Public Lecture in Conjunction with the Yeats Exhibition: W.B. Yeats, Ireland and the Modern World
Lecture
This public lecture is now available as: Video and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research) The ANU Centre for European Studies & the Embassy of Ireland are pleased…
Exhibition: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
Symposium
The ANUCES is hosting an exhibition in partnership with the Embassy of Ireland celebrating the life and works of William Butler Yeats. The exhibition opens on Friday 17th June and runs till 30th June 2011, 10am to 4pm weekdays. The exhibition is based on the National Library of…
Hungary, the European Union and Australia: Regional and Global Relations
Lecture
This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts - part one starts at 0.43). For the first time since becoming a member of the European Union in 2004, Hungary has held the rotating Presidency of the European Council during the first half…
Europe and the South Pacific: Options for Fruitful Exchange
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies is supporting this public seminar hosted by the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific and the University of Vienna. The ANUCES will be represented by Dr Christine Winter who will present a paper on “Living Legacies of Germany in the Pacific”…
European and Global Consequences of the Politics of Food and Food Security
Lecture
This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below - starts at 0:25) National and regional food subsidy programs are roundly criticised by a variety of political groups. Typically these criticisms coalesce around the problem of ‘free markets’ as opposed to subsidies, or…
Eurasia: Trade and Foreign Policy
Lecture
This forum is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in five parts) and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenters, please contact them for permission to refer to their PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research) The Australian National University’s Eurasian…
The Financial Backdrop to the ‘Iron Curtain’: The Postwar Reconstruction Deadlock and the Onset of the Cold War
Lecture
The Australian National University Emeritus Faculty is organising and hosting a public lecture by Bruce Kent from the Centre for European Studies. Many historians, perhaps influenced by Churchill’s opportunistic ‘Iron Curtain’ rhetoric, still depict the Cold War as an escalating ideological and…