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| August 2017 |
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Everything Political lists all events of political interest in Sydney: both on and off campus and hosted by SDN, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Sydney or other Sydney organisations. Please contact sdn@sydney.edu.au if you would like to list an event in next month's newsletter.
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| Democracy Futures | Who else but the young can renew democracy? |
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Populism is commonly interpreted as a temporary obstacle to liberal democracy’s further development. The same kind of denial enabled Fascism and Nazism to triumph during the 1930s. The problem is that contemporary liberal democracy has been emptied of all content. Neoliberalism has disconnected ‘professionals’ from ‘amateurs’, reduced politics to front-stage spectacles and depoliticised back stage reform efforts. No wonder that populism has succeeded in portraying ‘the system’ as ‘rigged’ and as having robbed ‘the people’ of their sovereign dignity. Populism’s solutions must be questioned. Read more
Professor Henrik Bang
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra
When: 12:30-2:00pm Wednesday 9 August 2017
Where: S226 Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, John Woolley Building (A20) level 2, the University of Sydney
Light lunch will be provided, please register here for catering purposes.
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| Democracy Futures | A revolution without revolutionary subjects: Ulrich Beck on the Global World |
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This seminar discusses sociologist Ulrich Beck’s theory of reflexive modernisation, comprising the three theorems of individualisation, risk society and cosmopolitisation. According to this theory, modernisation and modern knowledge production reflexively backfire and do not only undermine modern institutions but the very principles they are grounded in, setting into gear a ‘revolution without revolutionary subjects’, as Beck puts it, a lived reality of cosmopolitisation. Recognising that Beck himself saw the main goal of his intellectual endeavour as pushing for an epistemological shift in the social sciences from ‘methodological nationalism’ to ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’, the seminar puts forward for debate a ‘translation’ of his theory into an approach that studies socio-political realities from within a ‘cosmopolitised world’.
Dr Sabine Selchow
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow in the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney
When: 12:30-2:00pm Wednesday 23 August 2017
Where: Woolley Common Room
John Woolley Building (A20) level 4, the University of Sydney
Light lunch will be provided, please register here for catering purposes.
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| Festival of Democracy 2017 |
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SDN celebrates the fifth annual Festival of Democracy this year, the Festival will focus on a different, contextualised, historicised response to media and political events, on today's difficult democratic landscape, and on ways of seeing a democratic future. Join us for three days of public talks, debate, film, art and music on campus in September.
When: 13-15 September 2017
Where: Camperdown Campus, University of Sydney
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| SDN on The Conversation |
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July 25, 2017
On the origins of environmental bullshit
David Schlosberg, University of Sydney
The undermining of environmental science, and the creation of lies and bribes to distort public policymaking, is as old as industries that know their products do harm, but lie to keep them in use.
July 25, 2017
New Zealand steamrolls Australia on the pharmaceutical paddock too
Michael West, University of Sydney
Drug prices in Australia are three times higher than in New Zealand. A key reason is the lack of transparency about taxpayer subsidies for Big Pharma and the companies' own finances.
July 20, 2017
Everyday makers defy populists’ false promise to embody ‘your voice’
Henrik Bang, University of Canberra
The only exceptional leaders we need today are the ones who help us to govern and take care of ourselves.
July 18, 2017
Mexico: The Cactus Democracy
John Keane, University of Sydney
This research note on Mexican politics and society was inspired by a recent visit to Mexico City, Puebla and Oaxaca, as a guest of the country’s Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE). Visitors to Mexico are…
July 13, 2017
Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
Michael West, University of Sydney
How much can a multinational take before its social licence to operate in this country expires? How much corporate welfare is too much?
July 12, 2017
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute
For decades, India's Hindu and Muslim populations have been at odds, and it comes down to more than just religion. |
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| EVERYTHING POLITICAL EVENTS |
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Tuesday 1 August 2017
AIIA NSW | The China Model: Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in Asia and Europe
Speaker: James Reilly
UNSW Arts & Social Sciences | Political Thriller: Wong Souk Yee in Conversation with Colin Chua
Speakers: Wong Souk Yee and Collin Chua
The Ethics Centre | IQ2 Debate: Prisons Work
Speakers: Kerry Tucker, Kerrie Thompson, Julian Burnside and Nyunggai Warren Mundine
Wednesday 2 August 2017
Sydney Ideas | New International Orders
Speakers: James Der Derian, Christian Reus-Smit, Anne Orford and Glenda Sluga
Thursday 3 August 2017
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre | Health
Speakers: Regina De Gracia and Win Min Oo
Lowy Institute | Globalisation and the Future of the Pacific: What Role for the EU?
Speaker: Pascal Lamy
Verge Gallery | Down the Barrel: Indigenous Resistance & All Matter Has a Past
Artist: Elaine Syron
Friday 4 August 2017
Media@Sydney and Sydney Democracy Network | Crowds and Agglomerations, Public Expression After the Mobile Phone
Speaker: Ravi Sundaram
Sydney Ideas | Space, Social Conflict, and the Future of Urban Society: a Comparative View
Speaker: Michael Herzfeld
Saturday 5 August 2017
Verge Gallery | Discussion: Materiality and Practice
Speakers: Penny Coss, Sylvia Griffin and Anna McMahon
Monday 7 August 2017
China Studies Centre | Beware of Chinese Bearing Gifts: Why China’s Direct Investment Poses Political Challenges in Europe and the United States
Speaker: Sophie Meunier
Sydney Ideas | Christina Lamb
Multi ward-winning journalist for the UK Sunday Times
Sydney Ideas | Meditations on Mortality, Sorrow and Lament
Speaker: Michael Adams and Darius Sepehri
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Sydney Environment Institute | Impacts of Biological Invasions
Speakers: Montserrat Vilà, Rick Shine, Peter Banks and Ros Gloag
Sydney Ideas | Pop Up Justice Reflecting on Relationships in the Temporary City
Speakers: Lee Stickells, Amelia Thorpe, Timothy Moore and Ann Forsyth
AIIA NSW | China Continues to Challenge a Rules-based Order in the South China Sea
Speaker: Carlyle A. Thayer
Sydney Ideas | Battlefields of Memory: Contested Narratives of the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey
Speaker: Ayhan Aktar
Wednesday 9 August 2017
Democracy Futures | Who Else but the Young Can Renew Democracy?
