Ethnic Parties, Ethnic Tensions? Results of an Original Survey Panel Study in Romania
Seminar
Ethnic diversity is often seen to be detrimental to national unity, especially if ethnicity is used as basis for political mobilization: ethnic parties in electoral competition in particular are thought to increase the salience of ethnic differences and with it ethnic tensions. Yet the individual…
Incommensurables: Art, Law, Philosophy
Seminar
An interdisciplinary panel discussion in conjunction with Incommensurable, ANU Drill Hall Gallery's current exhibition. 12pm on Friday 23 March, in the main exhibition space of ANU's Drill Hall Gallery PANELLISTS INCLUDE* Professor Desmond Manderson, ANU College of Law/College of Arts and…
Promissory Representation: Making, Breaking and Keeping Campaign Promises
Seminar
This presentation will examine the making, breaking and keeping of promises made by candidates during election campaigns. Promissory representation refers to the idea, which is found in a range of mainstream democratic theories, that candidates make promises that are either kept or broken by…
The Seductions of Quantification: Challenges of the Global Indicator Culture for University Education
Seminar
The NTEU is proud to host Professor Sally Engle Merry, the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University, for the March installment of the NTEU Seminar Series. Professor Merry is an eminent legal anthropologist and also a scholar who has a strong history of engagement in questions of…
Queering Representation: LGBTQ Politicians' Narratives on Being Out
Seminar
Over the last few years, a new trend has arisen in legislative representation in the Western Hemisphere: the election to parliaments of out-of-the-closet lesbian, gay, bisexual, Trans*, and queer (LGBTQ) candidates. My objective in this talk is to explore the intersections between representing and…
Glass Cliffs? Gender and Party Leader Exits
Seminar
The number of women chosen to lead political parties at the provincial and federal level in Canada has increased in recent years. The improving trend in their selection does not, however, appear to be matched by the nature of their exits. In 2014 alone, three of five sitting premiers - Kathy…