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Public Seminar by Dr George Menz
5 November 12 noon: Undercroft Lecture Theatre, La Trobe University

Seminar: The Political Economy of Managed Migration: National Non-State Actors and Europeanisation in the Formulation of European Immigration Policies: a lecture by Dr George Menz, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London
5 November 12 noon; Undercroft Lecture Theatre, La Trobe University.

Public Seminars by Professor Donald Sassoon
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Seminar: "The Culture of the Europeans": a free lecture by Professor Donald Sassoon
7 November at 2pm; La Trobe University, Social Sciences Building, Room S 423

Seminar: "Mona Lisa: The Best Known Girl In The Whole Wide World": a free lecture by Professor Donald Sassoon
10 November at 6pm; John Scott Meeting House, La Trobe University

Public seminars by Professor Xavier Greffe: Professor of Economics, University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne
13 & 14 October, Queensland and 16 & 17 October 2008, New South Wales

Professor Greffe is the author of Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective (2002) and a distinguished academic with the University of Paris at the Sorbonne. Due to limited space, RVSP is essential for these events.

Seminar: "Urban Cultural Landscapes": a public seminar by Professor Xavier Greffe
13 October 2008: 5:30pm Griffith University Southbank Campus
Seminar: "New Business Models For Cultural Companies": a public seminar by Professor Xavier Greffe
14 October 2008: 5:30pm State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane
Seminar: "Urban Cultural Landscapes": a public seminar by Professor Xavier Greffe
16 October 2008: 6:30pm Macquarie University Art Gallery
Seminar: "New Business Models For Cultural Companies": a public seminar by Professor Xavier Greffe
17 October 2008: 2pm Department of Economics, Macquarie University
Click here for further details on each of these events

2008 Movies at Macquarie: Rendition
Sunday 19 October, 6pm: Macquarie Theatre W5B

Join Noah Bassil, Acting Director of the Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, as he examines the implications of rendition and torture and the claims that the actions of the United States and its allies, such as Australia, are part of a civilising mission. Delve into the world of espionage, covert operations and the secret 'war on terror', and consider whether security or civil rights should be considered paramount. Bassil will discuss rendition and the issue of civil rights in the wider context of the age of counter-terrorism as a way of understanding the impact of such policies on the possible success of the 'war on terror'.

EUrope in Greater Bendigo
24-26 September 2008, Bendigo region, Victoria, Australia

A series of activities to bring together the European Union and Bendigo area interests in education, business, trade and community activity.

Did you know that Australia’s largest economic partner is the European Union (EU)? Have you heard that in 2007 more than one million Australians visited Europe, and that nine out of ten Australians are of European descent? Most Australians aren’t aware of these facts, so the EU, through the Delegation of the European Commission to Australia in Canberra and its Member State embassies and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre are bringing Europe to Greater Bendigo. This programme will include public forums, lectures, speeches, workshops, competitions and information stalls and will be supported by the City of Greater Bendigo, the Bendigo Business Council, La Trobe University and the Monash European and EU Centre.

Select the following links for further information:
EUrope in Greater Bendigo	Registration Link
Australian Researchers & European Opportunities	Student Forum: Learn about the exchange experience

Leilah Nadir, IUEU Centre sponsored guest for the Brisbane Writers Festival
21 September 2008, 3.20pm at The Marquee, Brisbane

The Orange Trees of Baghdad

Listen to Leilah Nadir in conversation with Professor Kay Ferres from Griffith University.

Leilah Nadir is a freelance writer who has written and broadcast political commentaries for the CBC, The Globe and Mail and the Georgia Straight, and published a feature article in Brick magazine. She has a master's degree in English literature from the University of Edinburgh and a joint honours bachelor's degree in English and history from McGill University. She has worked in London and Vancouver in the publishing industry. The Orange Trees of Baghdad is a detailed exploration of life in Baghdad filtered through the voices and memories of the Iraqi diaspora.

