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Luce Irigaray Seminar | Papers and panel discussion by Professor Elizabeth Grosz (Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Rutgers), Professor Ellen Mortensen (Director of the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Bergen) and Dr Rebecca Hill (Communication, RMIT University) on Monday 12th December 2011. Schedule: Rebecca Hill Paper Title: 'Rethinking Place: Irigaray and Ronell' Ellen Mortensen Paper Title: 'Sexuate Difference in a Time of Terror' Elizabeth Grosz Paper Title: 'Irigaray, Darwin and Sex' Panel Discussion including questions from the audience. Presented by the Communication, Politics and Culture Research Group in RMIT's School of Media and Communication. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 9 | Collaborative research projects - Dr Guy Johnson Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 8 | Testimonials on the beginning, middle and end of a thesis by three RMIT students Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 7 | Invasions That Never Were (1938 and 2010): What Can They Tell Us About Communication and Communication Research? - Dr Jonathan Smith Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 6 | How 'reading between the lines' can transform social research - Professor Jock McCulloch Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 5 | How can you tell if children do any work? - Professor Pavla Miller Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 4 | How to make formal ethics requirements a help rather than a hindrance in designing research projects - Ms Kathryn Daley Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 3 | How do you situate your research on an ever-changing map of existing theories and research - Professor Kevin McDonald Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 2 | What should a research proposal or brief look like? - Associate Professor Anitra Nelson Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning ( http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz ) | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Research Strategies 2011 - Lecture 1 | Introduction to the course: surviving and completing a research project - Associate Professor Anitra Nelson Research in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning - http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=0bliob8d0qbtz | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Studies Seminar Series | Dr Erin Wilson | The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol establish important criteria and guidelines for providing protection for individuals experiencing persecution. Yet since its inception, the Convention has been criticised on a number of levels. Recent criticism has focused particularly on the narrow scope of the Convention definition of who qualifies as a refugee, particularly in light of changing global circumstances that are driving more and more people to flee their country of origin for reasons other than individual persecution. In particular, generalised violence, chaos and disorder, violations of economic, social and cultural rights and growing threats to life and liberty posed by environmental and climate-induced disasters are factors prompting flight that are not covered by the definition of a refugee enshrined in the 1951 Convention. Moreover, the focus is on protection of basic liberty and security, with little attention given to subsistence and livelihood. This paper explores proposals to alter the international definition of a refugee and for developing additional forms of protection for those who do not qualify as a refugee under the classical interpretation of the convention. It argues that, notwithstanding important developments in protection regimes at the international level, these mechanisms remain insufficient for ensuring that the basic rights of individuals fleeing their countries of origin are protected and upheld. Despite the predominantly humanitarian purpose of international refugee law, states are not always driven by humanitarian principles in their interpretation and application of the law. A critical problem in global migration politics remains how to protect and uphold the rights and needs of individuals alongside the rights of states. Drawing on insights from basic rights discourse, theories of hospitality and the concept of survival migration, the paper outlines alternatives that address current shortcomings in the international refugee and asylum seeker protection regime. Respondent: Professor Paul James Dr Erin K. Wilson is a Research Fellow in the Globalism Research Centre. Her key area of research is religion and its relationship with different aspects of politics, global justice and violence, and she is currently completing work on her book manuscript Religion, the West and International Relations: An Alternative Approach. Recorded at the RMIT Research Lounge on 21st July, 2010. | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Studies Seminar Series | Professor Jim Falk | In a recent book Professors Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk set out to investigate how the capacity of humans to shape their future - and in particular through the processes which collectively have become known as public governance - are, could, and perhaps even should evolve during this period of extraordinary transition which humans and their planet are experiencing. Inevitably such a goal could be only partially realised. In this seminar Jim Falk will describe some of the elements of this analysis and conclusions drawn, with