The CHL Flagship Program

In 2019, the School of Culture History & Language at ANU launched its flagship program, designed to bring together the School’s wide-ranging multidisciplinary expertise to tackle key issues we see as critical in today’s times:

•   Leading the way for engagement with Asia and the Pacific

•   Transforming our understanding of the lifeways of people and populations in our region

•   Help future-proof the nation by serving as a partner and essential resource for all who focus on Asia and the Pacific.

Since its inception, the CHL flagship program maps on to these three strategic goals and aims to not only bring some of the best minds to ANU to contribute, but also provide momentum within the School to collaborate and initiate new projects into the future. They showcase the innovative and approaches we are exploring, be it in the field of language learning, transdisciplinary research, decolonising the academy or the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Immersia: A Novel Multicultural Festival

Immersia saw its pilot launch in December 2022.

This campus-wide, annual multicultural perspectives festival serves as a cohesive platform bringing together all of CHL's flagship events and many more events and activities from across ANU. It brings together our versatile and multidisciplinary facets into a collective, fun and educationally rich celebration.

The vision that led to the genesis of this concept was to bring together our research and student community and strengthen collaboration and knowledge sharing across the university and beyond.

We host Immersia annually and will be in our fifth year in 2026. Visit https://immersia.anu.edu.au to know more about this continued journey of immersive cultural learning, fun, food and festivity!

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Past Flagship Events: Highlights

Culture and Language Education (CALE)

Culture and Language Education (CALE) is an evolving hub of resources and research to support the innovative study of the languages and cultures of Asia and the Pacific.

Decolonial Possibilities

“Decolonising the Academy: Trans-Indigenous Possibilities” is a Flagship project of the School of Culture, History and Language at the ANU, that brings together Indigenous scholars from across Australia, the Pacific and Asia, in an ongoing dialogu

Synapse Trans-Disciplinary Seminar Series

Synapse explores questions of human history that emerge at the intersection of multiple-disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, archaeology, cultural evolution, genetics, history, linguistics, palaeoecology and philosophy.