15 events Coming up
28 Mar 2012
Melbourne Asian Law Conference - Recent reforms in the administration of justice in China
This conference invites some of China's leading experts on China's justice system to discuss recent issues and reforms in criminal and administrative justice. The forthcoming reforms to China's Criminal Procedure Law in early March will mark the ...
Speaker
Conference16 Apr 2012
'Finding a Place on the Asian Stage' by Alison Carroll and Carrillo Gantner
Should we care about our neighbours in the Asian region? write the authors, who have spent a lifetime in such engagement. This has been called the Asian century and Australia as a western neighbour, is being offered unique opportunities. More sho...
Speaker
Mr Carrillo Gantner AO and Ms Alison Carroll AM
Launch30 May 2012
Melbourne Conference on China: Global Media & Public Diplomacy in Sino-Western Relations
The Asia Institute and the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, with Radio Australia of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) are jointly hosting the 2012 Melbourne Conference on China on Wednesday 30 May and ...
Speaker
Conference27 Jun 2012
The fifth generation: China's next leaders
The first event in the Asialink Next Generation Series, this seminar will focus attention on the forthcoming leadership transition within China's Communist Party, which is scheduled to take place at the 18th Party Congress in late 2012. Drawn fro...
Speaker
Seminar/Forum31 Jul 2012
China, Climate Change and Sustainability
China’s efforts to address climate change, including its national investments in clean energy are, in terms of percentage of GDP,three times that of the United States. In the context of China’s existing actions on climate change and current commi...
Speaker
Free Public Lecture09 Aug 2012
The World in Balance Sheet Recession: What Post-2008 US, Europe and China can learn from Japan 1990-2005
There is considerable confusion in policy circles as to how to respond to the postGFC recession. Drawing parallels with the Japanese economic crisis of the 1990s, Richard C. Koo, senior advisor to leading fiscal bodies in both the US and Japan, wi...
Speaker
Free Public Lecture18 Sep 2012
When China Rules the World: Martin Jacques
As part of a public lecture series questioning Australia's Role in the World, Asialink is proud to present bestselling author and leading China expert Martin Jacques, for the launch of an updated version of his criticallyacclaimed book When China ...
Speaker
Free Public Lecture08 Apr 2013
Is China at a Turning Point?
2013 Melbourne China Forum The Asia Institute and the new Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies bring together three experts on China to discuss if China has reached its turning point. Professor Christine Wong is an international authority on ...
18 Apr 2013
Precariously at Home: Chinatown in Sydney, Australia in Asia
In this socalled Asian century, Australia is only too keen to pronounce itself as belonging to the Asian region, constantly referred to in the recent White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century as ‘our’ region. But does this mean that Australia ...
13 May 2013
Measuring China's Rise
National rises and falls are likely to be less convulsive in the 21st century than they were in the 20th century. Today’s rise of China, more promising than the one foreshadowed in Song Mayling’s China Shall Rise Again, or the PRC rise after 1949 ...
16 May 2013
The Use and Abuse of History in the People's Republic of China
2013 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture In this lecture, Professor Antonia Finnane talks about history and propaganda in contemporary China, taking her point of departure from Chairman Xi Jinping’s visit to the history exhibit, “Road to Revival,” in th...
21 May 2013
Servicing Asia’s Booming Middle Class - managing complexities and capturing growing opportunities with Ben Simpfendorfer
This first event in the 2013 Asialink Next Generation Series will focus on opportunities arising from massive demographic change in Asia. Ben Simpfendorfer, Managing Director, Silk Road Associates in Hong Kong will discuss • Planning a commerci...
23 May 2013
Tiffin Talk: India and China: Rivals, Friends or Foes?
India and China today represent world’s two largest and fastest growing economies and societies. Even the continued global economic slowdown has not dented their growth. These unprecedented trends have triggered several internal and external syste...
27 May 2013
U.S. Policy Priorities and the 'Rebalance' to the Asia-Pacific
Asialink, The U.S. Consulate General, Melbourne, The U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney along with ACBC and Confucius Institute are proud to present Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Senior ...
04 Jun 2013
Demystifying the Chinese Economy - The David Finch Lecture 2013
China’s rise is the most intriguing economic phenomenon of our time. One of the world’s poorest economies at the end of the nineteenth century, China has, for over three decades, been experiencing average annual growth of over 9 percent, with grow...