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Dates & Times
Sunday 24 October
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
We are livingthrough rapid shifts in global power,as the rising influenceof states such as China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa creates new andmore complex patterns of global interaction. At the same time issues such as climate change, electronic communications, food and watersecurity and epidemic diseases present new demands foreffective global institutions.
To discuss how these changesimpact on Australian foreign policy the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University has assembled a panel of experts to provoke your thinking: Andrew Hewett (Oxfam); Professor JosephCamilleri (La Trobe) and Professor Robyn Eckersley (Melbourne).
Presented in partnership with the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University.
Featuring
Robyn Eckersley
Robyn Eckersley is Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
She has published widely in the intersecting fields of political theory (especially environmental political theory and democratic theory), global environmental politics and international relations theory. She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ten international journals, including Environmental Politics; Ethics and International Affairs; Global Environmental Politics; International Political Theory and International Theory. Her current research focuses on globalization and environmental change, theories of environmental governance and international climate policy and climate justice. She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia in 2007.
Andrew Hewett
Andrew Hewett is Executive Director of Oxfam Australia.
Andrew’s previous positions with Oxfam include leadership of the agency’s advocacy program and the direction of Oxfam International’s response to the crisis in East Timor from 1999 - 2001.
Andrew has extensive international advocacy experience, was a member of the World Bank-NGO Committee for four years and has participated in and observed numerous international conferences, including those of the World Trade Organisation and the World Bank.
Andrew is the vice-president of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak council of non-government development agencies. He is also Co-Chair of the Make Poverty History Campaign. He is a member of the BHP Billiton Forum for Corporate Responsibility.
He has visited Oxfam Australia programs in East Asia, South Asia, the Pacific, Central America, Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa as well as its programs working with Indigenous Australians.
Joseph Camilleri
Prof Joseph Anthony CAMILLERI is Professor of International Relations and founding Director of the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University.
Professor Camilleri is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and chairs the Editorial Committee of the scholarly journal Global Change, Peace and Security. He serves on numerous international boards and advisory councils.
He has researched, lectured and given evidence to government and other enquiries on issues of governance, human rights, cultural and religious dialogue, development, environment, and security. He is the recipient of several national and international grants and awards, including the Order of Australia Medal.
He’s written several books including Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet, Regionalism in the New Asia Pacific Order and States and Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific*.
Dennis Altman
Dennis Altman has written 15 books since his groundbreaking Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. The Bulletin listed him as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever. He is Patron of the Australian Queer Archives and Pride Foundation Australia.
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