School of History and Politics
Spring 2008 Seminar Series
Where: 19:1003
Time: 10:30-12:00
Friday 15 August (Week 4)
Determinants in the history and transmission of ideas:
An exploration of the emergence of academic industrial relations
at the University of Sydney
Associate Professor Di Kelly
Abstract:
Although the practice and institutions of industrial relations have a long and important history in Australia, the emergence of coherent academic industrial relations scholarship is arguably not much more than fifty years old. Despite some important earlier precursors, the first coherent teaching and research programmes, as well as the first journal, came out of University of Sydney in the 1950s and 1960s. This paper explores the emergence of academic industrial relations and asks what factors most influenced that emergence – place, time or people – and what affected the nature of the discipline as it became more firmly established as a recognised academic field of study.
Spring 2008 Seminar Series: Speakers TBA
- Friday August 29 (Week 6)
- Friday September 12 (Week 8)
- Friday October 17 (Week 12)
*** All Welcome ***
BYO tea and coffee, cake provided.
For further information contact: Dr Charles Hawksley x3087 charlesh@uow.edu.au
Autumn 2008 Seminar Series
Where: 19:1003
Time: 10:30-12:00
Friday 11 April (Week 6)
"New states, recognition and sovereignty: Kosovo, Timor Leste and Solomon Islands"
Charles Hawksley, Margaret Hanlon, Joakim Eidenfalk,
Dozens of breakaway and disputed territories in the world desire to be accepted as states, but most are not recognized. They may control their territory, have a permanent population and a legitimate government, but ultimately statehood depends largely on the politics of whether existing states accept it as part of the "club". Charles will address the recent declaration of independence by Kosovo, focusing on the international process of state recognition, the respective claims of Kosovo and Serbia, and why some European states are not keen to recognize Kosovo. Margaret will then discuss Australia's non-recognition of East Timor's claims for independence in 1974/75 and the subsequent recognition of Timor Leste from 1999. Whether Timor Leste or a future Kosovo, new states often require considerable international aid and military support, and Joakim will examine the Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to highlight some of the paradoxes of modern statehood.
Friday May 9 (Week 10)
Writing History: Doing Theory
Julia Martinez; Kylie Smith; Georgine Clarsen
Cultural historians, in declaring theory to be central to the historical enterprise, have precipitated a return to questions of theory in the history profession. But incorporating theory into our research and writing in ways that produce good, interesting, readable, publishable histories is not a simple matter. In this panel we will explore the ways that members of the panel and other historians that we admire have sought to produce theoretically informed historical writing.
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