ADRI Events

Upcoming events
1 May 2012 Seminar: The 'Origins' of European Fascism. Memory and Violence in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Dr Magdalena Zolkos, University of Western Sydney, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30pm-5.00pm
Building C, Room C2.05
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
8 May 2012 Seminar: Care and selfhood in Heidegger's Being and Time
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Dr Simon Lumsden, University of New South Wales, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30pm-5.00pm
Building C Room C2.05
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
15 May 2012 Seminar: Thinking time and change via Deleuze
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Dr Antonia Pont, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30pm-5.00pm
Building HE, Room HE2.016
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
29 May 2012 Seminar: Why technology is not an 'extension of the body'
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Dr Peter Woelert, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30pm-5.00pm
Building C, Room C2.05
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
30 May 2012 Seminar: The heritage of Melbourne's water supply
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Dr Helen Doyle (consultant Historian)

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
5 June 2012 Seminar: Sex, temperance and virtue
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Professor Stan van Hooft, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30pm-5.00pm
Building C, Room C.205
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus 

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
12 June 2012 Seminar: negation, contradiction and the world: Hegel's logic in the light of the history of logic
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citisenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, are pleased to be hosting a seminar by Professor Paul Redding, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Building C, Room C.205
Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus

For further information please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
27 June 2012 Seminar: Negotiating veterans heritage in the lead up to the centenary of World War I
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Dr Marina Larsson (Veterans unit, Department of Planning and Community Development).

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
25 July 2012 Seminar: Melbourne @ 5 Million - can the city's heritgae planning meet the challenge?
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Associate Professor Renate Howe, Deakin University.

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
29 August 2012 Seminar: Muse/Museal - a fashion exhibition and a grotto
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Elizabeth Anya-Petrivina (national Trust of Australia (Victoria)/RMIT.

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
26 September 2012 Seminar: Measuring the deconstruction of heritage and spikes of violence in Iraq
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Dr Ben Isakhan, Deakin University.

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
31 October 2012 Seminar: Affectivity and darkness; impressions of the Museum of Old and New Art
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Dr Janice Baker, Deakin University

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
28 November 2012 Seminar: What is social value? Relfecting on 20 years of practice
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to host a seminar by Chris Johnston (Director, Context Pty Ltd and Honorary Fellow, Deakin University).

5.30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au

 

Past events  
24 April 2012

Deakin Policy Forum: ‘Media Wars and Digital Laws: Facts, Fears and Finkelstein’
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a Breakfast Forum as part of the Deakin Policy Forum (DPF) ‘Media Wars and Digital Laws: Facts, Fears and Finkelstein’.  

Speakers
Professor Julian Disney, AO, Chairman of the Australian Press Council
Mr Tony Walker, International Editor, The Australian Financial Review
Professor Henry Ergas, Correspondent for The Australian and  Professor of Economics, University of  Wollongong.
Mr John Roskam, CEO, The Institute of Public Affairs
Associate Professor Martin Hirst, Associate Professor in Journalism, Deakin University

For further information, please contact Professor Michael Porter michael.porter@deakin.edu.au
24 April 2012 Seminar: Conformity to Law in Kant's 3rd Critique
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
24 April 2012 Seminar: Remembering the Holocaust and forgetting Genocide in Britain
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by Dr Tom Lawson (University of Winchester, UK).

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
17 April 2012 Seminar: For a Philosophy of the Market: The case of Elie Ayache
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
12-13 April 2012 Conference: Papua New Guinea: Securing a prosperous future
A two-day conference exploring the opportunities and challenges for a Papua New Guinea seeking security and prosperity.  The conference was hosted by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute in partnership with the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Richard Marles MP, and was supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and AusAID.

For further information please go to the conference webpage or contact: adri-events@deakin.edu.au.
3 April 2012

Seminar: The mind as an idea in Spinoza's Short Treatise
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Colin Marshall, University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
28 March 2012 Seminar: Our heritage report card: The State of the Australian Enviornment 2006-2011
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by Professor Richard Mackay AM (Partner of Godden Mackay Logan Heritage Consultants and Adjunct Professor in the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University).

