30th Anniversary of Tiananmen: an interview with the ABC, June 4th, 2019
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June
2019
Videos
VIDEO | Western Conceptions of Politics: Four Beijing Lectures
Within public life in many Western countries, the words ‘politics’ (zhèngzhì), ‘political’ and ‘political life’ (zhèngzhì yóuxì) are today proving to be deeply controversial. They are often reckoned to be dirty words, synonyms for corrupt government, lying politicians and unpopular...
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August
2018
VIDEO | The Crisis of Western Democracy? A Survey of Recent Literature and Debates in the United States and Europe
The Crisis of Western Democracy? A Survey of Recent Literature and Debates in the United States and Europe A public lecture by John Keane delivered at the Academic Report Hall (1st floor), Science Hall, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, on...
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20
July
2018
Book Launch | The Life and Death of Democracy [Spanish Edition]
27 June 2018 The Life and Death of Democracy is a book by John Keane and published in 2009. Vida y muerte de la democracia, a Spanish language edition of the book has recently been published by FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA (FCE). The book launch event was broadcast live...
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06
July
2018
VIDEO | When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter: rethinking democracy in China
Co-hosted by the Sydney Democracy Network, China Studies Centre and the China Development Society at the University of Sydney Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this talk explores a radically different alternative. China, it argues,...
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04
October
2017
John Keane
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VIDEO & PODCAST | For and Against Truth
Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion...
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03
October
2017
Interview with Ideapod | Democracy in China
What can Americans learn from China about democracy? With Professor John Keane. We're at the Australian Leadership Retreat with the ADC Forum. #adcforum #ALR2017 Originally published on Facebook...
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May
2017
John Keane
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Quantum Thinking
Q1: Interview with John Keane from CISS University of Sydney on Vimeo. ABOUT Q3 SYMPOSIUM When The third annual Q Symposium of the Centre for International Security Studies, ‘Peace and Security in a Quantum Age: Moment, Matter, Mind and Metaphysics’, was held 11-13 February...
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April
2016
The New Despotism of the 21st Century: Imagining the End of Democracy
The New Despotism of the 21st Century: Imagining the End of Democracy A lecture at the University of Castellon, Spain, March 25 2015 ...
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15
April
2016
John Keane
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A Short History of the Future of Elections
The following remarks on the future of elections sketch the ambitious scope of an exciting Sydney/Berlin research project launched last week at the the University of Sydney We live in times shaped by the conviction that periodic ‘free and fair’ elections...
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15
October
2015