Crawford School Upcoming Events http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/events/ Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Book Launches, Events http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/images/wattle/wattle_rss.jpg Crawford School Upcoming Events http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/events/calendar/ crawford.webmaster@anu.edu.au (Webmaster) <![CDATA[Launch of AC BEE, the Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics]]> Date 23 November 2009 Time 10:30 am Venue Grounds of Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing, ANU

The Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics (AC BEE) is an organized research unit of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the ANU.

AC BEE's mission is to lead Australia and the region in biosecurity and environmental economics research, with an emphasis on policy applications. The Centre's specialty is economic approaches to protecting the environment and plant, animal and human health from invasive species. It will also provide broad expertise in applied research on environmental economics and natural resource management as a whole. AC BEE maintains a central focus on engaging with and assisting the public policy process.

At this event the Centre will be officially opened by The Hon Peter Garrett, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.

]]> <![CDATA[Graduate Marketing and Student Recruitment Forum]]> Date 24 November 2009 Time 9:30 am Venue Law Sparke Helmore Theatre 1 The next Graduate Marketing and Student Recruitment Forum will be held from 9.30- 12 pm, Tuesday 24 November, in the Law Sparke Helmore Theatre 1.

This is the second of the two forums held annually.

Open to all, and of particular interest to anyone in the Colleges and Divisions who would like to receive an update on what’s taking place in Graduate Student Marketing and Recruitment. If you have ideas you would like to contribute on future directions and focus, we want to hear about them!

This is a great opportunity to gather and share information with the drivers of Marketing and Recruitment – both people in the Colleges and in the central Student Recruitment Office.

Professor Mandy Thomas, PVC (Research) will be coming to give an update on the topic of graduate coursework and HDR recruitment.

Light refreshments will be provided, so please RSVP to Lynn.Materne@anu.edu.au
]]> <![CDATA[Prospective Students' Information Session]]> Date 24 November 2009 Time 12:30 pm Venue Seminar Room 4 JG Crawford Building (13) This lunch-time seminar is an opportunity for prospective students to learn more about programs and research at the Crawford School.
Speakers from each program will outline new and ongoing areas of study and research in:
*Public Policy
*Public Administration
*International & Development Economics
*Climate Change
*Environmental and Resource Economics
*Environmental Management and Development
]]> <![CDATA[China's policy response to the global financial crisis]]> Date 27 November 2009 Time 12:30 pm Venue HBC 1.09 Yu Yongding will be in Australia to deliver the Productivity Commission's Richard Snape Lecture for 2009.

An Academician with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), former Director-General of Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) (1998- ), Professor with Post-Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, President of the China Society of World Economics (2001- ), Editor of China and World Economy, Associate Editor of Asian
Economic Policy Review. He was formerly the academic member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and member of National Advisory Committee of the 11th Five Years Plan of National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC). He is a foreign member of Academie Hassan II Des Sciences Et Techniques, Royaume Du Maroc.

Yu Yongding graduated from Beijing School of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science in 1969 and joined Institute of World Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1979. He received his MA in economics from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986, and D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford in 1994. ]]> <![CDATA[Free public conference: 'Ethics and Integrity in Parliament: Emerging Perspectives']]> Date 30 November 2009 Time 9:30 am Venue Parliament House, Canberra How well does the Commonwealth Parliament regulate its members’ official conduct?
Are there mechanisms which might improve Parliament’s capacity to regulate its own ethics and integrity?

You are invited to a free public conference on
‘Ethics and Integrity in Parliament: Emerging Perspectives’
To be held at Parliament House, Canberra
Monday 30 November 2009
9.30am-5.00pm
Sponsored by Parliamentary Studies Centre
Crawford School of Economics and Government
Australian National University

Starts at 9.30am with Official Opening by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Harry Jenkins MP and conference overview by Professor John Uhr (ANU) and Howard Whitton (University of Canberra).

Speakers include:
Dr Rosemary Laing, Clerk-designate, The Senate
Bernard Wright, Clerk-designate, House of Representatives
Senator George Brandis SC, shadow Attorney-General
Melissa Parke, MHR
Former Senator Andrew Murray
Prof Tom Campbell, ANU
Ian McPhee, Commonwealth Auditor-General
Prof Brian Costar, Swinburne University
Jack Waterford, The Canberra Times
Prof Mark Evans, U Canberra
Dr Stanley Bach, Washington
Prof Elizabeth McLeay, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Zeger van der Wall, University Amsterdam
Prof Gerard Carney, Bond University
Stephen Skehill, Ethics Adviser, ACT Legislative Assembly
Dr David Solomon, Qld Integrity Commissioner
Prof Rodney Smith, U Sydney

Please RSVP to rachel.mcgrath-kerr@anu.edu.au

]]> <![CDATA[Make an Impact - Free media training workshop]]> Date 2 December 2009 Time 9:30 am Venue TBA The Communications and External Liaison Office is running a free entry-level workshop on media skills on 2 December 2009 between 9.30am and 12.30pm.

