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Democracies in name, but not in the real game
The Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2006 The world’s democracies, Australia included, are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble. Despite everything they have achieved and stand for, they are bound to feel the ever sharper pinch of deep-seated problems whose symptoms include declining enthusiasm for representative government, widespread public sullenness tinged with fear, new forms of [...]
Monitory Democracy? The Secret History of Democracy Since 1945
Public Lecture delivered at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, 29 October 2008. – Read lecture in PDF format – Read Chinese translation of lecture
The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy
Listen to Audio Sydney Democracy Forum. Thursday 11 October 2007. 6.30 pm. The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy. Venue: Footbridge Theatre, Parramatta Road, University of Sydney. Summary: Among the striking new developments of our times is the reappearance of an old problem with old roots: a creeping disillusionment with democracy itself. The new coolness towards democracy [...]
Is democracy a universal ideal?
Conferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? – 27 October 2006. Read lecture in PDF format
What’s happening to democracy?
Professor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled ‘What’s Happening to Democracy?’. 24 July 2006.
Does Democracy Have a Violent Heart?
Published in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Click here to read PDF format Click here to read the Epilogue in PDF format Watch Videos Here
Humility and Democracy: a History of the Invention of Democratic Institutions
Professor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave a lecture on Humility and Democracy at two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta, 29 June 2006. Keane’s lecture in CSIS was attended by Dr. AS. Hikam, who read Keane’s books when Hikam studied as a Ph.D student at Hawai’i University, the U.S. Kean’s lecture at UIN Jakarta [...]
The Challenge to Democratic Consolidation
Professor Keane was invited by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: Taiwan Thinktank to deliver a lecture on “The Challenge to Democratic Consolidation” in May 31, 2005 , and discussed the relevance and future of democracy in Taiwan. Read below some excerpts from this lecture (edited by Editor Lin Chi-hua, Amy Chen): John Keane: These are [...]
HUMBLE DEMOCRACY?
On the Need for New Thinking about an Aging Ideal A revised and expanded version of the B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi, 25 February 2005 The Democracy Thing From the sun-scorched vineyards of Kandahar province in October 2004 came detailed reports of a gathering of a thousand [...]
Reflexions o Imperio e a Transicion A Democracia
Lecture prepared for the II Encontros de Mondariz Balneario – Organized by Fundación Carlos Casares . Second Session – Tuesday 21st September 2004 The text of this lecture is in Spanish.