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Robert Imre

  Name: Robert Imre 

Qualifications:
Ph.D. Department of Government, 1999, University of Queensland.
M.A. in Political Science, 1992, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
B.A. (Honours) in Political Studies, 1990, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.


Research Interests:

1. Global Terrorism, Genocide, Nationalism and Ethnicity, Religious and Political Violence, Life-Writing/Biography
2. Comparative Politics of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Asia especially India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Asia-Pacific politics especially Singapore and Malaysia.
3. Security Studies, Peace/Conflict Studies, International Relations, Political/Social Theory/Philosophy of any kind especially questions about multiculturalism, citizenship, diversity, modernity, radicalisation.

Publications

Books.
Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by
Robert Imre, T. Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke. London: Ashgate 2008.

Articles in journals/ book chapters:

Imre, Rob. 2008. ‘The Socio-politics of terror: poverty, evil, statecraft and modernity’. in Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by Robert Imre, T. Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke. London: Ashgate. pp. 1-21.

Imre, Rob. 2008. ‘Torture Works: But not on Terrorists’ in Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by Robert Imre, T. Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke. London: Ashgate. pp. 78-89.

Imre, Rob. 2008. ‘The Politics of Religious Violence’ in Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by Robert Imre, T. Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke. London: Ashgate. pp. 254-272.

Imre, Rob. 2008 ‘Bungle in, Bungle Out, Muddle Through’ in Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by
Robert Imre, T. Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke. London: Ashgate. pp. 273-290.

Imre, Robert. ‘Militarizing Australia - Performing the Nation in Contemporary Australia’. Illumina. Volume 1: 2, July 2007.  Special Issue: edited by Dr. Panizza Allmark. Webjournal from Edith Cowan University, Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education & Communications (CREATEC)
Currently available at: http://illumina.scca.ecu.edu.au/journal.php

Imre, R; Govinnage S; 2007. ‘The Representation of Nation and Nationalism in Edwin Thumboo's Poetry: Can Poetry Be Political?’ in Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes, Vol1: From the Inside, Asia-Pacific Literatures in Englishes, eds, Thumboo, Edwin; Sayson, Rex Ian. Ethos Books: Singapore.

Imre, Robert. 'Diaspora and Security Dilemmas: The War on Terror and the 'Other' in Australia.' Diaspora: The Australasian Experience. Ed. Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane. New Delhi: Prestige, 2006. pp. 317-330.

Published refereed contributions to academic conferences.

Imre, Robert. 2007. Terrorism, Religious Violence and Democracy – Questions of Compatibility. ‘South Asia: Integrating and Looking East?’ Conference sponsored by AusAid and the APFRN [ARC Pacific Futures Research Network] LaTrobe University, September 25-6, 2006, Canberra. pp 263-279.
Currently available: http://sueztosuva.org.au/south_asia/2006/Imre.pdf

Imre, Robert and Little, N. 2006. The Politics of Religious Violence in South Asia. Conference on the Unravelling of Civil Society: Religion in the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World, 22 - 24 March 2006, NUS, Singapore.

Imre, Rob. 2005. The Indian Ocean as a Security Problem: Four Perspectives from International Relations Theory.  10th Sri Lankan Studies Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 – 18 December 2005, University of Kelaniya.
Currently available: http://www.slageconr.net/slsnet/pasticsls.html#10th

Imre, Rob and Govinnage, S. 2005.  Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka:  A Discussion of Cultural Responsivity. 10th Sri Lankan Studies Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 – 18 December 2005, University of Kelaniya.
Currently available: http://www.slageconr.net/slsnet/pasticsls.html#10th

Imre, Rob and Govinnage, S. 2005. The Representation of Nation and Nationalism in Edwin Thumboo’s Poetry: Can Poetry Be Political? Literatures in Englishes and Their Centres: Perceiving from the Inside. Singapore National University December 6-10, 2005.