particular attention to ‘sectoral studies’ around issues associated with climate change and the intensifying global flows of information and pathogens. Professor Jim Falk is the foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS) and Convenor of the Climate Adaptation Science and Policy Initiative (CASPI) at the University of Melbourne. He is also Director of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Pacific Cities: Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies (CMAS) project—a collaborative project across Australia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and the USA. His most recent book, co-authored with Professor Joseph Camilleri and released earlier this year, is Worlds in transition: evolving governance across a stressed planet (Edward Elgar, London, 2010). Recorded at the RMIT Research Lounge on 10th November, 2010. | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Studies Seminar Series | Professor Robyn Eckersley and Dr Martin Mulligan | The new politics of climate change: building political momentum and community support for adequate action on climate change. In regard to responding to the enormous challenges of climate change, the public debate in Australia has been frustratingly narrow and yet polarising. The Rudd/Gillard governments have put nearly all their emphasis on the twice-defeated Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and an increased roll-out renewable energy alternatives, while the Abbott-led opposition has given new oxygen to climate change scepticism and has talked very loosely about 'direct action' rather than taxation. The extraordinary outcome of the recent federal election has changed the political climate significantly yet big challenges lie ahead for building an adequate political response to what Kevin Rudd properly called the ‘greatest moral challenge of our time’. Professor Robyn Eckersley and Dr Martin Mulligan will discuss ways of building political momentum and broader community support for a more fundamental shift in the way we look at this 'issue'. Professor Robyn Eckersley is Head of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and author of the book The green state: rethinking democracy and sovereignty. Dr Martin Mulligan is the Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University and was co-author of the book Ecological pioneers: a social history of Australian ecological thought and action. Recorded 13th October, 2010. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Studies Seminar Series | Dr Anne McNevin | What does it mean to opt-out of citizenship? Reflecting on the inter-war refugee crisis, Hannah Arendt theorised statelessness or the lack of national citizenship as the loss of the right to have rights and the ultimate state of dehumanisation. More recently, Georgio Agamben has theorised the refugee as the figure of homo sacer, reduced to bare life (existence without political status) through the excesses of sovereign power. Agamben's work has been highly influential in studies which point to the extreme vulnerability of all kinds of irregular migrants whose right to have rights is suspended through a range of border policing technologies. Working against these approaches, an emergent discourse on ‘the autonomy of migration’ begins from a different assumption. From this perspective, migration is as much an expression of agency as it is the result of external pressures. Indeed the act of migration (and especially irregular migration) is understood as inherently subversive on account of its potential to undermine the sovereign logic that assesses the right to have rights in terms of citizens, aliens and different classes of migrant. 'Going underground' represents a case of opting out of citizenship—refusing to submit to the liberal rights-based framework that regulates mobility and political subjecthood. This paper critically engages with these two competing perspectives. It argues that neither is capable of fully capturing the diversity and nuance of acts of (irregular) migration nor contemporary dynamics of citizenship. It also points out the political risks that pertain to each opposing view. It does so by reflecting upon activist strategies enacted by irregular migrants in Berlin and Brandenburg. These strategies suggest that we need to come to terms with a messy and often contradictory arsenal of tools that migrants employ to secure their political futures. Paradoxically, these strategies both contest and reinforce the sovereign logic against which they rail. Anne McNevin is a Research Fellow in the Global Cities Research Institute. Her key areas of research include citizenship, migration, and globalization. She is co-Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project, ‘Irregular Migrants and Political Belonging in Global Cities’, and she is currently working on a book Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political. Recorded 8th September 2010. