Events

The Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies hosts numerous events.

The centerpiece of the public outreach program is the ANZAC Lecture, which commemorates the landing at Gallipoli in 1915. Those presenting the ANZAC Lecture have included novelist David Malouf, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Australian Major General Peter Cosgrove, film director Peter Weir.

In celebration of New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi the center hosts the Waitangi Day Lecture. Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of a treaty at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by a group of Maori chiefs and the British Government.

In 2004 the center launched its Australian Executive Lecture series, which brings high profile Australian business leaders to Georgetown. The inaugural speaker for this series was Peter Lowy, Managing Director of Westfields America.

In addition to the above lectures the center also hosts a range of occasional lectures. These lectures are built around the availability of high profile scholars from such diverse backgrounds as fine arts, medical science and history. Speakers at these lectures are often scholars, practitioners or others who are in Washington for a brief period of time.