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25.01.2022 Dive into our Social, Popular and Creative Panel! Discuss the role of creative arts and popular culture in political and social spaces, to preserve and affirm cultural identities. We will be joined by Dr Shameem Black, Dr Ross Tapsell and Dr Katerina Teaiwa, moderated by ANU PhD candidate Eliorah Malaifa.

25.01.2022 APPLICATION MARKING IN PROCESS Results will be released via email on Monday 5 Oct! A key theme in this year's conference is giving voice to hidden perspectives and having those reclaimed narratives rise to the surface. This is a particularly prevalent issue in New Caledonia at the moment, where the pandemic has taken a back seat to concerns around New Caledonia's upcoming referendum on independence.... Many of New Caledonia's Indigenous Kanak voters see Sunday's vote as a referendum on their right to govern their land. Read more at: https://www.abc.net.au//new-caledonia-2020-indep/12647794

25.01.2022 Some positive news coming out of 2020!! Japan is aiming to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 and become a carbon-neutral society, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said, in a major shift in position on climate change. See more at: https://www.abc.net.au//japan-aims-for-zero-emis/12815400

24.01.2022 Delegates goodies are now being shipped all around Australia and the world! Delegates, Please keep an eye out in your mailbox for your packages #reimaginevirtualgatherings

24.01.2022 Happy Monday everyone! Delegate application results will be released TODAY via email so please keep an eye out in your inboxes! Thank you to all applicants for taking the time to apply. We enjoyed reading your applications and were blown away by the high calibre. We look forward to (virtually) meeting our successful applicants at the end of the year

23.01.2022 Hello everyone! If you’re a LinkedIn member, please follow our new Linked in page for regular updates and the opportunity to connect with other users interested in the Asia Pacific region! Link to our page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-pacific-week/

17.01.2022 As Covid-19 Closes Schools, the World’s Children Go to Work "Former students are taking illegal and often dangerous jobs in India and other developing countries, potentially rolling back years of progress in social mobility and public health." Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com//covid-19-india-children-school-ed

13.01.2022 'International donors pledged nearly $600m in humanitarian support to hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya on Thursday, succeeding in bridging a huge gap in funding for the Myanmar minority who fled their homes in 2017 amid a brutal military crackdown that is now the subject of a genocide investigation.' Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com//international-donors-pledge-nea

10.01.2022 Happy Monday everyone! Introducing another stellar panel for APW 2020- "COVID-19: More than just a disease". The Coronavirus Pandemic has affected much more than just the health of people around the world. The global crisis has tested our systems at every institution at every level, revealing the cracks in our governance and societies. Therefore, this panel will take a dive into the hidden perspectives of the COVID pandemic, and provide delegates with a holistic, systemic understanding of the global crisis. We have lined up various highly knowledgeable speakers including Professor Sharon Friel, Professor Veronica Taylor, Australia Pacific Security College's Jay Caldwell and moderated by Professor Mark Kenny.

09.01.2022 Introducing our second panel for APW 2020! Our Activism panel will be expanding on our conference theme to discuss and explore the Surging Voices and Hidden perspective within the Asia and Pacific region. Our speakers include ANU’s Dr Virgina Marshall and Associate Professor Roald Maliangkay along with PHD candidate, Talei Mangioni. The panel will be moderated by APW’s Content Co-ordinator, Madeleine McDonald.

06.01.2022 Now in its tenth year, Asia Pacific Week is an interdisciplinary conference, bringing together high calibre students and young professionals from around the world. Highly regarded for its capacity to draw in diverse and innovative perspectives, Asia Pacific Week aims to equip delegates with the knowledge, skills and empathy, to become compassionate young leaders of change in the dynamic and evolving Asia Pacific region. Under our 2020 theme of 'When Oceans Rise,' we will discuss emerging voices and hidden perspectives within the region. Asia Pacific Week consists of thought-provoking panels, debates, and workshops, as well as a vibrant social schedule, to provide delegates with opportunities to network and engage with like-minded peers, policymakers, world-class academics and leaders.

04.01.2022 Carl Miller explores the success of Taiwan's virtual political debate platform called vTaiwan, designed to inform policy makers on the views of its citizens. The platform has also been quite successful in uniting people with differing political views as the aim of the space is compromise rather than to amplify division. "They found that re-engineering the online space had exposed a deeper human truth. In politics, humans spend most of their time concentrating on what they disagree upon. But if you gamify consensus, you expose points of unity that were previously hidden." Read more at : https://www.theguardian.com//taiwan-civic-hackers-polis-co

03.01.2022 Dive into the third fantastic panel we have lined up for APW 2020, 'The Ripple Effect: Climate Displacement in the Pacific'. This panel will discuss what the ripple effect of a climate migration crisis would look like for our region. We will be joined by another incredible line-up of speakers- Dr Fanny Thornton, Dr George Carter, Dr Quynh Nguyen and moderated by Dr Siobhan McDonnell.

03.01.2022 Happy Friday everyone!! All offers have now been made and accepted, we are so excited to meet the delegates in November! The committee has been working hard to get some goodies sent to you, sneak peek at a few things we have coming your way ... We’re shipping to delegates all over the world so fingers crossed these all arrive in time!

01.01.2022 Throwback to APW 2019 Gala Dinner which was held at the National Museum! The Gala Dinner held on the final night of the conference, and is an opportunity for delegates to celebrate everything they have learned and all the new people they have met! Delegates are invited to wear their traditional dress to showcase the vibrance and diversity of their culture Stay tuned to see what we have planned for APW 2020