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Roundtable discussion on Psychology and Behavioural Economics with Professor Daniel Kahneman
19 August 2011
Daniel Kahneman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences lead a roundtable discussion on Psychology and Behavioural Economics.
He discussed the psychology underpinning current applications of behavourial economics to financial behaviour, and described why normally rational, clear headed people with a wealth of information at their fingertips make questionable decisions based on gut instinct.
In search of the People formerly known as the Audience
18 August 2011
Professor Marty Kaplan spoke on the topic "In search of the People formerly known as the Audience".
Martin Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. His uncommonly broad career has also spanned government and politics, the entertainment industry and journalism.
Systems Biology for Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts Seminar
18 May 2011
The US Studies Centre's Dow Sustainability Program hosted Dr José A. Olivares, Executive Director of the US Department of Energy National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB) and Biofuels Program Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr Olivares outlined the extensive research and development program on algal biofuels being conducted by NAABB, a US$65 million public private partnership. For further information, please contact Dr Susan Pond, Dow Sustainability Program at us-studies@sydney.edu.au.
Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Hollywood Liberalism
13 April 2011
Steven J Ross, Professor of History, University of Southern California presented on the topic "Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Hollywood Liberalism"
Steven J. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. The first person in his family to go to college, he earned degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Princeton. Ross is the author of Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890(1985), Movies and American Society (2002) and Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (1998)—which was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the "Best Books of 1998."
The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s
22 November 2010
Dr Barbara Keys, Senior Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne presented on the topic "The Human Rights Revolution in the US: Forging a New Foreign Policy in the 1970s".
Barbara Keys received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2001. Before coming to Australia she taught at California State University in Sacramento and was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Her teaching areas include 20th century America, US foreign relations, and the Cold War in global perspective.
James Burnham and the Origins of American Neoconservatism
28 October 2010
Dr Binoy Kampmark, Lecturer, Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT presented on the topic "James Burnham and the Origins of American Neoconservatism".
Dr Kampmark teaches core legal courses within the Legal and Dispute Studies program for the Bachelor of Social Science at RMIT University. He has research interests in the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th Century History and law. He has written extensively on these topics in both refereed journals and more popular media.
Innovation in the biotechnology sector: San Diego compared with Australia
3 September 2010
Dr Thomas Barlow, leading research strategist, presented on the topic "Innovation in the biotechnology sector: San Diego compared with Australia".
Thomas Barlow is Australia's leading research strategist. He provides independent policy advice to governments and strategic advice to high-tech companies, universities, and research organisations. Highly regarded in Australia for his independence and imagination, he is the author of an influential book about Australian innovation, The Australian Miracle, published by Picador. He also produces a major study on The State of Research in Australian Universities. Dr Barlow is on the advisory board of two Australian companies, of two leading university research departments, and of a federal government research agency.
Biofuels policy in the US and EU: a sustainable future or an agrarian past?
12 August 2010
Professor Adrian Kay, Associate Professor, Policy & Governance Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU discussed the topic "Biofuels policy in the US and EU: a sustainable future or an agrarian past?"
The capacity to coordinate or `join-up' policy making has been widely identified as an essential part of the effective governance of sustainability. Without such capacity, sustainability policy is liable to remain in functional silos with its requirements for cognate policy areas being variously attenuated, resisted and mediated by existing policy institutions.
Cold War on the Home Front
11 August 2010
Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley gave a presentation on his new book Cold War on the Home Front.
Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an M.Arch at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. He has taught architectural history at the University of Miami School of Architecture and at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he remains a research associate at the United States Studies Centre.
Energy security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region
5 August 2010
Dr Vlado Vivoda, Research Fellow, Centre for International Risk, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, UniSA will be presenting on the topic "Energy security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region"
Vlado is Research Fellow at the Centre for International Risk, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages. He completed his PhD on the international political economy of oil at Flinders University in March 2008. He has previous lecturing and tutoring experience from Flinders University, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, where he taught on a wide array of topics, including the political economy of oil, energy security, international political economy, international relations theory, international security, environmental politics, Australia’s foreign relations, and international relations and politics in the Asia-Pacific region.
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
Geoffrey Garrett says that Mitt Romney's greatest weakness is that many Americans see him as representing Wall Street: a place loathed even more at the moment than Capitol Hill.
Brendon O'Connor comments on the results of the South Carolina primary and looks ahead to Florida.
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