SDSC Lecture Series 2021
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) presents a Public Lecture Series to stimulate public discussion on major challenges relating to Australia’s strategic and defence policy, and to contribute to the vital national conversation about Australia’s future in the Indo-Pacific.
Lectures will be held monthly with the inaugural lecture presented by Professor Brendan Sargeant, Head of SDSC. In this first lecture of the series, Brendan Sargeant will discuss the idea of a strategic imagination, explore some of the elements of the Australian strategic imagination, and set out some of the challenges faced in response to the current strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.
Past lectures from this series
19 May 2021
Inaugural Lecture: Challenges to Australia’s Strategic Imagination
Speaker: Prof Brendan Sargeant
Lecture recording
Centre of Gravity paper
23 June 2021
The Challenge of Warning Time in the Contemporary Strategic Environment
Speakers: Em Prof Paul Dibb and Hon Prof Richard Brabin-Smith
21 July 2021
Competing Strategic Imaginaries in Asia
Speaker: Prof Evelyn Goh
2 March 2022
Not Your Parents’ Cold War: Why This Time is Different… and More Dangerous
Speaker: Emeritus Prof Hugh White
27 April 2022
ANZUS and Taiwan: What are Australia’s obligations?
Speaker: Dr Iain. D. Henry
