Hosted by
Research School of Social Sciences
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
The Australian National University
CANBERRA ACT 0200
GOVERNING BY LOOKING BACK: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government
12 - 14 December 2007
VENUE: Manning Clark Centre, ANU Campus
 Registration - register online
free of charge for ANU Staff, Postgraduate Students and invited Keynote Speakers only);
Conference Dinner (13 December - payment required ($75)
non ANU attendees - payment required ($50);
Conference Dinner (13 December - payment required ($75)
Full Program pdf
Conference Papers pdf
Keynote Speakers
Special Workshop
Australia Under Construction
Nation-building in Australia - Past, Present and Future pdf
PUBLIC LECTURE 2007 : Keynote address
In the wake of economic reform New prospects for a nation building state? Professor Michael Pusey
Accommodation (Participants to arrange) available
here.
Locations
Manning Clark Centre,
ANU Campus
(see ANU Map [G3, no.26a])
University House (No rooms available)
(see ANU Map [C2, no.1])
Burton and Garran Hall
NOTE: No rooms available
(see ANU Map [E5, no.49])
Rydges Lakeside
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Conference theme
Governing proceeds by 'looking back' as much as by 'looking forward'. The importance of the former is often underappreciated. In the early postwar decades the policy sciences focused on planning, scenarios and strategies. As the limits of this approach to governance have become clearer, the past has made a comeback. Scholarly attention has now shifted to governing by looking back. There has been an explosion of studies on collective memory, public accountability, path dependency, policy evaluation and social learning.
This conference organized by the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University taps into that trend. It draws on the new Thematic structure around which the School itself is organized. It brings together scholars from across the social sciences in and beyond Australia who study how societies and organizations remember, forget, frame and cope with the past in their efforts to govern themselves. Its aim is to foster academic and policy dialogue about how to assess and improve societies’ institutional capacities for remembering and learning from the past.
The conference features more than 100 papers/presentations, in conventional panels as well as a number of more in-depth and intensive 1-1.5 day thematic workshops. Key note speakers include Professor Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin), Professor Kathleen Thelen (Northwestern University, USA) and Professor Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia).
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