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This series brings together the School’s research community and domestic as well as international leaders in the field of politics and international affairs. Across each semester, the series showcases a diverse and exciting range of topics. All are welcome to attend.

For any inquiries, please contact Emily Sievers (polsis.ea@uq.edu.au). 
Please note that many past research seminars are recorded and are available online. 

The Research Seminar Series program for Semester 1, 2023 

Artwork: Forme bleue (1935) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Expertise and ideational power in global health: how 'vaccine hesitancy' came to overshadow systemic barriers to healthcare - Dr Adam Hannah (UQ)

24 March 2023 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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On Global Learning: Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practices and the Challenge of Global Governance - Professor Jason Ralph, Leeds.

24 February 2023 1:00pm
 
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National Responses to Climate Security

28 October 2022 3:00pm–4:30pm
 
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Presented by Associate Professor Matt McDonald (The University of Queensland)

Strategic Bargains in Great-Power Relations

21 October 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Professor Evelyn Goh (Australian National University)

Firms, States, Decoupling

9 September 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Jensen Sass (Australian National University)

The Practices of the Peacekeeping Economy

26 August 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Katrin Travouillon (Australian National University)

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

12 August 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Dara Conduit (University of Melbourne)

The Role of 'Non-knowledge' in Policymaking: COVID-19 and Beyond

29 July 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Adam Hannah (The University of Queensland)

Russia and Climate Change

13 May 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Ellie Martus (Griffith University)

Scrutinising the Figure of the ‘International Community’

29 April 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Katrin Travouillon (Australian National University)

The Personality of Populists

8 April 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Ferran Martinez i Coma (Griffith University)

Intellectual Property, Law, and Power: A Retrospective on the Field

25 March 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Professor Susan Sell (Australian National University)

Theorising Indigenous Leadership in 21st Century Australia

11 March 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Josephine Bourne (UQ)

Robots and Public Policy

25 February 2022 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
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Presented by Professor Michael Mintrom (Monash University)

Government Statistical Agencies and the Politics of Credibility [Internal Staff ONLY]

15 October 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Cosmo Howard (Griffith University)

Working Title [Internal Staff ONLY]

10 September 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by Associate Professor Sandra Phillips (HASS, UQ)

Intimate nationality and security in East Asia [Internal Staff ONLY]

27 August 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by Prof Susan Kneebone (University of Melbourne)

The figure of the neighbour in global politics [Internal Staff ONLY]

13 August 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by Dr Ari Jerrems (Monash University)

Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise [Internal Staff ONLY]

30 July 2021 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Presented by A/Prof Shahar Hameiri (UQ)

Relational Indigenous Systems: Reconfiguring IR while resisting 'escape by ontology' [Internal Staff ONLY]

21 May 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by A/Prof Morgan Brigg, Dr Mary Graham & Dr Martin Weber (UQ)

Between Oblivion and Forever: A Critique of Nuclear Reason [Internal Staff ONLY]

7 May 2021 9:00am
 
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Presented by A/Prof Jairus Grove (University of Hawai'i) & Dr Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck, UCL)

Emotions and Power in World Politics [Internal Staff ONLY]

23 April 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by A/Prof Emma Hutchison & Prof Roland Bleiker (UQ)

Of Critics and Conservatives [Internal Staff ONLY]

26 March 2021 9:00am
 
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Presented by Prof Michael C Williams (University of Ottawa) & Dr Jean-François Drolet (Queen Mary University)

Rise and Fall of World Orders in (Eur)Asia [Internal Staff ONLY]

12 March 2021 9:00am
 
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Presented by Dr Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)

Liberal States, Social Bordering, and International Order [Internal Staff ONLY]

26 February 2021 1:00pm
 
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Presented by Prof Chris Reus-Smit (UQ)

Online Roundtable on Decolonising Politics [Internal Staff ONLY]

25 September 2020 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Online Roundtable on The Politics of Climate Change [Internal Staff ONLY]

11 September 2020 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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A Zoom-roundtable on Climate Change

Feeling Policy: How Emotions Shape Health Discourses

28 February 2020 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Presented by Professor Michael Orsini (University of Ottawa).

