Past Events
Seminar: Gender and Class in PNG: The Story of Stella
14 May 2013
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Ceridwen Spark, as part of the 2013 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
12:30-1:30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks in Melanesia
30 April 2013
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Simon Feeny, as part of the 2013 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
12:30-1:30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: The Joint Historical Archaeological Survey of the Anzac area, Gallipoli
23 April 2013
The Alfred Deakin Research Instute and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific have pleasure in inviting you to the second of Deakin's Cultural Heritage seminars for 2013, delivered by Cliff Ogleby (University of Melbourne).
This presentation will give an overview and preliminary results from the three government historical archaeological survey being undertaken on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. There have been three seasons of work to date, involving people from the University of Melbourne, The Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, the Turkish Government and the 18th March University in Canakkale.
The expedition combines extensive ground investigation looking for the remains of trenches and tunnels, the collection and conservation of artefacts, and mapping the results in a Geographic Information System. The 2012 season also employed ground penetrating radar (GPR) to detect trench remains under the main monuments at Lone Pine and the surrounds, The Nek and the car park at the 57th Battalion memorial.
Cliff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has over 30 years experience in the recording and documentation of cultural monuments, ranging from archaeological sites to rock paintings to buildings and structures. He is a foundation member of Australia ICOMOS, and has served on the ICOMOS ISC CIPA Heritage Documentation executive including 3 years as President. Cliff applies modern measurement and mapping technologies including photogrammetry, GIS, GPS, 3d laser scanning and field survey in archaeology and heritage documentation. He is also a member of the JHAS Gallipoli team
5:30pm
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne (entry via William Street).
See http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/about-us/our-headquarters
Please RSVP to Steven Cooke: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: A Tale of Two Cities - Drought and Desalination in Perth and Melbourne
12 April 2013
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Michael Porter and Sarah Hilborn, as part of the 2013 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
2:30-3:30pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Campus
Level 3, 550 Bourke Street
Melbourne
For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Symposium: 'Leadership for the Next Generation: the third Alfred Deakin Research Institute symposium on Papua New Guinea
4-5 April 2013
The 2013 symposium will focus on leadership as a challenge and as a way of understanding contemporary PNG. With a new Government in PNG following the 2012 election, it is time to examine the issue that has dominated the nation's political discourse for so long.
Expressions of interest are now closed, but please visit the symposium website for further information, or contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: 'Sovereignty, translation and the integration of nature and culture in Asia-Pacific World Heritage'
21 March, 2013
The Alfred Deakin Research Instute and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific have pleasure in inviting you to the first of Deakin's Cultural Heritage seminars for 2013, delivered by Professor Ian Lilley (University of Queensland).
The World Heritage 'system' is having trouble accommodating Indigenous demands for recognition and involvement. The sticking points concern matters of sovereignty and translation. Sovereignty encompasses the perceived threat to the integrity of the nation-state from Indigenous claims on the one hand and what Indigenous people see as the affront to their autonomy represented by the universalizing processes of the World Heritage system on the other. Translation is central to this tension, because the parties involved seem largely unable to appreciate each other's presumptions and constraints. In terms of World Heritage policies, the problem has arisen largely because the we are not linking the priority '5 C's' together properly, especially when it comes to matching up 'communities' with 'communication'. This is probably most evident in the continuing separation of nature and culture in the World Heritage system, despite the fact that many of the communities we deal with have been communicating for some time that they don't approach their heritage this way. This seminar considers ways we all might do better in this connection, with a focus on our Asia-Pacific neighbourhood.
Ian Lilley is Professor in UQ's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. He oversees ATSISU's research activities and the University's Indigenous postgraduate support program, and facilitates other research on Indigenous matters. He has undertaken archaeological and cultural heritage studies throughout mainland Australia as well as in Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea and various parts of the Pacific. He did his PhD fieldwork in PNG, investigating ancient indigenous trading systems. His current projects focus on World Heritage and Indigenous people, local capacity-building in cultural heritage management, globally and in the Asia-Pacific, and on developments in Pacific archaeology in New Caledonia, where he does field research with French colleagues. Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and Convenor of the International Heritage Group NGO. He is a World Heritage Assessor for the UNESCO advisory body ICOMOS and Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management. His other professional interests are archaeology and identity, archaeology's role in contemporary society and archaeological ethics.
5:30pm
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne (entry via William Street).
See http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/about-us/our-headquarters
Please RSVP to Steven Cooke: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
Forum: 'The Economics of Health Prevention: Getting down to business'
14 March, 2013
With an Introduction from Professor Rob Carter, Head Deakin Health Economics and Director, this forum addresses the economics of health prevention from both a Government and Private Health perspective.