For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
27 March 2012 Seminar: Reading Hadot via Costa Lima:  Philosophy as a Way of Life and “the Control of the Imaginary”
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Matthew Sharpe as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
22 March 2012

Deakin Policy Forum: Changing Fashions in Public Sector Governance
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the ANZ Bank hosted a Breakfast Forum as part of the Deakin Policy Forum (DPF) 'Changing Fashions in Public Sector Governance including Experiences Under the Rudd and Gillard Governments.  

Speaker: Terry Moran, Former Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Under Prime Ministers, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.  
Discussants: Professor Alan Fels, AO, Director, ANZSOG and former Chairman of the ACCC; John Roskam, CEO, The Institute of Public Affairs and David Byrne, Director, Infrastructure and Utilities ANZ Bank.

For further information please contact Jenn Edwick on 5227 8971 or email: jenn.edwick@deakin.edu.au
20 March 2012

Seminar: Time, Philosophy and Chronopathologies
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Jack Reynolds, La Trobe University, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
14 March 2012 Seminar: Historicist objections to the centrality of work, and a tentative rejoinder
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Associate Professor Jean-Philippe Deranty, Macquarie University, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
9 March 2012 Workshop: Australia, Nationalism and Transnationalism: Australianness and Beyond
This workshop re-examined a history of Australian nationalism in all its many manifestations: civic, political, cultural, and ethnic.  Paying attention to inclusions and exclusions – those connected to race, gender and ethnicity, for example – it will explore evolving understandings of Australian nationalism across various political and cultural frameworks, including colonial, imperial and Commonwealth.  At a time when so many Australian historians are engaged in comparative and transnational studies, this workshop will contribute towards writing the nation back into the Australian story, while also contemplating the international and historical consequences of that undertaking.

For further information please contact Professor David Lowe on 03 52272691 or email director-adri@deakin.edu.au.  
6 March 2012 Seminar: The Naked Self: Some Kierkegaardian Contributions to Analytic Philosophy of Personal Identity
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Dr Patrick Stokes as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
5 March 2012

Fusion Lecture:  'Measuring structural vulnerability at the country level: why and how?'
Professor Patrick Guillaumont, Président of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI) presented the third Fusion Lecture.

The Fusion lecture series features prominent thinkers on current public policy issues, and is named in recognition of the intellectual and political legacy of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second Prime Minister and a leading figure in Australian federation (Deakin led a 'fusion' government, comprised of groups that would soon afterwards become the first Australian Liberal Party, in 1909-10).The Fusion lectures draw inspiration from Alfred Deakin in bringing different disciplines to bear in interpreting and responding to global and regional change.

For further information contact adri-events@deakin.edu.au or phone 52271464.
28 February 2012 Seminar: Inaugural 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a seminar by Professor Jim Hopkins, Kings College London.

For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
25 February 2012 In Conversation with Prof. Jim Hopkins: 'Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Psychoanalytic Method'
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The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation hosted an In Conversation Event with Professor Jim Hopkins.

For further information, please contact Associate Professor Russell Grigg rgrigg@deakin.edu.au or phone: 0421 030 699.
17 February 2012 Presentation: Musical Transitions Project
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Dr Katherine Butler Scholfield and Dr David Irving of King's College, London, spoke about the Musical Transitions project, a four-year research programme (2011-2014) funded by the European Research Council and based in the Music Department at King’s College London.

For further information, please contact Dr Joanna Cruickshank joanna.cruickshank@deakin.edu.au
15 February 2012 Book Launch: 'Australia and Appeasement' by Dr Christopher Waters
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The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted the launch of the latest book by Dr Christopher Waters 'Australia and Appeasement'. The book was launched by Professor David Lowe at Readings Hawthorn.

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4 February 2012

Conference: “What do we want for our Head of State?”
The Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights hotsed a conference on the role of the Australian Head of State, both now and into the future.

For further information please contact:

Simon Bateman, ARM Victorian Convenor
sbateman@netspace.net.au or ph:0430 283 949

Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University
damien.kingsbury@deakin.edu.au or ccdhr@deakin.edu.au, or ph:03 9244 6410

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2 December 2011

Deakin Policy Forum: ‘The State of the Economic Policy Debate’
This inaugural Deakin Policy Forum (DPF) looked at ‘The State of the Economic Policy Debate’ including 'The state of the Economics Profession and Treasuries'. The lead speakers were Professors Henry Ergas and Judith Sloan, both frequent writers on wide-ranging policy issues and lively contributors to the economic debate.
30 November 2011 Book Launch: Latest volumes in the Routledge Key Issues in Cultural Heritage Series.
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, together with the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the School of Humanities and Social Science hosted the launch of the latest volumes in the Routledge Key Issues in Cultural Heritage Series. The volumes were officially launched by Professor Andrew Reeves, Monash University and Professor Lee Astheimer, DVC (Research) Deakin University.

