Toni Erskine
@toni_erskine
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Professor of International Politics, Coral Bell School, ANU. CI, 'Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems & Use-of-Force Decision Making' Project.
Joined December 2016
Honored, grateful & a bit overwhelmed to have received the 2024/25 Distinguished Scholar Award in International Ethics at #ISA2024. I'm very fortunate to be part of this supportive community of brilliant scholars who have made this career such a joy and privilege. Thank you! 🙏
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When I began my PhD 5 weeks after my 1st son was born, some worried - declaring it impossible or irresponsible to do a PhD, or a mistake to have a baby. This week I proudly watched him graduate from the uni where I'm a prof. & school director. Past worriers: thanks, but we're ok!
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I spent the day with my Japanese parents in Matsudo-shi. I lived with them as a 17-year-old exchange student, & again after studying Japanese for 4 years at university. They are in their 80s now - and I still call them 'Mum' and 'Dad' (in Japanese). Today was a very good day.💜
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🎉Important Forum on 'Theorizing the History of Women's International Thinking' in our new @InternatlTheory issue! Superb intro. by P. Owens, S. Dunstan, K. Hutchings & @KatHistor & brilliant pieces by A. Getachew, @DrDuncanBell, C. Enloe & @vineet1232. Open access; see below⬇️
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Huge congratulations to @ANUBellSchool's Dr @maria_tanyag on her DECRA 2024 to research 'how Asia Pacific women’s regional networks understand global crises and the transformative solutions to address them'. An important project & outstanding scholar. Congratulations, Maria! 🎉
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I'm very excited to announce that our 2023 Coral Bell Visiting Research Fellow is Professor James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science & Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. We're looking forward to welcoming Prof. Scott to our @ANUBellSchool this July!🎉
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Honoured to be part of this team leading @InternatlTheory for the next 5 yrs! I'm also very grateful to Alex Wendt, Duncan Snidal & @CReussmit for their incredible vision, leadership & service to the discipline over the past 10 years as they've established this important journal.
We are delighted to announce that our Director @toni_erskine is one of the three new Editors for @InternatlTheory journal together with @DavidAWelch (Waterloo) & Stefano Guzzini (Uppsala). #InternationalRelations #IR #politics #law #philosophy #theory @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Absolutely thrilled to announce that three superb, leading IR scholars have been appointed to senior academic positions in our exceptional IR Dept. @ANUBellSchool. (Yet another way to celebrate the Department's 70th anniversary this year!) @DrMattDavies @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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📢Brilliant articles in our Nov. issue of @InternatlTheory! See pieces by P. Owens, S. Dunstan, K. Hutchings, @KatHistory, A. Getachew, @DrDuncanBell, C. Enloe, @vineet1232, E. Aydinli, @onurerpul, @suwitahani, V. Gentile, M. Foster, @EricVanRythoven, @LawrahCon & @Eric_Heinze_ .
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Grateful for this generous funding and excited to conduct research anticipating the effects of AI, machine learning & automated systems on state-level resort-to-force decision making.🙏 (And looking forward to convening 2 workshops w/ international collaborators @ANUBellSchool!).
Congratulations to our @ANUBellSchool Director, Prof. @toni_erskine, for being awarded a 2022 Australian Department of Defence Strategic Policy Grant for her new research project on 'AI, Automated Systems, and Future Use-of-Force Decision Making'!
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It's my last day in the office and this little guy greeted me as I came into our Hedley Bull Building this morning. I love @ouranu campus! Very pleased that @ANUBellSchool seems to have a resident echidna. What a great start to the day. Happy holidays everyone!🎄
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It was wonderful to welcome @CianODriscoll79 to Canberra today (on a rather warm 38-degree day) as the newest addition to our @ANUBellSchool. Cian, whose research focuses on the ethics of war, joins our excellent IR department. Welcome, Cian! @ANUasiapacific @ourANU @DrMattDavies
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I've felt lost since I was told early yesterday that IR has lost a brilliant mind - & I've lost a wonderful friend. What do I do? Soon after I came to Australia, this beautiful book & note arrived in the post. I'm going to sit, read & remember. Thank you, Andrew. I will miss you.
