Seminars 2008

Seminars already held in 2008

Tuesday 4 March
CERC Roundtable
The Russian Presidential Election: Orchestration, Facade or Choice?

Held in conjunction with the Innovative Universities European Union Centre, La Trobe University

Chair:
A/Prof Judy Armstrong

Speakers:
Tony Phillips (CERC Fellow)
Prof Leslie Holmes (Deputy Director CERC)
Dr Robert Horvath (Charles La Trobe Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University)

abstract & biogs

Thursday 6 March
1:00 to 2:00pm
Rm 519 5th Floor John Medley bldg, West Tower

Joint Seminar with School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology

Prof Chris Skelcher

(Director of Research for the School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Governance at INLOGOV at the University of Birmingham)

"Democracy and governance networks"

Tuesday 11 March
Part of CERC's Spinelli Lecture Series

Prof Richard Pearson

(Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research and at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester and Research Director at the Employability Forum)

"Shaping Immigration Policy and Numbers: Some international reflections"

abstract and bio

Download audio mp3 (approx 14MB)

Powerpoint

Tuesday 22 April
Part of CERC's Spinelli Lecture Series

H.E. Gábor Csaba

(Ambassador of Hungary)

“The Significance of the Transatlantic Link: A Central European Perspective”

abstract & bio

Wednesday 30 April
1:00-2:00pm
Rm 521 5th Floor 234 Queensberry St
Part of CERC's Spinelli Lecture Series

Joint Seminar with French Trust Fund and the School of Languages and Linguistics

Prof Jean-Noel Jeanneney

(President, Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

National stereo-types and the construction of the European Union

Please note that this seminar will be presented in French.

Biography

Download audio mp3 (12 MB)

Tuesday 6 May

Joint Seminar with the School of Historical Studies

Greg Burgess

Lecturer in European and World History and Historiography at Deakin University, Geelong

Historicising Asylum: France and its refugees between idealism and pragmatism

Abstract & Bio

Download audio mp3 (16 MB)

Wednesday 14 May

1.00 pm and 2.00 pm
RM 211 Level 2
234 Queensberry St
Carlton

H.E. Viktor Gaber

(Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia)

The Republic of Macedonia after the NATO Summit in Budapest

Abstract & Bio