Events

Join us for a conversation with Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister and a person who has devoted his career to the practice and study of India’s foreign relations. Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove will chair this conversation, which will range over topics such as India’s place in the world, its relations with China, the impact of COVID-19, and the India-Australia connection.

Join the authors of The Truth of the Palace Letters: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 for a conversation on the implications of the Palace Letters for the Australian Constitution, democracy, and the debate on an Australian republic. The conversation will be moderated by Alex Oliver, Director of Research at the Lowy Institute.
 

The annual Lowy Lecture is the Lowy Institute’s flagship event, at which a prominent speaker reflects on Australia and the world. Past Lecturers have included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus, News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Lowy Institute Chairman Sir Frank Lowy and Prime Minister John Howard, who delivered the inaugural Lowy Lecture in 2005.

To mark the launch of the 2020 Asia Power Index, join us for a panel event with the principal researchers behind the annual Asia Power Index, Hervé Lemahieu and Alyssa Leng, who will be joined by Roland Rajah, the Lowy Institute’s lead economist. They will present the Index’s key findings and early results from a follow-on project looking at the future of global economic power to 2050.

Since 2013, the annual Owen Harries Lecture has honoured the enormous contribution Mr Harries, who was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, made to the international policy debate in Australia and the US. This is the first such lecture since Mr Harries’ passing in June, and we are honoured that it will be delivered by Francis Fukuyama, one of the most influential political scientists of his generation.

Dr Fukuyama will join us via webcast from California. He will deliver a lecture, to be followed by a conversation with Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove.

Join us for this conversation with two of Washington’s most respected and well-connected journalists (and husband and wife). This event will be held three days after the US presidential election. Glasser and Baker will sift through the results and assess the implications. What will be the next president’s priorities, who will be their key advisers, and what will America’s international partners and adversaries make of the result?

Now in its eighth year, the Lowy Institute Media Award is Australia’s premier award for recognising excellence in foreign affairs journalism. It is presented to an Australian journalist or team working in print, broadcast or online media who has deepened the knowledge or shaped the discussion of international policy. The winner or winning team receives $20,000.