Book Launch: Hannah Bulloch ‘In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island’ (13 April)

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Author: Dr Hannah Bulloch, Research Fellow, ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies Discussants: Dr Anna Cristina Pertierra, a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, with expertise in Latin American and the Philippines. Ms Regina Macalandag Estorba, a PhD scholar in the ANU’s Crawford School, currently studying citizenship and the Badjao peoples […]

Upcoming Lecture: Katherine Bowie ‘Folktales and the Politics of Humor: The Case of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand’ (29 June)

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Date: 29 June, 2018 Time: 5pm Venue: Lecture Theatre One, Hedley Bull Centre Speaker: Professor Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin-Madison The meanings of folktales change over time.  The Vessantara Jataka is the most famous of the hundreds of morality tales (jatakas) about the Buddha’s previous lives and was once better known among Buddhists than the Gautama Buddha’s historical […]