Program
We are pleased to announce the Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill, will be opening the Social Democracy Conference on the 17 February.
Conference program (PDF 137KB)
| Friday 17 February | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration |
| 930-9.40 | Welcome |
| 9.40-10.00 | Opening address - Premier Jay Weatherill |
| 10.00-11.00 | Keynote address - Professor Jan Pronk (Institute of Social studies, Hague. Netherlands) Chair: Rob Manwaring |
| 11.00-11.15 | Morning tea |
| 11.15-12.45 | Chair: Fiona Verity Rachel Simon-Kumar (University of Waikato) Including Gender, Disappearing Women: the Politics of Gendering in Social Democratic States Ariadne Vromen (University of Sydney) Changing forms of citizen engagement: online campaigning networks’ challenge to social democratic politics Ian Goodwin-Smith (University of Adelaide, Anglicare SA) Civil Social Democracy |
| 12.45-1.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30-2.30 | Chair: Rob Manwaring Matt Beech (University of Hull) Social Democracy Post-Crash: Searching for a managed welfare capitalism in Britain Frank Bongiorno (Australian National University) Blue Labour: Rise, Fall & Lessons for Australia? |
| 2.30-3.30 | Chair: Andrew Scott Geoff Robinson (Deakin University) Marxism & Social Democracy Tim Soutphommasane (Monash University) Socialist, Liberal, Labourist: The many faces of Social Democracy |
| 3.30-3.45 | Afternoon tea |
| 3.45-5.15 | Chair: Lionel Orchard Haydon Manning (Flinders University) The ALP Vote: The Kemp Thesis Revisited: The current re-embourgoisement of Labor’s heartland Andrew Scott (Deakin University) The fragmentation of political parties on the Left & the formation of new alignments: Comparing Australia with ‘red-green’ coalitions in northern Europe |
| 6.00-8.00 | Forum – The Future of Social Democracy Janet Giles (SA Unions), Jenny McAllister (ALP National President), Professor Jan Pronk & Professor John Quiggin Chair: Professor Andrew Parkin, DVC (Academic), Flinders University |
| Saturday 18 February | |
| 8.45-10.15 | Chair: Andrew Scott Paul Kennedy (University of Bath) Democracy & the Financial Markets: the case of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) 2004-2011 John Langmore & Jan Egeland (University of Melbourne) Distinctive Features of Norwegian Foreign Policy: Possible Lessons for Australia Rob Manwaring (Flinders University) ‘Hollowed out’?: Reform & ‘Modernisation’ in the ALP & British Labour Party |
| 10.15-11.15 | Keynote Address – Professor John Quiggin (University of Queensland) Chair: Lionel Orchard |
| 11.15-11.30 | Morning tea |
| 11.30-12.30 | Chair: Fiona Verity Nick Dyrenfurth (Monash University) The Culture of Social Democracy Lionel Orchard (Flinders University) Capability & Social Democracy |
| 12.30-1.15 | Lunch |
| 1.15-2.45 | Chair: Carol Johnson Tim Battin (University of New England) The Political Preconditions for a revival of Keynesian social democracy Thomas Caunce (University of Adelaide) Challenging neoliberal orthodoxy: did Treasury articulate a more persuasive case for Keynesian stimulatory intervention than the Rudd Government? Penny Hayes (Auckland University of Technology) A Modern Social Democracy in the ‘Winter of Discontent’? The Legacy of New Zealand’s Fifth Labour Government’s Economic & Social Development Strategy 1999 to 2008 |
| 2.45-3.00 | Afternoon tea |
| 3.00-4.30 | Chair: Lionel Orchard Carol Johnson (University of Adelaide) Australian Social Democracy & Emotional Regimes Andrew Vandenberg (Deakin University) My School and Social Democracy in Australia Shaun Wilson & Ben Spies-Butcher (Macquarie University) Low Tax Social Democracy: Does the Australian Case Prove It Is Possible? |
| 4.30-5.30 | Chair: Rob Manwaring Evan Smith (Flinders University) Chasing the ‘Racist’ Vote? Immigration, Multiculturalism & Responding to Labour’s Electoral Misfortunes Mahama Tawat (University of Otago) Two Peas in a Pod? Danish & Swedish Social Democratic Parties & the Integration of Immigrants |
