Leadership Dialogue Scholar Tour

“Australia and the United States share a common & important neighbourhood – the Asia Pacific region. The economic, political, social and security landscape of the Asia Pacific, and the relationship Australia and the United States have with the region and each other, are pivotal to our future. David Kennedy is the pre-eminent scholar of the American West, a renowned historian and a brilliant speaker”.


The Australian American Leadership Dialogue, in partnership with universities around Australia, proudly presents
The White House Moving West?
The Emerging Dominance of the American West in the Economy, Culture & Politics of the United States, and the Implications for Australia, the Asia Pacific region and the World
Leadership Dialogue Scholar Pulitzer Prize historian David M Kennedy Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University The American West is conventionally defined as including the sixteen states that lie in whole or in part west of the One Hundredth Meridian, plus Alaska and Hawaii. These lectures will explore the dramatic developments that have transformed this region since World War II. Massive internal migration has combined with unprecedented immigration inflows to make the western states, America’s fastest-growing region. It contains the two most populous states, California and Texas, which between them account for almost 20 percent of the nation’s population. Silicon Valley in California and the Microsoft-Amazon complex around Seattle are the world’s acknowledged centres of technological and commercial innovation. If California were an independent country, its nearly $2 trillion economy would easily qualify it for membership in the G-8. The western coastal states are America’s portal to Asia, the site of equally dynamic social and economic change. The political centre of gravity in the United States has also marched steadily westward, as the western states alone will soon contain enough electoral votes to determine who occupies the White House. What are the implications of these seismic shifts for America, and the world’s future?	Public Lectures Monday 26^th November University of Melbourne, Melbourne Tuesday 27 ^th November University of Western Australia, Perth Wednesday 28 ^th November Carnegie Mellon University, Adelaide Thursday 29 ^th November Conversation with Bob Carr University of Technology, Sydney Friday 30 ^th November Bond University, Gold Coast “Australia and the United States share a common & important neighbourhood – the Asia Pacific region. The economic, political, social and security landscape of the Asia Pacific, and the relationship Australia and the United States have with the region and each other, are pivotal to our future. David Kennedy is the pre-eminent scholar of the American West, a renowned historian and a brilliant speaker”. Phil Scanlan, Founder, Australian American Leadership Dialogue
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The Australian American Leadership Dialogue is a bipartisan annual private initiative between Australia and the US. The Leadership Dialogue brings together leaders of enterprise, government, media and the community from both countries to focus on the strategic parameters of the bilateral relationship.

The Australian American Leadership Dialogue, in partnership with universities around Australia, proudly presents

The White House Moving West?

The Emerging Dominance of the American West in the Economy, Culture & Politics of the United States, and the Implications for Australia, the Asia Pacific region and the World

Leadership Dialogue Scholar Pulitzer Prize historian David M Kennedy

Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University

The Australian American Leadership Dialogue, in partnership with
universities around Australia, proudly presents

Leadership Dialogue Scholar
Pulitzer Prize historian
David M Kennedy