UPCOMING EVENTS IN CANBERRA
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SEMINARS
The Centre presents a series of weekly seminars at the ANU in Canberra. In 2010, seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm, in the Seminar Room D, Coombs Building (Building 09), The Australian National University.
Next Canberra Seminar:
Wednesday 4th of August: John Dryzek (ANU Political Science Program)
Title:Toward a Deliberative Global Citizens' Assembly
Abstract
There is widespread acceptance that there is a global democratic deficit. However, while recognizing the deficit is easy, remedying it is going to be hard. Most existing proposals for global democratization are not very imaginative in that they begin from the assumption that the model for a global democracy already exists in something like the form already taken by developed liberal democracies. The most prominent such model is the ‘popularly elected global assembly’ or PEGA. We accept the basic justifications for global democracy advanced by PEGA campaigners, but believe there is a need to move beyond facile invocations of electoral democracy at the global level. We examine the contribution to the development of global deliberative democracy that could be made by assemblies of ordinary citizens drawn from all the countries of the world. We propose a Deliberative Global Citizens’ Assembly or DGCA. This assembly would be both deliberative and composed of ordinary citizens of the world – not elected politicians. We do not proclaim it as the solution to the problem of effective and democratic global governance, but rather call for its exploration as a democratically legitimate complement to existing international institutions and one component of emerging global deliberative systems.
Future Seminars in Canberra
Wednesday 11th of August: Larry May
Title:Proportionality in the Fog of War
In this paper I will reflect on the role that the jus post bellum principles play in the Just War tradition in general, paying special attention to the principle of proportionality. And I will also consider how we should think about the concept of war in general after our jus post bellum reflections. I shall consider the end of war, understood as the end to all war, not merely the end to a particular war, as the United Nations Charter seemingly promised, when it was announced in the Preamble that the People of the United Nations were “determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” If people who were contemplating going to war had to think seriously about post war issues, would they be less likely to initiate war in the first place? And how should we view the so-called “fog of war?” I will suggest that contingent pacifism is made more plausible when considering jus post bellum.
Wednesday 18th of August: Seth Lazar
Title:TBA
Wednesday 25th of August: TBC
Title:TBC
Wednesday 1st of September: Marilyn Friedman
Title:TBC
Wednesday 15th of September: Michael Selgelid
Title:TBC
Previous Seminars in Canberra
Enquiries to Scott Wisor: scott.wisor@anu.edu.au
Seminars In Melbourne
The Centre presents regular seminars at the University of Melbourne. Seminars will normally be held on Wednesdays at 2:15pm to 4pm in the Moot Court Room, Ground Floor, Old Quadrangle (not to be confused with the Mooting Court in the new Law Building). Click here for future seminars.
Next Melbourne seminar- TBA
Enquiries to Dr Steven Curry: sbcurry@unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 3852
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Seminars in Wagga Wagga
The Centre presents regular seminars on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University. These are held on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm in Room 181, Marchant Hall unless otherwise stated.
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Enquiries to Dr Daniel Cohen: Daniel.Cohen@anu.edu.au or +61 (02) 6125-1741