Anthropology in the Age of Securitization
2008 Joel S. Kahn Lecture What can anthropology contribute to public debate about two of the most critical issues facing the world today - the security of the global financial system and the challenges...
View ArticleEgo and Soul
Professor John Carroll discusses the desire for the soul to crave meaning. A transcript of this podcast is also available at...
View ArticleIs Australia a Racist Country?
Are Australians racist? Who are we to speak? Who can call themselves real Australians? Professor Sandy Gifford, Director of La Trobe University's Refugee Health Research Centre, believes this is the...
View ArticlePursuing Invisible Japan
How do we best make sense of contemporary Japanese society, a non-Western, highly technological, post-modern democracy, recently dubbed "Cool Japan"? Japan simultaneously exports to the world hi-tech...
View ArticleChina Observations and Reflections
Dr Geoff Raby (Australian ambassador to China) gives his thoughts on major events in China over the past few years. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
View ArticleSport and Social Integration Amongst Refugees in Australia
Dr Ramón Spaaij (Deputy Director, La Trobe Refugee Research Centre) discusses the process and effects of doing fieldwork by drawing on a three-year ethnographic research project recently carried out...
View ArticleMasculinities and Hooliganism in Sport
Dr Ramón Spaaij (Senior Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences) discusses the gendered nature of professional sport. He focuses on his extensive research into soccer hooliganism in Europe and links...
View ArticlePressure to Raise the 'Perfect Child'
Lenore Skenazy (New York columnist, author, 'America's Worst Mum') on the pressure to create a perfect parent, and perfect kid, in our child-obsessed culture. How safe are our children? Can we let them...
View ArticleThe Anthropology of Climate Change
Anthropogenic climate change has been described as the biggest crisis of the 21st century, with the next decade the last window to keep the heat within a less damaging range. What sort of a crisis is...
View ArticleLeadership in the Making
Dr Kiran Bedi was India's first and highest ranking woman officer in the Indian Police Service. She has worked with the UN and has represented India in international forums on crime prevention, drug...
View ArticleAgnes Heller and the Future of Democracy
Professor Simon Tormey (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney) returns to a prominent theme of Agnes Heller's political thought: the relationship between modernity and...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Kiran Bedi
Dr Kiran Bedi was India's first and highest ranking woman officer in the Indian Police Service. She has worked with the UN and has represented India in international forums on crime prevention, drug...
View ArticleEngaging Youth in the Community
Bernie Geary OAM (Principal Commissioner for the Commission for Children and Young People) on how young people make a life after school and their need to make meaningful connections in their community....
View ArticleWhy do we Hate?
Dr Ian Coller (European History, La Trobe University) talks about the 'disease of the soul' and how different researchers - historians, social scientists, anthropologists, neurologists, and scientists...
View ArticleThe Collapse of Creativity
Professor Peter Murphy (School of Creative Arts, James Cook University) argues that technology and medicine produce research that makes exciting promises but delivers fewer real results. This lecture...
View ArticleMigrants' Sense of Safety in Bendigo
What are the issues of safety and social inclusion experienced by migrants? This lecture discusses how migrants access housing, work and study, and how they use public urban spaces, locating these...
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