Imre Robert. 2006 ‘Transnationalism and Migrations: Re-ascribing Meanings’. Interculturalism and Interdisciplinarity . Proceedings of the Interculturalism 2Conference Irwin, Jones [ed.].
Currently available at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/interculturalism/ic2/s8.htm

Imre Robert. 2006. ‘Political Pluralism in Diverse Societies: Citizenship and Migration in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand’. Interculturalism and Interdisciplinarity. Irwin, Jones [ed.].
Currently available at: http://www.interdisciplinary.net/ci/interculturalism/ic2/s1.htm

Recent conference presentations [2004-7].

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference, Flinders University in Adelaide, 3-5 December 2007.
Paper titles:
1. Discourses of the Holocaust in Hungary: Cultural Memory, Life-Writing and the Diarists of the Shoah.
2. Ages of Terror: Analysing ‘Cultural Shifts’ in Terrorist Ideologies in Modernity.

Center for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood 7th International Conference, University of Melbourne, 15-17 November 2007.
Paper title:  Children, citizenship and equity: what are we talking about?

 [by invitation] ‘South Asia: Integrating and Looking East?’ Conference sponsored by AusAid and the ARC Pacific Futures Research Network, LaTrobe University, September 25-6, 2006, Canberra.
Paper title: Terrorism, Religious Violence and Democracy – Questions of Compatibility. [also requested to be a rapporteur by the organisers]. Paper published as a report for AusAid.

[by invitation] Australian National Identity: Politics, Performance and Pop Cultures, Media, Culture and Society Research Group at the Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education & Communications, Edith Cowan University, 16 September, 2006.
Paper title:  Militarizing Australia - Performing the Nation in Contemporary Australia.

[by invitation] Postgraduate and Research Conference Keynote Address, September 7, Notre Dame University.
Paper Title:  Religious Violence and Terrorism in South Asia.

Crossroads 2006: Association for Cultural Studies Conference 20-23 July, Istanbul, Turkey.
Paper titles: 1. Terrorism and Social Justice: Beyond Dichotomies of Civil Liberties vs. Authoritarianism
2. Manufacturing the Crisis of Multiculturalism: Re-Producing Ordered Strangers  in the Contemporary World

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy [ALSP] 2006 Annual Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 28 June – 1 July 2006
Paper title: Terrorism and Social Justice: Beyond Dichotomies of Civil Liberties vs. Authoritarianism.

Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 2006
Paper titles: 1. On Hijabs and Cartoons: Muslim Migrants in Australia, Canada, New Zealand
2. Terrorism and Social Justice in Australia, Canada, New Zealand

Conference on the Unravelling of Civil Society: Religion in the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World, NUS, Singapore, 22 - 24 March 2006.
Paper title:  The Politics of Religious Violence in South Asia. [Paper co-written with Dr. Nigel Little]

10th Sri Lankan Studies Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, University of Kelaniya, 16 – 18 December 2005.
Paper titles: 1. The Indian Ocean as a Security Problem: Four Perspectives from International Relations Theory
2. Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka:  A Discussion of Cultural Responsivity

Literatures in Englishes and Their Centres: Perceiving from the Inside. NUS, Singapore, December 6-10, 2005
Paper title:  The Representation of Nation and Nationalism in Edwin Thumboo’s Poetry: Can Poetry Be Political? [Paper co-written with Sunil Govinnage]

Critical Issues in Interculturalism and Pluralism, Vienna, December 4-5, 2004.
Paper titles: 1. Multi/Inter/Mono/Trans? What are we talking about: Some theoretical explorations of the culture debate.
2. Transnationalism and Migrations: Re-ascribing Meanings.
3. Pluralism in Diverse Societies: Citizenship and Migration in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney, Australia, September 2004.
Paper title:  Comparing Diasporas in Australia and Canada: The ‘other’ and the Security Dilemma.

Association for the Study of Australia in Asia Conference, Kerala, India, July, 2004.
Paper title:  Diaspora and Security Dilemmas: The War on Terror and the ‘Other’ in Australia.