In June 2023 Political Economy at the University of Sydney hosted a discussion on Jamie Martin’s new book, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press). Jamie gave a presentation on the book, and Martijn Konings was the discussant. Today we are publishing a recording of the event, along with an edited transcript of Martijn’s contribution and Jamie’s response.
The 2023 Paul Bourke Lecture presented by Dr Sophie Webber, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney ‘Climate finance: Taking a position on climate futures’ Climate change is increasingly conceptualised in financial terms. In policy and politics, climate change is viewed as a problem of bridging ‘financing’ gaps between the anticipated costs of climate change and…
THE RECORDING FOR THIS EVENT IS AVAILABLE HERE. Political Economy Seminar The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance Presenter: Jamie Martin, Harvard University Date: Friday 23 June 2023 Time: 11am (Sydney/Australian Eastern Time) Online: Please join via Zoom Please join us for a seminar with Jamie Martin, on his book, The Meddlers:…
Political Economy Seminar Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement Presenter: Dick Bryan Date: Oct 25 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Location: Room 650, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 and Zoom Recording Abstract There is, as yet, relatively little…
The Liveable Income Guarantee – The Missing Link in Social Security? A webinar organised by the Australian Basic Income Lab and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney on Tuesday September 20. Social security took a back seat in a Federal election dominated by the cost of living…
Political Economy Seminar Illusions of empowerment: checking household energy autonomy PRESENTER: Associate Professor Stuart Rosewarne (University of Sydney) DATE: Sep 16 2022 TIME 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm LOCATION: Room 650, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 and Zoom, Australian households have the highest rooftop solar voltaic panel take-up rate in the world….
The XX ISA conference will be held in Melbourne in June 2023, and the call for papers is now open. I am organising a session titled Learning from the Past: Historical Approaches to Labour Strategy and Their Contemporary Applications. The portal for submitting an abstract to the panel is now open. The session description is below: Rapidly…
The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2022 Armidale, NSW, 5-8 July Call for abstracts for panel on ‘Repairing Australia’s climate economy’ Organised by Sophie Webber and Gareth Bryant, the University of Sydney Australia’s carbon and climate economy is marked by both inaction and failure. On the one hand, Australia is a climate pariah, with lax…
The 21st BIEN Congress will be a hybrid event, involving a mixture of online and face-to-face events. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane, Australia in the form of a one-day symposium on Monday 26th September 2022. BIEN 2022 will be jointly hosted by BIEN Australia, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences…
This Conference brings together the latest research on energy transitions from across several countries. It involves institutes, researchers and key participants in the process of energy transition, to learn from experience and to reflect on obstacles and possibilities.
It is focused on the following five themes:
Socio-technical innovation, institutional change and the transition;
Narratives of transition: technological versus behavioural, centralised versus decentralised, market mechanisms versus direct intervention;
Models for transition: regulatory, community and business;
Putting people at centre of energy transition: communities, workers, Indigenous Peoples;
Visions for transition – energy justice, energy commons, energy democracy.
Organised by
The Climate Justice Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney;
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam);
The Climate and Energy Policy Research Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and;
Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation (Phoenix).