Speaker: Henrik Bang
Thursday 10 August 2017
China Studies Centre | From Kashgar to Cairo: the East Turkistan Republic in the Islamic World
Speaker: David Brophy
Post Truth Initiative | Academics and post-truth: causes, consequences and culpability
Speaker: Colin Wight
Centre for International Security Studies | Visual Diplomacy
Speaker: Iver B. Neumann
Department of Political Economy | “Getting a Good Score”: the Case Management Work of Private Prison Officers
Speaker: Jane Andrew
The Faculty of Architecture, Design & PlanningUniversity of Sydney | A Small Exhibition
Contributors: Nicholas Gurney, Anthony Gill, Retallack Thompson, Ian Moore, Takt, Stephen Collier, Alexander Symes, Archer Office, Silvester Fuller, panovscott, Trias, Drew Heath, Durbach Block Jaggers, Breathe Architecture, Casey Brown, Architect Prineas, Welsh Major, Peter Stutchbury, Tribe Studio and Brad Swartz
Friday 11 August 2017
Department of Sociology & Social Policy | Playing the Field: Code Clashes in a Music Classroom
Centre for International Security Studies | NATO’s Gender Turn: Adaptation in International Security Organizations
Speakers: Stefanie Von Hlatky and Heidi Hardt
Saturday 12 August 2017
Verge Gallery | A Day of Conversations
Speakers: Rebekah Raymond, Elaine Syron and Jeff McMullen
Monday 14 August 2017
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies | Make Australia Great Again, or Make the Planet Great Again: Is It One or the Other, or Both, or Neither?
Speaker: Joseph Anthony Camilleri
China Studies Centre | The Mixed Progress of Corporate Governance in China
Speaker: Guo Li
Wednesday 16 August 2017
The Ethics Centre | Ethics at Work - Sydney
Speaker: David Burfoot
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre | Writing Regional and National Histories of Southeast Asia
Speakers: Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Andaya
Thursday 17 August 2017
UNSW Arts & Social Sciences | Aboriginal Land and Economic Development
Speaker: Heidi Norman
Time Out Australia and Ukraine Democracy Initiative | War Mothers
Ritz Cinema Randwick
China Studies Centre | Assessing Xi's Diplomacy
Speaker: Jianwei Wang
Verge Gallery | Aboriginal Poetry Night Open Mic
Speaker: Evelyn Araluen
Monday 21 August 2017
Sydney Environment Institute | Wilderness, Extinction and Rewilding: Rethinking Human Engagements with Nature
Speaker: Iain McCalman
Department of Sociology & Social Policy | Book Talk: Curated Stories: the Uses and Misuses of Storytelling
Speaker: Sujatha Fernandes
Tuesday 22 August 2017
UNSW Practical Justice Initiative | Worlds Apart and Still No Closer to Justice: Recognition and Redress in Gendered Disability Violence
Speaker: Leanne Dowse
Sydney Ideas | Journalism, Resistance and Metadata
Speakers: Paul Farrell, Benedetta Brevini, Julie Posetti and Gabor Szathmari
Sydney Ideas | Hong Kong Twenty Years After the Handover: Developments Since 1997 and Prospects for the Future
Speakers: Bing Ling, Kevin Carrico and Joyce Nip
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Sydney Ideas | Feminism in the Age of Populism
Speakers: Philippa Hetherington, Laura J Shepherd and Anna Hush
Democracy Futures | “A Revolution Without Revolutionary Subjects": Ulrich Beck on the Global World
Speaker: Sabine Selchow
UNSW Arts & Social Sciences | Race & Comedy
Speakers: Osamah Sami and Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Thursday 24 August 2017
Department of Political Economy | Keynes and Marx: Towards Constructive Dialogue
Speaker: Rod O’Donnell
AIIA NSW | Careers Evening
Speakers: Anika Gauja, Ryan Neelam and Freya Zemek
Monday 28 August 2017
Sydney Environment Institute | Anthropogenic Futures: Communicating Environmental Crisis
Speaker: Gregg Mitman
Sydney Ideas | Storyology 2017. Tools for Truth
Speakers: Maria Ressa, Siddharth Varadarajan and Aim Sinpeng
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Post Truth Initiative and Sydney Ideas | Wrongful Conviction and Truth
Speakers: Celine van Golde, Miiko Kumar and Helen Fraser
Wednesday 30 August 2017
The Ethics Centre | The Ethics of Consent
Speakers: Lucie Bee, Eleanor Gordon-Smith and Elisabeth Shaw
Thursday 31 August 2017
Sydney Ideas | Contact and Openness in Adoption
Speakers: Elsbeth Neil, Helmut Ulhmann, Lynne Moggach, Philippa Welman and Amy Conley Wright
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