Harvesting the low hanging fruit? ‘New governance’ in the Dutch and Australian buildings sectors
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). The buildings sector poses some complex environmental problems, which are difficult to address through traditional state-led governing or free-market mechanisms. More is expected from collaboration…
Australia and Europe in conversation - number 9: 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…
Acknowledging the Past, Sustaining the Present and Future: Preserving Immigrant Cultural Heritage
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things – Marcus Tullius Cicero UNESCO (2003) and ICOMOS (2004) note the urgent need to preserve intangible and tangible cultural heritage resources in the…
Does Europe Still Have a Future?
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). The presentation will focus on cultural, social and political dilemmas of contemporary Europe. Krzysztof Zanussi will discuss the perspective of the past achievements of Europe along with the new…
Hopes and Crises of Identity: Europe and Beyond
Workshop
The debate on the process of European integration has focused on a number of issues concerning European identity. The importance of identity has been discussed not only in the context of regional or cross-border integration but also in the debates concerning multicultural coexistence, citizenship…
Pacific Symposium
Symposium
The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Canberra (EHESS @ ANU) and the Australian National University (CAP and ANUCES) will be hosting a two-day symposium on 16-17 October 2012. The symposium will be held at the Centre for European Studies, ANU, Canberra. The symposium will provide an…
The Euro Area Debt Crisis
Lecture
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts) and the PowerPoint slides as a PDF file (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact her for permission to refer to her PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). Investors’ concerns…