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Very proud of - and pleased for - my @ANUBellSchool colleagues @EdwardAspinall and @evewarburton (both in our Dept. of Political & Social Change) on being awarded $679,740 for their important @arc_gov_au Discovery project on 'Political Representation in Indonesia'! 🎉 #DP23
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Delighted to welcome @GeorgeLawsonIR to @ANUBellSchool & Australia as the newest member of our IR Dept! His research explores the relationship between history & theory. His most recent book is the superb Anatomies of Revolution, CUP 2019. Welcome, George! .@ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Today was my last @ANUasiapacific leadership meeting before I finish as @ANUBellSchool Director in late July. Thank you for the beautiful flowers! I have been so lucky to be part of such a supportive, brilliant team w/ @HelenCSullivan, @thatpollenguy, @k8henne & @JanineOFlynn.❤️
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Such a joy to work w/ the brilliant Dr @L_Hartnett (& engage w/ a superb group of Chinese IR theorists) on our co-authored 'Images of a Statist Ethic in "Western" and Chinese IR Theory'. In addition to exploring the 'moral realism' of the Tsinghua Approach, we looked for. 1/3
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Congratulations to my brilliant @ANUBellSchool colleague @binadcosta (IR), CI & ANU Lead for the recently announced ARC Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women ($34.9m), led by @JacquiTrue (@MonashUni). What an important project - and formidable team!🎉
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I'm delighted to congratulate @SargeantBrendan on his appointment to the positions of Professor of Practice in Defence and Strategic Studies and Head of @ANUBellSchool's outstanding Strategic & Defence Studies Centre. @ANU_SDSC @ANUasiapacific @ourANU
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Congratulations to Associate Professor @amysarahking on her new role as Deputy Director Research in our @ANUBellSchool!🎉 I'm really looking forward to working with you, Amy. (And thanks again to Prof. @EvelynGohCL for the superb job that she did in the role over the past 2 yrs.)
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Introducing the new Bell School mascot. 8-week-old puppy, Benji, visited the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs this morning. Everyone is now walking around smiling even more than usual. Happy Friday everyone! @ANUBellSchool @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Congratulations to these 4 amazing @ANUBellSchool women, who were each acknowledged at the @ANUasiapacific College Forum today: @amysarahking & @Egl_Staunton for teaching awards; @MeighenMcCrae & @kirstenainley for recent promotions to Associate Prof. and Prof., respectively! 🎉
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Welcoming our new @ANUBellSchool Visiting Fellow, Assoc. Prof. @APhillipsIntRel, & listening to his brilliant talk on 'Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems' was the best possible way to start the week (and month)! A very warm welcome, Andrew! 🎉
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📢With the ISA Theory section, my @InternatlTheory co-editors, Stefano Guzzini, @DavidAWelch & I are organising a 1-day workshop before #ISA2023 for early career & under-represented scholars working on international theory. Please apply! Details here: .
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Excited to be welcoming 3 outstanding scholars @ANUBellSchool: @maria_tanyag; @Egl_Staunton & @DrSarahLogan will be joining #IR in 2019! Congratulations to all IR Dept. members for creating such an exceptional intellectual community & @DrMattDavies for superb leadership. @ourANU
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Congratulations to Prof Emerita Joan Beaumont of @ANUBellSchool's Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, appointed a member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her "significant service to education, particularly to the study of war history"! @ANU_SDSC @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Our 1st @InternatlTheory ECR & underrepresented scholars' workshop w/ Stefano Guzzini, @DavidAWelch, @CLU_theory, @ProfMarkRaymond & me as discussants - & brilliant scholars presenting . superb papers - is over. What a privilege to comment on such exciting new research! #ISA2023
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It's raining in Canberra! 🌧️☂️🌧️☂️ I've never been so happy to see rain! 🌈.
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Introducing Lucy, who is nine weeks old and has just joined the family. My lovely husband thought that she would be a good companion as I begin my research leave. 😊 The whole family has already been completely won over - including Benji. 🐕 (Another @anubellschool dog!)
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Brilliant panel today @ANUBellSchool w/ (from right) our inaugural Coral Bell Visiting Research Fellow, @AyseZarakol (@Dept_of_POLIS), our own @DrBeeZee, and @APhillipsIntRel (@POLSISEngage) speaking on 'International Order: Past, Present & Future', chaired by @CeciliaJacob_IR!
