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Everything Political |
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February 2018 |
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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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Cities and Citizenship |
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A panel discussion
In a growing number of cities, citizens are channelling their frustration with existing citizen engagement processes into the creation of urban alliances and/or citizen platforms that bring together diverse civil society actors to articulate and pursue common interests. In the first global research project of its kind, we have already identified over 100 urban alliances across the world.
Join five of the world’s top scholars who’ll speak on the question of why city citizen activism is an essential ingredient for reviving democratic practice, at a time when civic voices appear under threat. They will explore stories from places as diverse as Moscow, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Vallejo California and Sydney.
Speakers:Dr Amanda Tattersall (University of Sydney) Professor Helga Leitner (University of California Los Angeles) Professor Simon Tormey (University of Sydney) Associate Prof Kurt Iveson (University of Sydney) Associate Professor Mark Davidson (Clark University) When:6.00pm-7.30pm, Thursday 22 February 2018 Where: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315 Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney More info and REGISTRATIONS: click here |
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Applications Open | 2018 WZB/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Exchange |
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The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney enjoys an international linkage with Germany’s leading social science research institute, the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Centre. In addition to the mutual transfer of scientific materials and publications, the institutions work together in collaborative teaching, training, research staff and student exchanges.
STAFF AND DOCTORAL EXCHANGE
The FASS/WZB agreement allows for student and staff research exchange fellowships in any field of the social sciences. The annual fellowships provide a minimum of $6,000 towards airfare and living costs for a research exchange conducted at the WZB by University of Sydney staff members (including post-doctoral researchers) and doctoral students. The fellowships are tenable from 1 March each year and allow for stays of no less than three weeks and no more than three months.
Applications for 2018 are now open.
More information here
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SDN on The Conversation |
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February 2, 2018
Democracy takes many forms, some of them democracy in name only. Confusion and misappropriation complicate the public struggle for the democracy to come, but this challenge is always unending.
January 17, 2018
Is Democracy Dead or Alive? Democracy has a future, if we rethink and remake it Alice el-Wakil, University of Zürich; Anna Szolucha, Polish Academy of Sciences; David A. Teegarden, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Graham Smith, University of Westminster; Nancy L. Rosenblum, Harvard University; Peter Wilkin, Brunel University London, and Ryusaku Yamada, Soka University
Is it really time to eulogise democracy, or are we rather on the cusp of a new phase in its long and varied life?
December 6, 2017
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EVERYTHING POLITICAL EVENTS |
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Monday 5 February
Medical Association for Prevention of War | Making Waves - ICAN Speaking Tour Speakers: Tanaka Terumi, Hasegawa Hanako, Karina Lester, Zac Wone, Scott Ludlam, Nat Wasley, Gosyu Kariyushi Kai
Tuesday 6 February
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis | When Anger Turns Hip-Hop: The Deliberative Capacity of Teenagers' Festive Protests in Japan Speaker: Kei Nishiyama
Wednesday 7 February
The 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, IGPA | Are We There Yet? A Global Look at Women's Journey to Leadership Speaker: Irene Natividad
School of Architecture, Design & Planning | The Urban Displacement Project: Urban Data Science for Policy Change Speaker: Karen Chapple
Thursday 8 February
Politics in the Pub | Nuclear Threats: How Close to Midnight? Speakers: John Hallam, Gemma Romuld
Tuesday 13 February
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis | Descriptive Representation Revisited Speaker: Anne Phillips
SSSHARC | Ultimate Peer Review of Promises and Lies: Wiradjuri Experiences of Australian Modernity Speakers: Gaynor Macdonald, Sylvie Poirier
AIIA NSW | Australia's Defence Readiness: Inadequate or Over-Endowed? Speaker: Andrew Greene
Wednesday 14 February
Sydney Ideas | Learning as Design and Performative Action: Symbolic Technologies and Challenges for Education in Digital Societies Speaker: Roger Saljo
Thursday 15 February
SSSHARC HDR Masterclass | Engaged Research: Working Collaboratively with First Nations Peoples
Centre for International Security Studies | QC3I: Quantum Computing, Communication, Control and Intelligence for Peace And Security
Centre for International Security Studies | Strange Physics: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Drones, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computers Speakers: Michael Biercuk, Hugh Gusterson, Allison Macfarlane, Toby Walsh, James Der Derian
Sydney Environment Institute | HumanNature Series: ‘Radical Histories for Uncanny Times’ Speaker: Tom Griffiths
Politics in the Pub | Crisis in Venezuela: Challenges Facing the Bolivarian Revolution Speakers: Coral Wynter, Fred Fuentes
Friday 16 February
Department of Government & International Relations | 2nd Australian Political Theory and Philosophy Conference 2018 Keynote speakers: Philip Pettit, Danielle Celermajer
Monday 19 February
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis | Master Class: The New Diplomacy and Public Service Speaker: Diane Stone
Thursday 22 February
Sydney Ideas, Henry Halloran Trust and Sydney Democracy Network | Cities and Citizenship Speakers: Amanda Tattersall, Helga Leitner, Simon Tormey, Kurt Iveson, Mark Davidson
UNSW School of Humanities & Languages | Marx 2.0 - A Symposium
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis | Housing Affordability Strategies in Australia - From Token Responses to What Works Speakers: Jon Stanhope, Khalid Ahmed
GIR Colloquium Series | Proscribing Them, Securing Us? Speaker: Lee Jarvis
The US Studies Centre | Australia-Japan-Us Strategic Relations and Indo-Pacific Security Speaker: Ashley Townshend
The Walkley Foundation | Truth Under Fire: Objectivity and Aid in Conflict Zones Speakers: Antony Loewenstein, Monica Attard, Hugh Riminton, Yaara Bou Melhem
Politics in the Pub | A Common Good: Democratic Futures for People and Planet Speakers: Tim Hollo, Stuart Rees
Monday 26 February
Sydney Environment Institute | Urban Farming: Feeding the Future? Speakers: Robyn Alders, Megan Battaglia Lenore Newman, Toby Whittington
Tuesday 27 February
China Studies Centre | Childhood Obesity in China: How Big is the Problem and What Can Be Done? Speaker: Mu Li |
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