Events

Sydney Environment Institute presents

Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy

The economy is an increasingly significant terrain of climate politics. The climate debate has moved on from carbon pricing as the cornerstone of climate economics and is now focused on how climate change is, or should be, reshaping markets, industries and statecraft. However, existing climate agendas have placed significant faith in private capital to lead the transition, failed to wind down the fossil economy, and are becoming ever more entangled with geopolitical tensions and interests.

Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation

Speaker: Ben Spies-Butcher

Thursday 7 November 2024, 12-1:30pm

Room 441, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney

Neoliberalism has transformed work, welfare and democracy. However, its impacts, and its future, are more complex than we often imagine. Alongside growing inequality, social spending has been rising. This seminar draws on Ben’s recent book to ask how we understand this contradictory politics and what opportunities exist to create a more equal society. It argues an older welfare state politics, driven by the power of industrial labour, is giving way to political contests led by workers within the welfare state itself. Advancing more equal social policy, though, requires new forms of statecraft, or ways of doing policy, as well as new models of organising.

Double book launch for:

False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk by Claire Parfitt

Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations by Lian Sinclair

When: 630pm, Tuesday 29 October, 2024

Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Registration: https://gleebooks.com.au/event/claire-parfitt-and-lian-sinclair-double-launch/

Join a panel of experts for a conversation that tackles the moral and ethical obligations integral to research and investing priorities.

When: 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm, October 14, 2014
Where: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315, University of Sydney

Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/weapons-climate-justice-and-investing-ethically

We are living in an era of overlapping crises: from climate catastrophe to devastating wars, alongside the age-old ravages of inequality at home and across the globe. As these struggles escalate, many ordinary people are questioning their own responsibility, and possibility of their complicity, in these disasters. What prospects are there for responding? What avenues for meaningful action?

With the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, these concerns have come into sharper focus. This panel of experts will examine some of these uncomfortable questions, and our moral and ethical obligations to address adverse human rights and climate justice impacts.

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Launch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state

Speakers: Phillip Toner and Michael Rafferty

Thursday 5 September 2024, 1:30-2:30 pm

Room 341, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney

Please join Phil Toner, Mike Rafferty and contributors for a seminar launching the recently released edited book Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state (Sydney University Press) 

The post Launch of Captured: How neoliberalism transformed the Australian state appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

Check out Disney's D23 display for Showrunner Russell T. Davies and Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who.

Here's the Doctor Who SDCC 2024 panel with Showrunner Russell T. Davies and stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby).

Titan Comics flew out all the way from Southwark in South London to San Diego Comic-Con to show off their wares to the Diamond Retailer Lunch

Nicola Coughlan had a message for fans at SDCC 2024 Hall H before previewing the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World."

Political Economy Seminar

Class, Party, and American Politics in 2024

Speaker: Matthew Karp, Princeton University

Time and date: Friday, 2 August 2024, 4-5:30 pm

Location: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 650, The University of Sydney

Abstract: It may be the most pervasive question in twenty-first century politics, all across the post-industrial world: Why have so many working-class voters, the backbone of socialist and progressive struggles across the twentieth century, turned away from parties of the left? Everyone from Thomas Piketty to J.D. Vance seems to have weighed in, but the debate rages on. This talk explores the emergence of what some call “class dealignment” in the United States, focusing especially on the last two decades, and evaluating the current shape of both the Republican and Democratic political coalitions. Drawing on my work with the Center for Working Class Politics, I argue that dealignment represents an existential crisis for the American left and suggest some ways left-wing politicians might push back against these macro trends.