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,...
Read MoreCo-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...
Read MoreWhat 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...
Read MoreQ1: 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...
Read MoreThe New Despotism of the 21st Century: Imagining the End of Democracy A lecture at the University of Castellon, Spain, March 25 2015 ...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreIn the lead up to this year's Festival of Democracy, we wandered the University of Sydney campus asking people to share their thoughts on the big 'D' word...
Read MoreIn Hong Kong, public tensions are mounting over Beijing’s recent decision to restrict free and fair elections in 2017. A week-long strike by students begins on September 22. The citizens' initiative Occupy Central with Love and Peace plans to stage...
Read MoreJune 4 (Bloomberg) –- The University of Sydney Professor of Politics John Keane discusses the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and the reason why China’s government is enforcing a silence on the event and the anniversary. He speaks to Angie Lau...
Read MoreIs Democracy Not For Everyone? John Keane at the Sydney Opera House for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013 ...
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