Governance

Free seminar: Trump's Nationalism, the Nuclear Missile Treaty and the Future of European Security

Posted November 4, 2018 - 11:00 by Frances Gaughan
Nov 19 2018 12:30
Nov 19 2018 14:00
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT City Campus, Building 80, Level 5, Room 12
445 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

The recent announcement by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty raised more concerns in Europe about its security. Trump’s blunt NATO/EU security strategy with a  question of burden sharing at its core, combined with heightened security perceptions of resurgent Russia add to a growing sense of insecurity across the European capitals. Russia’s message to the Europeans is blunt and clear: should the US withdraw from the 1987 Treaty Europe will once again become a target of Russian land-based and ship-borne missile systems.

Free Event at RMIT: Regional Policy, Regional Innovation: Implications of European Experience for Australia?

Posted August 3, 2018 - 09:48 by Matthew Coote
Aug 13 2018 12:30
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT City Campus Courtroom 3, Level 2
RMIT Building 20, 124 La Trobe Street
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

During the past decade, the circumstances of ‘regional’ Australia have become much more explicit in Australian public policy. While issues of drought or flood have often drawn attention to the exigencies of farmers and or rural economies, it has been recognition of widespread structural differences which has prompted the recent attention.

Free Event at RMIT: Hard Brexit, Soft Brexit or No Brexit: Where are we heading?

Posted August 3, 2018 - 09:02 by Matthew Coote
Aug 9 2018 12:30
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT City Campus, Emily McPherson Building (RMIT Building 13), Level 1, Room 3
405 Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

As the clock ticks down towards the date on which the United Kingdom (UK) is due to leave the European Union (EU), many details continue to be unclear. It has been only in the last month that the UK Government has been able to present its White Paper setting out its preferred option for Brexit.

Statement by Professor Bruce Wilson, Director European Union Centre at RMIT, on the occasion of Europe Day 2018 - 9 May, 2018

Posted May 9, 2018 - 08:34 by Frances Gaughan

Today, Europe celebrates Europe Day 2018. This is always an important opportunity to acknowledge the enormous progress which has been made towards securing a lasting peace on the European continent, offering a new form of cooperation among nations which strengthens the capacity of each of them, through their collaboration, to make significant global impact.

Developing a Charter for Post Brexit Youth and Community Work - Dumfries, 24 May 2018

Posted April 27, 2018 - 14:23 by Lesley Doyle
May 24 2018
Europe/London
University of the West Of Scotland
Dudgeon House, Bankend Rd
Dumfries
United Kingdom  United Kingdom

The Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work is funding a series of free national, collaborative 'Policy and Practice' seminars around the UK. The aim of these seminars is to foster greater levels of collaboration between higher education institutions and practice agencies in the profiling of challenges and opportunities facing youth and community work policy and practice across the UK. This Seminar Title: 'Developing a Charter for Post-Brexit Youth and Community Work'.

Italian Election 2018: Instability, uncertainty & Euroscepticism? Come hear the candidates

Posted January 30, 2018 - 13:22 by Matthew Coote
Feb 14 2018 12:30
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT University, Emily McPherson Building (RMIT Building 13), Level 3, Room 9 (Ethel Osborne Hall)
405 Russell St
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

Italians in Italy and abroad cast their vote in Italian elections scheduled for 4 March 2018 to elect their new representatives in the Italian parliament. As we speak, Italians in Australia are receiving their electoral ballot papers and will have the opportunity to cast their vote for their own college of Africa,Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. How will Italians in Australia vote? What impact will votes from abroad have in Italy?

Governing In and Against Austerity - Professor Jonathan Davies, De Monfort University

Posted October 30, 2017 - 08:15 by Josef Konvitz

Governing In and Against Austerity, a report edited by Jonathan S. Davies at De Montfort University, Leicester, highlights the responses in 8 cities to the impact of the Crisis of 2008.  The cities are Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Greater Dandenong Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes.  

Can democracy survive in the West?

Posted September 3, 2017 - 14:13 by Chris Brooks

In Alison Smith’s wonderful novel Autumn, written just after Brexit, there is a conversation between mother and daughter about why Mum has stopped following the news:

I am tired of the news. I am tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling. I am tired of the vitriol. I am tired of the anger. I am tired of the meanness. I am tired of the selfishness. I am tired of how we’re doing nothing to stop it.

France's Political Turbulence

Posted April 24, 2017 - 22:53 by Matthew Coote
May 4 2017 18:00
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT City Campus, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 (Storey Hall)
348/336 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

On Thursday 4 May 2017, the Monash European and EU Centre, RMIT’s EU Centre and Centre for Communications, Politics and Culture are joining force to organise a panel discussion on the future of French politics, the implications for Europe but also the Western world, more broadly.

ARNA Conference 2017 - 1st Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy

Posted March 13, 2017 - 07:41 by Jennifer Pagliaroli
Jun 12 2017 06:41
Jun 16 2017 06:41
America/Bogota
Hotel Almirante
Cartagena
Colombia  Colombia

Throughout his career, visionary Colombian sociologist Orlando Fals Borda argued against the concept that research should be seen as a playground for an academic elite. With a conviction of the need for more and more feeling-thinkers (sentipensantes) in contemporary times, his vision for true democratic research was straightforward: “Do not monopolise your knowledge nor impose arrogantly your techniques, but respect and combine your skills with the knowledge of the researched or grassroots communities, taking them as full partners and co-researchers.”

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