For more information on Leilah Nadir please visit http://www.leilahnadir.com/

For more information on the Brisbane Writers Festival visit:

http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/

Dr. Hervé Glevarec, IUEU Visiting Research Fellow
15 September 2008 "Music, taste and ageing in UK, Australia and France", Griffith Graduate Centre, South Bank Campus, Griffith University, QLD, Australia
17 September 2008 "French Radio and its audience: Recent transformations due to the New Media", Ship Inn functions room, South Bank Campus, Griffith University, QLD, Australia
18 September 2008 "New Highbrow Popular Musical Tastes in France. Why is it new for (French) Sociology of Culture", Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, QLD, Australia

IUEU Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Hervé Glevarec will be at Griffith University in September for several events. Dr. Glevarec is a Senior Researcher with CNRS (Centre national del la recherche scientifique).

Macquarie University celebrated NSW History Council's History Week 6 - 14 September, with the following events:
9th September 2008, 11am Macquarie University, Room W6A107
12th September 2008, 10.30am Macquarie University Art Gallery, Building E11A

A History of Terrorism: Noah Bassil (Politics and International Relations)
9th September 2008 Macquarie University

Greek Currents in Australian Waters: Greek-Australians and the Sea: Leonard Janiszewski and Effy Alexakis
12th September 2008 Macquarie University Art Gallery

Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Robert Horvath and Graeme Gill presentations
10 September 2008, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney
Professor Graeme Gill from Sydney University and Dr Robert Horvath from La Trobe University examined the question of how to deal with the newly assertive Russia and debated the policy options.(venue: The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney).

An MP3 file of the presentation can be downloaded from http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=889

Prof. Leszek Jurczyszyn, IUEU Centre Visiting Research Fellow
In residence at Newcastle University: 4 August - 9 September 2008

The following information was provided by the University of Newcastle after Prof. Jurczyszyn left Australia:
Seminar: 26 August " The influence of C-defects at the Si(001) surface on In adsorption"
venue: The School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (physics), The University of Newcastle.

An abstract of the seminar is available from the University of Newcastle's website at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Schools/Mathematical%20and%20Physical%20Sciences/Seminars/seminar_physics_20080826_jurczyszyn.pdf

Click here for a pdf of slides from this seminar by Prof. Jurczyszyn

Professor Khosrokhavar; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France
20 August - 3 September 2008, Events scheduled in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra & Sydney are set out below.

Professor Khosrokhavar's visit to Australia is an initiative of, and coordinated by, the Monash European and EU Centre at Monash University. His lecture series in Australia is co-hosted by Islam Node, ARC APFRN, the National Europe Centre, the Innovative Universities Europe Centre and the International Asia Pacific Institute at Flinders University.

The events he will take part in while in Australia are as follows (further details will be posted as they are advised):

20 August, 6-8pm: Public Lecture at State Library, Melbourne
21 August: Seminar hosted by the University of Melbourne
26 August: Lecture at Flinders University, Adelaide
28 / 29 August (TBC): Lecture hosted National Europe Centre and the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Canberra
2 September, 3-4pm: Seminar at Macquarie University
2 September, 7-9pm: Public Lecture at Macquarie University
3 September, 5-6pm: Guest Lecture for EUL101 at Macquarie University

For more detail on his public events, see the links beside the events listed above...

Michael Burleigh, IUEU Centre sponsored guest for the Melbourne Writers Festival
29 August 2008, Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
The MWF session with Michael Burleigh was very successful, he held a 30 minute talk about his book and his encounters with (former) terrorists and victims of terrorism. He showed graphic pictures of terrorist slogans and symbols on the big screen. After his talk Michael and Dr. Spaaij discussed the role of the internet, the limitations of the current anti-terrorism strategies and “what needs to be done”. They then opened it up and welcomed questions from members of the audience. The audience was very engaged and Michael got some challenging questions.
For more information on Michael Burleigh visit: http://www.michaelburleigh.com/home.shtml

For more information on the Melbourne Writers Festival visit:
http://www.mwf.com.au

Professor Raffaele Torino, Roma Tre University
August 2008, Macquarie University, Sydney, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Flinders University, Adelaide.
Professor Raffaele Torino, Roma Tre University, presented his lecture entitled “Introduction to Italian Law” to students in EUL 101 Societies of Europe, a core unit of the Bachelor of International Studies at Macquarie University.