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Studies Seminar Series | Dr Elizabeth Kath | This seminar explores the research findings recently published in the book Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle (Transaction, April 2010). Adopting a theoretical framework based on findings in recent ‘state capacity’ and ‘social capital’ literatures, the book explores the puzzle of Cuba’s key national health indicators, which are extremely positive for the country’s region and developing status, and given the arduous external circumstances it has faced in recent decades. The work was written and researched over a period of around five years, including nine months of fieldwork in Havana. Its central findings are that Cuba’s outcomes are partly attributable to an unusually high level of popular participation and cooperation in the implementation of health policy. This has been achieved with the help of a longstanding government that prioritises key health areas, and has enough political influence to compel the rest of the community to do the same. On the other hand, the degree of real popular participation in decision-making regarding health policy is minimal, and this carries consequences that sometimes compromise and even undermine certain aspects of health care quality. Respondent to be announced. Elizabeth Kath is a Research Fellow with the Global Cities Research Institute. Her past work has mostly been interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of political/social science, public health and development, while her more recent research interests relate to issues of reconciliation, particularly as they relate to health in various global contexts. Recorded 1st August, 2010. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoGraduate interview - Paul Rees | An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to his current employment. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoGraduate interview - Dearne O'Halloran | An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to her current employment. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoGraduate interview - Zoe Paisley | An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to her decision to pursue further studies in environmental education teaching. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoGraduate interview - Sally Stevenson | An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to her current employment. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoGraduate interview - Simone Muir | An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to her current employment. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoYouth Work Field Ed – Chapter 4 | Daniel Dondo discusses his 35 day practicums with the Office for Youth and the International Student Services at RMIT Student Union. Daniel is studying the Bachelor Social Science (Youth Work) degree. Students complete 35 day placements in youth sector settings during the three year degree. Daniel describes how the two placements gave him very different tastes of youth work and what he learnt from the practical experiences. Daniel provides advice to students on getting the most out of your youth sector placement. | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoYouth Work Field Ed – Chapter 3 | Celeste Dolphin discusses her 35 day practicum with the South-East Local Learning and Employment Network (SELLEN). Celeste is studying the Bachelor Social Science (Youth Work) degree. Students complete 35 day placements in youth sector settings during the three year degree. Celeste describes the research project she was responsible for while on placement, and what she learnt from the practical experience. Celeste shares her wisdom on getting the most from youth work field education. | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoYouth Work Field Ed – Chapter 2 | Crystal Cullen and Carolyn Hughes discuss their 35 day practicum working with young people and their families affected by the Black Saturday bushfires. Crystal and Carolyn are studying the Bachelor Social Science (Youth Work) degree. Students complete 35 day placements in youth sector settings during the three year degree. Crystal and Carolyn describes what their project ‘Burnt Out – Stories from the Ashes’, where they skilled young people to film, edit and publish stories from bush fire survivors. Crystal and Carolyn share what they learnt about good youth work practice. | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoYouth Work Field Ed – Chapter 1 | Saki Sugiura discusses her 35 day practicum with the RMIT student union. Saki is an international student studying the Bachelor Social Science (Youth Work) degree. Students complete 35 day placements in youth sector settings during the three year degree. Saki describes what it is like being an international student learning about youth work at RMIT and what she experienced and learnt on placement. Saki offers practical advice for international students thinking about studying youth work at RMIT. | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoYi Kiho - Transnational linkages for peace - Nuclear disarmament forum | Transnational linkages for peace Speaker: Yi Kiho Director, Nautilus Institute ARI, Seoul. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Transnational civil society is important for North East Asian security. | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoHugh Saddler - The nuclear fuel cycle and Australia's energy future - Nuclear disarmament forum | The nuclear fuel cycle and Australia's energy future Speaker: Hugh Saddler Managing Director, Energy Strategies. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Nuclear power makes no sense in Australia. | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoDave Sweeney - Fuelling uncertainty: Uranium and Australia's nuclear landscape - Nuclear disarmament forum | Fuelling uncertainty: Uranium and Australia's nuclear landscape Speaker: Dave Sweeney Australian Conservation Foundation. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Our mines have a history of leaks, spills, breaches, accidents and incidents. | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoDimity Hawkins - A global abolition treaty: getting us to zero - Nuclear disarmament forum | A global abolition treaty: getting us to zero Speaker: Dimity Hawkins International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ican). Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. We are getting towards the tipping point that will see disarmament. It has been 64 years in the making. There is a ground-swell developing. This week in Australia, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties reviewed all nuclear-related treaties. It is ground-breaking. Three things: Recommendations 8 and 9 call on the Australian government to support a nuclear weapons convention and put resources to it. Recommendation 21 calls on the government to support the abolition of nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons convention developed it in 1997 and updated it in 2007. It is accepted as a UN document. To rid the world of nuclear weapons, we need a road map and a plan – the nuclear weapons convention provides that. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoJimbo Ken - New dynamics: nuclear relations in Northeast Asia - Nuclear disarmament forum | New dynamics: nuclear relations in Northeast Asia Speaker: Jimbo Ken Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Concept of nuclear disarmament has regional variations. Obama commitment to world free of nuclear weapons. US will significantly de-emphasise nuclear weapons and work with Russia to disarm. However, things are becoming more severe in North Asia. North Korea has conducted a second test. North Korean nuclear capability is limited. It is unknown if they have succeeded in miniaturisation and re-entry technology. However most experts are saying it is only a matter of time. North Korea is also seeking to enrich uranium. The six party talks could not keep North Korea on track or force it to comply. Chinese nuclear forces have been kept moderate and it has signed the CBT. They are modernising. Short range and medium range ballistic missiles and some cruise missiles. China has been using minimum deterrence against US. No US president has recognised whether China has a second strike capability. But US and Japanese missile defence is designed against North Korean missiles, but it is also looking at upgrading to intercept the Chinese medium range ballistic missile. China seems to be moving to land based and submarine based missiles. This will affect US – China relationship. Japan: Obama talked of maintaining an adequate response until they are gone. Japan wants missiles to be gone, but they also want a credible threat against North Korea and China. Japan would like US to pursue its double commitments without damaging security relationship with Japan. Japan wants more visible nuclear commitment, in more concrete terms. In the time of de-emphasising nuclear weapons globally, we need to emphasise nuclear deterrence in Asia. In order to de-emphasise nuclear weapons globally, conventional forces must be emphasised as being able to respond to multi-layered threats. How much can conventional forces replace nuclear weapons in deterrence? Until that is understood, nuclear weapons should be maintained in a minimum, but very visible manner. It is quite favourable for Japan to have a nuclear weapons control regime in North Korea. It opens the way for a grand deal with North Korea. Japan should invite China into the global arms control framework. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoKawasaki Akari - Can Japan change? New government, civil society and the region - Nuclear disarmament forum | Can Japan change? New government, civil society and the region Speaker: Kawasaki Akira Japanese NGO advisor - International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Japan is calling on a world free of nuclear weapons, but its security arrangements depend on the US nuclear umbrella. Both Japan and Australia are dependent on US nuclear umbrella in this way. Australia is exporting uranium and Japan is creating plutonium, so we represent the two ends of the nuclear fuel cycle. Obama is gearing up for disarmament. Japan often tries to slow down the disarmament process, through fear of North Korea and China. By doing so and by depending on the nuclear umbrella, it increases the excuses for these neighbours to proliferate. Both China and North Korea are concerned about the US-Japan military alliance in the region. Japan has refrained from nuclear weapons development because the Japanese people's conviction that Hiroshima must not be repeated. It is not because of the nuclear umbrella. So how do we extend this feeling. Japan has created a number of tools to help. Article 9 of the constitution declares that Japan will not go to war. It also has the three non-nuclear principles and laws against the export of arms. No first use is a very important first step towards disarmament. It is time for civil society and government to inject ideas to advance the real nuclear disarmament policy. Dozens of Japanese NGOs have formed networks to influence the Australia-Japan commission. The Hibakusha organisation are trying to make the world understand why this is so necessary. We must think hard about what is the replacement of the nuclear hegemony. Increased conventional weapons is not a sustainable way to do this. 30,000 people came together in Japan to attend the Article 9 convention to abolish war. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoTessa Morris-Suzuki - Towards an arc of disarmament: the Australia-Japan connection and post-nuclear security - Nuclear disarma | Towards an arc of disarmament: the Australia-Japan connection and post-nuclear security Speaker: Tessa Morris-Suzuki Professor of Japanese History, Australian National University. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. It is important to look at the images of Hiroshima to remind ourselves that this is what nuclear weapons are for, this is what they do. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoMichael Hamel-Green - New developments in Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones - Nuclear disarmament forum | New developments in Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones Speaker: Michael Hamel-Green Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Nuclear weapon free zones are the unsung hero of nuclear disarmament. They are legally binding treaties that have been established by regional groups of countries. Rolf Ekéus was a pioneer of the Nordic nuclear free zone. All the Latin-American countries have signed up to South American nuclear free zone and the members of the Security Council have signed legally binding agreements not to use nuclear weapons against those countries. This is the first example of them limiting their sovereignty in this area. The idea is that nuclear weapons free zones will spread until the countries possessing nuclear weapons are like islands in quarantine. The majority of countries (120 countries) have signed on nuclear-weapon free zones. Everything south of the 60th parallel is covered by Antarctic treaty. Latin American treaty in 1967. In 1985, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands established a zone. 1995-96: Africa and the South East Asian states signed up. Most recently, the Central Asian zone has been established. The nuclear weapon free countries are a significant force within the United Nations seeking to extend nuclear weapon free zones. Regional nuclear weapon free zones do not remove the threat of nuclear weapons. Only a nuclear weapons convention can do that. But they do reduce, in a geographical sense, the areas where nuclear weapons are part of security arrangements. They serve as practical and symbolic ways to limit the role of nuclear weapons in security arrangements. Now we need to extend them. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoPatrick Morgan - Why are nuclear weapons so persistent? - Nuclear disarmament forum | Why are nuclear weapons so persistent? Speaker: Patrick Morgan Tierney Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Maybe someday we will outgrow nuclear weapons. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Nuclear weapons persist because of broad security reasons; psychological; political; military and foreign policy reasons. These categories overlap. 20th Century politics is dominated by unsatisfactory outcomes from WWI WWII and the cold war. Russia and China were left out of the discussions after these conflicts. Efforts to do this failed for multiple different reasons. The end of the cold war resulted in a rise of the West. Many countries find that very threatening. And it is hard to do anything about that. India-Pakistan: no progress in that conflict. This has resulted in proliferation. Same in the Middle East. Some of the pressures to develop and keep nuclear weapons relates to States perception of themselves in regional and global affairs. There is a stature behind having nuclear weapons. It is difficult to figure out how to deal with this. The political dimension: there is no really strong domestic political consensus that we must make sacrifices to get rid of them. It is not a central concern for national public opinion. There is no consensus in the nuclear weapons states bureaucracies or the political elites. Military: The military attitude is that nuclear deterrence works. It does something and that something is good. We cannot demonstrate that it doesn't work. Unfortunately, it takes something like a nuclear war to get consensus that it doesn't work. People will just say, “Nuclear weapons prevented WWIII and it is still preventing WWIII.” The problem is that the burden of history supports them. Foreign policy: There has not been a solid consensus among states and elites about how to deal with nuclear proliferation. For too many governments, too often when proliferation happens, there is something more important. For example, China won't force North Korea to get rid of their weapons because of concerns about sovereignty. | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoMarianne Hanson - Challenging the myth that we need nuclear weapons - Nuclear disarmament forum | Challenging the myth that we need nuclear weapons Speaker: Marianne Hanson Reader in International Relations, University of Queensland Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. The possession of nuclear weapons does not make a state secure. A human tendancy towards inertia. It is easier to do nothing than to take real steps to make change. A sense of complancy. The inertia is supported by views and a mindset, a perception that these weapons have a utility. Five main reasons are put forward for five reason: to deter war; to continue nuclear deterrence; to deter against chemical or biological (and terrorist) attack; because we may not know what threats will appear in the future; and because someone might cheat. Nuclear weapons might have prevented war during the cold war. But there are a range of economic and political reasons that the major powers would not go to war now. Deterrence might provide some continuing utility. If we eliminate nuclear weapons, then there is no need for deterrence of nuclear weapons. The