Public Seminars and Lectures 2007
FEBRUARY 2007
1 February 2007
The
State of Humanity and the Transition from Authoritarian Communism to
Democratic Capitalism
Professor Svetozar Stojanovic,
Serbian-American Centre, Belgrade and Belgrade University
13 February 2007
The Role of the European
Union in the Pacific"
Their Excellencies,
Ambassador Roberto Ridolfi, Head, EC Delegation for the Pacific
Ambassador Aldo Dell’Ariccia, Head, EC Delegation for Papua New
Guinea
Mr Nicolas Martinez, Chargé d’Affaires, EC Delegation for
Vanuatu
Mr Henry Prankerd, Chargé d’Affaires, EC Delegation for
the Solomon Islands
Mr Jean Pierre Pierard, Chargé d’Affaires, EC Delegation
for New Caledonia
15 February 2007
presents
Consolidating and Reaching Out: Europe as a Global Actor
Her Excellency, Ms Tarja Halonen, President
of the Republic of Finland
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here for the transcript of the Public Lecture. To download the recording click here.
27 February 2007
Inside European
Institutions Series
SECURITY AND POLITICS IN A CHANGING EUROPEAN
UNION: An Informal Conversation with a European Parliamentary Delegation
March 2007
2-3 March 2007
Australian-European
Lawyers Conference 2007, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
This event coincided with celebrations for the 50th Anniversary
of the Treaty of Rome, the foundation of the European Union.
Sponsored by: Law Council of Australia International Law Section
European Focus Group in cooperation with the ANU National Europe Centre,
Monash University European and EU Centre.
22 March 2007
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary
of the Treaty of Rome
50 Years in the Making: Is There
a European Citizenry?
Dr Michael Brüter , Senior Lecturer in European Political Science, London School of Economics
and Political Science
27 March 2007
ANU Cultures of Human Rights Network [CHuRN]
Campus Seminar Series 2007
The International Human Rights System
Professor Hilary Charlesworth,
RegNet, ANU.This lecture will outlined human rights institutions and principles
developed at the international level and explained their successes and
failures.Click here to download the lecture.
28 March 2007
Can Europe Compete in a Globalized
World? The Lisbon Agenda of Economic Reform and Its Implementation in
the EU Member States
Dr
Anna Gwiazda, Research Fellow, Dublin European Institute,
School of Politics & International Relations, University College
of Dublin, & Visiting Fellow, National Europe Centre. Click here to download the lecture.
31 March 2007
Human Rights in Australia: Whatever
happened to a fair go?
Julian Burnside QC, Director, The Justice
Project
April 2007
17 April 2007
Building Peace in Northern
Ireland: A Review
Excellency The Rt Hon Helen Liddell, British
High Commissioner, and
His Excellency Mr Máirtín Ó Fainín, Ambassador
for Ireland
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27 April 2007
FROM MULTI-NATIONAL EMPIRE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION: AUSTRIAN NATIONALISM
IN TRANSITION
‘The Rise of Austrian Political Radicalism, 1848-1914’
Dr Jonathan Kwan, The University of Nottingham
‘Pan-Germanism in Interwar
Austria: Reconsidering the Lager Theory in Austrian Politics’
Dr Julie Thorpe, Visiting Scholar, National Europe
Centre, ANU.
‘The HC Rap: Popular Culture
and the Extreme Right in Twenty-First Century Austria’
Dr Emily Turner-Graham, The University of Melbourne.
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May 2007
8 May 2007
SCOTLAND AFTER DEVOLUTION: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE?
Sir Bernard Crick, Honorary Fellow in Politics,
Edinburgh University.
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15 May 2007
LIFELONG LEARNING: ITS ROLE IN EUROPEAN
COMMISSION'S EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AGENDA.
David White, Director of Lifelong Learning, Education
and Training Policy at the European Commission's Education and Culture
Directorate General.
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THE GREEK LANGUAGE: ITS
CONTRIBUTION TO THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF EUROPEAN CIVIILISATION.
Professor George Babiniotis, President of the
Hellenic Foundation for Culture,
Director of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and former
Rector of the University of Athens.
June 2007
5 June 2007
TURKEY’S CONTRIBUTION TO REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STABILITY.
His Excellency N. Murat Ersavci, Turkish Ambassador
to the Commonwealth of Australia.
18 June 2007
Improving International Environmental Governance (IEG): Main Challenges.
Dr. Lucien Chabason, Professor of Environmental
Policy, Political Studies Institute of Paris.
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19 June 2007
Cyprus, Turkey and the European
Union: Prospects and Challenges
Professor Van Coufoudakis, Rector, Intercollege,
Nicosia
26 June 2007
Australia's Common Law System: Why so resistant to rights?
