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2008 CSP Seminar Series

The Ethics and Politics of Biotechnology

When: Friday 24 October, 2008
Time: 11:45am - 1:15pm
Where: Room 19.2061

Determinants in the history and transmission of ideas: An exploration of the emergence of academic industrial relations at the University of Sydney

Week 4: Friday 15 August, 2008
Time: 10:30-12:00
Where: 19:1003

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. 

“Lying tactics”

Week 6: Friday 29th August, 2008
Time: 10:30-12:00
Where: 19:1003

Brian Martin

Abstract: 

Lies are commonplace in personal as well as public life, yet are seldom analysed as tools in power struggles. Lies are central in perpetrating genocide, corruption and sexual harassment, among other arenas. Case studies reveal tactics of lying, methods of detecting lies and ways of preventing them.

"Menacing Magnificence: The National Retreat from Multiculturalism in Theory and Practise in Australia and Current Revised Debate For Multiculturalism."

Week: TBA
Time: 10:30-12:00
Where: 19:1003

Robert Carr, Deb Jensen, Laila Hafez

Abstract:

The retreat from multiculturalism in theory and practise has been relatively swift in Australia. The politics of the Howard Government transformed the ways in which the nation has come to rationalize broader concerns over immigration, citizenship and identity. This panel suggests ways in which multiculturalism, though somewhat taboo in policy and theoretical circles, is a still a highly practical way of engaging plural societies. Overall, this panel considers how these policy and discursive factors worked to consolidate a political regime highly antagonistic to cultural cohesion. However, with the defeat of Howard in the 2007 election, the panel reviews the possibilities for a new approach to social policy under Rudd.