possession of nuclear weapons does not make a state secure. It is no guarantee against terrorist attack, for example. Keeping these weapons to respond to an attack is pointless. They are no use against terrorist cells. Nuclear weapons will not help against non-traditional security issues such as global hunger, economic crises, environmental issues or piracy. Conventional means would be used to respond to breakout and cheating. Nuclear weapons would not be political feasible. | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoTilman Ruff - New climate science and the urgency of zero - Nuclear disarmament forum | New climate science and the urgency of zero Speaker: Tilman Ruff Australian NGO advisor - International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. The very nature of nuclear materials argues for universal and consistent approaches. Plutonium has a half-life of 24,400 years. The research on radiation is showing worse and worse results. Low dose radiation is just as harmful as short-term high doses. Radiation from nuclear power plants shows that the incidence of leukaemia in children is more than double for children under five within 5 miles of a nuclear power plant. Fifty years after nuclear testing, veterans who witnessed those tests have a three-fold higher rate of chromosomal mismatch. Radiation released from nuclear accidents at reactors could have devastating consequences. If an accident released 4% of the core material in China, it would result in 8 million people being affected above the safe dose for thyroid cancer. If you are in the terrorist business, you could potentially achieve the same sort of devastation (as a nuclear bomb) by targeting a nuclear facility. 100 Hiroshima-sized weapons targeted on cities would result in nuclear winter for at least a decade. This would result in a dramatic decline in rainfall and a shortening of the growing season for a month or more plus substantial losses of ozone. This would likely result in a billion people starving to death around the globe. | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoProfessor Gareth Evans - The challenge of getting to zero - Nuclear disarmament forum | The challenge of getting to zero: The role of the Australia-Japan International Commission in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Keynote Speaker: Professor Gareth Evans Co-chair, International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Disarmament requires a broad constituency, including Russia and the USA. In the short term, the immediate priority is obviously next year's NPT review conference, and the Commission is going to come up with a very sharply defined package of priority measures that we believe should be agreed at that conference. One is obviously a set of measures to strengthen the NPT regime itself, particularly the compliance verification enforcement side of it, and the IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, is the relevant institution. We also want the NPT conference next year to come up with a rearticulation of an action plan for disarmament. Not just focusing on the non-proliferation side, but on the disarmament side to try to get everyone signed up to a set of propositions about what should happen in the way forward, rather similar to the famous 13 Practical Steps of 2000, which were a big step forward in getting the weapons states in particular to recognize their responsibilities. It is crucial to get some real momentum sustained in the US/Russia bilateral disarmament talks, which are going on this year, and for which the atmosphere looks good. They are still only going to reduce the number of strategically deployed weapons down to 1500 at best, which will still leave the total number of warheads existing in the US arsenal well over 8000, so we have got some distance to go with equivalent numbers on the Russian side. It is crucial that we begin in that same context, at least to prepare the ground for multilateral disarmament phase, bringing in the other key players, China, and France, and the UK, as well as India, Pakistan, and Israel. And that is going to be a labor of Hercules. It is going to take a long time, but we have got to prepare the ground for that with studies and dialogue. We also need to, in the short term, really make some progress on the issue of nuclear doctrine. The question of what the role of nuclear weapons are. Barack Obama has foreshadowed this in his Prague speech as one of the big things that has to happen. The world has to change its psychology to de-legitimize them and get to a stage where they're much, much reduced in their degree of acceptance as core to countries' security planning. And what we hope is that in the context of the present posture review - which is due for completion early next year - is that the US, apart from addressing a lot of other very specific things about the operation of its nuclear forces, will in fact take the step, at the very least, of signing up to a proposition that the "sole purpose" of nuclear weapons so long as they exist on the planet is to deter the use by others. If the US does lead the way in that respect, this will be extremely important in generating the kind of momentum that we need. This has very direct and immediate resonance for the debate about extended deterrence: Japan, Australia, other US allies. This is an issue the Commission is wrestling with. It's quite sensitive because there is still quite a bit of sentiment that nuclear weapons, so long as they exist, should be kept available to deal with non-nuclear threats as well as nuclear ones. That's all