ANU Centre for European Studies Travel Grants for ‘Encounter Europe’ course in Germany, 2-15 December 2012
Advisory session
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is offering scholarships for a two-week course dealing with the issue of the European Union in a broader sense for students wanting to improve their understanding of contemporary European affairs and legislative regulations. The scholarships are…
One-day Symposium: Disaster Management and Resilience
Symposium
RMIT and the University of Salford Centre for Disaster Resilience Present: One-day Symposium: Disaster Management and Resilience International research linkages are increasingly becoming important in securing competitive grants and demonstrating global impact. This one-day research symposium will…
Australia and Europe in conversation - number 10: 50 years of EU-Australia relations
Lecture
50 years ago, in March 1962, Sir Edwin McCarthy took up his position as the first Australian Ambassador to the EU. Since then EU-Australia relations have had their ups and downs but today the relationship is broader, deeper and stronger than ever - but many challenges lie ahead. Every month this…
Political Institutions and Party Politics in Post-Communist Europe
Seminar
Following the collapse of communism in East-Central Europe, democratic systems of government emerged and became consolidated in ten states of the region, each of which eventually joined the European Union by 2007. In stark contrast to other parts of the world where the Third Wave of…
Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Ombudsman
Seminar
This seminar is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in two parts). The origins and development of the ombudsman institution are outlined and the significance of the ombudsman is addressed from the perspective of two parameters, democracy and rule of law, that form and shape…
Exhibiting Refugees in Austria-Hungary: The 1915 War Aid Exhibition in Vienna
Seminar
This seminar is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). The 1915 War Aid Exhibition in Vienna put the Austro-Hungarian empire’s wartime refugees on display in an exhibition that was as much about the empire’s own legitimacy as it was about aid to displaced victims…
Mutual Perceptions of Asia and the EU in a Changing Global Environment - The view from Australia
Seminar
This seminar is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in four parts). Australia will attend its second Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Laos in November this year. This provides an important time to question how Australia can position itself in its relations with a…