Additional events while in Australia included an interview by Magica Fossati of SBS Radio's Italian Language Program.

The IUEU was host to a visit to La Trobe University by a distinguished Italian expert on European and international law. Raffaele Torino is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Roma Tre, and has published extensively on corporations, contracts, torts, international, European and comparative commercial law, and family law. While at La Trobe he gave a seminar paper on ‘The Irish “No” to the Lisbon Treaty’. The Irish referendum result on this issue is a major new obstacle to the next stage in the development of the European Union, and the views of this legal expert will be of wide interest to those with an interest in the European Union, whether in politics, history, international relations or law.
While at La Trobe University Professor Torino was interviewed by Dr Stefan Auer and the resulting DVD will be used for next year’s delivery of the undergraduate European Union unit through the IUEU Centre. He has also been involved in discussions about exchange arrangements between La Trobe University and the University of Roma Tre in Rome.

While at Flinders University he presented his seminar paper on ‘The Irish “No” to the Lisbon Treaty’ to the Department of Law.

Professor Alberta Sbragia, An Asia-Pacific Union? Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and the model of the European Union
14 August 2008, Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia
Professor Alberta Sbragia Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence, European Studies University of Pittsburgh, USA presented a lecture entitled An Asia-Pacific Union? Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and the model of the European Union

Professor Sasha Roseneil - IUEU Centre and the Departments of Modern History and Sociology at Macquarie Sponsored Speaker
29 July 2008, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Professor Roseneil, co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London, gave a lecture entitled "Intimate Citizenship in Multi-cultural Europe" on the 29th July at Macquarie University. The lecture was co-sponsored by the IUEU Centre and the Departments of Modern History and Sociology at Macquarie University

"Collaborations and New Directions in Diaspora Research" Prof. David Goldberg
May - June 2008
Prof. Goldberg's visit to Australia from 28 May to 3 June as part of the programme of the IUEU Centre involved activities in three states.

Loretta Napoleoni, IUEU Centre sponsored guest for Sydney Writers’ Festival.
May 2008
Loretta Napoleoni appeared at two free events while in Sydney as an IUEU Centre sponsored guest.
One event was at Macquarie University and one was at the SDC in Sydney.

Prof. Philip Binning, IUEU Centre Visiting Research Guest.
In residence 21 May - 1 June 2008
While in residence Prof. Binning is listed on the University of Newcastle website as an external collaborator with Prof. Garry Willgoose for a 5 year ARC Discovery Project that began in 2006. The following information was provided after Prof. Binning had left Australia. Seminar: 29 May: "Using Risk Assessment to Prioritise the Cleanup of Organic Contaminants in Ground Water" (venue: University of Newcastle).

‘Two Way Traffic: Modern European artists represented in the La Trobe University Art Collection’
29 April – 13 June: An art exhibition sponsored by the IUEU Centre (venue: La Trobe University Art Museum)

Two waves of emigrants arrived in Australia from Europe during the middle decades of the twentieth century, each one distinctly different in its origins of displacement. The first wave of human traffic from the Diaspora was a result of the European crisis of Nazism and Fascism, with many of European 'enemy aliens' arriving via official military transport. The second post-war phase of immigration brought a much larger number of skilled labourers and artisans attracted to a new life in a country that promised many opportunities within its social, economic, educational and cultural reconstruction programmes. Within both of these tides arrived artists who contributed to the cultural and artistic development of Australian art and culture. Indeed, the two decades between 1940 and 1960 belong in many ways to the Europeans, and this exhibition looks at works by some of those émigré artists who became a vibrant force in modern Australian art. Guest curator: Sheridan Palmer.
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/artmuseum/exhibitions.html

From Marginality To Resurgence: European Island and Regional Cultures in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries
Organised by The Island Cultures Research Centre and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre
March 20th – April 19th 2008, Macquarie University, Sydney