10am - 2 pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Arrival, registration and coffee from 9.30 am
Please register your attendance no later than Friday 8 March online at: http://www.deakin.edu.au/health/health-forum-registration/index.php
Free Public Lecture: Chairman of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Panel, Dr R K Pachauri: 'The role of knowledge in promoting sustainable development and tackling climate change'
21 February 2013
***BOOKED OUT***
Dr Rajendra K Pachauri
- Chairperson of the Nobel Peace Prize (2007) winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Director General, TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute (India)
It was Albert Einstein who said that problems cannot be solved at the level of awareness that created them. We now know that several human activities have in the past led to impacts such as the loss of biodiversity, pollution of our river systems and the air we breathe as well as an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to climate change. Fortunately, scientific knowledge and technological possibilities now make it possible for us to deal with some of these problems effectively, in a manner that could lead human society to a sustainable pattern of development. Institutions of higher learning have a special responsibility in developing and disseminating some of the solutions that we need. The presentation would essentially look at the issue of sustainable development and the challenge of climate change that new knowledge and its applications can deal with effectively within a reasonable window of time.
Light refreshments will be served at 5.30 pm
State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Seats are limited, book at
http://www.trybooking.com/BVMS
For further information, please contact adri-events@deakin.edu.au
Conference: 'Deleuze, Pragmatism and Post-Kantian Thought'
17-18 December 2012
Deakin University - Melbourne City Centre
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
The Deleuze, Pragmatism and Post-Kantian Thought Conference will be a point of convergence for a number of philosophical demands and developments. Firstly, there is at present a real need for some sustained work on the relationship between Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy and the tradition of American Pragmatism. There is a surprising lack of work on this topic, despite the fact that Deleuze refers to Pragmatism and cites the work of William James and Charles Sanders Peirce in a number of places. There is also a clear overlap between a number of Deleuzian and Pragmatist themes, including pluralism, constructivism, antirepresentationalism and opposition to the Cartesian conception of the subject. Secondly, there has been a growing interest in Deleuze’s relationship to the tradition of post-Kantian thought. Deleuze’s work on Kant and Nietzsche has received a substantial amount of attention, but a number of novel studies have also recently appeared on Deleuze’s reading of Maimon, and the complex and not merely hostile relationship that Deleuze has to Hegel. Finally, there has in recent years been a revival in American Pragmatist thought and the birth of what is now being called Neo-Pragmatism or the New Pragmatism. In the work of Rorty and Brandom in particular, this Neo-Pragmatism has taken on a specifically post-Kantian and Hegelian flavour, Hegel being understood by these thinkers to have developed an important, non-metaphysical and antirepresentationalist approach to the relationship between thought, the world and practical social activity. The conjunction of these demands and developments cry out for further exploration and present the conference’s participants with an opportunity to develop and extend new lines of philosophical inquiry.
The conference is open to all and is free to attend on both days. Lunch and morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Registration is required by Wednesday the 5th of December for catering purposes. Please register by contacting adri-events@deakin.edu.au and providing your name, affiliation and which days you will be attending (subject line: DPPKT Conference).
Conference Schedule and Information
Workshop: Internet Freedom and the Law in Asia
10-11 December 2012
This workshop supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) / Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich / Faculty of Law,
Australian Catholic University / School of Law, and Alfred Deakin Research Institute.
The internet has been hailed as a formidable tool for the creative industries and the development of new business models. Opportunities created in this new environment are usually discussed without specific reference to cultural or regional peculiarities.
This workshop will take a different approach by focusing on the political economy of law in countries of the Asia-Pacific region in relation to the internet. It will focus on copyright, various cyber laws, competition law and other areas of law that have implications for the availability and distribution of content as well as for freedom of expression and privacy.
Speakers will come from disciplines such as law, communications and media studies, international relations and Asian studies.
9am-5pm
Deakin University
Melbourne City Centre
Level 3
550 Bourke Street
The workshop is open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are essential. For reservations and further information about the program, please contact Vilia Dukas: vilia.dukas@deakin.edu.au.
Seminar: Neo-Liberalsim and the Self as Enterprise
11 December 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Associate Professor Peter Kelly, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
11.30am to 12.00pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Magic, Savage and Barbarian: Towards an Unpacking of the Backgrounds of an Anthropological Concept
6 December 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting a seminar by Richard Sutcliffe, School of Humanities and Social Science, Deakin University, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series. His paper is a critical exploration of the interrelationship between the concepts of magic and modernity in modern anthropology and social theory. It argues that this relationship has been fundamentally misconceived and that this misconception has far reaching implications concerning the understanding of modernity. On this basis, the paper proceeds to suggest an alternative approach that points towards a critical reconstruction the extensive historiography of magic as a significant counter-tradition within modern social imaginaries.
5.00pm
Dennys Lachelles, seminar room AD 1.122
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
After the seminar, please join us for drinks/dinner at the Max Hotel, Gheringhap Street.
For further information, please contact Gillian G. Tan at gillian.tan@deakin.edu.au.
Seminar: What is social value? Reflecting on 20 years of practice
28 November 2012
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
Conference: Contemporary History, the past that's still with us.
29-30 November 2012
The Contemporary Histories Research Group in the Alfred Deakin Research Institute invites papers from postgraduates, early career researchers, and others, from any field of Contemporary History, and from any related discipline (Politics, International Studies etc.) who would like to participate in a discussion about the nature of Contemporary History, and the problems of researching and writing Contemporary History.
Please send your proposal, with a 200 work abstract and brief CV to Greg Burgess at greg.burgess@deakin.edu.au
Learn more about this conference.
Seminar: Dutch Disease or an “Australian Enlightenment”: Living with the Multi-Speed Economy
27 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Professor Michael Porter, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
11.30am to 12.30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Symposium: Heritage in Times of Transformation: A special one-day symposium in honour of Professor Bill Logan
19 and 20 November 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP), in association with the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, is organising a special symposium to honour the achievements of Professor Bill Logan as he approaches his official retirement from Deakin University. Professor Logan was the inaugural Director of CHCAP in 2002 and oversaw its development into one of the most vibrant and highly regarded research centres in the region. A cultural geographer, he has been recognised nationally and internationally for his contributions to the development of heritage studies, particularly for his contribution to our understanding of heritage issues both in Australia and in Vietnam.
The Symposium will open with a special keynote address by Professor Logan on the evening of the 19th of November at the Experimedia Room at the State Library of Victoria. This will be followed by a one day symposium to be held at the Burwood Campus of Deakin University on the 20th of November featuring three keynote addresses, the first from Dr Tim Winter, a senior Research Fellow from the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, the second from Dr Gamini Wijesuriya, project Manager (Sites Unit) at ICCROM in Rome and the third from Professor Brenda Trofanenko from Acadia University, Canada.
Download the Program, Speaker Abstracts and Biographies
To register for Professor Logan's public lecture on the 19th of November please go to: http://www.trybooking.com/CBEI
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Experimedia Room, State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
To register for the one day Symposium on the 20th of November please go to: http://www.trybooking.com/CBEO
9:00pm
Lecture theatre 8, Building Y
Level 2, Room 43
Deakin University Burwood Campus
For further information, please contact A/Professor Andrea Witcombe at: andrea.witcomb@deakin.edu.au
Panel Discussion: Sports Journalists as Contemporary Historians
19 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institutes Contemporary Histories Research Group is proud to present two of Australias most respected sports journalists Greg Baum and Gideon Haigh reflecting on their leading contributions to the writing of contemporary sports history.
Australia enjoys a strong tradition of journalists and commentators not only reporting and analysing the news but also writing what often serve as the first full-length accounts of contemporary history. While the political sphere has been well-served by prominent figures from Alan Reid and Hugh Lunn to Paul Kelly and George Megalogenis, the world of sport is perhaps the most prolific and popular genre for journalists publishing books. Indeed, many sports journalists wear a second hat as historians to write (or ghost-write) pathbreaking accounts of contemporary history. In doing so, they can fundamentally shape the direction of further scholarship and frame the key issues and arguments in future historiography. The importance of sports journalists, then, lies not just in the stories they uncover and being first to print but also in the ways in which they come to define the contours of debates that follow. Also, unlike historians of the future they often have enjoyed access to key players of the time while experiencing events from close quarters. Consequentially, the influential work of sports journalists/historians deserves special consideration by the broader historical profession.
The distinguished sports journalists Greg Baum and Gideon Haigh will discuss their respective
contributions to the first draft of history. Warwick Hadfield, Deakin Universitys Research Promotions
and Communications Manager and the Sports Commentator on ABC Radio Nationals Breakfast program, will act as facilitator. There will be ample Q&A time to allow audience participation.
Greg Baum is Chief Sports Columnist and Associate Editor with The Age. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited several sports books including Greg Baum The Waugh Era (ABC Books, Sydney, 2004).
Gideon Haigh has three decades of experience as an independent journalist and author. Arguably the worlds pre-eminent cricket writer, his most recent publication is Gideon Haigh On Warne (Penguin, Melbourne, 2012).
This event is free and all are welcome. But spaces are limited, so be sure to register.
4.00pm to 6.00pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Campus
Level 3, 550 Bourke Street
Melbourne
For further information, please contact Dr Tony Joel at: tony.joel@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Ethical Implications of Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation and Nuclear Energy
13 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Dr Adam Broinowski, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
11.30am to 12.30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Presentation: The You Yangs in Historical Perspective
12 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a presentation byMs Heather Threadgold.