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Delighted to welcome the newest member of @ANUBellSchool! Dr Eglantine Staunton specialises in human protection, R2P, French & EU foreign policy, the UNSC & norm diffusion - & joins our superb IR Dept. today. V. warm welcome to @Egl_Staunton! @ANUasiapacific @ourANU @DrMattDavies
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So pleased to meet w/ Dr @sdjaffrey today & welcome her to our @ANUBellSchool & superb Dept. of Political & Social Change. Sana's outstanding research focuses on vigilantism, communal conflict & neighbourhood governance in Indonesia & other Asian countries. Welcome, Sana! 🎉
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Huge thanks to my wonderful colleagues! I was so touched - and overwhelmed - by the lovely event to mark the end of my 5-year term as Director of the @ANUBellSchool. It was an honor & privilege to be in this role. I feel very lucky to be part of such an outstanding School. 🙏
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Saying 'goodbye' to Montreal & getting ready for 3am airport trip to fly to Japan. Loved seeing friends from all over the world, participating in great panels, hosting our ECR workshop, meeting w/ @InternatlTheory Board & walking in falling snow for 1st time in 4 yrs!❄️😊#ISA2023
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Some fresh air, exercise, sunshine, and time away from my computer screen after a busy week - and my daughter is very patiently teaching me how to stop on rollerblades, which I've never been good at. Happy weekend, everyone!
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'Welcome' meeting w/ one of the newest members of @ANUBellSchool. It's great to have Dr @BeverleyLoke join our brilliant IR Dept. Beverley's research expertise includes the politics of great power responsibility & hegemonic ordering, & China’s foreign policy. Welcome, Beverley!🎉
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Our two #PetsOfANU, Cobi & Benji, at home enjoying the sun ☀️ this afternoon - but taking social distancing seriously (at Cobi’s insistence). Let’s see some more @ANUBellSchool pets!
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I'm absolutely delighted to announce our distinguished Keynote Speakers for #OCIS2020 (7-9 Dec. 2020) @ourANU: @Kennedy_School's Professor @stephenWalt and @ANUBellSchool's Professor @binadcosta. Looking forward to seeing you in Canberra in December!
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It's the end of my term as Editor of @InternatlTheory. So grateful to the authors & reviewers I've had the pleasure to work w/, superb Editorial Board &, most of all, my BRILLIANT co-Editors @DavidAWelch & Stefano Guzzini. Delighted the wonderful @CLU_theory will take my place.🙏
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Congratulations to Dr @sonia_palmieri on her appointment as @ANUBellSchool's first Deputy Director IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility).👏 And huge thanks to Dr Palmieri and Prof. @binadcosta for co-chairing the Bell School's IDEA Committee over the past 2 years.🙏
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@JohnBlaxland1 @ANU_SDSC Back in Aus. after 24+ hours traveling. So much admiration for the brilliant women working on defence & security inside & outside Bell School. Disappointed they were rendered invisible here. No - we shouldn't relax. We must do better. Huge thanks to those who raised this issue.
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Honoured to be part of @RISjnl's 50th Anniversary Special Issue - & very happy to see 'AI & the Future of IR' in print!.Sincere thanks to everyone who commented on the argument, challenged me, and made it better as a result.🙏.[Open access⬇️].1/3.
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As promised, we have made a decision this week on #OCIS2020 in light of COVID-19 obstacles. OCIS 2020 @ANUBellSchool will now take place at @ourANU on the 7th, 8th & 9th of December. Please see the latest update from me, Evelyn Goh & Ben Goldsmith:
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Thank you - and congratulations - to our inaugural Coral Bell Visiting Research Fellow, @AyseZarakol, for her brilliant public lecture this evening @ANUBellSchool - 'Whither the Liberal International Order: Lessons from History' - followed by a great discussion w/ the audience.🙏
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Delighted to have this new article published: 'Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war'. I argue that reliance on AI-enabled. @ANUBellSchool, @ANUasiapacific, @LeverhulmeCFI .1/3.
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I had my first non-Zoom, in-person meeting in a while with one of my wonderful PhD students this afternoon - which was more than enough to make me happy. But, she also brought me these, which was completely unnecessary - and made my week:
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After being in Germany when @DeepakNair01 joined @ANUBellSchool in July, it was wonderful to have a belated formal 'welcome' meeting - & talk about everything from the state of the discipline, to ASEAN, to luck in world politics. Such a superb addition to our IR Dept. & @ouranu!
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Chair of @IntlEthics_ISA, Dr @CianODriscoll79 examines the just war tradition & its role in circumscribing contemporary warfare. His latest book, Victory: The Triumph & Tragedy of Just War, is forthcoming w/ @OxUniPress, 2019. Welcome to the IR Dept @ANUBellSchool, Cian! @ourANU
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Honoured and excited to be delivering the 2023 John Gee Memorial Lecture @ourANU on 'Before Algorithmic Armageddon: The Immediate Risks of AI in War', 28 Nov. @ANUBellSchool @hmi_anu @LeverhulmeCFI @ANUasiapacific @ANU_SDSC @anudpa @anucecc @cosmicpinot.
