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Visitor Program
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Visitor Program

Visitors are always welcome at the Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ) and their presences helps create a dynamic and stimulating intellectual community. Visitors to the centre can come for short stays, sometimes passing through the hallways for only a few days, or for stays of a longer duration and both are encouraged. But be warned, regardless of the length of your stay, we like to host an event around our visitors to ensure that the wider ANU and other interested communities in the region have an opportunity to engage with visitors to the Centre and their ideas. These can take the form of a seminar, public lecture, leading or participating in a workshop around your scholarship or any other creative ideas our visitors may want to suggest.

If you are interested in being a visitor to CIGJ you can send an email with a proposal to Hilary.Charlesworth@anu.edu.au

Current or upcoming visitors:

Professor J. Ann Tickner, University of Southern California. November 2009.

Professor Tickner researches feminist perspectives on international relations theory, with a particular focus on ways of reconceptualizing security. She has recently completed a book on post-Cold War issues and contemporary international theory. Read more about Professor Tickner here.

Past visitors include:

Professor Anne Orford November 2008

Professor Anne Orford from the University of Melbourne visited CIGJ to present a paper on her work on R2P: the responsibility to protect.

Adrian Morrice and Caitlin Reiger 25-28 February 2008

Adrian Morrice and Caitlin Reiger gave a seminar on 'Building Democracy and Justice in Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste: Tales from the Frontline' in which discussed their peacebuilding experiences in Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone and various other post-conflict situations. Adrian spoke about the design and conduct of post-conflict elections. Caitlin talked about the role of courts and international tribunals in promoting transitional justice.

Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon 26-27 July 2007

Professor MacKinnon gave a public lecture 'Women's Status, Men's States' in which she surveyed the state of women's human rights around the world through asking whether the international legal system is "male," as her prior work showed states are. International law is found to separate public from private, treat dominance as difference, hide coercion behind consent, and treat politics as morality, but at the same time has taken far more significant strides toward substantive equality for women than any national system has. Largely through discussing interventions with which she has been involved, the lecture considered why this is the case, why sexual violence has been so central to women's international advancement, and the potential of international law for women's rights around the world. Professor MacKinnon also held a workshop for PhD students during her visit.

Professor Martti Koskenniemi – 27-28 November 2006
Director The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki

Professor Koskenniemi gave a Public Lecture on the 27 November entitled 'International law - between fragmentation and constitutionalism' and participated in a workshop for interested CIGJ and Law Faculty Postgraduate students on 'Critical Approaches to International Law'. There is an audio file and paper of the presentation available.

Dr Annemaire Devereux, 13-14 November 2006
Law School, Queensland University of Technology

Dr Annemarie Devereux gave a seminar in the Peacebuiling Seminar Series entitled Institutional Challenges in Timor Leste on Monday 13 November 2006.

Professor Tony Anghie, 2-5 July 2006
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Professor Anghie gave a Public Lecture on the 5 July entitled ‘How to Govern Backward People: Nation Building and International Law in Historical Perspective’ and ran a workshop for interested CIGJ and Law Faculty Postgraduate students on Postcolonial theory and International Law.

Associate Professor Di Otto, 5-7 June 2006
University of Melbourne

On 6 June Professor Otto gave a seminar entitled ‘Zero Tolerance for Peacekeeping Sex: whose survival is at stake?’ A paper from this seminar is now available.

Professor Conor Gearty, 15-16 May 2006
Director of Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics

Professor Gearty gave a seminar entitles 'The UK Human Rights Act: A Critical Appraisal' in conjunction with the CHuRN Network here at the ANU.

Dr Elizabeth Cousins & Dr Bruce Jones, 9 February 2006
Dr Cousins is Vice-President of the International Peace Academy. Dr Jones is Co-Director of the Center for International Cooperation at New York University and a senior adviser to the President of the UN General Assembly.

Drs Cousins and Jones gave a public lecture on the 'United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and the State of Practice in International Peacebuilding'. There is an audio file available of this presentation.