In Conversation with Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans AC QC
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 17 October 2017 - Tuesday, 17 October 2017
- Time:
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location:
- Seminar Room 275, Building 20, Staff House Rd ST LUCIA CAMPUS
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Krystle Henry
- Phone:
- 3443 3118
- Email:
- policyfutures@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Social Science
Event Description
- Full Description:
- The University of Queensland’s Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Centre for Policy Futures invite you to attend a special In Conversation event with Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans AC QC to discuss his latest book, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir.
In his book, ‘Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir’, Professor Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life as a student activist, civil libertarian, law reformer, industry minister, international policymaker, educator and politician. He explains why it is that, despite multiple disappointments, he continues to believe that a safer, saner and more decent world is achievable, and why, for all its frustrations, politics remains an indispensable profession not only for megalomaniacs but idealists.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans, now Chancellor of The Australian National University, was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years, and a cabinet minister throughout the Hawke-Keating era.
From 1988 to 1996 he served as Foreign Minister. He led the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009 and has won many prizes and awards for his contributions to international policymaking.
He has written or edited, solely or jointly, twelve other books, including Australia’s Constitution: Time for Change (1983), Australia’s Foreign Relations (1995), The Responsibility to Protect (2008) and Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (2014).
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