Events

Sri Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre

By way of bonus, Suvendi has generously agreed to give an additional talk for those of us interested in Sri Lanka and/or the work of Michael Ondaatje. This talk situates itself at the intersection of body, landscape and violence, the forms of their inscription on and by one another, and our...

The Untamed Language of Dissent: political activism and the dialogue between states

Public lecture by Ashis Nandy.

Light refreshments 7pm Village Roadshow Theatrette State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000 (entrance from La Trobe Street)

Charges: Waged: $15; Unwaged: $10

Here from elsewhere: Settlerism as a platform for South-South dialogue

Ex-colonial countries share not only the experience of repression of indigenous populations, but also the formation of new non-indigenous identities. Across the former colonised world, there appear to be common elements in the development of nationalism. But there are also important differences, ...

Postgraduate Conference

A postgraduate conference entitled “Friendship and Negotiation” will be held at the Institute on the 5th and the 6th of November 2010. An initiative of the Student Group of the Institute, it has emerged out of the recognition that friendship and negotiation have become prominent in the...

Law and The Modalities of Nostalgia

A Workshop will be held at the IPCS in early December 2010 on Law and The Modalities of Nostalgia. It will focus on issues raised by, amongst others, Paul Gilroy in Colonial Melancholia and Svetlana Boym in The Future of Nostalgia regarding the ambivalent and often conflictual nature of social ...