Join Professor @toni_erskine at the 2023 John Gee Memorial Lecture to explore how AI-enabled weapons and decision-support systems are transforming warfare, and impacting decision-making, ethics, and international norms. Tue 28 Nov, 6 – 7pm.
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1st in-person meeting of the new @InternatlTheory editorial team! It's great to be working with Stefano Guzzini & @DavidAWelch. Pls send us your cutting-edge theoretical research on the positive, legal or normative aspects of world politics. @CUP_PoliSci
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The special issue of @AustJIA that Steve Miller (@BelferCenter) & I guest edited on 'Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems & Resort-to-Force Decision Making' was published today! .Thanks to the brilliant AJIA team.🙏 .Intro. article⬇️ .1/3.
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I left my hotel in Montreal at 4am Sun. morning (Quebec time) & have just arrived at my hotel in Osaka late Mon. night (Japan time). My new view. Excited to be participating in the graduation ceremony for our 1st @RitsumeikanU-@ourANU joint degree graduands tomorrow morning!🎓
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It was an honour to welcome NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to the @ANUBellSchool to talk to our students today. (Here we are outside our Hedley Bull Centre when he first arrived.) @ANUasiapacific @ourANU
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So excited that @ANUBellSchool will be hosting Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) 2020. Colleagues near & far, start making plans to be in Canberra in July 2020. I'm grateful to be working with such a superb team. It's going to be a fantastic conference! @ourANU.
We are thrilled to announce that @ANUBellSchool will be hosting OCIS 2020. #ANU hosted the very first 'Oceanic Conference of International Studies' and will again in July 2020, chaired by @toni_erskine, deputy chairs Ben Goldsmith @politicsANU & Evelyn Goh @ANU_SDSC #IR #OCIS2020
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A brilliant joint presentation on 'Emotions and Power in World Politics' by the always-impressive scholars @emma_hutchison and @rbleiker this afternoon @ANUBellSchool as part of our IR seminar series. Please come back again soon, Emma and Roland! @ANUasiapacific @ourANU.
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One of our fantastic new IR appointments, @DrSarahLogan - expert on counterterrorism, cybersecurity & the internet & international politics - has arrived @ANUBellSchool! (Her superb book on countering violent extremism will be published by OUP in Oct.) WELCOME Sarah! @ourANU
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Delighted to welcome another new member of academic staff @ANUBellSchool. Recently appointed Lecturer/Research Fellow @anudpa, George Carter focuses on Pacific Islands’ coalitions & diplomacy in climate change negotiations in his outstanding research. Welcome @georgejkcarter!
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Welcome to the newest member of @ANUBellSchool, Prof. Andrew Stewart (@ww2hist), who joins our Strategic & Defence Studies Centre as Principal, Military & Defence Studies Program @ADC_Australia. It's great to have you @ourANU, Andrew! @ANU_SDSC @ANUasiapacific @WarintheFuture.
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There have been many wonderful dimensions to my role as Director of the @ANUBellSchool over the past 4.5 yrs. Today's was new and so much fun: serving gelato to my brilliant colleagues at our end-of-year Bell School party!🎄
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This panel at #OCIS2023, remembering a model mentor, scholar, teacher & friend, and sharing wonderful stories about Andrew from his time at Monash & Aberystwyth w/ @eckersleyrobyn, Richard, Chris & @DRMcCarthy1, was at once sad & incredibly uplifting. You will be missed, Andrew.
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Yesterday I arrived in Japan (for talks & meetings in Tokyo & Osaka). One of the friends I went to high school w/ in Japan met me at the airport. She got up at 3am to be there when I arrived. We talked all day, my head is full of Japanese & I feel like no time has passed at all.
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Wonderful to be at the launch of @HelenCSullivan's brilliant new book tonight, superbly hosted by @AriadneVromen, with praise for the book from Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Glyn Davis, and an inspiring talk by the author. 👏
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7 April marks 25 years since the start of 100 days of brutal killing in Rwanda that left almost a million dead - while the world looked away. I wrote this 2 years ago, but the reasons for remembering - and reflecting on where we are now - remain the same.
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Join us for the 9th Oceanic Conference on International Studies @ANUBellSchool 29 June - 1 July 2020! For those who we haven't managed to give a flyer to (yet), pls see the key dates below. 30 travel bursaries available. For enquiries: OCIS2020@anu.edu.au.@ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Excited to be spending 2 weeks at @Cambridge_Uni as visiting fellow @LeverhulmeCFI. Looking forward to writing, presenting some new work & spending time w/ colleagues in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence and @Dept_of_POLIS. (And grateful to have arrived to blue skies!)
