Date: Thursday 25th March, 2010 Venue: Royal Society of Victoria 9 Victoria Street Corner of Victoria St. and Exhibition St. Melbourne 3000
Monash University Faculty of Arts and School of Geography and Environmental Science invite you to public lectures by two leading scholars of Africa’s social and environmental history
Professor [...]
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Remapping Environmental Histories
Australia’s Re-engagement with Africa
The University of Sydney International Forum
Australia’s Re-engagement with Africa
Friday, 19 March 2010, 9.30am – 12.30pm McLaurin Hall, Quadrangle
The University of Sydney is Australia’s first University, founded in 1850.The International Forum series brings together leaders and thinkers from around the world to present their views on strategic international issues and the way in which these [...]
Raewyn Connell ‘Thinking South: Re-Locating Australian Intellectual Culture’ 18 March 2010
The first seminar in the Southern Perspectives series at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies features Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science. Her book has proven to be a significant and highly controversial intervention into sociology and related disciplines.She has spoken about Southern Theory in academic forums around [...]
One Just world – guilt trip or global duty?
Forum – What responsibilities do Australians owe the global poor?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 6:00 PM
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road, The University of Melbourne
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Panellists including Peter Singer and Tim Costello consider the status of ‘white man’s burden’ in a changed world. Questions include:
How [...]
Michael Mel – ‘The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea’
Dr Michael Mel (University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea) ‘The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea’
Thursday, 17 December, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm, UTS Building 10, Level 5, Room 580
Abstract: This talk will explore the historical and contemporary role of artistic practices as a [...]
Positions available with ‘The circulation of knowledge between Europe and the global South’
The research project “Universality and potentials of acceptance of social scientific knowledge. The circulation of knowledge between Europe and the global South” at Freiburg University, Germany, invites applications for the following positions
1 x 75% post-doctoral position
1 x 50% doctoral position
1 x 50% position for administrative support to the project management
The project shall [...]
Call for Expressions of Interest in the Southern Perspectives 2010 seminar series
‘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 [...]
CIHA Colloquium Second Call For Papers
South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH)
Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA)
Colloquium, organised by SAVAH under the aegis of CIHA, to take place at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 12 – 15 January 2011.
Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South
CIHA has recently been addressing concerns about the unequal distribution of resources [...]
A Southern way of showing art?
There’s long been a hunger in Western art galleries for the creativity of the so-called ‘margins’. Whether its Picasso gazing at Dan African masks in the Trocadero or Jean-Hubert Martin curating outsider artists for Magiciens de la Terre, there has been fascination for the seeming more unconstrained, primitive creativity that emerges in distant continents [...]
Permaculture Strategy for the South African Villages
Notice of a new book about agriculture from a southern perspective…
Permaculture Strategy for the South African Villages uses permaculture ideas to recommend practical approaches that can be used by government planners, extension workers and aid organizations alike.
Written in accessible language and with a clear structure of chapters, the book explains a set of tactical approaches [...]
