Last night Raewyn Connell gave the first lecture of the Southern Perspectives series at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. ‘Thinking South: Re-Locating Australian Intellectual Culture’ covered many points about the relation between Australia and the metropolitan centres of the North: Paulin Hountondji’s concept of extraversion and the construction of local disciplines as ‘data mines’ for [...]
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Ilana Goldstein talks about what Brazil might learn from Australian Indigenous arts
Wauja woven mask Looking from outside, Australia has been extraordinarily successful in developing an Indigenous cultural industry. This is particularly evident in painting, but is also present in other areas – craft, dance, film and music. The situation is different in many other countries of the South. The regional cultures of Africa, Pacific and Latin [...]
Call for Expressions of Interest in the Southern Perspectives 2010 seminar series
image ‘I have a different idea of a universal.’ Aimé Césaire Expressions are sought for a series at the Institute for Postcolonial Studies that explores Australia’s place in the emerging south-south conversations. This ‘call’ in Australia will be followed by a ‘response’ in 2011 from elsewhere in the south. ‘South’ is used here as a [...]
A new conversation begins, after the missionaries
Domain House proved a wonderfully theatrical setting for the initial conversations around ‘After the Missionaries’. On Melbourne’s coldest night of the year, a few brave souls ventured through the howling winds and rain, into the gloom of the domain, past the eerie Shrine of Remembrance, into what was for many years Melbourne’s centre for contemporary [...]
After the Missionaries events
These events relate to the ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink, which includes articles about how artists are negotiating their paths through a more reciprocal world. For more information go here. 10 June FORUM Has the world changed? Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other? Is Australia moving [...]
After the Missionaries
Please note the following events related to ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink. FORUM Has the world changed? Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other? Is Australia moving away from the Anglosphere? Is the Global Financial Crisis a time to look at alternative economic models? Is ethical the [...]
Boaventura de Sousa Santos maps the abyss
image Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a professor in the Sociology department University of Coimbra, Portugal. He specialises in issues of law and globalisation, particularly as they relate to the Lusophone South (Mozambique, Brazil, Angola, etc). de Sousa Santos combines his academic life with an active political engagement in World Social Forum. His essay Beyond [...]