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It was an honour to host @ANUBellSchool's inaugural Indigenous Diplomacy lecture given by Drs Mary Graham & Morgan Brigg, to have @SenatorWong provide opening remarks, & to have Australia's just-appointed inaugural Ambassador for First Nations People Justin Mohamed in attendance!
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It was such a pleasure to chair Prof. Neta Crawford's brilliant keynote lecture tonight - 'Towards a Different IR? Or Towards Different IRs?' - as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations for @ANUBellSchool's Department of IR. Thank you, Neta! .@ANUasiapacific @Politics_Oxford
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Great to have an official 'welcome' meeting w/ another brilliant new member of our @ANUBellSchool: Dr Bianca Baggiarini, who has recently joined our superb @ANU_SDSC . Dr Baggiarini's research focuses on social, political & ethical impacts of AI-enabled technologies. Welcome!🎉
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It's Benji the @ANUBellSchool mascot's 1st birthday today. (Pictured here w/ 2 of his fav. members of our superb professional staff & me.) It is also just over a year since I started as Director. We are both v. proud to be associated with such a wonderful intellectual community!
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Today was the 1st session of the 'First Step on the Ladder' 5-week workshop programme that Prof Lorraine Elliot & I are convening for women ECRs @ANUBellSchool. 3 hrs of discussing career strategies & sharing advice w/ incredibly inspirational colleagues. @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Co-convening a workshop this week @ANUBellSchool ('AI, Politics & Security in the Asia Pacific') means sitting at my desk while finalising the programme & corresponding w/ soon-to-be-arriving overseas participants this long weekend - but I have company! @ANUasiapacific @ourANU
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The recording of the @ANUBellSchool's inaugural Indigenous Diplomacy lecture, 'Indigenous International Relations: Old Peoples & New Pragmatism', delivered by the brilliant Dr Mary Graham & Dr Morgan Brigg and introduced by @SenatorWong is available here:
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A warm welcome to our newest @ANUBellSchool Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr @CarlyGordyn! Dr Gordon will be working on a book manuscript on historical cooperation between Australia & Indonesia in managing irregular migration. (Congratulations, Carly!🎉)
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After an unforgettable time with our graduates & colleagues at @RitsumeikanU, I took the Shinkansen to Tokyo & spent the afternoon enjoying the cherry blossoms in Ueno Park (beautiful despite the rain) w/ a friend who I went to high school w/ in Japan (quite a few years ago).🌸🙏
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V. proud of @ANUBellSchool's own @binadcosta, Professor in the Dept. of International Relations, who is recipient of the 2020 Kroc Institute Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Notre Dame. Congratulations, Prof. D'Costa! @ourANU @ANUasiapacific
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Outstanding post-docs wanted for our exciting project on Humanising Machine Intelligence @ourANU . (For project details: 1 post-doc in current round based @ANUBellSchool for those with PhD in Politics, Poli Sci, IR, or Pol Phil:
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It was wonderful to have Senator the Hon Penny Wong .@ourANU last night as part of the Women in International Security series organised by Prof Evelyn Goh & co-sponsored by @ANUBellSchool's @ANU_SDSC and @GenderANU. @SenatorWong @ANUasiapacific @amysarahking
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Up to 2 postdoc. fellowships just advertised @ANUBellSchool!!⭐Open to ECRs in any area of political science, IR, or strategic studies, *or* a related discipline w/ a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific. Deadline: 8 Aug. 2021.⭐ @ANUasiapacific @ourANU
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It has been such a privilege to learn from Ngambri, Yolngu & Kaurareg Elders on the 1st day our 3-day 'Indigenous Diplomacy' Workshop, hosted by @ANUBellSchool & in collaboration w/ the Elders & @CDUni. (This photo followed a moving smoking ceremony by Ngambri Elder, Paul House.)
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Wonderful dinner tonight at Lov McGill following the 'Norms Research in IR' workshop today organised by @antje_wiener, @p_orchard & @SassanGholiagha. I'm enjoying being involved in this exciting project - thank you, Antje, Phil & Sassan! #ISA2023 in Montreal. ❄️❄️❄️
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Thanks to my brilliant co-panelists & our superb audience for a great discussion on 'Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems & Resort-to-Force Decision Making'. (Followed by a project dinner.) @NC_Renic @DrSarahLogan #ISA2024. Project here:
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