Globalism Research Centre—News and events

GRC staff news February 2011
Centre staff have been active in the community and media in February.

GRC staff news January 2011
The Centre has recently produced a number of significant publications, with many more scheduled for 2011.

The world in transition: towards holoreflexivity?
A review essay by Heikki Patomäki of ‘Worlds in transition. Evolving governance across a stressed planet’ by Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk.

13/12/2011 Adapting to climate change: showcasing new perspectives from the Netherlands
A free lecture presented by Hans de Moel.

12/10/2011 Changing sexuality in Dili and implications for gender relations
PhD candidate Anna Trembath presents an article, examining the immense transformations to East Timorese social relations.

31/08/2011 God in the Daily News Cycle
How important is Religion in the news stories of our everyday world? According to Paul Marshall, Editor of Blind Spot: When Journalists don’t get Religion it is very important and yet the media often doesn’t get it!

RMIT news in brief 12/01/2012
Dr Xu Wang has been appointed a Visiting Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, because of his outstanding achievement in automotive engineering research.

'New approach' to religion and politics 21/12/2011
Is religion irrelevant and irrational, as many Westerners assume, a purely historical artefact that secularism, the separation of church and state, has successfully removed from politics?

Irregular migrants transform citizenship 14/12/2011
Can a person be an “illegal” migrant and a citizen at once?

Awards honour top RMIT academics 07/12/2011
RMIT University has celebrated the outstanding effort and commitment of academic staff at the 2011 Teaching and Research Awards.