Seminars 2003

Tuesday. 18 February 1.00-2.00pm

'Virtual non-profit organisations: social and cultural processes towards open and democratic society: A case of literary virtual communities in Russia'

Dr Luba Torlina

(School of Information Systems, Deakin University) and

Dr Gennadi Kazakevitch

(CERC/Department of Economics, Monash University)

Tuesday 4 March 1.00-2.00pm

with Gender Studies, Department of History, University of Melbourne:

'Hungarian Women and the Transformation of their Ideal Life Course: The Relationship Between Representation and Embodied Experience'

Dr Barbara West

(CERC/University of the Pacific, USA)

Tuesday 11 March 1.00-2.00pm

with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne:

'The making of modern scientific personae - the scientist as a moral person?'

Dr Irmline Veit-Brause

(CERC/Deakin University)

Tuesday 25 March 1.00-2.00pm

with the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs

'The Future of the Past: The Role of National Heritage in the New EU'

Professor Jacek Purchla

(Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Friday 28 March 1.00-2.00pm

with the Department of Political Science, The University of Melbourne, and the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA)

'Britian, Europe and Iraq'

Mr Patrick Ensor

(Editor, The Guardian Weekly )

Tuesday 1 April 1.00-2.00pm

'Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons and the Migration of Memory'

Professor Lubomyr Lucuik

(Royal Military College, Canada)

Tuesday 15 April 1.00-2.00pm

with the Institute for Comparative and International Law, University of Melbourne:

'Convergence, Divergence and the Middle Way in Harmonising or Unifying Private Law: Recent European Developments and Implications for Australia'

Dr Luke Nottage

(Faculty of Law, Sydney University)

Tuesday 29 April 1.00-2.00pm

'The Beginning of the End of the US World Hegemony: A European Perspective'

Professor Laszlo Csapo

(CERC/University of Economic and State Sciences and the Hungarian Scientific Academy, Budapest)

Tuesday 20 May 1.00-2.00pm

'Brussels - A New Tower of Babel'

Professor Peter Hans Nelde

(German Linguistics, Brussels University)

Tuesday 27 May 1.00-2.00pm

'The Trans-Atlantic Relationship and the Future of the European Union after Pre-emptive Intervention in Iraq'

Dr George Joffe

(Royal Institute of International Affairs, London)

Tuesday 3 June 1.00-2.00pm

'On the side of modernity: Why US hegemony will persist and the EU will not be a challenger'

Mr Michael Warby

Tuesday 10 June 1.00-2.00pm

'The Russo-Japanese War: A Reassessment'

Dr Geoffrey Jukes

(CERC/Australian National University)

Tuesday 24 June 1.00-2.00pm

'The Conservative Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe'

Dr Stefan Auer

(Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin/CERC)

Tuesday 8 July 1.00-2.00pm

'The Predicament of Diaspora: Muslims in Britain'

Prof. Pnina Werbner

(Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Keele University)

Tuesday 22 July 1.00-2.00pm

with the Department of English, The University of Melbourne

‘The Literary Process in the New Europe'

Prof. Michael Henry Heim

(University of California at Los Angeles)

Thursday 24 July 1.00-2.00pm

'Europe's Asylum and Refugee Policy since 11 September 2001'

Dr Carl Levy

(University of London)

Tuesday 12 August 1.00-2.00pm

with the Department of Political Science, The University of Melbourne

'The Death of the West? The transatlantic Alliance in an Age of American Ascendancy'

Professor Michael Cox

(London School of Economics)

Tuesday 26 August 1.00-2.00pm

with the Department of Political Science, The University of Melbourne and CEESA

'Why EU Policy Harmonisation Undermines Refugee Burden-Sharing'

Professor Eiko Theilemann

(London School of Economics)

Tuesday 16 September 1.00-2.00pm

'The Russian Public: Defender of Democracy?'

Professor Robert Grey

(Grinnell University)

Thursday 2 October 1.00-2.00pm

with the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA)

'Farm Lobby Groups in the EU and Australia: A comparison'

Dr Linda Botterill

(National Europe Centre ANU)

Tuesday 14 October 1.00-2.00pm

with CESAA and Dept of Political Science, University of Melbourne:

'The Convention's Draft Constitution: Towards a more federal EU?'

Professor Finn Laursen

(Director, Centre for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark)