European Climate Diplomacy Week
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Climate and Innovation: ‘Green growth and green trade, opportunities for Australia’. Lecture by Dr Alex Teytelboym, Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford, followed by Q&A. This event starts at 12.00 pm at China in the World Theatre, Building 188 Fellows Lane, The…
Walking the Representation Tightrope: Party demands, community expectations and immigrant-origin politicians’ representation goals.
Lecture
This seminar examines ideas of representation in diversifying legislatures. Grounded in in-depth interviews with immigrant-origin politicians across Belgium’s parliaments, I examine “ethnic” MPs’ understandings of their representational and legislative roles. I contend that looking beyond…
Visual Arts Education: The potential for teacher delight or despair.
Lecture
There is compelling evidence from The National Review of Visual Education (Davis,2008) that Australian generalist primary teachers experience anxiety and a lack of confidence in teaching Visual Arts. This study explores the extent to which this is also true for preschool teachers. The thesis…
Euroscience at Questacon. 11-15 July 2016
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Come to a spectacular EuroScience show and discover the past, present and future of European science and technology; from the heroes of European science history through to the construction of the world’s most powerful laser! Balloonatic Explore the science and history of hot air balloons…
Women of Diaspora: Roles and (self) representations.
Workshop
Th e ANU Gender Institute and the ANU Centre for European Studies are jointly organizing a research workshop “Women of Diaspora: Roles and (self) representations”. Th e aim of the workshop is to gather researchers, policy makers and community members, to explore the gendered dimension to migration…
Brexit or Bremain? Implications of the UK’s EU referendum for Australia and the world.
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On 23 June the UK electorate will decide whether to remain a part of the European Union or vote to leave. Advocates of ‘Brexit’ claim that it is time for the EU to regain its sovereignty and break free from the deadening hand of a moribund union. Advocates of ‘Bremain’ argue that being…
NATO: Expectations for the Warsaw Summit
Seminar
The 27th NATO Summit will take place in Warsaw, Poland, 8-9 July 2016. NATO summit meetings provideperiodic opportunities for Heads of State and Government of member countries to evaluate and provide strategic direction for Alliance activities. In this public seminar representatives from NATO HQ,…