How Women's Protests Influence Gender Attitudes in Young People

14 February 2020 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Presented by Professor Lee Ann Banaszak (Pennsylvania State University).

Crimes Against Biodiversity: A Framework for Addressing Ecological Harm

25 October 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Exploring the 'Ethical Loneliness' of Indigenous Childhoods in Australia

11 October 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Off campus event - The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can't Solve Black Problems.

10 September 2019 6:00pm–8:00pm
 
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Speech Acts Theories of Securitization

30 August 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Radical Interpretivism and the Practice Turn in International Relations

23 August 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Mervyn Frost (War Studies, King's College London)

Visual Jurisprudence and Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa (Co-hosted with Visual Politics Seminar)

16 August 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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The role of the Arts in Cambodia's Transitional Justice Process (Co-hosted with Visual Politics Seminar)

26 July 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Security Mapping and Color Encoding: A Critical Cartography of Interventions

24 May 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Free Speech on Campus in the United States and Australia

10 May 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Security as politics: rethinking the security/politics relationship through parliamentary practice

22 March 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit

15 March 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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The End of History: A Metahistorical Sketch

1 March 2019 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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The new policy sciences: combining the cognitive science of choice, multiple theories of context, and basic and applied analysis

25 October 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Cat and Mouse: Forum shifting and the politics of intellectual property protection and enforcement.

12 October 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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The Good Hegemon: Accountability as Justice, US Power, and the Multilateral Development Banks

21 September 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Myth and Myth Making in Australian History

7 September 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Do elected politicians have any special moral duties to refrain from engaging in hate speech?

24 August 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Hierarchies After Empire: Self-determination and the Constitution of Inequality

10 August 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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The Norm against Female Combat

1 June 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Associate Professor Sarah Percy, POLSIS/UQ

“How the East was Won: Mimetic Imperialism, the Rise of the West and the Asian Roots of the Modern World.”

25 May 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Associate Professor Andrew Phillips, POLSIS/UQ

“Evidence and persuasion in politics and policy.”

11 May 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Linda Botterill, University of Canberra (Visiting Scholar)

“Globalising Green Politics? Towards an Ecological Global Politics.”

27 April 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Peter Newell, University of Sussex (Visiting Fellow)

Experiences of the Referendum Council and Constitutional Reform

20 April 2018 3:00pm–4:30pm
 
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Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law, UNSW
Venue: UQ Art Gallery The University of Queensland, St Lucia

“Governing Systemic Risk in the Shadow of Bretton Woods.”

23 March 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Louis Pauly, University of Toronto (Visiting Scholar)

“Spatializing justice? Social memory activism in Timor-Leste and Aceh.”

9 March 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr Lia Kent, ANU

Periodic Review of Australia at the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Informal Reflections

23 February 2018 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr Mary Graham
Research Seminar Series

Present at the creation? China in the international economic order, 1944-1955

27 October 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr Amy King, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, ANU
Research Seminar Series

‘Hidden Policy Agendas: Shining a Light on the Dark Side of the Moon’.

13 October 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Allan McConnell, The University of Sydney

Militarised masculinities beyond methodological nationalism: Charting the multiple masculinities of an Indonesian jihadi

22 September 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr David Duriesmith, UQ Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies

War and the Politics of Ethics

8 September 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Maja Zehfuss, The University of Manchester

Is International Law International?

25 August 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Associate Professor Anthea Roberts, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Is IR Theory White?

