Events
- Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia – 17 July
- Inaugural Lecture by Professor Graham Sewell - 29 July
- Alumni Refresher Lecture Series
- The 2008 Foenander Lecture: Forward with Fairness - A Business Perspective on Labor's Reform Agenda
- Public Lectures
- University News and Events
Occasional Seminar Series: Modern Finance - Insights from Academia – 17 July
“The euro challenges the dollar in international finance: a bumpy road ahead”
Speaker: Richard Portes CBE, Professor of Economics at London Business School (UK)
Professor Portes is a world renowned expert on financial contagion, the Euro and sovereign wealth funds. In light of the stress across all financial markets, Melbourne Centre has invited him to address the scope for the Euro to further erode the US dollar’s primacy as a reserve currency and the medium term prospects for both currencies. He is founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society and Senior Editor and Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy.
Date and Time: Thursday 17 July 2008, 12.30pm – 2.15pm (sandwich lunch provided)
Venue: RMIT Business Room 16, Level 9, 239 Bourke Street, Melbourne
RSVP: by 12noon on 16 July, email info@melbournecentre.com.au with subject line “Academic Seminar – Prof Richard Portes”. Please include contact details for each person you are registering. Admission is free, but places are limited.
For more information, please visit www.melbournecentre.com.au
Please note Professor Portes will make an additional address at 4pm (also on 17 July).
Topic: “Financial market turmoil and market dysfunctions - The Financial turmoil is not a crisis”
Venue: Monash University, Caulfield Campus, HB40 (basement of H building.
RSVP: Fang-Fah.Lam@BusEco.monash.edu.au.
This occasional series of seminars highlighting leading edge financial research is arranged by Melbourne Centre with the objective of facilitating knowledge transfer and improving industry-academia contacts.
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Graham Sewell (Dept. of Management & Marketing) - 29 July
Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Time: 6.00pm with refreshments to follow at 7.00pm
Venue: Theatre 1, ICT Building
Topic: ‘Big Brother versus a Fair Go: Is Workplace Surveillance Coercive or Does It Guarantee Our Rights at Work?’
This lecture traces the intellectual origins of the opposing views that surveillance is a guarantor of fairness in the workplace or that it reinforces the unfairness at the heart of the employment relationship, and shows that, if taken in isolation, neither provides a satisfactory account of what managers do and why they do it. Only by considering them together can we begin to understand the experience of being subjected to workplace surveillance.
Graham Sewell graduated from the University of Wales Institute of Science & Technology (now Cardiff University) with an honours degree in urban planning. He received his PhD in 1994, through an Economic & Social Research council scholarship from Cardiff University, the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Cruz. Graham joined the University of Melbourne in 1997. His research interests are wide ranging, however, he is best known for his work on the disciplinary effects of workplace surveillance. His work has appeared in premier journals and he is on the editorial board of Human Relations, Organization, and Management Communication Quarterly, and has just been appointed as a senior editor to Organization Studies.
To RSVP or for enquiries, please contact Anthea Barry on 03 8344 2603 or antheab@unimelb.edu.au, or if you would like to be added to our mailing list for notification of upcoming public lectures.
Alumni Refresher Lecture Series - 13, 20 & 27 August
Date: Wednesday, 13th, 20th & 27th August (please feel free to attend as many or as few sessions as you wish)
Time: 6.00pm-8.00pm (see flyer for more information about session times)
Venue: Theatre 1, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street (opp University Square)
This lecture series provides Alumni with access to the latest developments and academic research in the areas of finance, economics, management and marketing. Lectures will be given by:
- Professor Bruce Grundy (Dept of Finance)
- Dr Russell Hillberry (Dept of Economics)
- Professor Guay Lim (Melbourne Institute)
- Professor Tony Scott (Melbourne Institute)
- Professor Danny Samson (Dept of Management
& Marketing) - Dr Philip Harris (Dept of Management & Marketing)
All commerce Alumni and their colleagues are welcome to join us for this free and informative lecture series. You are welcome to attend one or both sessions on any of the days.
Flyer with lecture topics and abstracts (pdf 206KB)
To RSVP or for enquiries please contact the Alumni Office on 03 8344 2603 or send us an email.
The 2008 Foenander Lecture: Forward with Fairness - A Business Perspective on Labor's Reform Agenda - 20 August
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: The Prince Phillip Theatre, Architecture, Building and Planning Building, University of Melbourne
Parking: Casual parking is available on campus for $4.00
Abstract:
The Rudd Government came to office with a new industrial relations agenda and has established the Business Advisory Group as a key consultative body for the development of the substantive legislation to implement its ‘Forward with Fairness’ industrial relations policy. In this lecture, Denton will highlight the aspects of the Government’s proposed new workplace relations system that matter most to larger employers – and that will enable them to obtain the flexibility they need to maintain a competitive advantage. He will also indicate the policy challenges before the new Government in translating its policy into legislation.
Brief Biography:
John Denton is Partner & Chief Executive Officer of leading Australian law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He is also one of the country’s most respected experts on labour law. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Australian Federal Government’s Business Advisory Group on Workplace Relations, is Councillor and Chairman of the Trade & International Taskforce for the Business Council of Australia, and is a founding member of the Australian Institute for Public Policy. He has advised business and government on a wide range of industrial relations issues, provided strategy advice on major power privatisations, mining and maritime labour negotiations, and corporate restructuring in a range of industries including manufacturing and airlines.
For more information, please refer to the flyer (500KB) or email foenander-lecture@unimelb.edu.au.
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