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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.
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.
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.
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.
Graduation Ceremony America: Rebels, Heroes & Renegades
27 August 2011
America: Rebels, Heroes & Renegades is a Board of Studies endorsed HSC course that offers Year 11 students the opportunity to develop university standard writing and thinking skills and earn credit towards a tertiary degree. Brendon O'Connor and Rebecca Sheehan are involved in the Graduation Ceremony at the US Studies Centre.
Jeffrey Bleich: US in the World Lecture
23 August 2011
Jeffrey Bleich discussed a range of issues including the Obama presidency, America's foreign debt, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeffrey L. Bleich presented his credentials to Governor General Quentin Bryce on November 26, 2009, as the 24th American ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia. He is joined by Professor Geoffrey Garrett.
Fault-lines in Immigration Policy: The Harvard-Sydney Immigration Summit 2011
22 July 2011
This conference was part of a longer meeting for a range of international scholars, to develop the first large database of immigration and naturalisation policies, the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis Database (IMPALA).
This event was designed to share more broadly the benefits of bringing these experts to Australia. It showcased the recent work or thinking of a range of international scholars, discussing three key areas of immigration policy: skilled migration (and the balance with family migration); refugees and humanitarian flows; and integration, settlement and citizenship.
Bob Hawke: Reflections on the Australia-United States Alliance
3 May 2011
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke AC worked with two Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush on critical global issues as diverse as the bombing of the US Embassy in Beiruit, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the creation of APEC, the end of apartheid in South Africa and bringing China into the global community. Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister is a loyal friend as well as a friendly critic of the US. His close relationship with Secretary of State George Shultz was a key element in shaping the trajectory post-Cold War Asia Pacific. At this event Hawke discussed his vast experience with, and views on, the US with Australia's leading political journalist Paul Kelly.
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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