This presentation explores how the You Yangs were utilized by the Wathaurong Tribe. It considers the significance of the area's unique blend of natural resources, including food and water sources, which enabled permanent camp sites. The Wathaurong people thrived among surrounding abundant swampland and animal life - with roaming emu and kangaroo - while using the shelter of caves. And what can we learn from local sacred grounds including a nearby stone circle arrangement?
Matthew Flinders and John Batman among others recorded their visits to the You Yangs during early European contact. The You Yangs were described as a vantage point in the exploration of Corio Bay, along with sightings and observations of the last of the free-living Wathaurong. Drawing on these diary excerpts as well as artist companion drawings, Heather focuses on natural ecological representations of the region and questions how these historical perspectives continue to shape and reflect how we visualise the You Yangs today.
What is the historical significance of the You Yangs in tying together the Wathaurong territory? Through the utilisation of maps, photographs, and various illustrations, this presentation aims to provide the audience with a visual appreciation of how the You Yangs and surrounding area once looked like and how it has evolved particularly since the time of white settlement. Did you know, for instance, in the past the Wathaurong could expand their natural resources by walking across Corio Bay from the You Yangs to Point Henry?
Today, the You Yangs are the gateway to Wathaurong territory, Geelong, and the tourism trail of the Great Ocean Road. The presentation concludes by looking at ways in which the You Yangs can be better used to encourage schools, visitors, and the wider public to learn about the region's past.
The findings presented by Heather stem from archival and field research she recently conducted as part of a History Internship completed at the You Yangs Recreational Reserve, organised by Deakin University in collaboration with Parks Victoria.
2.00pm to 4.00pm
ad1.122 (Waterfront Campus) via videolink to B2.20 (Burwood Campus)
RSVP at: jo.collins@deakin.edu.au
Public Lecture: Impact Evaluations in International Development: Using Rigorous Evidence for Better Policies
5 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, together with Sustineo Pty Ltd, have pleasure in inviting you to this public lecture by Howard White.
Dr White is Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and Adjunct Professor of International Development at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute of Deakin University.
As you may be aware, Dr White is a leading international authority on impact evaluations conducted in the field of international development. Prior to taking his position at 3ie Dr White led the impact evaluation rogramme of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Howard has worked extensively on development-related issues in countries across Africa and Asia and has published over 60 papers in internationally refereed journals and several books, focusing on aid effectiveness and poverty reduction. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies and the Journal of Development Effectiveness. He has taught at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and continues to engage worldwide via workshops and training opportunities for policymakers on topics related to development effectiveness and impact evaluation.
We look forward to seeing you at this important international development event.
5.30pm - 7.00pm
Village Roadshow Theatrette
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne 3000
RSVP at jo.collins@deakin.edu.au
Symposium: Critical Junctures in Asia and the Pacific
9 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, in association with the Faculty of Arts and Education, will host a symposium that will bring together ADRI members who are engaged in research concerned with states and societies in Asia and the Pacific region that are experiencing a moment of 'critical juncture'.
The concept of critical juncture is often associated with societies at a crossroads. It usually entails choices that are, or must be, made as a range of forces come to bear on local groups and communities: it marks a transition in which 'what was' will be radically different from 'what will be'.
This symposium aims to probe more deeply at these concerns. Where are the crossroads located? Do different methodological applications, such as longitudinal studies, affect how the crossroads are defined? What insights can we draw from theoretical models, such as critical transitions in ecology?
By drawing on research that focuses on processes of change and a broader understanding of social relations from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, we hope to contribute to discussions on critical junctures in the Asia and Pacific. These discussions will be in small-group 'roundtables' around themes including, but not limited to: political transitions; urban development; cultural heritage; environmental challenges; demographic factors; gender relations; planning; and new technologies.
ADRI members who would like to participate in this symposium are invited to submit a paper, around 4000 words of publishable standard, two weeks before the date of the symposium (ie. Friday, 26 October 2012). The paper should address how their work engages with the idea of critical juncture, with particular reference to societies and nations in the region.
At the symposium, they will then be asked to present a brief oral summary of their paper for discussion in the small groups. A rapporteur will be assigned to each group, with the responsibility to summarise and report on the points discussed at the plenary session. The symposium will end with a wider discussion on themes and directions for future research.
10.00am to 4.00pm
Deakin University Melbourne City Campus
Level 3, 550 Bourke Street
Melbourne
Expressions of interest with 200 word abstract due 28 September 2012 and final paper due 26 October 2012.
For further information, please contact Dr Gillian Tan at gillian.tan@deakin.edu.au or Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: What was Philosophical about Natural Philosophy?
30 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences are co-hosting a seminar by Professor Peter Harrison, from the University of Queensland, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
3.30pm to 5.00pm
Deakin University Burwood Campus
C2.05
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: New Chinese Histories of Australia and the Pacific and why they should matter to Australian Policy-Makers
30 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Ms Sophie Loy-Wilson, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
11.30am to 12.30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Affectivity and darkness; impressions of the Museum of Old and New Art
31 October 2012
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
Lecture: Turkey: morality vs. national security. The interconnection between security, democracy and history facing the Middle East
1 November 2012
A Public Lecture delivered by Taner Akcam discussing that the pitting of 'national interes't against morality as mutually exclusive is just plain wrong. Akcam will argue that any security policy in the Middle East that excludes 'morality' cannot ultimately be a realistic policy that will work, and that eventually it undermines national security. There is a strong interconnection between security, democracy and facing history in the Middle East. So therefore morality is a very real issue, and the acknowledgment of historic wrong doings must be integrated into a policy of national security.
2pm
Burwood Campus
LT4 B.3.05
For further information, please contact Donna Frieze at donna-lee.frieze@deakin.edu.au
Workshop: Intellectual property and cultural property: Rights discourses in the Asia-Pacific region
1-2 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, School of Law and Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University present this workshop examining the various notions of property, in particular cultural property and intellectual property, and how they are employed in rights discourses in the Asia-Pacific region. Case studies will focus on Asia, Australia and North America.
In Asia, decentralisation policies following the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 have led to a renewed focus on local identities and a revival of customary laws. In Asia as well as in Australia and North America, indigenous peoples have linked their struggle for recognition of their cultural identity and customary laws in an international indigenous movement that has become increasingly vocal.
International organisations such as UNESCO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Convention on Biological Diversity under the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) have addressed aspects of these rights discourses in their various portfolios. National governments increasingly try to implement international model solutions and adjust them to local circumstances and the requirements of local communities.
Discussions about the relationship between various forms of property, heritage and culture go back a long time, but have gathered momentum since the decolonisation movement after World War II. The workshop will examine intellectual and cultural property in this context as property concepts which are used sometimes in connection with each other and at other times in a contradicting manner. In addition, it will also explore other forms of 'property' and 'rights' suggested as alternatives in the discussions.
Speakers will come from law and various social science disciplines such as heritage studies, Asian studies and anthropology.
Thurs 1 Nov - Fri 2 Nov 2012
9am-5pm
Deakin University, Melbourne City Centre, Level 3, 550 Bourke Street
Convener: Prof. Christoph Antons, School of Law, Deakin University
For reservations and further information please contact Vilia Dukas at vilia.dukas@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Re-examining Human-nonhuman Relationships among Tibetan nomads, or Analogism in Eastern Tibet
1 November 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting a seminar by Gillian G. Tan, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
5.30pm
Dennys Lachelles, seminar room AD 1.122
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
For further information, please contact Gillian Tan at gillian.tan@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: How smart can Geelong be in tackling young people's disadvantage?
24 October 2012
As part of the Smart Geelong Network's Research and Innovation Expo
A forum hosted by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute
Panellists
* Dr Perri Campbell (Alfred Deakin Research Institute)
* Associate Professor Lyn Harrison (School of Education, Deakin University)
* Professor Christopher Hickey (School of Education, Deakin University)
* Associate Professor Peter Kelly (Alfred Deakin Research Institute)
* Mr Ken Massari (College Assistant Principal Retention, Northern Bay P-12 College)
* Ms Anne-Marie Ryan (Executive Officer, Geelong Region Local Learning and
Employment Network [LLEN])
Wednesday, 24th October 2012
5.00pm to 6.30pm
Alfred Deakin Research Institute
Western Beach Road
Geelong
RSVP: By 22nd October 2012 to jo.collins@deakin.edu.au
Fusion Lecture: The Role of Knowledge in Promoting Sustainable Development and Tackling Climate Change EVENT CANCELLED
17 October 2012
Regrettably, due to illness, Dr R K Pachauri will be unable to deliver the Fusion Lecture scheduled for this coming Wednesday 17th October and as a result this event has been cancelled.
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a public lecyure by Rajendra K Pachauri as part of the Fusion Lecture Series.
Dr Rajendra K Pachauri
- Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Nobel Peace prize winner 2007
- Director General, TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute (India)
It was Albert Einstein who said that problems cannot be solved at the level of awareness that created them. We now know that several human activities have in the past led to impacts such as the loss of biodiversity, pollution of our river systems and the air we breathe as well as an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to climate change. Fortunately, scientific knowledge and technological possibilities now make it possible for us to deal with some of these problems effectively, in a manner that could lead human society to a sustainable pattern of development. Institutions of higher learning have a special responsibility in developing and disseminating some of the solutions that we need. The presentation would essentially look at the issue of sustainable development and the challenge of climate change that new knowledge and its applications can deal with effectively within a reasonable window of time.
