Seminars 2005

Monday 21 February 1:00-2:00pm

Ms Iva Pauker

(PhD Candidate, CERC, University of Melbourne)

"Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia - prospects for confronting the past and envisaging a future?"

Monday 7 March 1:00-2:00pm

Mr Andrew Hurley

(Department of German and Swedish Studies, University of Melbourne)

"The pan-European Free Jazz Orchestra - a path towards "emancipation" from the US jazz model and from the ghosts of National Socialism? "

Monday 14 March 1:00-2:00pm

Mr Matthew Killingsworth

(PhD Candidate, CERC, The University of Melbourne)

"Opposition and Dissent in Soviet Type Regimes: Civil Society and its Limitations"

Monday 18 April 1:00-2:00pm

Prof Jörg Fisch

(Modern History, University of Zurich)

"Why is Europe the only continent with a history?"

Abstract and Bio

Monday 2 May 1:00-2:00pm

Prof John Power

(Prof Emeritus, Political Science, The University of Melbourne)

"An Irish Style Presidency for Australia?"

Tuesday 21 June 1:00-2:00pm

Professor Gudrun Biffl

(Senior Research Fellow, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Professor of Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna)

"Immigration to Europe in the Context of EU Enlargement"

Tuesday 19 July 1:00-2:00pm

Dr Simon Lightfoot

(School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University)

"The consolidation of Europarties? The impact of the party article on the development of political parties in the European Union"

Tuesday 9 August 1:00-2:00pm

Associate Professor Carlo Altomonte

(Department of Economics, Universita Bocconi)

"The way ahead: Economics and policies in the enlarged Europe"

Tuesday 23 August 1:00-2:00pm

Dr Leo Cooper

(CERC Senior Fellow)

"Long Road to the Lucky Country: European Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia"

Abstract

Tuesday 30 August 1:00-2:00pm

Dr Avi Tucker

(Social and Political Theory, Research School of Social Science, The Australian National University)

"A Theory of Post-Totalitarianism"

abstract and biog

Thursday 1 September 1:00-2:00pm

M. Laurent Delahousse

(Consul-General of France)

"Europe in crisis: causes for concern, reasons for optimism"

biog

Tuesday 18 October 1:00-2:00pm

Ms Trish O'Connor

(NUI Maynooth, BA (Hons), MA and HDipEd)

"The Orange and the Green down-under: Migrancy and identity among Northern and Southern Irish immigrants in Australia"

Abstract and bio

Tuesday 25 October 1:00-2:00pm

Ms. Jolanta Piliponyte

(University of Vilnius, Lithuania)

"Aspects of Corruption in Lithuania"

Abstract and bio

Monday 31st October 1:00-2:00pm

Professor Archie Brown

(St.Antony's College Oxford University)

"The Concept of Political Culture and its application to the Russian Case"

Down load audio mp3 (approx 15 MB)

Tuesday 15 November 12:45-2:15pm

(in co-operation with the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne )

Ambassador Murat Bilhan & Prof Mustafin Aydin (Ankara University)

in discussion with a selection of University of Melbourne Academics

"Perspectives on Turkey and the EU: Islam, Democracy and the Contemporary State"

HE Bilhan & Prof Aydin Biogs and list of participants

Thursday 17 November 1:00-2:00pm

Mr Vladimir Zoric

(PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham)

"Aspects of Exsilium"

Absract and Biography

Tuesday 22 November 1:00-2:00pm

Alexey Muraviev

(Curtin University of Technology)

"Russia's Grand Chess Game in Asia: The Military-strategic dimensions of Russia's policy in the Asia-Pacific-Indian Ocean region and implications for Australia's security"

Abstract

Wednesday 23 November 1:00-2:00pm

Matthew Baldwin

(Acting Director, Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission, Brussels)

"EU-Australia trade and economic relations: nothing but problems?"

Absract and Biography

Wednesday 30 November

CERC Postgraduate Conference: Politics of Belonging: Citizenship, Migration and Ethnic Conflict in Europe.

Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd December

CERC International Conference: A Bitter Triumph? The Crisis of the European Project in the Aftermath of Enlargement.

Keynote Speech by Professor Jacques Rupnik

(Research Director at CERI - Foundation National des Sciences Politiques, Paris)

Conference Program