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Switzer addresses Australian Navy, Army and Airforce Reserves
14 November 2009
US Studies Centre Research Associate, Tom Switzer, spoke to Australian Navy, Army and Airforce Reserves at the Waterhen Base auditorium about the Afghanistan conflict. Read Speech
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US Studies Centre hosts luncheon for Rupert Murdoch
12 November 2009
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, discussed a range of global issues ranging from the global economic crisis to US-China relations and the future of the media with a group of Australian leaders from politics, business, academia and the media at a luncheon on 3 November in Sydney co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and Goldman Sachs JB Were. Read More
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Levi speaks at University of Wisconsin
10 November 2009
Margaret Levi gave the opening talk at a workshop on "Improving Labor Standards" at the University of Wisconsin on November 6.
She will also run the scholars' program and panels at the World Justice Forum, Vienna, November 11-14.
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Garrett addresses Beijing Forum on post-GFC China-US relations
6 November 2009
US Studies Centre CEO Geoffrey Garrett addressed the sixth Beijing Forum that was held in the Chinese capital 6-8 November 2009. The Forum, a collaboration between Peking University and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, brought together scholars from the Asia Pacific and around the world to assess the impact of the global financial crisis on relations between countries and peoples. Keynote addresses were delivered by Nobel laureate for economics Kenneth Arrow and President of the American Political Science Association Peter Katzenstein. Prof Garrett participated in the stream of the Beijing Forum on International Impacts and Responses along with political scientists and economists from Britain, China, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States.
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Levi participates in labour standards workshops
6 November 2009
Professor Margaret Levi participated in two workshops focusing on improving labour standards and supply chains to ensure protection of workers and environment. The workshops were at MIT, 29-30 October, and the University of Wisconsin, 6 November.
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Australian urban policymakers visit the United States
4 November 2009
Honorary Professor in Urban Policy, Edward Blakely, led a party of Australian urban policymakers on a tour of the United States in October 2009. Read More
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Hawke and Howard visit US Studies Centre
2 November 2009
Former Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and John Howard visited the US Studies Centre on 24 September 2009 to participate in the Centre's inaugural Council of Advisors meeting. They were joined at the meeting by Council Co-Chair Mark Johnson who is also Chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group, CEO of Citigroup Australia Stephen Roberts, University of Sydney Vice Chancellor Michael Spence, former Australian parliamentarian Michael Baume, Chairman of the US Studies Centre Malcolm Binks and Centre CEO Geoffrey Garrett. Read More
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Reportage and Neutral Reportage – Are They Something New or Just Fair Report on Steroids?
23 October 2009
Media Law Resource Center Bulletin
US Studies Centre lecturer, Harry Melkonian, has written a paper exploring the reportage defence in the UK, the EU and the USA in terms of doctrinal law with some recourse to free speech theory and concludes that reportage, whether viewed as an extension of the fair report doctrine or as a corollary to responsible journalism, serves an important, if limited, role in freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Read Article
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Margaret Levi interviews and workshops
19 October 2009
On Friday, 16 October, Margaret Levi did a video interview with Elinor Ostrom, the co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics. The interview, which will appear online once edited, complements the prefatory essay Ostrom wrote for the forthcoming volume of the Annual Review of Political Science.
Levi will also deliver a number of lectures in coming weeks: "Provoking Preferences by Inducing Beliefs: Transport Sector Unions in the US and Australia" at the University of Texas, Austin (19 October), University of Virginia (22-23 October) and Columbia University (28 October). These talks are from a book-in-progress, co-authored with John Ahlquist.
On 14-16 October, Levi chaired the review of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, which Elinor and Vincent Ostrom co-founded.
Levi, with Audrey Sacks and Tom Tyler, has also published "Conceptualizing Legitimacy, Measuring Legitimating Beliefs" in American Behavioral Scientist (53: 354-375).
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After the GFC: Australia and the Chimerica challenge
17 September 2009
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released After the GFC: Australia and the Chimerica challenge, a strategy report written by US Studies Centre CEO, Geoffrey Garrett. The report provides an indepth Australian perspective on the global financial crisis (GFC) and its consequences. Garrett writes that the responses of China and the US during the GFC recovery will have global ramifications, but in few places are the stakes higher than in Australia. Read more
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