5.30pm for 6.00pm
State Library of Victoria
Experimedia
For further information, please contact Ms Jo Collins at: jo.collins@deakin.edu.au
Seats are limited, book at http://www.trybooking.com/BVMS
Seminar: General Ethics and the Theory of Responsive Cohesion
16 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences are co-hosting a seminar by Professor Warwick Fox, from the University of Central Lancashire, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
3.30pm to 5.00pm
Deakin University Burwood Campus
C2.05
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Developing a Research Framework Policy: How Post-War Research Legitimised Australian Governance
16 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosting a seminar by Dr Hannah Forsyth, University of Sydney, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
11.30am to 12.30pm
Geelong Campus at the Waterfront
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For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Adorno after Kiefer
9 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences are co-hosting a seminar by Dr Geoff Boucher, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
3.30pm to 5.00pm
Deakin University Burwood Campus
C2.05
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: The Spirit of Development and the Anthropology of Spirit: Kant, Hegel and Madonna in Malawi
4 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a seminar by Alan Thorold, School of Humanities and Social Science, Deakin University, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
Seminar: Parody and Truth in Nietzsche’s Genealogy
2 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Dr Andrew Inkpin, from The University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Fractured Lives, Digital Selves: Women and Warblogs in post-Invasion Iraq
2 October 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a seminar by Dr Perri Campbell, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Measuring the deconstruction of heritage and spikes of violence in Iraq
26 September 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by Dr Ben Isakhan, Deakin University.
For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Power, Government and Strategy: Foucault’s Reconsideration of Power after 1976
18 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Professor Paul Patton, from the University of New South Wales, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Challenging heteronormativity through football and education: Activism and/or Assimilation?
17 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute is hosted a seminar by Dr Jayne Caudwell, Principal Lecturer, Brighton University.
The Justin Campaign (UK-based voluntary organisation) seeks to celebrate the life of Justin Fashanu and challenge discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity at all levels of the game of football. It was established on 2nd May, 2008, ten years after the young black British, openly gay footballer, took his own life. Since its inception, The Justin Campaign has successfully worked with local (schools, youth clubs, prisons), national (city Prides, colleges and universities) and international groups (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender groups and football clubs) to promote inclusion and equality; specifically, to raise awareness of LGBT issues within football cultures and football communities.
As participant volunteer Director of Education for the campaign, I have organised and delivered activities, events and projects for and with young people. In this paper, I focus on two specific events: 'Tackle Homophobia' young men's football team and their participation at CupDenmark 2012 (July 26th-29th) and the 'Justin Student Football Festival' at the University of Brighton (May 2nd, 2012).
Despite both events receiving glowing reports and positive feedback from participants, I take a reflexive-turn to explore the extent to which non-normative sexualities, in these football contexts, work to challenge prevailing structures of sexuality (heteronormativity). From my (privileged) position as feminist-queer scholar, I ask now-familiar questions concerning the relationships and tensions between activism and assimilation.
Jayne is Course Leader for BA(hons) Sport Studies & BA(hons) Sport Studies with Physical Education. She was acting Programme Leader (2011-2012) for Sport and Leisure Cultures Area (BA Sport Journalism; BA Sport and Leisure Management; BA Sport Studies & BA Sport Studies with Physical Education). She teaches socio-cultural approaches to sport and leisure and engages with qualitative research methodologies, gender theory and theories of sexuality. Jayne has written on sports
such as football, boxing and rowing and she is editor of Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory, Women's Football in the UK: Continuing with Gender Analyses, and co-editor of Sexualities, Spaces and Leisure Studies.
Read more about Jayne's presentation here.
Seminar: Nietzsche’s Politics of the Event
11 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Professor Vanessa Lemm, from the University of New South Wales, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Re-imagining relationships, re-imagining rights: enacting the imaginary among Kubo of Papua New Guinea
6 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a seminar by Monica Minnegal, School of Social and Political Sciences and Peter Dwyer, Department of Resource Management and Geography, The University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
Seminar: Tubal Sterilization in India
4 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a seminar by Dr Samba Pasupuleti, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Messianic sovereignty: reading Nietzsche with Benjamin
4 September 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Dr Justine McGill, from La Trobe University, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Deakin Week
After the Year of the Protestor: Young People, Social Media and new forms of Democracy
In recent years, both in Australia and abroad, we've seen young people finding new and innovative ways of communicating opinions and ideas, challenging traditional thinking and creating new methods of activism. In the wake of Kony 2012, the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring, are we bearing witness to new cultures of democracy?