Learn how to make your story interesting to journalists and the public. Contact Martyn Pearce on x55575 or email martyn.pearce@anu.edu.au for more information or registration. ]]> <![CDATA[Stern, Climate Policy and Saving Rates]]> Date 2 December 2009 Time 12:30 pm Venue Seminar Room 1, Second floor, Crawford Building Dasgupta and Weitzman have shown that the saving rates implied by the Stern Review’s values for the rate of pure time preference and the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption are too high from either a normative (Dasgupta) or descriptive (Weitzman) perspective. Given the attention this debate has received in the literature, there is a need for a rigorous presentation of the determinants of saving rates in models actually used to evaluate climate change policy. The paper discussed in the seminar provides the first detailed investigation of the implications of Stern’s parameter choices for saving, firstly in standard neoclassical growth theory and then in a widely used climate policy model based on that theory, Nordhaus’s Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (DICE). In theory and practice, optimal saving rates in the presence of near-zero pure time preference are far from the near-100 per cent ones obtained from simpler models used by several of the Review’s critics. We show that in DICE, for the utility function used in the Stern Review, optimal saving rates do not exceed 32 per cent, and that this falls to 26 per cent when using Stern’s revised value for the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption.


Kathryn Smith is an Assistant Director in the Economic Analysis Team at the Department of Climate Change and an occasional researcher with the Environmental Economics Research Hub at ANU. Kathryn will present work begun during her MSc in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science under the supervision of Dr Simon Dietz, for which she received the School’s Robert McKenzie prize for outstanding postgraduate academic achievement. Prior to studying in London, Kathryn was an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia.


This seminar is co-organised between Crawford School of Economics and Government and the Environmental Economic Research Hub.

The seminar is free, and light refreshments will be provided.
]]> <![CDATA[PNG & Pacific Update - Canberra]]> Date 8 December 2009 Time 9:00 am Venue Hadon Allen Tank, Building 23, ANU Campus

Presentations at the Update will include constitutional and electoral reform in the Pacific, the seasonal workers’ program, and challenges to aid in the Pacific. An economic survey of Tonga will also be presented, as well as a panel discussion on the PACER Plus trade reform. A draft program for the update is available at: http://peb.anu.edu.au/outreach/australia.php and the final program will be uploaded shortly.

The Update is supported by the Australian Government’s aid agency, AusAID, and associated with the publication of Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol 24. No 3.

Please feel free to extend this invitation to any interested colleagues. There is no cost to attend and morning tea and a light lunch will be provided.

]]> <![CDATA[Water Markets and Trading]]> Date 11 December 2009 Time 9:30 am Venue The Bunker Theatre This is the first lecture in a series being run for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts for an Introductory Course on Water Resources, Management & Planning. This series of lectures is convened by Professor Quentin Grafton and managed by the Executive Training Program. ]]> <![CDATA[Crawford School Graduation ]]> Date 11 December 2009 Time 10:00 am Venue Llewellyn Hall Graduation Ceremony for Crawford School students ]]> <![CDATA[Crawford School Graduation Party]]> Date 11 December 2009 Time 12:30 pm Venue Crawford School lawns Following the graduation ceremony at Llewellyn Hall, there will be celebratory lunch and drinks from 12.30pm on the lawns outside of the Crawford School.

More details to follow. ]]> <![CDATA[Crawford Staff Christmas Party]]> Date 18 December 2009 Time 5:00 pm Venue New Crawford Building On the grounds of the new Crawford Building ]]> <![CDATA[Water Reform in Australia]]> Date 29 January 2010 Time 9:30 am Venue The Bunker Theatre This is the first lecture in a series being run for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts for an Introductory Course on Water Resources, Management & Planning. This series of lectures is convened by Professor Quentin Grafton and managed by the Executive Training Program. ]]> <![CDATA[Asia Pacific Week]]> Date 8 February 2010 Time 12:00 am Venue Hedley Bull Centre (Building #130) ANU Campus Asia-Pacific Week is a conference and summer school that brings together hundreds of PhD candidates from Australia and overseas to workshop projects, benefit from master classes and form networks committed to understanding the world's most dynamic region.

Since its inception in 2004, Asia-Pacific Week has become a signature event for postgraduates in Australia and for scholars of the region. In 2009, in addition to ANU academics and invited guests, 185 people participated in APW. Of these, 38 came from 16 other countries, 107 from interstate, and 40 were ANU students.

Asia Pacific Week is a container for a number of "Graduate Summer Schools" focusing on different areas of the Asia-Pacific region (the Pacific Islands, China, Japan, Indonesia, South Asia and Southeast Asia).

During a week of activities, graduate students have a chance to present their research interests, meet other students and academics, participate in a wide range of training activities, be introduced to the rich holdings on Asia and the Pacific at the ANU Library and the National Library of Australia and participate in a stimulating program of events including cross-area workshops, keynote speeches, seminars and master classes, film screenings, cultural performances and social events. ]]> <![CDATA[Urban Water]]> Date 19 February 2010 Time 9:30 am Venue The Bunker Theatre This is the first lecture in a series being run for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts for an Introductory Course on Water Resources, Management & Planning. This series of lectures is convened by Professor Quentin Grafton and managed by the Executive Training Program. ]]> <![CDATA[Indigenous Interests and Planning]]> Date 19 March 2010 Time 9:30 am Venue The Bunker Theatre This is the first lecture in a series being run for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts for an Introductory Course on Water Resources, Management & Planning. This series of lectures is convened by Professor Quentin Grafton and managed by the Executive Training Program. ]]>