The Heritage of War (Editors Martin Gegner & Bart Ziino) and Heritage, Labour & the Working Classes (Editors Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackell & Gary Campbell).

For further information please contact Vilia Dukas on 9251 7110 or email: vilia.dukas@deakin.edu.au
5 November 2011

Conference: Hard Labor? The crisis of social democracy in the Australian state level
A one day conference that combined academic and practitioner comment on the experience of state Labor administrations with particular reference to New South Wales and Victoria.

For further information please contact Dr Geoff Robinson on 522 71452 or email geoffrey.robinson@deakin.edu.au
22 September 2011 Workshop and Public Lecture: Religion and the Nation
A one day workshop on Religion and the Nation, followed by a Public Lecture, delivered by Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor for The Australian, spoke on the topic: ‘What role can or should religion play in a modern nation?’

For further information please contact Dr Samuel Koehne on 52278692 or email samuel.koehne@deakin.edu.au
8 September 2011 'Yes, I am a baby boomer but it is not my fault'
The Alfred Deakin Research Insitute hosted the sixth annual 'It's not my faulty forum' on 8 September 2011. Actor/singer/comedian and novelist Jane Clifton, Professor David Walker and Dr Kim Toffoletti spoke on the topic 'Yes, I am a baby boomer but its not my fault'.

The event was recorded by ABC Radio National and will go to air on 9am, Monday 3 October on the Life Matters program. The frequency for Radio National is 621 on the AM dial for listeners in Melbourne and Geelong and for Warrnambool it is 101.7 on FM. It will also be podcast.

For information regarding this event please contact: adri-events@deakin.edu.au
3 August 2011 Getting under the skin of immigration

Panel Discussion by the Hon. Dr Barry Jones AO, Professor Fazal Rizvi, Dr Benjamin Isakhan and Professor David Lowe

As part of DeakinWeek, this prominent group of leading minds convened to discuss and debate multiculturalism and immigration – exploring interrelated issues such as immigration’s educational, social, political and economic effects, and attempt richer contextualisation of Australia’s experience of immigration.

For information regarding this event please contact: adri-events@deakin.edu.au
27 May 2011 Symposium: PNG Today - And Tomorrow?
Papua New Guinea’s place and status in the Pacific region is undergoing a historic shift through its growth in population and the development of its natural resources. For Australians, this transition will require our own transformation.  How should we respond to PNG’s growing influence in the region?

The Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, the Hon. Richard Marles MP, invited the Alfred Deakin Research Institute to convene a symposium aimed at facilitating discussion on these important developments in our region. 

For information on this event, please contact adri-events@deakin.edu.au
19 April 2011

Fusion Lecture - "Two World Wars and the Meaning of the 20th Century"
Professor David Reynolds presented the second Fusion Lecture at RACV Club, Melbourne and offered some topical reflections on how the two world wars have shaped Australia's sense of meaning of the 20th century.

The Fusion lecture series features prominent thinkers on current public policy issues, and is named in recognition of the intellectual and political legacy of Alfred Deakin, Australia's second Prime Minister and a leading figure in Australian federation (Deakin led a 'fusion' government, comprised of groups that would soon afterwards become the first Australian Liberal Party, in 1909-10).The Fusion lectures draw inspiration from Alfred Deakin in bringing different disciplines to bear in interpreting and responding to global and regional change.
8-9 April 2011

Conference - Public Diplomacy in Theory and Practice: Culture, Information and Interpretation in Australian-Indian Relations

A two day International Conference held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, co-ordinated by Prof. David Lowe, Director, Alfred Deakin Research Institute and Dr Amit Sarwal, Department of English, Rajdhani College, New Delhi.

For more information, please contact: Mr David Das, Senior Manager (India), Deakin India Office,  E-mail: david.das@deakin.edu.au  and Phone: 9811180725.
29 March 2011

Official Opening of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute and the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library was officially opened by Hon Simon Crean MP, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government; Minister for the Arts.
23-24 January 2011 Melanesian Biography Workshop
By invitation only
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