Global Utilities

Events and activities

Upcoming

 

29 April - 1 July, 2008

Course: "Our World in Crisis?  Interpretations and Responses"

Location: Australian Volunteers International, Fitzroy (Melbourne, Australia)

For those working in education, government, the professions, media, trade unions and religious and community organisations. For those interested in issues of development, environment, human rights, peace and democracy. For anyone wishing to understand better our rapidly globalising world and Australia's place in it

The course will include:

  • Lectures
  • Workshop Discussons
  • Question and answer sessions
  • Simulation Exercise
  • Use of Audio-Visual materials
  • Interviews with guests
  • Debates
  • Other innovative teaching techniques

The course was run at Australian Volunteers International from 5.45pm – 9:15pm over ten consecutive Tuesday nights from 29 April and concluding 1 July.

The Principal lecturer and course coordinator was Joseph Camilleri (Professor of International Relations & Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University) Author of numerous books, including The End of Sovereignty? (1992), States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific (2000) and Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order (2003). He edited Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific: Violence or Healing? (2001) and co-edited Democratising Global Governance (2002). Assisting him will be Larry Marshall (Project Officer for Australian Studies and Associate Lecturer in Politics, La Trobe University) and Ben Zala (Honours Graduate in International Relations and Research Assistant, La Trobe University). Guest academics and practitioners will also contribute to the course.

The course will cover:

  • Living in a Globalised World
  • International Trade and Finance
  • Poverty and Development
  • Oil
  • Terrorism and the 'War on Terror'
  • Clash or Dialogue of Civilisations?
  • Human Rights, Governance & UN Reform
  • Race and Culture in Australia
  • Australia and the World

Organised in association with:

  • Asia Education Foundation
  • Australian Education Union - Victoria Branch
  • Australian Volunteers International
  • Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University
  • Islamic Council of Victoria
  • Liberty Victoria - Victorian Council for Civil Liberties
  • Medical Association for Prevention of War
  • Oxfam Australia
  • Pax Christi Australia (Vic)
  • Psychologists for Peace
  • Uniting Church in Australia
  • Victorian Council of Social Service
  • Victorian Local Governance Association
  • World Vision Australia

A course Brochure is available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).

For more information: Contact Craig Woolley, owic2008@wachy.com (telephone 0400 422 022)

Alternatively: see the course's website at www.josephcamilleri.com/owic

 

30 June - 4 July 2008

Conference: "Globalisation for the Common Good: An Interfaith Perspective"

Melbourne, Australia

Seventh Annual International Conference: “From the Middle East to Asia Pacific: Arc of Conflict or Dialogue of Cultures & Religions? ” Melbourne, Australia, 30 June - 4 July 2008. Jointly sponsored by the Centre for Dialogue (La Trobe University), Trinity College (University of Melbourne), ACU National (Australian catholic University), and Melbourne College of Divinity.

A Conference Outline (PDF format) is available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).

For more information: Contact Roberta Buccomino, R.Buccomino@latrobe.edu.au

Alternatively: see the conference website at www.gcgmelbourne2008.info

 

Events in 2007


5 - 7 December 2007
Melbourne, Australia

Europe and Asia: Between Islam and the United States: The Lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran

International conference: “Europe and Asia: Between Islam and the United States: The Lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran.” Melbourne, Australia, 5-7 December 2007. Jointly sponsored by the Centre for Dialogue (La Trobe University), the Innovative Universities European Union Centre, the Contemporary Europe Research Centre (University of Melbourne), "L’Orientale" (Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Italy), the Institute for Social Ethics (Nanzan University, Japan), the Institute for International Relations (Warsaw University, Poland) and the Cold War Studies Centre (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK).

A Conference Outline And Registration(PDF format)is available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).

For more information: Contact Dr Luca Anceschi, l.anceschi@latrobe.edu.au


7 May 2007 1:00 - 2:00pm

HUED Lecture Theatre, La Trobe University, Bundoora

Europe and Asia in a Multipolar World

A Lecture Flyer (PDF format) and a La Trobe Campus Map (PDF format) are available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).


24 April-26 June, 2007
Australian Volunteers International

Our World in Crisis?  Interpretations and Responses

For those working in education, government, the professions, media, trade unions and religious and community organisations. For those interested in issues of development, environment, human rights, peace and democracy. For anyone wishing to understand better our rapidly globalising world and Australia's place in it

The course will include:

  • Lectures
  • Workshop Discussons
  • Question and answer sessions
  • Simulation Exercise
  • Use of Audio-Visual materials
  • Interviews with guests
  • Debates
  • Other innovative teaching techniques

The course was run at Australian Volunteers International from 5.45pm – 9:15pm over ten consecutive Tuesday nights from 24 April and concluded 26 June.

