May 2008

Tuesday 27 May 2008, John Keane was at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London where he introduced a new book State and Civil Society edited by Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Rita Trattnigg, Werner Wutscher.

 

April 2008

Tuesday 29 April 2008, John Keane was at the London School of Economics, where together with David Goodhart (editor of Prospect), Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh and Lord Tony Giddens (chair) discussed Lord Parekh’s new book, A New Politics of Identity (Palgrave, March 2008) covering the impact of globalisation on ethnic, religious and national identities. (Read more and listen to a podcast of this event here)

 

February 2008

On February, 13th, (5-6:30 pm) John Keane spoke at the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, at Goldsmith College, University of London. The title of Professor's Keane seminar was Monitory Democracy?. Abstract: In 1945, only a dozen democracies remained on the face of the earth. The great democratic renaissance that subsequently took place is arguably not understandable in aggregate numerical terms, or in terms of 'end of history' or 'third wave' perspectives. Something more fundamental is happening: representative democracy is morphing into a radically different type of democracy than some of our grandparents may have been lucky to know. For compelling reasons that will become apparent in this talk, the emerging new historical form of democracy can be christened with a strange-sounding name: 'monitory democracy'.

More information here

 

January 2008

John Keane's biography of Tom Paine looks set to become a great motion ­picture epic, reported the Camden New Journal - Read more here

 

December 2007

In December, John Keane spoke at the WZ workshop on the Future of Representative Democracy. The workshop is supported by the European Science Foundation and organized by the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), 13th-15th December 2007. Webpage of the workshop here.

 

November 2007

On the 11th of November 2007 - at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, at the Aga Khan University, in London- John Keane spoke on the strange origins of representative democracy. Read more and download audio here

 

October 2007

John Keane was in Australia for a series of talks at the Sydney Democracy Forum.

Tuesday 2 October 2 to 5 pm, Despots, Democrats and Discontents: Democratic Prospects and International Policy Responses in the Middle East and South Asia Venue: The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 31 Bligh Street, Sydney

Thursday 11 October 6.30 pm. The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy Venue: Footbridge Theatre, Parramatta Road, University of Sydney. Download Invitation here

Friday 12 October 2 to 6 pm. Critics, Sceptics and Enemies of Democracy. Venue: Professorial Board Room, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney. Read more here

Full programme of the Sydney Democracy Forum, here

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February 2007

John Keane has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for the period April 2007-March 2010. Professor Keane's proposal was among 26 successful projects out of a total of over 200 applications.

 

October 2006

On the 27th of October, John Keane was in Lisbon where he addressed the audience of the Conferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? (more information about the conference here). The title of Professor Keane's talk was: Is democracy a universal ideal? (O ideal de democracia é um universal?)The full text of this talk in english can be downloaded here - in PDF format. Read the poster here - in PDF

 

July 2006

John Keane was the keynote speaker at the, International Conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. The title of his talk was ‘Violent Democracy?’. For more details and programme information please go to the official conference website: here. Download the poster here (pdf). Read the text of John Keane's talk: Does Democracy have a violent heart? Read, Watch and listen to John Keane presenting his talk click for Text here. Audio and Video here.

June 2006

Professor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave lecture on Humility and Democracy in two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta on June 29. Read more here

 

November 2005.

John Keane was on a fieldwork trip to Argentina and Uruguay, to conduct interviews and to collect materials for the history and future of democracy project.

 

Autumn, 2005.

John Keane was in Montréal, Canada, in mid-October, to deliver the Annual Diniacoupoulos Lecture and to contribute to the workshop Mediating Acts of Citizenship: Between Cities and Nations, Montréal, Quebec. The title of his lecture is: "Journalism and Democracy Across Borders". For enlarged objectives and rationale, participants and abstracts, schedule, and news on the workshop and lecture please click here. To download the posters concerning this lecture click the following links: English - Francais. To read John Keane's essay "Journalism and Democracy Across Borders" please click here.

 

29-30 September 2005

John Keane was in Prato, Italy, for the the two- day conference Democracy at the Crossroads?: Counter-terrorism and the state , organised by Monash University . He did speak during the closing session of the conference, on the theme T he Emergence of the Post-Democratic State ? The lecture  addressed some  difficult question s concerning  the extent to which democratic state s are being  compromised by the developing  ‘war on terror'. He asks : a re we seeing the emergence of a new type of state in a post-democratic era?

 

24 September 2005

John Keane was in Istambul, Turkey, for the the "Medya, Demokrasi ve Sivil Toplum" conference. Click here to see the poster. Click here to read the Interview with John Keane published by Istanbul's main newspaper, Sabah, 25 September 2005. For Sivil Toplum's website, click here

 

4 - 7 September 2005

John Keane was speaking at the plenary session of the International Conference A World for All?: the Ethics of Global Civil Society. 4 - 7 September 2005
University of Edinburgh. This is an international and inter-disciplinary conference for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, organised jointly by CTPI and the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin. For more informations, final call for papers , provisional programme, publicity leaflet and poster, please check the conference official website: http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/aworldforall.html

 

31 May 2005

Public Lecture delivered to the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Taipei : The Future of Democracy

29 May 2005

Opening Plenary Lecture to the Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Tokyo: Democracy : An Old Ideal in Need of Fresh thinking

27 May 2005

International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan : a public lecture on Empires, Violence and Democracy

23 April 2005

Closing Lecture on 'The Democratization of Violence' at York University, for the Fourth York Cultural History Conference: Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective, York UK, 21-23 April 2005. Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~smc4/

15 March 2005

At 2 pm John Keane delivered a seminar on 'Empires and Democracy' at the Center for the Study of Democracy, 100 Park Village East, London NW1 3SR, 3rd Floor. Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent.

1 March 2005

At 6 pm John Keane addressed the live audience of the Democracy Club, he will talk on What's So Good About Democracy? The Need for Fresh Thinking About an Old Ideal. See the Democracy Club section in this website.