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SPIS Seminars 2009







18 March
Postgraduate Seminar Launch and Lunch
1.00pm - 2.00pm 014SSS.
RSVP required. Please contact the Political and International Studies Office on 8201 2186/3973 or email spis@flinders.edu.au
20 March
John Fitzpatrick
The origins of a 'regional security complex': the case of South Asia
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2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
25 March
Postgraduate Seminar
1.00pm - 2.00pm 014SSS
Noor Faisal Achmad
Public Expenditure Management Reform and E-government in Indonesia

Bio Noor Fiasal Achmad is a Postgraduate Student at FIPPM - Flinders University (Master by Research - leading to PhD); he holds BSc (Accounting) from the University of North Sumatra and MSc (Public Policy) from the University of Birmingham. Prior to being a postgraduate student. He had a career as the official of public accounts and budget analyst at the Ministry of Finance - Indonesia; he also was involved in the issuance of some governmental regulations concerning public expenditure management.
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27 March
Gerry Pye
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
Indigenous Mobilisation in Contemporary Oaxaca: Towards Indianismo?
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1 April
Workshop on Field Research
3 April

Professor Adam Graycar
Rutgers University
Spheres of Corruption
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12.30pm - 2.00pm 115SSS.


8 April
Postgraduate Seminar
Aaron Jackson
"Dissecting Doctrine: Military-Strategic Level Doctrine Development in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Armed Forces, 1987-2007"
Bio
Aaron P. Jackson is a PhD Candidate in the School of Political and International Studies. He is currently completing his dissertation draft and is intending to submit it for examination in the middle of the year. This presentation offers an overview of his research project, as well as the key findings of his study.
Abstract
During the period 1987 to 2007, the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand armed forces underwent a significant yet hitherto largely unrecognised doctrinal renaissance. In addition to providing an overview of the history of military-strategic level doctrine development in these three countries, the presentation incorporates a discussion of the presenter's findings about the doctrine development process, as well as doctrine's broader significance. Paying particular attention to the factors that influenced doctrine development, and to the intended effects of the doctrine, the presentation includes models developed that explain how army, navy, air force and joint doctrine were shaped by, and in turn shaped, the broader political context in which the three armed forces studied existed.

29 April
Postgraduate Seminar
1.00pm - 2.00pm 014SSS
Parvaz Huq
From Project to a Process of Participatory Local Governance? A Case Study on Urban Partnership Based Development Intervention in Bangladesh
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1 May
George Crowder
Three Conceptions of Value Pluralism
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
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6 May
Postgraduate Seminar
Priyachari BILL Chakravarti
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. 014 SSS
Dealing with a nuclear recalcitrant – The viability of Australia’s ambivalent position following India’s readmission to nuclear trade
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8 May
Janet McIntyre
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS
Balancing Individualism and Collectivism: User Centric Policy Design to Address Complex Needs
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13 May
Postgraduate Seminar
Muttaqien
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. 014 SSS
Democratization and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004-2009): Domestic Political Powers in the Foreign Policy Decision Making.
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15 May
Richard Leaver
The Global Politics of Energy: The Long Shadow of Oil
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
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20 May
Postgraduate Seminar
No Seminar


22 May
Assoc. Professor Geoff Cockfield
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Business
University of Southern Queensland
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.

The National Party: a rural party in an urban nation

This seminar is based on a book chapter to be published in mid-year. It is an analysis of Australian electorates, classified by the degree of rurality. The chapter examines which party holds the seat against a range of socio-economic indicators. It shows how electorates change as they become more 'urban', and discuss the consequences of this for the National Party.

27 May
Asian Studies Honours
Glen Varona
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. 014 SSS
Towards Improving Ethics and Governance in the Philippine National Police: A Critical Systemic Review
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29 May
Craig Matheson
"Explaining class cultures and political ideologies: a neo-Durkheimian approach"
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
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3 June
Asian Studies Honours
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. 014 SSS
Jamilla Lamaya
Young, Australian-born Indonesian and Muslim: Struggling to find a balance in an Australian Society
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Heather Earl
The Expectations and Experiences of Indoensia's 457 Visa holders working in Australia

Claire Tatyzo
Representations of women in Indonesian Cinema: The films of Nia Dinata
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5 June
Priyambudi Sulistiyanto
"Civil Society and Grassroots Reconciliation in Post-Soeharto Indonesia"
2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
12 June
Dr. Alexey D. Muraviev
Strategic Affairs analyst
School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages, Curtin University of Technology
Bear in the Land of Dragons. Russia’s Strategic Policy in the Asia-Pacific

2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
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19 June
Assoc. Professor Haydon Manning
Swinging Voters and their ‘Mood’ in Contemporary Australia

2.00pm - 3.30pm 115SSS.
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