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Fri, 24 May 2024

Forty years in the South Seas: Book Launch and Seminar in honour of Glenn Summerhayes’ career

It is not often that one gets to witness a fitting celebration of a remarkable career, which makes this occasion extraordinary.
Thu, 16 May 2024

Book Launch: Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this page contains images of deceased persons.

 
Thu, 9 May 2024

Pacific Climate Warriors at ANU

The ANU Pacific Institute invites you for a heartwarming gathering of the ANU Pasifika community as we unite in solidarity with our friends at 350 Pacific.
Fri, 3 Nov 2023

Paul Girrawah House Tree Carving Art Commission Launch

The spirit of our Ngambri (Kamberri) ancestors and old people is in the trees. The old trees on ANU campus help keep the peace.
Thu, 2 Nov - Fri, 3 Nov 2023

Arboreal Alterations Symposium

Arboreal Alterations: Tree modification and meaning making from the past to the present
Wed, 18 Oct 2023

Enhancing Project Management Capabilities in the South Pacific Workshop

A one-day workshop hosted by The Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Management (RSM) and the ANU Pacific Institute.

 
Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Talofa + Talanoa - Come and Tell Your Story, featuring renowned singer Koebi Faumui, Pacific Dancing and Trivia

Join us for an afternoon experience of the Pacific Way through singing and storytelling.
Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Sounds of the Pacific - PNG Perevota Singers & Deveni Temu

The PNG Peverota Singers present the diverse sounds of the Pacific.
Wed, 20 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Do You Want to Meet Your Grandma Book Reading & Crafts

Book in and listen to a fun reading of "Do you want to meet your grandma?" by author SV Middleby, followed by colouring activities.
Fri, 15 Sep - Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Women in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Collection Photo Display

Many women, from missionaries, activists, botanists and politicians to doctors and queens, often get lost in the pages of history.

Thu, 7 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Mekim basket: Drop in, Let’s story, learn with and learn to make basket

In this workshop, yumi stori, lainim, na mekim basket wantem – together, we will story, learn with basket, and learn to mekim basket.
Tue, 5 Sep 2023

2023 ANU Pacific Institute Annual Lecture - The 'whole of life' way

The 2023 ANU Pacific Institute Annual Lecture - The 'whole of life' way is presented by Reverend Professor Upolu Lumā Vaai, Professor and Principal of the Pacific Theological Colle

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CoP28 side event
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

What should be on the agenda on climate finance in COP31? Pacific and Australian perspectives
On 6 December, ANU Pacific Institute’s Director, Sala Dr George Carter moderated a CoP28 side event - What should be on the agenda on climate finance in COP31? Pacific and Australian perspectives.
  • Policy and Governance
The Project Banaba Exhibition at Bishop Museum 2023
The Project Banaba Exhibition at Bishop Museum 2023

Banaba at the Bishop
Professor Katerina Teaiwa's Project Banaba features at the Bishop Museum
Meredith Osmond, Nick Evans, Malcolm Ross and Andrew Pawley holding copies of the volumes
Meredith Osmond, Nick Evans, Malcolm Ross and Andrew Pawley holding copies of the volumes

Words as a window on the Pacific past
CHL's Dr Bethwyn Evans reflects on the Oceanic Lexicon Project
Vanuatu Field School 2023: Pangpang group shot. Students on site
Vanuatu Field School 2023: Pangpang group shot. Students on site

A 3,000-year history uncovered: ANU Vanuatu Field School 2023, Pangpang, Efate Island
An account of the annual ANU-Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) Field School
IMMERSIA 2022

Ready. Steady. Immerse: Immersia 2.0
What do you get when you put calligraphy, dance, song, music, painting, wellbeing, books, exhibitions, photography, languages, trivia, gaming, and art together?
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Boyer Prize 2022 goes to Dr Denghua Zhang
Zhang's article ‘China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries’ has won the revered Boyer Prize for 2022.
  • National Security, Strategy and Defence
Happy to secure some transport from central to southern Epi. L to R. Stuart Bedford, Salkon Yona, Siri Seoule with smile, Sonke Stern and Robert Henderson along with a crew of four at the rear

On the Kuwae Trail
Land and sea-based research in central Vanuatu revealing the extent of one of the largest eruptions of the last 1,000 years.
Museum, cemetery, etc. at Manus High School’, c. 21 Sep 1973. Photographer Bill Gammage. PMB PHOTO 46-0696
Museum, cemetery, etc. at Manus High School’, c. 21 Sep 1973. Photographer Bill Gammage. PMB PHOTO 46-0696

Dr Nayahamui Rooney: Newly Appointed Chair of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
The Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific has appointed a new Chair of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, effective 1 July 2023.