the short-term. The medium-term is really where the disarmament action has to really gain momentum and what we're arguing for is a world - by 2025 - where we haven't got to zero; we don't think that will be realizable in that time frame - but we will at least have reached what we are going to, I think, call the "minimization" point. Very, very low numbers of nuclear weapons compared to those | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoAmbassador Rolf Ekéus - The present moment in the task of abolishing nuclear weapons - Nuclear disarmament forum | The present moment in the task of abolishing nuclear weapons. Keynote Speaker: Ambassador Rolf Ekéus Chair, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Nuclear weapons are becoming increasingly ineffective as a deterrence. Ambassador Rolf Ekéus addresses some of the issues related to abolishing nuclear weapons. He starts from the point that nuclear weapons are tools for destruction. However, there is no rational argument for their use and their use violates the laws of war. The Nuclear Weapons Non-proliferation Treaty embodies a contradiction – nuclear weapons states believe that they are helpful to security while non-nuclear weapons states believe that they are harmful to security. Nuclear weapon states keep their weapons for deterrence reasons. However, you must demonstrate that you are technically, politically and psychologically ready to use the weapons or they will not deter. Moreover, some actors are not able to be deterred. The retention of nuclear weapons is becoming increasingly hazardous and their usefulness as a deterrence is becoming increasingly ineffective. However, extended deterrence brings in questions of alliances. Alliances can be a means of preventing proliferation. Germany and Japan appear to have been convinced not to give up their non-proliferation stance because they sit under the United States of America’s nuclear umbrella. If the United States eliminates its weapons, the consequences for its allies would need to be considered in the related security constellations. The United States holds an overwhelming lead in conventional weapons deployment. If all parties were to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the relative power of the United States would increase. This would make America’s allies more secure, although Russia might want to retain some nuclear weapons to balance out America’s conventional power. In 1996 the Canberra Commission concluded that, as long as nuclear weapons exist, they sooner or later will be used. | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoKandori Shizuka - Japanese for Peace - Nuclear disarmament forum | Opening remarks: Statement by Japanese for Peace Kandori Shizuka Japanese for Peace. Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute. Kandori Shizuka talks about her inspiration to join Japanese for Peace, her experience in teaching students in Australia about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and her own understanding of the events of World War II. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marian Baird addresses the introduction of paid maternity leave in Australia - Clare Burton Lecture 2009 | Why has it taken so long for women in Australia to achieve paid maternity leave – and what happens next? This lecture analyses changes in Australia’s attitudes to working women by examining maternity leave policies from 1979, when the first unpaid maternity leave decision of the Industrial Relations Commission was made, to the government’s announcement of a national system of paid parental leave on Mother’s Day in 2009. From 1 Jan 2010, working parents will also have the right to request an additional 12 months of unpaid parental leave and the right to request flexible working arrangements. These are significant, even revolutionary, policy changes in Australia. What will be the implications of these changes, for employers and for working parents, particularly women? The Speaker: Marian Baird is Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney and Director of the Women and Work Research Group. Her research has focussed on the impact of regulatory and policy environments on women’s working lives and conditions. Based on her research, Marian has most recently been a key advocate of paid maternity leave in Australia. She has also published on the impact of regulation on low paid women and the changes to Australia’s industrial relations regime. The Lecture: This is the eleventh Clare Burton Memorial Lecture. The lectures commemorate Dr Clare Burton, who passed away suddenly in August 1998. Clare was a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant, and writer on employment equity. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | Marian Baird addresses the introduction of paid maternity leave in Australia - PDF - Clare Burton Lecture 2009 | Why has it taken so long for women in Australia to achieve paid maternity leave – and what happens next? This lecture analyses changes in Australia’s attitudes to working women by examining maternity leave policies from 1979, when the first unpaid maternity leave decision of the Industrial Relations Commission was made, to the government’s announcement of a national system of paid parental leave on Mother’s Day in 2009. From 1 Jan 2010, working parents will also have the right to request an additional 12 months of unpaid parental leave and the right to request flexible working arrangements. These are significant, even revolutionary, policy changes in Australia. What will be the implications of these changes, for employers and for working parents, particularly women? The Speaker: Marian Baird is Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney and Director of the Women and Work Research Group. Her research has focussed on the impact of regulatory and policy environments on women’s working lives and conditions. Based on her research, Marian has most recently been a key advocate of paid maternity leave in Australia. She has also published on the impact of regulation on low paid women and the changes to Australia’s industrial relations regime. The Lecture: This is the eleventh Clare Burton Memorial Lecture. The lectures commemorate Dr Clare Burton, who passed away suddenly in August 1998. Clare was a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant, and writer on employment equity. