Events
Postgraduate Symposium 5 & 6 November, 8:30am - 5pm
Fri 05-11-10, 10:00am - Sat 06-11-10, 5:00pmA 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 conceptualisation of the possibilities of border-crossing relationships outside of the restrictive interactions formally instigated by the state. This postgraduate symposium aims to encourage critical reimaginings of the limitations and (im)possibilities of such encounters. By investigating those awkward and unlikely moments of friendship, by interrupting what is presumed in polite negotiation, we seek to interrogate the ethics and politics of friendship and negotiation as enacted at the interpersonal, intercultural and international level.
Keynote Presentations:
Ghassan Hage (Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, University of Melbourne)
Joseph Pugliese (Associate Professor of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University)
With responses from:
John von Sturmer (Senior Fellow, Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
Maree Pardy (Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Melbourne)
Juliet Rogers (Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne)
John Cash (Honorary Fellow in Social Theory, University of Melbourne)
Phillip Darby (Director, Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
Those wishing to attend the symposium should register by completing the registration form below and emailing to pocopocon2010@gmail.com
The conference is jointly auspiced by the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.
