Professor Johnsen is an expert in comparative analysis of legal services policy in Europe. He has also done research on cultural barriers to the Sámi People's (the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Europe inhabiting the Sápmi) usage of the legal system in Norway." He has worked with the Council of Europe's "Commission for the Efficiency of Justice" (CEPEJ) on a major comparative research project, and is currently working on delays in European judicial systems for the CEPEJ.

Professor Johnsen will be in residence at Flinders University between 23 October 2008 and 20 January 2009 as an IUEU Centre Distiguished Research Fellow. More information will be posted as it is made available to the Centre.

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Seminars:
Seminar 1 - Flinders University (date TBC)
"What is the role of the Council of Europe in European integration of human rights in Europe? The work and effectiveness of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice"

Seminar 2 - Flinders University (date TBC)
"A comparison of the design and effectiveness of legal aid policies in Norway and Finland in promoting human rights."

25 November - La Trobe University
12 noon; Martin Building, Room 362, La Trobe University
The IUEU Centre and the Centre for Dialogue invite you to a Lecture by Professor Johnsen "The role of the Council of Europe's Commission on the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in the integration of human rights in Europe."

26 November - The Division of Law, Macquarie University
1pm; Blackshield Room, W3A.501
Seminar: "The role of the Council of Europe's Commission on the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in the integration of human rights in Europe."

The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, the Innovative Universities European Union Centre and the Centre of Middle East and North African Studies present a one-day symposium concerned with work that conceptualises the Mediterranean not as a fixed geographical locus mapped and regulated by a series of longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates but, rather, in terms of a dispersed spatio-temporal and geopolitical phenomenon that is not identical to itself. This is not the Mediterranean of the imperial mare nostrum; rather, it is a transmediterranean marked by lines of contestation, dissemination and reconfiguration. This symposium brings together scholars working on Mediterranean cultures, their multiple dispersions and embodiments. The symposium examines how Mediterranean cultures are engaged in flows of transnational cultural exchange that are reconstituting local cultures and identities and translocating these things in the context of national/ist cultures. The symposium will also focus on the phenomenon of diaspora, both transmediterranean and transnational (with a particular focus on Australian diasporic cultures and their Middle Eastern, North African and European affiliations and connections), refugees and the undocumented, the “war on terror,” media representations, colonial and imperial histories, tourism, and aesthetic visions.

Addmission is FREE. For further information, contact: Joseph Pugliese, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney. Joseph.Pugliese@scmp.mq.edu.au

From Migrant to Citizen: testing language, testing culture. In December 2008 the IUEU Centre and Macquarie University are supporting a conference on the issues of citizenship testing and national identity.

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The contact person for this event is Tamara Dent, if you have further queries please contact at t.dent@murdoch.edu.au

A three-day international conference featuring contributions from academic researchers and practitioners from the Pacific Rim, the European Union, Asia and North America. The conference will provide a forum for the sharing of ideas and knowledge about the value of creativity as a means of engendering social inclusion and will allow academic researchers, practitioners and organisations to explore aspects of commonality in their pursuits with the possibility of collaboration both within Australia and in international contexts...