Gareth Evans to lecture on Commmonwealth Diplomacy and the End of Apartheid

This inaugural lecture is in honour of former ANU Vice–Chancellor and great Commonwealth of Nations scholar and Africanist the late Professor Anthony Low. The speaker ANU Chancellor Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC  describes what remains one of the Commonwealth’s proudest achievements: its role in hastening the end of apartheid in South Africa. The lecture will focus — from his his insider’s perspective as Foreign Minister in these crucial years — on the central part in that enterprise played from the beginning by Australia.

Register now at
http://bellschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/4694/anthony-low-commonwealth-lecture-commonwealth-diplomacy-and-end-apartheid

Bell School Public Lecture
Date & time
Thursday 17 November 2016
5.30pm–7pm

Venue
APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre (130), corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Street, ANU
Canberra

Speaker
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC

Contacts
Bell School
bellschool@anu.edu.au

An obituary for Anthony Low was posted on this weblog in February 2015 at http://africanetwork.weblogs.anu.edu.au/page/5/

 

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