Europa Policy Lab: The Urban Water Value Chain and Circular Economy Policies
Seminar
This Jean Monnet Europa Policy Lab is presented with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Listen to the audio recording on ANU Soundcloud The circular economy has become a major direction in European Union policy aiming at reducing the use of resources and energy through…
POSTPONED -- Dr Annika Werner: Promise keeping: What do Voters Expect from a Government Party?
Seminar
Please note this event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Abstract: That parties fulfil their pre-election promises once they are in government is a fundamental idea of many democracy models. In this talk we address the question of whether the opposition status…
Yemen: Current and Future Challenges
Seminar
Labelled the ‘worst humanitarian crisis in the world’ by the EU and characterised by the UN as ‘entirely man-made’, the ongoing crisis in Yemen continues to drag on unabated. The UN has warned that Yemen, already one of the poorest countries in the Arab world prior to the conflict, is on the brink…
The Inaugural Ken Inglis Memorial Lecture - All the Things We Cannot See: The Dunera story and the challenge of visual history
Lecture
Dunera Lives posited that visual material is the archival text out of which the narrative emerges. Following W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, this approach to historical writing entails traps as well as opportunities. What is there in the Dunera story that is either left out or expressed in ambiguous ways…
Europa Policy Lab: Populism in Democratic Countries: Foundations and Measures
Seminar
Listen to the audio recording of this event on ANU Soundcloud This Europa Policy Lab is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union A series of elections over the last few years have emphasized a political change in many voters across different countries. Surprising election results…
Europa Policy Lab: Fuel and Food: Global Commodities Price Transmission Perspective
Seminar
This Europa Policy Lab is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union European Union and United States policies have created a new price transmission channel connecting fuel and food commodity markets. Professor Janda will present the results of econometric time series analysis of…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary
Arts & entertainment
On 10 December 1948, the UN General Assembly, presided by Australia’s HV ‘Doc’ Evatt, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Born out of ‘barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind’, the UDHR promised to usher in a new era founded on the ‘equal and inalienable…