People and Events
People At last week's Conferring of Degrees ceremony, Ann Nevile became the first graduate of the Master of Public Policy to also complete a PhD. Her thesis, Policy making in Australia and Japan, compared three policy areas - aged care, pay TV and financial deregulation.   The Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, Mr Hsu Hsin-Liang, will be visiting the ANU on April 29 for a discussion with senior academics. The discussion will focus on politics in Taiwan and Asia-Pacific security. Inquiries on 6249 2459. Events Professor Christine Sylvester of the National Centre for Development Studies (NCDS) will give a seminar, "Women" narrate identity and work: a South African context. The seminar will be held in the Sociology Seminar Room HA 2175, in the Haydon-Allen building on April 29, from 1­3pm.   The Asia Pacific Economies Program Seminar Trade and growth in East Asia: Heckscher-Ohlin meets Solow-Swan will be given by Dominic Wilson of the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC), on April 27 in Seminar Room 5 of the Crawford Building 12.30­2.00pm. A second seminar, Taiwan and the Asian crisis, by Steve Chen of the Board of Foreign Trade, Taiwan, will be on April 30 in the Ross Hohnen Room of the Chancelry building, 12.30­2.00pm. Inquiries 6249 0168.   An Urban Research Program (URP) Seminar, Sustainability, transport and town planning, will be given by Alan Evans of Reading University, UK, on April 27. A second, Migrant places: Filipinos in Statue Square, Hong Kong, by Lisa Law of the University of Western Sydney will be given on May 4. Both seminars will be held in Seminar Room D of the Coombs Building at 11am. Inquiries to Kurt Iveson, 6249 2214.   Dr Tomas Faunce of the ANU Law School and intensive care registrar at Canberra Hospital will present an address, Brave new Dolly: Human cloning and legislative wowserism, at University House on May 6 at 8pm.   The Department of History Seminar Program will be given on From opposition to identity: the pound and the people 1947­67 by Dr David Blaazer on May 1 and on Terms of Possession: phrenology and the Procurement of Aboriginal Crania c.1815­1850 by Dr Paul Turnbull on May 8. Both seminars will be in the Geoffrey Fairbairn Room (1207) in the Haydon-Allen Building at 11am. Inquiries to Sarah Lloyd on 6249 2613.   Dr Deirdre Coleman of the Department of English, University of Sydney will talk on, Maiden voyages and infant colonies: women's travel writing and late Eighteenth Century colonisation. The talk will be held in the Humanities Research Centre Reading Room in the A.D. Hope Building. Inquiries 6249 2700.