This was a month-long event including a conference, Higher Degree Research student colloquium, exhibition and concert components held at Macquarie University (City and North Ryde campuses) between March 20th – April 19th 2008. Event Co-ordinator and Conference Chair: Professor Philip Hayward

"Transitions: Aspects of European Island and Regional Cultures" The exhibition, held at the Macquarie University Art Gallery, captured the experiences and perceptions of a number of artists concerned with European island and regional cultures since the 1950s and with the experiences of migrants from these locations to Australia. Artists: Effy Alexakis, Angela Cavalieri, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Axel Poignant, Fernando Gil Pereira Resendes, Claudia Terstappen, Jeremy Welsh, and Salvatore Zofrea.
FMTR Postgraduate student and supervisor colloquium (18 April, Macquarie City College). The colloquium comprised a number of presentations around the theme of ‘International aspects and opportunities for Australian Higher Degree Researchers’ by Australian and European academics
"Social and cultural policy in European sub-national regions' ( 18 April, Macquarie City College) Keynote: Associate Professor Stephen Royle (Queens University Belfast) 'Culture and heritage in the survival of the Irish islands'
"Music culture in European sub-national regions' ( 19 April, Macquarie City College) Keynote: Professor Girolamo Garofalo (University of Palermo, Italy) 'The music culture of Sicily's Albian minority'.
Concert for conference attendees: The Sydney Calabrian Ensemble - Supported by an Irish music ensemble led by Helen O'Shea
19 April, 7.30pm - 9.30 pm, Macquarie City College.

Mr Bodo Richter, Programme Manager for Australia, DG EAC in the European Commission
April 2008
Mr Bodo Richter, Programme Manager for Australia, Directorate General of Education and Culture (DG EAC) in the European Commission visited the IUEU Centre at Macquarie University and presented a seminar on the EU and Exchange Studies on 9th April 2008. After the presentation, Mr Richter spent time speaking to students about exchange studies.

Jane Boyd, 2008 VRG
IUEU Centre 2008 Visiting Research Guest and Artist in Residence at Regents Court, co-sponsored by the Centre for Time, University of Sydney

Jane Boyd is a leading Amsterdam based English artist who has worked on concrete (the Pantheon, La Défense in Paris and UCL London), Jane’s current project is ongoing:
“Temporal Human Behaviour in Public Places”. Jane Boyd held several presentation during her stay in Australia, these included:

"Seeing the Past through the Present: the Pantheon through the lens of a contemporary artist " Jane Boyd, artist in residence at Regents Court
7 April, 2008, 7pm, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
"Time After Time, an Odyssey in Vertical Space " Jane Boyd, artist in residence at Regents Court
17 April 2008, 6pm. Macquarie City College, Sydney, Australia
"Sensing the Past through the Present" Jane Boyd, artist in residence at Regents Court
28 April 2008, 6.30pm. La Trobe University, Glenn College Lecture Theatre, Bundoora VIC

For more information on her visit ...

"Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory"
3 - 5 December 2007, Flinders University, Adelaide

The conference is supported by the Innovative Universities European Union Centre and the European Commission's Delegation to Australia. It will examine issues of migration, transnational connection, displacement heritage, global space and cultural memory created by the movements of peoples between cultures in the modern world...

The Worlds of Europe and Europe in the World - An Interdisciplinary National Postgraduate Conference
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Victoria 3010

The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) invites postgraduate students from across Australia and New Zealand with a research interest in contemporary Europe to participate in an exciting interdisciplinary conference, The Worlds of Europe and Europe in the World....

Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States - The Lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran
5-7 December, 2007
La Trobe University, Melbourne (Bundoora Campus)

The purpose of this conference is to create a productive encounter between leading European scholars and their counterparts in the Asia-Pacific region...

“Immigrants as Citizens: Transnationalism and Incorporation as Future Directions in Turkish Relations with Australia, Europe and North America”
6-7 October 2007, The University of Sydney