09
Apr
2018
Central Bureau and Australia’s Code-Breaking operations in the Second World War
David Dufty
During the Second World War, Australia was home to a large, secret code-breaking organisation named Central Bureau. The Code-breakers there cracked the Japanese air force, army, and water transport codes, and in doing so changed the course of the Pacific War.
David Dufty will talk about wartime...
19
Apr
2018
"The Death of this Security Norm is greatly exaggerated": Beyond the Violation/Compliance Dichotomy
Sarah Percy, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland
Our current understanding of the ‘death’ of important norms governing international security is both empirically and theoretically flawed. The literature has argued that a wide range of norms – such as those against torture, mercenary use, or unrestricted submarine warfare – are either ‘dead’ or...
23
Apr
2018
Morale and Combat Motivation of British and Anzac Troops at Gallipoli
Gary Sheffield,University of Wolverhampton
How well did the morale of soldiers at Gallipoli bear up when fighting in the appalling conditions of the Gallipoli campaign? Did they fight for King and Empire, for their mates, for home, or for what? And what motivated them to go over the top onto enemy fire? To find answers to the question, in...
30
Apr
2018
Unraveling the Inter-Korean Summit
Jong-Sung You, Lauren Richardson, Min-hyoung Park
After a year of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in have scheduled an inter-Korea summit meeting for April 27. This will be the first summit between the two Koreas since 2007. It signifies a major step forward in the inter-Korean rapprochement process that began...
