in Post-Conflict Solomon Island

Presenter(s): Anna-Karina Hermkens, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Enquiries: ssgm.admin@anu.edu.au

Updated:  13 May 2013/Responsible Officer:  Program Convenor, SSGM /Page Contact:  web.cap@anu.edu.au