The 2012 Annual Symposium of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Tuesday, 20 November 2012, Canberra Workshop Description Background: Social science perspectives on Antarctica are limited in scope and quantity. In the fields of political science, international relations, legal studies...
Read MoreBBC World interviews talks to John Keane about Václav Havel, 23 December 2011. ...
Read MoreDuring my first encounter with him, in Prague in 1984, when everything seemed hopeless, I was struck by the man's hedgehog resilience. Here was a rarity: an unusual figure, intense but witty, a clear-headed thinker and a wonderful writer, a...
Read MoreSBS World News Australia presenter Anton Enus talks to John Keane, Professor of politics at University of Sydney, 19 December 2011. ...
Read MoreAn interview about Vaclav Havel with The World Today's Eleanor Hall, ABC Radio, 19 December 2011 Transcript As mourners gather in Prague's Wenceslas Square to pay respect to their late former president, tributes to Vaclav Havel have been pouring in from leaders...
Read MoreVáclav Havel has died aged 75. A poet and playwright, a political writer, dissident and a politician, Havel was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic founded in 1993. The Conversation spoke with...
Read MoreAl Jazeera English talks to John Keane, Professor of politics at the University of Sydney about Václav Havel, 19 December 2011. ...
Read MoreJohn Keane was guest of Radio Australia (ABC) on 21 November 2011 to talk with Isabelle Genoux about the global occupation movement. ...
Read More[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="668"] The first free elections borne from the Arab Spring were held in Tunisia. Over 90% of registered adults voted. EPA/Zacarias Garcia[/caption] It has been a tumultuous week in the life and times of democracy in the Mediterranean....
Read MoreMEDIA & DEMOCRACY: On the final day of The Conversation’s series on how the media influences the way our representatives develop policy, John Keane examines how the relationships between politicians, journalists, lobbyists and the PR sector undermine democracy. [caption id="" align="aligncenter"...
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