The Principal lecturer and course coordinator was Joseph Camilleri (Professor of International Relations & Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University) Author of numerous books, including The End of Sovereignty? (1992), States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific (2000) and Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order (2003). He edited Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific: Violence or Healing? (2001) and co-edited Democratising Global Governance (2002). Assisting him will be Larry Marshall (Project Officer for Australian Studies and Associate Lecturer in Politics, La Trobe University) and Ben Zala (Honours Graduate in International Relations and Research Assistant, La Trobe University). Guest academics and practitioners will also contribute to the course.

The course will cover:

  • Living in a Globalised World
  • International Trade and Finance
  • Poverty and Development
  • 17 April, 2008 of Oil
  • Terrorism and the 'War on Terror'
  • Clash or Dialogue of Civilisations?
  • Human Rights, Governance & UN Reform
  • Race and Culture in Australia
  • Australia and the World

Organised in association with:

  • Asia Education Foundation
  • Australian Education Union - Victoria Branch
  • Australian Volunteers International
  • Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University
  • Islamic Council of Victoria
  • Liberty Victoria - Victorian Council for Civil Liberties
  • Medical Association for Prevention of War
  • Oxfam Australia
  • Pax Christi Australia (Vic)
  • Psychologists for Peace
  • Uniting Church in Australia
  • Victorian Council of Social Service
  • Victorian Local Governance Association
  • World Vision

A course Flyer is available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).

For more information: Contact Ben Zala, b.zala@latrobe.edu.au (telephone 0400 050 675)


11 April 2007 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Reader’s Feast Bookstore

Asia’s Transformation,  Australia’s Dilemma

A 2007 Lecture Series Flyer (PDF format) and a 2007 Lecture Series Flyer (Word format) are available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).


Thursday 9 November, 2006
La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus

Education Dialogue Project, Senior Year Secondary Educator Workshop Series
“Using a dialogue approach when teaching in the Humanities and English subjects”

For more information: Dr George Myconos, g.myconos@latrobe.edu.au

 

Events in 2006


12-13 December 2006
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Conference

The Politics of Empire and the Culture of Dialogue:
Intellectual and Organisational Signposts for the Future

Since the designation of 2001 as the UN Year of Dialogue among Civilizations and the events of September 11 2001, dialogue has become a recurring and often controversial theme in international discourse. At a time of political turmoil and violence, critics have labelled the notion of inter-cultural dialogue as idealistic, naïve, rhetorical, and even dangerous. For its advocates, the dialogue of cultures, religions and civilisations offers one of the more promising contributions to public debate on how we diagnose the present and plan for the future.

If dialogue is an idea whose time has come, it is necessary to develop a clearer understanding of the nature of dialogue, its participants and stakeholders, and its likely contribution to the national and international agenda. Certainly, a much deeper analysis is needed to make the philosophy, method and practice of dialogue intellectually coherent and politically potent. This is the purpose of the international two-day conference organised by the Centre for Dialogue at the Bundoora Campus of La Trobe University on 12-13 December 2006.


The Dialogue of Cultures, Religions and Civilizations: From Theory to Practice
  • Prof Fred R. Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
  • Prof Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
  • Dr Chandra Muzaffar, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Kuala Lumpur
  • Prof Majid Tehranian, Director, Institute for Peace and Global Policy Research (Tokyo, Honolulu)
  • Prof Wayne Hudson, School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University
  • Prof Gary D. Bouma, UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific, Monash University
  • Dr Philip Darby, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne
The Relevance of Dialogue for ‘World Order’
  • Dr Fabio Petito, SOAS, University of London & University of Oriental Studies “L'Orientale”, Naples
  • Prof Desmond Cahill, Intercultural Studies, RMIT
  • Prof Manfred Steger, Globalism Institute, RMIT
  • Prof Toh Swee-Hin, Director, Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University
  • Dr Richard Shapcott, Department of Government, University of Queensland
  • Prof Joseph A. Camilleri, Director, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University
Asia-Pacific: Crucible of Conflict or Dialogue of Civilizations?
  • Prof Zhang Longxi, Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, City University of Hong Kong
  • Prof Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i
  • Dr Michael T. Seigel, Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University, Nagoya

Plus Conference dinner address given by Inga Clendinnen, distinguished historian and recent author of Quarterly Essay #23 “The History Question – who owns the past?”

Supported by the School of Social Sciences & the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University.

A conference Flyer is available for download (right-click the link and select “Save target as...” option).

For more information email: dialogue@latrobe.edu.au or phone +61 3 9479 1893.

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