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 [...]
Posts under ‘Indian Ocean’
Remapping Environmental Histories
image 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 Edwin Wilmsen Centre for [...]
Planet Bollywood
The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network invites you to its third seminar in 2009: Anjali Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India): “PLANET BOLLYWOOD” DATE: Thursday, 28th May TIME: 12.00 pm VENUE: TfC Bagel, UTS, Building 3 (Bon Marche), Level 4, Room 4.02 Please RSVP: Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au Abstract Walter Mignolo has defined cosmopolitanism as [...]
Indian Ocean belongers, 1668-2008
image The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network invites you to its first seminar in 2009: Dr. Stephanie Jones, University of Southampton, UK DATE: Friday, April 3 TIME: 5.30 pm VENUE: TfC Bagel, UTS, Building 3 (Bon Marche), Level 4, Room 4.02 Indian Ocean belongers, 1668-2008 The paper begins with an exploration of how [...]
Indian Ocean themes
Workshop themes have been released for Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking The Indian Ocean, University Of Technology Sydney 11 – 13 March 2009 Subaltern and creole connections across imperial boundaries Islands in the ocean as sites of heightened connectivity The dissemination of knowledges, especially via printing presses using vernacular languages Comparisons and insights from Atlantic [...]
Re-thinking the Indian Ocean
INTERCOLONIAL NETWORKS; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS:RE-THINKING THE INDIAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY11th – 13th March 2009 This workshop will mark the inauguration of a new Indian Ocean research network supported by the University of Technology Sydney. It will aim to work collaboratively with the major Indian Ocean centres of research based in India and South Africa, [...]