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoShelter: On Kindness - Adam Phillips Interview (Extended) - RMIT Gallery | This interview with psychoanalyst and philosopher Adam Phillips, co-author of ‘On Kindness’, was filmed in London July 2009 with Stephen Feneley as part of the exhibition Shelter: On Kindness, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoShelter: On Kindness - Adam Phillips Interview - RMIT Gallery | This interview with psychoanalyst and philosopher Adam Phillips, co-author of ‘On Kindness’, was filmed in London July 2009 with Stephen Feneley as part of the exhibition Shelter: On Kindness, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoCo-operation & Conflict: a comparison of French and Australian English Interactional Styles | It has been shown that French speakers display a “high-involvement style” in interaction, with frequent use of interruptions, overlaps and disagreements. This presentation by Dr Kerry Mullan (coordinator of the French Program at RMIT University) examines this style, and draws comparisons with the interactional style of Australian English. Using excerpts of recorded conversations Dr Mullan analyses examples of French and Australian English interaction, and proposes how authentic data might be exploited in the language classroom with a view to raising awareness of and learning about these differences, since understanding interactional style is a vital component of learning a new language and culture. This paper was originally presented at the 2008 conference of the Association of French Teachers in Victoria Inc. By popular demand, Dr Mullan repeated the presentation at RMIT in August 2009. | 10/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 9 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 8 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 7 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 6 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 5 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 4 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 3 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 2 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoTom Nairn Lecture 2009: Prof. Juergensmeyer - part 1 | The topic of the Tom Nairn Lecture 2009 is ‘Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State’ and is presented by Professor Mark Juergensmeyer from the University of California. | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoEnvironment graduate interviews: Anna Stremple | A series of interviews with graduates and current students about their job, how they got there, what they learned in the course, and how they have been able to apply those skills and the knowledge in their career. These videos provide new and prospective students with information about career paths, industry practices, insight and advice. | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoEnvironment graduate interviews: Andrew Picone | A series of interviews with graduates and current students about their job, how they got there, what they learned in the course, and how they have been able to apply those skills and the knowledge in their career. These videos provide new and prospective students with information about career paths, industry practices, insight and advice. | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoEnvironment graduate interviews: Amelia Chapman | A series of interviews with graduates and current students about their job, how they got there, what they learned in the course, and how they have been able to apply those skills and the knowledge in their career. These videos provide new and prospective students with information about career paths, industry practices, insight and advice. | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on standards | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on lessons learnt | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on planning | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on lessons | Pre-service student teachers reflect on lessons | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on good teaching | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on activities | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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International Studies - Open Day Information Session | An Open Day presentation on RMIT’s International Studies programs, August 2008. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on classroom management | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoPre-service student teachers reflect on professional placement | Student teachers reflect on their placements for professional practice. | 2/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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