Speakers included:
Mr Sam McLean, Deputy National Director, GetUp! Australia
Mr McLean joined GetUp in 2007 as a volunteer and has recently been appointed the new National Director of the organisation. GetUp is an independent community organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved and hold politicians accountable on important issues. Whether it is sending an email to an MP, engaging with the media, attending an event or helping to get a television ad on the air, GetUp's 600,000 members take targeted, coordinated and strategic action.
Ms Jan Owen AM, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Young Australians
Ms Owen is a pioneer of the youth sector in Australia. She is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator and child and youth advocate. She has previously held various leadership roles across the sector and currently serves on the boards of several youth, gender, health and social investment organisations.
Associate Professor Peter Kelly, Principal Research Fellow in Social Science, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University
Associate Professor Kelly is a social theorist/social researcher who has published extensively on young people, the practice of youth studies; social theory and globalisation.
Dr Perri Campbell, Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University
Dr Campbell's research interest lies at the crossroads of gender studies, critical social theory, media and youth studies, in particular, she focusses on the use of digital communication technologies in post-conflict zones, most notably Iraq.
Seminar: Muse/Museal - a fashion exhibition and a grotto
29 August 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by Elizabeth Anya-Petrivina, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)/RMIT.
For further information, please contact Dr Steven Cooke on 03 9244 6827 or email: steven.cooke@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Eclipse of Practical Reason
21 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Dr George Duke, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Environment and Religiosity on the Tibetan Plateau, or, How to Love a Yak
21 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a seminar by Dr Gillian Tan, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: Divided minds, selves, egos and internal objects
14 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Dr Tamas Pataki, from The University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Sean Bowden at: sean.bowden@deakin.edu.au
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: The Impact of Remittances in Small Island Developing States
7 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a seminar by Associate Professor Simon Feeny and Dr Sasi Iamsiraroj, as part of the 2012 Brown Bag Seminar Series.
For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Ritchie at: jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Seminar: The Art of Time
7 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Associate Professor Erin Manning, from Concordia Unicersity, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Laughing/crying/thinking: the dilemma of Islamic oratory
6 August 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a seminar Julian Millie, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
Seminar: Expressive Agency in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense
31 July 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hostied a seminar by Dr Sean Bowden, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: In Popper’s Midrash: Is Karl Popper a Jewish philosopher?
24 July 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hostied a seminar by Alexander Naraniecki, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: A taste of ashes: vengefulness and impossible reciprocity in Beauvoir
17 July 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hostied a seminar by Dr Marguerite La Caze, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: Bonhoeffer: Kierkegaard’s ‘single individual’ in a ‘state of exception’
10 July 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a seminar by Petra Brown, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series.
2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Full Program
Seminar: From epitheatrical text to epitheatrical space: an anthropologist in nineteenth century Beijing
5 July 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a seminar by Dr Mark Stevenson, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
Seminar: Negotiating veterans heritage in the lead up to the centenary of World War I
27 June 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by Dr Marina Larsson (Veterans unit, Department of Planning and Community Development).
Deakin Policy Forum: Living within the Multi-Speed Economy: The Opportunities and Adjustments with Resource Development
25 June
Australia is enjoying a period of economic growth associated with the development of its natural resourceendowments. This has led to an historic rise in Australia's terms and trade. Along with this growth have come structural adjustment pressures and a range of associated challenges. This seminar, through presentations from some of Australia's leading political, policy and academic leaders, will consider the opportunities and adjustments associated with resources development.
The Deakin Policy Forum also featured the launch of a landmark report by Deloitte Access Economics, the Economic Contribution of the Australian Oil and Gas Industry, which examines the key role the growth of Australia's oil and gas industry will play in Australia's future economic development and resillience to a challenging international environment.
Panel of Speakers
The Hon Ian Macfarlane MP; Mr Gary Banks AO, Chairman, Productivity Commission; Mr David Byers, Chief Executive, Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association; Professor Warwick McKibbin, Director, Research School of Economics, Australian National University; Mr Chris Richadson, Director, Deloitte Access Economics.
Deakin Policy Forum: New Developments in China: Political, Economic and Education
18 June
This Deakin Policy Forum, hosted jointly by the Alfred Deakin Research Institute and the ANZ Bank was an informal discussion on developments, challenges and opportunities emerging in the economies, the educational systems and in technology, in our respective countries, in what has recently been described as the 'Third Industrial Revolution'.
Panel of Speakers
Dr Geoff Raby AO, Former Ambassador to China; Mr Rowan Callick, Asia Pacific Editor, The Australian, Dr David Gruen, Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group, Australian Treasury and; Ms Amy Auster, Chief of Staff, CEO Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas, ANZ Bank.
