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 Website Panellists including Peter Singer and Tim Costello consider the status of ‘white man’s burden’ in a changed world. Questions include: [...]
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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’ image 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 vehicle for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 like [...]
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 [...]
Art & the Kyoto Protocol
How to make an art of the Kyoto Protocol Talking about cultural collaboration today The Kyoto Protocol involves a re-negotiation of the relation between rich and poor countries. What role do artists play in this new dialogue? How does engagement with the South shift from one-way cultural extraction to two-way collaboration? How does climate change [...]
Verticalism talk
Transnational and Transcultural Research Network is developing a conference “Transcultural Mappings : emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies” (see here for details). They are having a network meeting and seminar this Thursday 13 August. All welcome. Network meeting: 4-5pm. Come to meet others in the network, bring along colleagues who may be interested, [...]
Maghrebi Intellectual: Thinking Jacques Derrida as African Philosopher
The Transforming Cultures Research Centre is hosting a Public Lecture with Prof. Grant Farred (Cornell University) Maghrebi Intellectual: Thinking Jacques Derrida as African Philosopher Thursday, 23rd July, 6:00-8:00, UTS Building 2, Lecture room 4.11 Lecture Abstract It was not "the Nazis, but Vichy France," Jacques Derrida insists in "Monolingualism and the Other," that disenfranchised him. [...]
