Ukraine Democracy Initiative is taking part in the Festival of Democracy 2016 at University of Sydney ( 1-7th September 2016).
Join us at the University of Sydney for seven days of exciting talks, debates and art focused squarely on the new, challenging and dangerous political trends facing all democracies today.
Ukraine Democracy Initiative, in partnership with The Embassy of Ukraine in Australia, will be hosting THE REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY photo essay by Ukrainian photographer and activist Maksym Trebukhov at University of Sydney. Photos will be projected throughout the Festival with a special screening at the Law Lounge on Friday 2 September at 7pm.
UDI is very proud to have a painting dedicated to the memory of the “Heavenly Hundred” on the cover page of the festival program (IMAGE CREDIT: DEEPSTEREO, 2014)
Register for the festival here
View the full program here
The Festival is open to all, and there’s something for everybody. For more information about individual events, please click the following links:
| 1 September 6pm
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We need to talk about Antarctica For more than half a century, the fragile and frozen continent of Antarctica has been protected by ‘post-sovereign’ governing arrangements that are unusual by global standards. There are now clear signs of their breakdown. State rivalries, environmental damage and a dash for resources, including tourism revenues, are pushing the continent towards a highly uncertain future. |
| 2 September 5pm
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We the People Populism is everywhere on the rise. Why is this happening? Why are the peddlers of populism proving so popular? Are there deep forces driving the spread of their style of politics, and what, if anything, has populism to do with democracy? Is it its ‘essence’, as some maintain? Is the new populism therefore to be welcomed, harnessed and ‘mainstreamed’ in support of more democracy? |
| 2 September 7pm
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The Revolution of Dignity A photo essay by Ukainian photographer and activist Maksym Trebukhov will be projected throughout the Festival with a special screening at the Law Lounge on Friday 2 September at 7pm. |
| 3 September 5pm
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Eid al-Fitr and Return of Lost Souls The Sydney Fringe Festival and Sydney Democracy Network will screen two documentaries Eid al-Fitr and Return of Lost Souls looking at the lives of people on the margins of China, and host question and answer sessions with the film-makers Xiangchen Liu and Nina Ningtong Wang at the Verona Cinema in Paddington. Supported by the China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney. Tickets: $16, includes post-screening reception. |
| 5 September 5pm
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On the Margins of ChinaVisiting documentary filmmaker Xiangchen Liu will discuss his films and the history and culture of Xinjiang province, with a focus on the Chinese Muslim minority groups, the Kyrgyz and Uyghur peoples. |
| 6 September 6pm
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Populism, Race and Democracy Western democracies have seen a resurgence in far-right populist movements. Alongside disaffection with mainstream political parties, there has been agitation against immigration and multiculturalism. How are we to make sense of these developments? What do they mean for race relations? And what implications do they have for our democratic future? |
| 7 September 12:30pm
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Political Alliances and Priorities in an Age of Bleaching and Leaching This year has seen the unprecedented bleaching of our Great Barrier Reef as a consequence of climate change. At one level the biological reality of what is happening on the Reef represents the consequence of the maladjustment of Australian politics and political economy. |
| 7 September 6:30pm
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: Old Visions, New RealitiesFor several decades after the Second World War, capitalism regulated by democratic politics proved successful. Rapid growth and equitable distribution supported by open markets ended the pessimism about instability and inequality that permeated Joseph Schumpeter’s classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) written during the war against Fascism. |
