10th June 2010 Do we still need enlightenment values? John Keane, Nigel Warburton, Robert Rowland Smith and Matthew Taylor argue for their ideal enlightenment values for the 21st century. Originally published on The RSA ...
Read MoreIran International, Prague October 25th 2019 ...
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Speaker: Professor John Keane, Melbourne, 27 August 2019 Reports of the death of democracy may be greatly exaggerated. However, there is mounting evidence that many people are losing trust in our democratic institutions. Today people in countries we regard as non-democratic...
Read More18 August 2019 Hong Kong: Hungary 1956 with Chinese Characteristics? ABC interview (Sydney) ...
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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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read More27 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...
Read MoreCo-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...
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