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Karl and Ching Eikenberry
27 October 2011
Ching Eikenberry will presented at a special roundtable discussion with students looking at Afghan women today. The former United States ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and his wife Ching Eikenberry are talking in Sydney and Canberra this week as visitors of the United States Studies Centre and the Australian National University.
US in the World Lecture - with guest Shanto Iyengar
11 October 2011
US political campaigning is undergoing dramatic change thanks to the ‘freedom from the press’ encouraged by new media, says campaign expert Shanto Iyengar who visited Sydney as a guest of the Centre last week. Shanto addressed the Centre’s undergraduate Global America and US in the World students alongside Geoffrey Garrett.
Bob Carr: Postgraduate Information Evening
6 October 2011
Former NSW premier and Centre board director, Bob Carr, spoke to the gathering about the US presidency – including his recent reassessment of John Kennedy having listened to his 1963 ‘peace speech’ urging an end to the Cold War. The night at Sydney’s MLC Centre was intended to provide information and enable prospective students and their families to speak to academic, administrative staff, and former students, about the US Studies Centre’s postgraduate course offerings. Dean Fernandez, graduate, Master of Letters in US Studies and Lauren Haumesser also presented on this fun-filled evening.
US In the World Lecture with guest Peter Hartcher
4 October 2011
Peter Hartcher talks to Geoffrey Garrett in the World Lecture theatre about U.S politics. Peter Hartcher is an Australian journalist and the Political and International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Roundtable Event - Two Perspectives of Sustainable City Development
19 September 2011
A roundtable event of two perspectives of Sustainable City Development was held in the Institute Building of the United States Studies Centre. Martha Schwartz, Ray Nagin and Edward Blakely attended. They discuss the sustainable city, and how it can feed itself with minimal reliance on the surrounding countryside, and power itself with renewable sources of energy. The crux of this is to create the smallest possible ecological footprint, and to produce the lowest quantity of pollution possible, to efficiently use land; compost used materials, recycle it or convert waste-to-energy, and thus the city's overall contribution to climate change will be minimal, if such practices are adhered to.
Bill Chafe and Ray Nagin: Global America Lecture
19 September 2011
C. Ray Nagin is the former Mayor of New Orleans. He visited Australia for the US Studies Centre National Summit in 2009 and the Emergency Management and Business Continuity Summit in 2011 and is guest lecturer with William Chafe. William Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, USA. He was special guest speaker at the US Studies Centre's National Summit in 2007 and visited the Centre again in 2011. They are joined by Geoffrey Garrett. Geoffrey Garrett is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Sydney.
Washington Soil Security meeting
15 September 2011
The Soil Security Meeting in Washington DC discussed a number of global issues which are all going to be affected by the state of the world soil resource. One of many challenges over the next 40 years will be soil conservation. Water comes from the soil which is related to food production. Andrea Koch is the project leader of the United States Studies Centre's Soil Carbon Initiative. Professor Robert Hill, Professor Rattan Lal, Professor Lynnette Abbott, Professor Alex McBratney, Professor John Crawford and Dr Denis Angers were among the group who spoke at the meeting.
John Howard: US in the World Lecture
13 September 2011
Former Prime Minister John Howard is a member of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors. In February 2011 Howard reflected on the US-Australia alliance to a packed audience at an event hosted by the US Studies Centre. In September 2008 he was the guest of honour at a US Studies Centre dinner hosted by Chairman of the Macquarie Group David Clarke. It was standing room only in Professor Geoffrey Garrett’s 'US in the World' undergraduate lecture as former Prime Minister John Howard explained to students and guests what the 9/11 Decade meant for him, for Australia-US relations, and for the world.
James Fallows in the US World lecture theatre
6 September 2011
Professor James Fallows is Chair in US Media at the US Studies Centre and National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. One of the world's leading journalists, Fallows is author of nine books and over two hundred articles on a wide variety of subjects including US national security policy, the US Congress, Iraq, Japan, the future of print media, and the future of airline travel. Professor Geoffrey Garrett joins Professor James Fallows.
Roundtable with U.S Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides
6 September 2011
Thomas Nides is Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Department and as alter ego to Secretary Clinton. Appointed by President Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 2010 and sworn in on January 3, 2011. Thomas Nides participated in the Roundtable event with Professor Geoffrey Garrett.
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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