Poland Presidential Election: Political Polarisation, EU Confrontation?
Webinar/Online
The European Studies Association Australia and New Zealand (ESAANZ), the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University, and the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs (AIPA) invite you to this online presentation and discussion on the recent Polish president election. The guest speakers…
Webinar: Governing cross-border clean technology dissemination: Three scenarios
Webinar/Online
Promoting cross-border clean technology transfer has been a salient issue for mitigating and adapting to climate change. However, if these technologies are behind the paywall of patents, patent holders will be able to charge a monopoly price and the technology will not be disseminated at the…
Poland in the EU: Supporting or Contesting the European Order
Lecture
Over the last several decades, Poland’s role in Europe has been significant though changing considerably. Yet, it is not only the role of Poland within the European order that has been shifting, but the European order itself has also undergone a noticeable transformation. Poland can be regarded in…
Brexit, Ireland and the Politics of Belonging
Lecture
The ANU Australian Studies Institute is pleased to host acclaimed Irish author, Fintan O’Toole, for a seminar on ‘Brexit, Ireland and the Politics of Belonging’ The crisis of Brexit has revealed deep divisions within the United Kingdom not just about membership of the EU but about the idea of…
Imbricating the physical and virtual: An autoethnographic study of pedagogies of place (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
The purpose of this study is to explore changes in communication styles due to the expanding availability of haptic technologies. It theorises contemporary developments in place-based pedagogies and demonstrates the impact of mobile digital affordances on the creation and communication of knowledge…
Imagery within the southern continent on a selection of world maps: 1527 to 1620 (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
For nearly two millennia the possible existence of a southern landmass haunted the European imagination. The proposition is attributed to ancient Greek scholars who calculated the size and shape of the earth and advanced theories about the possibility of unknown lands existing to the far south of…
International investment law and the European Union: Towards a new institutional and normative framework (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) started a global debate on the need to reform international investment regulation, which currently focuses on finding appropriate multilateral options in the framework of the UN Commission on International Trade Law. The European Union (EU) has been…