11 August 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS University of London/POLSIS, UQ Visiting Fellow

Russia’s Turn away from Europe

28 July 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Iver Neumann, London School of Economics
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Rethinking Critical Juncture Analysis Institutional Change and Liberalisation in Chinese Banking and Finance

12 May 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Stephen Bell (POLSIS/UQ) & Dr Hui Feng (Griffith University)

The Language of Colonial Violence : Humanitarian Narratives and the NSW Law Courts

5 May 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Associate Professor Anna Johnston (IASH, UQ)
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Interrogating Form and Function: Designing Effective National Human Rights Institutions

31 March 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Dr Tom Pegram, University College London

Cat and Mouse: Forum shifting and the politics of intellectual property protection and enforcement - cancelled. To be rescheduled in the future

17 March 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Susan Sell, Australian National University.

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Cultural scripts, culture as practice, and the curious case of deliberative democracy

3 March 2017 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor John Parkinson Griffith University

War and the Fate of Democracy: Battlefield Lessons and the Politics of the Exceptional

4 November 2016 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Professor Ron Krebs, University of Minnesota

Racing the Scottish Enlightenment: Medicine, Stadial Theory and the Colonial History of Humanity

28 October 2016 1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Bruce Buchan
Griffith University

Global political legitimacy: Empowering collective action beyond the democratic state

21 October 2016 1:00pm
 
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Dr Terry Macdonald, Melbourne University

Left Behind? An unexpected story of how Britain has and has not changed and how things might not be as bad as we routinely think they are and how we really do need to pause before saying sweeping things about neoliberalism.

14 October 2016 1:00pm
 
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Professor Andy Hindmoor, Sheffield University

International Intervention and the Politics of Scale: the case of Aceh

Cancelled
7 October 2016 1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Shahar Hameiri (POLSIS, UQ) and Dr Fabio Scarpello (Murdoch University)

The Climate State: Global warming and the future of the welfare state

23 September 2016 1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Peter Christoff, Melbourne University

Fragile Finance and China’s Economic Future - CANCELLED

2 September 2016 1:00pm
 
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Professor Stephen Bell (POLSIS/UQ) & Dr Hui Feng (Griffith University)

Tackling wicked problems: admiring the complexities or taking remedial action?

26 August 2016 1:00pm
 
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Professor Brian Head
POLSIS & ISSR/UQ

ASEAN, Anti-politics, and Human Rights

19 August 2016 1:00pm
 
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Dr Kelly Gerard
University of Western Australia

Recapturing Just War from the Ethicists

12 August 2016 1:00pm
 
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Professor Ian Clark
POLSIS/UQ

Explaining the Striking Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea since 1997: Towards an agent-centred understanding of developmental states and their evolution

5 August 2016 1:00pm
 
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Dr Elizabeth Thurbon
UNSW

Women’s rights as “gendered temperance”: Institutional perspectives on gender violence in the Pacific Islands.

29 July 2016 1:00pm
 
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Dr Nicole George
POLSIS/UQ

Risk, Technology and the Future: Five Challenges for Governments to Manage in an Age of Intense Uncertainty

3 June 2016 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Prof. Karen Hussey Deputy Director of the Global Change Institute presents this week's Research Seminar

On the Coherence of Cosmopolitan Humility

27 May 2016 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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Associate Professor Luis Cabrera from Griffith University presents this week

The Office of the Economist: Early Instability

20 May 2016 2:30pm–3:30pm
 
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Dr. Ryan Walter of the University of Queensland presents this week

Policy Learning After Crises

13 May 2016 2:30pm–3:30pm
 
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Solving the Aboriginal problem: Indigenous policy and colonising white innocence

6 May 2016 2:15pm–3:15pm
 
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Is the Party Over? Reform and Renewal in 21st Century Democracies

29 April 2016 2:15pm–3:15pm
 
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Capitalism’s Processes of Destruction: Is Regulation the Answer?

22 April 2016 2:15pm–3:15pm
 
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Riders on the storm: EU fiscal policy coordination and the Great Recession

15 April 2016 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
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‘Bigger, Better, Shorter, Faster, Free’: Working with the New Paradigm for Impact in the Digital Era

8 April 2016 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
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International Analogies: International Thought and the Reconfiguration of Democratic Ideas

11 March 2016 1:30pm–2:30pm
 
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"A Reconciliation Most Desirable: Shame, Narcissism, Apology and Justice"

4 March 2016 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
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