Stefan auer
Stefan Auer is a Senior Lecturer in history and politics at La Trobe University. Prior to this, he was Lecturer (2001-6) and Academic Director (2004-5) of the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin. His book, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004, pbk 2006) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) with the University Association for contemporary European Studies (UACES). He has published articles in Critical Horizons, East European Politics and Societies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Osteuropa and elsewhere. His current research interests include: the self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe and their more recent reincarnations (e.g. Ukraine 2004); political thought of dissident intellectuals, such as the Czech philosopher Jan Patocka; nationalism in Central Europe; enlargement of the European Union...

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster is the Innovative Universities European Union Centre Lecturer in Modern European History at Murdoch University. At Murdoch since July 2006, he teaches the IUEU Centre’s collaborative unit on the European Union as well as several other units on aspects of modern European history...

Joseph A. Camilleri
Joseph A. Camilleri is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University. He has written and lectured extensively on Europe and the United States in international relations, governance and globalisation, human rights, North-South relations, international organisations, the United Nations, and the Asia-Pacific region...

Jane Hanley
PhD Thesis: Going Places: Transformations in Spanish Travel Narratives
Location: Macquarie University
This thesis is an investigation of representations of place in Spanish travel narrative from the colonial era to today. It examines narratives of encounter as artifacts of changing European thought, and in terms of transformed experiences of distance, mediation of technology, and renegotiations of the meaning of Europe in the representation of home cultures...

Aurelien Mondo
PhD Thesis: On Populism: how the people became a threat to democracy
Location: La Trobe University
The aim of this thesis is to offer a better understanding of the contemporary extreme right and of its consequences on politics in western democracies. The empirical part of this research will be a comparative study of the French and the Australian extreme right in order to draw similarities and differences that will eventually give a clearer view of the situation...

Linda silaghi
PhD Thesis: a comparative excursion into the concept of citizenship which will map the affective reactions of immigrants as they attempt to acquire citizenship. The study focuses on aspiring citizens in Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Romania and Hungary.
Location: Macquarie University
The primary objective of the research is to understand the affective effects of nation state imposed citizenship testing practices and integration courses. In doing so, the experience of acquiring citizenship by naturalization will be investigated in Australia and in four EU countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Romania and Hungary...

Karen Zipkas
After working for 10 years, I finally decided to return to study and pursue my interest in politics and history by embarking upon a degree in International Relations at La Trobe University. It has been one of the best, most personally rewarding decisions I have ever made and I would urge any potential mature age student to take the plunge and study...

Kate Wheldrake
Kate Wheldrake is in her third year of a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice and Bachelor of Arts double degree at Flinders University. In her Arts degree Kate is majoring in International Relations and Spanish. I’m a member of Amnesty International, was the secretary of the Amnesty club at Flinders University in 2006, and is now working in the Amnesty International office in Adelaide, on current campaigns...

Fiona Nicolson
Fiona Nicolson has just completed a Masters of International Relations at Macquarie University. As part of her studies she wrote a thesis on “The causes of euroscepticism in the political parties and amongst the people in the member states of the European Union"...