Lectures

	Title	Year	Download
	Old Age Without Wretchedness’: Thomas Paine’s Vision of Growing Old Final Public Lecture, Tom Paine 200 Celebrations, Thetford, 7 November 2009, Norfolk - read summary and download full text here	2009	Read
	Media Decadence and Democracy Senate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009	2009	Read and watch the video
	Children and Civil Society Presentation for ‘Neglecting Children and Youth: Democracies at Risk’, a seminar held at The University of Sydney, 5 November 2008. For more essays on civil society click here.	2008	Read
	Monitory Democracy? The Secret History of Democracy Since 1945 Public Lecture delivered at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, 29 October 2008. For the Chinese translation of this lecture: click here	2008	Read
	Civil Society and Ageing Comments delivered at the Conference ‘Aging, Family, Civil Society, Politics’, Dresden, 1st February 2008.	2008	Read
	The strange origins of representative democracy 11 November 2007 - Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University. London. Read	2007	Read
	The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy 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.	2007	read and download audio
	Is democracy a universal ideal? Conferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? - 27 October 2006.	2006	Read
	What's happening to democracy? The Sydney Ideas Public Lecture, 24 July 2006	2006	Read and listen
	Does Democracy have a violent heart? Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney.	2006	Read Watch and listen
	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, June 2006.	2006	Read
	The Challenge to Democratic Consolidation Public Lecture delivered to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy , Taipei. 31st May 2005	2005	Read in Chinese
	Why Democracy? Delivered as the B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi, 25 February 2005	2005	Read
	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.	2004	Read
	Can Civil Societies Become More Civil? A Place for All? Comparing Civil Societies in Scotland and Northern Ireland , Wednesday 8th September 2004	2004	Read
	Reflections on the Transition to Democracy Draft lecture prepared for the 9th Open Society Forum, Democracy in Europe, in America, in the World, 23 April 2004, Tallinn, Estonia.	2004	Read
	Whatever Happened to Democracy? Institute for Public Policy Research, London, 27 March 2002	2004	Read
	. Transitions to Democracy Plenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium: "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University. The Centre ran a one-day symposium which looked at some the contemporary challenges and issues related to democracy and democratic theory	2006	Listen to this lecture