Events
The Centre for Dialogue hosts one major national or international conference and one major public lecture each year. In 2008, the Centre hosted an international conference titled ‘Europe and Asia: Between Islam and the United States’. The conference was cosponsored by seven research institutions, the Australian-French Embassy, the Polish Foreign Ministry and attracted 100 attendees (which included keynote speakers from around the world). The conference examined the policies and attitudes from a range of countries in Europe and Asia vis-à-vis the rise of political Islam on the one hand, and the implications of American policies on the other. The Centre’s public lecture was delivered by Patrick Dodson on 'Reconciliation: Two Centuries On, Is Dialogue Enough?'. Widely regarded as the ‘father of the reconciliation movement’, Dodson addressed key issues that he believed were hindering the reconciliation movement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and advocated for the Howard Australian government to engage in dialogue with Indigenous communities.
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