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	<title>Southern Perspectives</title>
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	<description>A lateral dialogue of ideas</description>
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		<title>Southern Theory &#8211; picking up the gauntlet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Raewyn Connell’s book Southern Theory has attracted a great deal of attention in the field of sociology. As an example of the use of ‘South’ within a particular discipline of knowledge, it is worth reflecting on the responses. It has won awards and been the subject of many conference sessions, but it has also engendered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/book/southern-theory-picking-up-the-gauntlet</link>
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		<title>Remapping Environmental Histories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Date: Thursday 25th March, 2010   Venue: Royal Society of Victoria    9 Victoria Street Corner of Victoria St. and Exhibition St.&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/indian-ocean/remapping-environmental-histories</link>
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		<title>Pacific Art in the 21st Century &#8211; Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Xth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association is pleased to call for papers on ‘Pacific Art in the 21st Century &#8211; Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends.’ 
The symposium seeks to highlight issues surrounding the creation, dispersal, possession, repatriation, stewardship and interpretation of Pacific art in the 21st century 
Focus of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/conference/pacific-art-in-the-21st-century-museums-new-global-communities-and-future-trends</link>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Re-engagement with Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Sydney International Forum&#160; 
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/notice/australias-re-engagement-with-africa</link>
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		<title>Raewyn Connell &#8216;Thinking South: Re-Locating Australian Intellectual Culture&#8217; 18 March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/region/australia/raewyn-connell-thinking-south-re-locating-australian-intellectual-culture-18-march-2010</link>
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		<title>One Just world &#8211; guilt trip or global duty?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forum &#8211; 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:
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/notice/one-just-world-guilt-trip-or-global-duty</link>
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		<title>Oceanic Transformations conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
3rd Conference ‘Oceanic Transformations’ Victoria University Conference Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 8th – 11th April 2010

Call for abstracts by 8th February 2010
The Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS) holds a biennial conference. The first one, &#34;Australia in the Pacific &#8211; the Pacific in Australia&#34; was held in January 2006 at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/conference/oceanic-transformations</link>
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		<title>Michael Mel &#8211; &#8216;The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dr Michael Mel (University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea)     &#8216;The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea&#8217;
 
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/notice/michael-mel-the-arts-as-tools-for-social-and-cultural-transformation-in-papua-new-guinea</link>
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		<title>Sociology goes south</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, 2 December, at the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA), there was a plenary titled ‘Southern Perspectives’. Speakers included Raewyn Connell, Chilla Bulbeck, Margaret Jolly and Peter Beilharz. They considered the following questions: 

Is there a &#8217;southern sociology&#8217;? 
What kind of sociology do we teach and research in Australia?&#160; 
Should southern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/news/sociology-in-the-south-heats-up</link>
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		<title>Positions available with &#8216;The circulation of knowledge between Europe and the global South&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.southernperspectives.net/notice/positions-available-with-the-circulation-of-knowledge-between-europe-and-the-global-south</link>
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