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The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s
22 November 2010
Dr Barbara Keys, Senior Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne presented on the topic "The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s".
Barbara Keys received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2001. Before coming to Australia she taught at California State University in Sacramento and was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Her teaching areas include 20th century America, US foreign relations, and the Cold War in global perspective.
James Burnham and the Origins of American Neoconservatism
28 October 2010
Dr Binoy Kampmark, Lecturer, Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT presented on the topic "James Burnham and the Origins of American Neoconservatism".
Dr Kampmark teaches core legal courses within the Legal and Dispute Studies program for the Bachelor of Social Science at RMIT University. He has research interests in the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th Century History and law. He has written extensively on these topics in both refereed journals and more popular media.
Innovation in the biotechnology sector: San Diego compared with Australia
3 September 2010
Dr Thomas Barlow, leading research strategist, presented on the topic "Innovation in the biotechnology sector: San Diego compared with Australia".
Thomas Barlow is Australia's leading research strategist. He provides independent policy advice to governments and strategic advice to high-tech companies, universities, and research organisations. Highly regarded in Australia for his independence and imagination, he is the author of an influential book about Australian innovation, The Australian Miracle, published by Picador. He also produces a major study on The State of Research in Australian Universities. Dr Barlow is on the advisory board of two Australian companies, of two leading university research departments, and of a federal government research agency.
Biofuels policy in the US and EU: a sustainable future or an agrarian past?
12 August 2010
Professor Adrian Kay, Associate Professor, Policy & Governance Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU discussed the topic "Biofuels policy in the US and EU: a sustainable future or an agrarian past?"
The capacity to coordinate or `join-up' policy making has been widely identified as an essential part of the effective governance of sustainability. Without such capacity, sustainability policy is liable to remain in functional silos with its requirements for cognate policy areas being variously attenuated, resisted and mediated by existing policy institutions.
Cold War on the Home Front
11 August 2010
Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley gave a presentation on his new book Cold War on the Home Front.
Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an M.Arch at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. He has taught architectural history at the University of Miami School of Architecture and at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he remains a research associate at the United States Studies Centre.
Energy security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region
5 August 2010
Dr Vlado Vivoda, Research Fellow, Centre for International Risk, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, UniSA will be presenting on the topic "Energy security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region"
Vlado is Research Fellow at the Centre for International Risk, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages. He completed his PhD on the international political economy of oil at Flinders University in March 2008. He has previous lecturing and tutoring experience from Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, where he taught on a wide array of topics, including the political economy of oil, energy security, international political economy, international relations theory, international security, environmental politics, Australia’s foreign relations, and international relations and politics in the Asia-Pacific region.
Barack Obama and African American politics
13 July 2010
Professor Kevin Gaines, Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History at the University of Michigan discussed "Barack Obama and African American politics".
Barack Obama's historic election to the US presidency represents a triumph of the modern civil rights movement and its struggle for full citizenship and voting rights for African Americans. Yet against the backdrop of the history of African American electoral politics, this landmark victory has a paradoxical significance.
John Locke, Christian Mission and Colonial America
5 July 2010
Jack Turner, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington discussed "John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America" at a research seminar.
Turner's research focuses on American political thought, race in American politics, and critical race theory. His essays on Tocqueville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Ellison have appeared or will soon appear in Political Theory (2005, 2008), Raritan (2008), and Polity (2008).
Gravity's Rainbow: The network topology of international trade
29 June 2010
Professor John Ahlquist, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University discussed "Gravity's Rainbow: the network topology of international trade" at a research seminar at the US Studies Centre.
John Ahlquist is assistant professor of political science at Florida State University. Ahlquist maintains active research interests political economy and statistical methodology. Current research projects include work on international trade networks; understanding the causes and consequences of politically mobilized labor unions; and the role of risk in the development of social insurance policies.
Campaign Finance
24 June 2010
Professor Diana Dwyre, Professor of Political Science at California State University, Chico and the 2009/10 Fulbright Australian National University Distinguished Chair in American Political Science discussed "Campaign Finance" at a research seminar hosted by the US Studies Centre.
"Australia and the United States face some of the same social, economic, ecological and political challenges in the early 21st Century, including the issue of how campaigns for elective office are financed.”
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
Dr David Smith analyses how Obama's public support of same sex marriage may affect his re-election chances.
Edward Blakely discusses his new book 'My Storm' and the lessons that Australians can learn from Hurricane Katrina.
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