TRANSCENDING
THE BOUNDARIES: GLOBALISM
REGIONALISM, LOCALISM, PERSONALISM
1995
Winter season at the ecoversity
July 11 to August 15 1995
The
seventh series of sustainability
forums. Facilitated and presened
by Merrill Findlay for ITF, in
association with 3RRR's Byte
Into It and the Australian
Conservation Foundation
1.
July 11 1995
VIRTUAL
WORLDS
with
cultural theorist McKenzie
Wark, author of
Virtual Geography: living
with global media events
(Indiana University
Press 1994) talking about
'the post-modern condition';
and Gary Hardy,
editor with Vicnet, the
State Library of Victoria's
internet service, talking
about nurturing information
rich communities through
the World Wide Web. (Scheduled
speaker, Indra Kurzeme,
also from Vicnet, was unable
to attend.)
This
forum included the launch of Cappuccino
Papers No 1
by Ken Wark.
2.
July 18 1995
THE
BORDERLESS BIOSPHERE
with resource economist
Graham Armstrong
of the National Institute
of Economic and Industry
Research talking about global
futures scenarios; ACF's
sustainable land use campaigner
Jason Alexandra
talking about the challenges
the Murray Darling River
system presents for governance;
and Gippsland based ecologist
Sharron Pfueller
from Monash University's
Department of Geography
and Environmental Science,
talking about local communities
monitoring their own pollution
through participatory action
research.
3.
July 25 1995
REDEFINING
SOVEREIGNTY
with Meredith Doig,
chief manager of personnel
planning and organisation
with the ANZ Group, one
of Australia's largest financial
services companies, talking
about knowledge, skills
and culture in the global
market place; economist
Graham Dunkley
from the Department of Applied
Economics at Victoria University
talking about GATT, the
World Trade Organisation,
NAFTA and APEC; and Philomena
Murray, president
of the Contemporary European
Studies Association of Australia,
and senior lecturer in the
Department of Political
Science at Melbourne University,
talking about the politics
of European union.
4.
August 1 1995
SUSTAINING
THE LOCAL
with the City of Greater
Geelong's strategic planner
Ian Cowper
talking about Geelong's
next one hundred years;
environmental activist Howard
Dick, from the
Department of Economic History
at Melbourne University,
case studying the Hunter
Valley region in NSW; and
Gerry Gill,
director of the Regional
Research Centre at La Trobe
University's Bendigo campus,
talking about how regions
might sustain themselves
in a global economy and
culture.
5.
August 8 1995
RETHINKING
CITIZENSHIP
with geographer Ruth
Fincher, director
of the Australian Centre
at Melbourne University,
talking about women's social
citizenship; Karmal
Malhatra, co-director
of Focus on the Global South
based in the Social Research
Institute of Chulalongkonr
University, Bangkok, talking
about the impact of globalisation
on the South; and Mike
Salvaris, research
fellow at the Centre for
Urban and Social Research
at Swinburne University
of Technology posing the
questions 'what kind of
society do we want Australia
to be?' and 'what are the
appropriate social, economic
and ecological policy goals
to get us there?"
6.
August 15 1995
THE
CHANGING SELF
with psychologist Murali
Neelamegam, quality
consultant with Telstra's
Corporate Quality Centre
and director and co-founder
of Epoch Foundation, a non
profit organisation formed
to address business ethics
and responsibility, talking
about individual, group
and organisational transformation;
Michael Haines,
corporate administration
manager for Toyota Motor
Corporation Australia and
chair of Habitat Melbourne,
talking about consciousness
and personhood; and industrial
engineer, broadcaster and
e-cafe pioneer Rita
Arrigo, talking
about social change in cyberspace
and the possibilities presented
by the World Wide Web.
