28th February:
Assoc Prof Rebecca Chiu (Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong) – Urban Policy, Housing and the Sustainability of High-Density Asian Cities (Room BA912)
13th March:
Dr Linde Apel, Institute for Contemporary History in Hamburg – The Invention of a Taboo: Speaking About Area Bombings in Hamburg (Room BA912)
27 March:
Dr John Chesterman, University of Melbourne – Do We Need Another ATSIC? National Policy-Making in Indigenous Affairs. Abstract
10 April:
Prof Brian Costar - New Rules of the Game Abstract
24 April:
Prof Michael Gilding – ‘The Tyranny of Distance’: Biotechnology Networks and Clusters in the Antipodes’
8th May:
Dr Maria Turmarkin – TBA
22nd May:
Dr Margaret Simons – ‘Getting to Know Malcolm’
*5th June:
Scott Ewing and Prof Julian Thomas – Does Bandwidth make a Difference? Use of the Internet in Australia
*19th June:
Penny Duckworth, University of Melbourne – Constructing Community: The State in Everyday Life
17th July:
Chris Wilson – Youthworx and Youth Radio
31st July:
Prof Terry Burke – Experiencing the Housing Affordability Problem
14th August:
Nicola Brackertz – Social Inclusion in Local Governance: Can Public
Participation Deliver?
Social inclusion, local governance and public participation are
buzzwords for local government in Victoria. However, the ideas
embodied by these terms are problematic because of the inherent
theoretical and practical tensions. This talk unpacks some of the
underlying themes and assumptions and addresses the questions: What
does social inclusion in local government planning and decision making
mean? What is local governance and why is it seen to be important?
What promises does public participation hold? In assessing whether
public participation is suited as a mechanism by which councils can
facilitate social inclusion and local governance, the discussion will
draw on findings from the Community consultation and the *hard to
reach*: local government, social profiling and civic infrastructure
project * an ARC funded three year collaboration between eight
Victorian local councils, the VLGA (Victorian Local Governance
Association) and Swinburne University.
28th August:
Dr David Corlett – The Challenge of Climate Change-induced Displacement
11th September:
Dr Ellie Rennie – Indigenous Community Media
25th September:
Dr Michela Betta – Patents on Life - their economic and social impact
9th October:
Ian McShane – Is There a Distinctive Australian Take on the Idea of the Commons?
23rd October:
Dr Paula Geldens – ‘I Tell them I am a Paper Stainer’: The evolution of a trade
6th November:
Prof Michael Gilding – Paternal Discrepancy, Time and Place: The ideological agenda of evolutionary psychology and its disregard for evidence
20th November:
Dr Vivienne Waller – TBA
