Thesis Proposal Review Presentations
Seminar
The presentations are now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). Australian Student Mobility in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields Increasingly, Australian university students are encouraged to consider studying overseas. Enabling this…
Biting Off More Than They Can ChEU? EU Attempts to Negotiate Another CAP Reform and a New Seven Year Financial Framework
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). The EU is currently starting the negotiations on a new seven-year financial framework. The wider economic context of the current negotiations is exaggerating the expected areas of tension and…
Australia and Europe in conversation - number 6: 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…
Framing Children: School Photos and Their Afterlives
Seminar
Photographs of school classes appear very early in the history of photography and are pervasive in individual and family albums throughout the world. Potent media for recall and memorialization, they are frequently reproduced in communal histories, and displayed at reunions and on memorial…
European Union’s Myanmar Sanction Dilemma: Is the Tide Really Turning?
Seminar
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 him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). In November 2010,…
Public Finances in the EU: Situation and Outlook
Seminar
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 him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). The current sovereign…
European Identity and Other Mysteries: Seeking Out the Hidden Source of Unity for a Troubled Polity
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file above in three parts). The current economic crisis reveals the fragility of the EU’s political building. While the EU motto ‘Europe united in diversity’ is clear why each state and citizen should be respected in their…