Boyer Lectures - Fast, Smart And Connected: What Is It To Be Human, And Australian, In A Digital World?
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Synopsis
Each year since 1959, the ABC has sparked conversation about critical ideas with the Boyer Lectures. In 2017, the Boyer Lectures are by Professor Genevieve Bell. Her series is called Fast, smart and connected: What is it to be human, and Australian, in a digital world?
Episodes
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Lecture 4: Civilisations and Cultures - Clashing or Merging?
07/12/2003 Duration: 33minUntil recently cultures and the differences between them have played but a small role in the study of international politics. This is because virtually all serious relations between states took place within western civilisation. Owen Harries looks at how this has changed as a result of two interrelated processes: first, because of the spectacular - and in many cases unanticipated - economic progress of some non-western states; and second, because of the rapid progress of globalisation and modernisation.
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Lecture 3: A Democratic World
30/11/2003 Duration: 29minAs Owen Harries discussed in his previous lecture, America has proclaimed a policy of assertively promoting democracy around the world. Almost 30 years ago some commentators predicted that democracy was in decline, but such predictions have not come to pass - and indeed the reverse could be said to be true.
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Lecture 2: Taking on Utopia
23/11/2003 Duration: 27minIn his second lecture Owen Harries details how the United States has evolved since the fall of the Soviet Union. In the first decade it failed to define and activate a grand purpose of mission in line with its status as the sole superpower. September 11 2001 changed that, giving the country the clear purpose that had been lacking, with influence shifting to those who believed that the country's destiny was to reshape the world. 9/11 was not a disaster merely to be avenged, but an opportunity to reawaken and, some say, direct America back to its true historical mission.
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Lecture 1: And Then There Was One
16/11/2003 Duration: 30minWith the break up of the Soviet Union 12 years ago, a new era of international politics began, fundamentally altering the structure of the global political system. For the first time the world faced a unipolar system in which only one superpower dominated - the United States became the first 'global hegemon'. The implications of this are still working themselves out - indeed it took over a decade for many, including America, to realise that the United States had hegemonic power.
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Lecture 4 — The companionable state
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 4 of A Truly Civil Society, the 1996 Boyer Lecture series presented by Eva Cox.
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Lecture 6 — Towards a utopian road movie
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 4 of A Truly Civil Society, the 1996 Boyer Lecture series presented by Eva Cox.
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Lecture 3 — The dark side of the warm inner glow: family and communitarians
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 3 of A Truly Civil Society, the 1996 Boyer Lecture series presented by Eva Cox.
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Lecture 5 — Change, diversity and dissent
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 5 of A Truly Civil Society, the 1996 Boyer Lecture series presented by Eva Cox.
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Lecture 2 — Raising social capital
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 2 of A Truly Civil Society, the 1996 Boyer Lecture series presented by Eva Cox.
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Lecture 1 — Broadening the views
04/11/1995 Duration: 31minLecture 1 of A Truly Civil Society, the Boyer Lecture series of 1996 presented by Eva Cox.