Seminar: The end(s) of the road: governance, development and incomplete infrastructure on Malakula, Vanuatu
7 June 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting a seminar by Dr Benedicta Rousseau, McArthur Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin University Anthropology Seminar Series.
Seminar: The heritage of Melbourne's water supply
30 May 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hostes a seminar by Dr Helen Doyle (consultant Historian).
Seminar: Thinking time and change via Deleuze
15 May 2012
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 Antonia Pont, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.
Seminar: Care and selfhood in Heidegger's Being and Time
8 May 2012
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 Simon Lumsden, University of New South Wales, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.
Seminar: The 'Origins's of European Fascism. Memory and Violence in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon
1 May 2012
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 Magdalena Zolkos, University of Western Sydney, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.
Seminar: Conformity to Law in Kant's 3rd Critique
24 April 2012
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.
Seminar: Remembering the Holocaust and forgetting Genocide in Britain
24 April 2012
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific hosted a seminar by PrDr Tom Lawson (University of Winchester, UK).
Deakin Policy Forum: ‘Media Wars and Digital Laws: Facts, Fears and Finkelstein’
24 April 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute hosted a Breakfast Forum as part of the Deakin Policy Forum (DPF).
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, Institute of Public Affairs and; Associate Professor Martin Hirst, Associate Professor in Journalism, Deakin University.
Seminar: For a Philosophy of the Market: The case of Elie Ayache
17 April 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted a hosting a seminar by Dr Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne, as part of the 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series.
Conference: Papua New Guinea: Securing a Prosperous Future
12-13 April 2012
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.
Seminar: The mind as an idea in Spinoza's Short Treatise
3 April 2012
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.
Seminar: Our heritage report card: The State of the Australian Environment 2006-2011
28 March 2012
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).
Seminar: Reading Hadot via Costa Lima: Philosophy as a Way of Life and "the Control of the Imaginary"
27 March 2012
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.
Deakin Policy Forum: Changing Fashions in Public Sector Governance
22 March 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the ANZ Bank hosted a Breakfast Forum as part of the Deakin Policy Forum (DPF).
Speakers: 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.
Seminar: Time, Philosophy and Cronopathologies
20 March 2012
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.
Seminar: Historicist objections to the centrality of work, and a tentative rejoinder
14 March 2012
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.
Workshop: Australia, Nationalism and Transnationalism: Australianness and Beyond
9 March 2012
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.
Seminar: The Naked Self: Some Kiergegaardian Contributions to Analytic Philosopy of Personal Identity
6 March 2012
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.
Fusion Lecture: 'Measuring structural vulnerability at the country level: why and how?'
5 March 2012
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.
Seminar: Inaugural 2012 Deakin Philosophy Seminar
28 February 2012
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.
In Conversation with Professor Jim Hopkins: 'Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Psychoanalytic Method'
25 February 2012
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute together with the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation hosted an In Conversation Event with Professor Jim Hopkins.
Presentation: Musical Transitions Project
17 February 2012
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.
Book Launch: 'Australia and Appeasement' by Dr Christopher Waters
15 February 2012
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.
Read more about 'Australia and Appeasement'
Conference: 'What do we want as our Head of State?'
4 February 2012
A conference on the role of the Australian Head of State, both now and into the future.
Deakin Policy Forum: 'The State of the Economic Policy Debate'
2 December 2011
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.
Book Launch: Latest volumes in the Routledge Key Issues in Cultural Heritage Series
30 November 2011
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, together with the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences 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).
Conference: Hard Labor? The Crisis of Social Democracy in the Australian State Level
5 November 2011
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.
Workshop and Public Lecture: 'What role can and should religion play in a modern nation?'
22 September 2011
A one day workshop on Religion and the Nation, followed by a Public Lecture, delivered by Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor for The Australian.
Seminar: 'Yes, I am a Baby Boomer, but it's not my fault'
8 September 2011
The Alfred Deakin Research Institute 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 it's not my fault'.
The event was recorded by ABC Radio National and was aired 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 is also available to download as a podcast.
Panel Discussion: 'Getting under the skin of immigration'
3 August 2011
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.
Symposium: PNG Today - And Tomorrow?
27 May 2011
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.Fusion Lecture: 'Two World Wars and the Meaning of the 20th Century'
19 April 2011
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.
Conference: 'Public Diplomacy in Theory and Practice: Culture, Information and Interpretation in Australian-Indian Relations'
8-9 April 2011
A two day International Conference held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, co-ordinated by Professor David Lowe, Director, Alfred Deakin Research Institute and Dr Amit Sarwal, Department of English, Rajdhani College, New Delhi.
Official Opening of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute
29 March 2011
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.