Professor
Peter Bailey, ANU College of Law.
July 2007
11 July 2007
Semi-Presidentialism
and Democratisation in Poland
Dr Iain McMenamin, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University and Visiting Fellow
at the National Europe Centre and the Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University.
17 July 2007
Building the Infrastructure to Manage Uncertainty:
Experiences from Inside the EU
Professor Ron Johnston, Executive Director of the Australian Centre
for Innovation (ACIIC)
Click here to download the debate following the lecture.
18 July 2007
From Constitutional Referendum to Presidential Election: France
and the EU Since 2005
H.E. François Descoueyte, Ambassador
of France to Australia.
26 July 2007
US Defence Trade
Controls: Sticky Issues for Allies
Roland L Trope, Partner, Trope and Schramm
LLP, New York City, USA.
August 2007
3 August 2007
A New World of Welfare? A Study
of Migrant Workers' Experiences and Their Understanding of Social Security
Dr Virpi Timonen, Director
of the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre (SPARC), Trinity College,
Dublin, and Visiting Fellow,
National Europe Centre.
8 August 2007
Criminal Investigation: The Transnational
Context
Dr Clive Harfield,
Academic Leader and Deputy Director of the John Grieve Centre for Policing
and Community Safety at London Metropolitan University and Visiting
Fellow, National Europe Centre.
15 August 2007
Climate Change, Migration
Flows and Environmental Responsibility: Europe between Mitigation and
Adaptation
Dr François Gemenne, FNRS research fellow at the Centre
for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liege
(Belgium) and at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI)
at Sciences-Po Paris and Visiting Fellow, National Europe Centre.
September 2007
11 September 2007
CHuRN Campus Seminar Series: "9/11: Six Years On"
Professor Simon Bronitt, Director, National Europe Centre and ANU College
of Law.
14 September 2007
What is Europe? Defining Europe
and Understanding its Diversity: The Case of South Eastern Europe
Professor Dr Mitja Zagar, Research Councilor at the Institute for Ethnic
Studies & Professor at the University of Ljubljana (Faculties of
Social Sciences, & Law), & University of Primorska/Litoral,
Koper and Visiting Fellow, National Europe Centre, ANU.
27 September 2007
Immigration and Islam in Italy
Mr
Adam Berryman, PhD researcher at the Contemporary
Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow,
National Europe Centre, The Australian National University.
October 2007
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Nuclear Proliferation and the Nuclear
Policies of Russia and the USA
Professor Dr Alexander Nikitin, Director, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Security, MGIMO University [Moscow],
and President of the Russian Political Science Association
Friday 5 October 2007
Self-Determination in the Twenty-first Century: The Relationship
Between Colonialism and Contemporary Nationalist Assertions of Self-Determination
in Ireland
Amy Maguire, Tutor and Doctoral candidate in the School of
Law at The University of Newcastle, Australia, and Visitor, National
Europe Centre, ANU.
Tuesday 9 October 2007
The seventh seminar of the ANU CHuRN Campus Seminar Series 2007. This
Series is a funded initiative of the National Institute of Social Sciences
& Law, ANU College of Law and the National Europe Centre, Research
School of Humanities, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Rights, Power and the Making of
the International System
Professor Chris Reus-Smit, International Relations, Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.
European Union and Turkish Relations:
Challenges and Prospects
Professor Kemal Kirisci, Professor of International Relations and Jean
Monnet Chair in European Integration, Bogazici University, Istanbul.
22 October 2007
A seminar in the Russian and East European Series:
The Cultural Norms and Assumptions
Embedded in the Russian Language: Continuity and Change
Professor Alexei Shmelev,
Professor of Russian Linguistics at Moscow Pedagogical State University
and Head of Department of Linguistic Standards of Russian at the Institute
of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr Elena Shmeleva, Senior
Researcher of Department of Linguistic Standards of Russian at the Institute
of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Irina Levontina,
is co-author of Kljuchevye idei russkoj jazykovoj kartiny mira [Key
Ideas of Russian Linguistic Picture of the World] (2005, with Anna Zalizniak
and Alexei Shmelev)
November 2007
19 November 2007
Seminar at the School of Language Studies, Research School of Humanities,
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Alexander Mikhailovich Zuzenko (1884-1938)
Ms Ksenia Aleksandrovna Zuzenko, Daughter of Alexander Mikhailovich Zuzenko
13 November 2007
CHuRN Campus Seminar Series 2007: Final for 2007
" Genocide and Human Rights"
Dr John Docker, Humanities Research Centre, CASS,
Details: http://law.anu.edu.au/nissl/churn_sem07.pdf
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