Past Events
October 2007
Temple of Dreams: Documentary Screening & Director’s talk
Wednesday 14th November
Genocide, Criminal Trials and Reconciliation
Tuesday 6th November
October 2007
Transcultural 'home' in art: Timeless Ecologies and Philosophies
Divya Tolia-Kelly
Thursday 25th October
Work and Recognition: International Conference
Monday 15th - Wednesday 17th October
September 2007
Twice Diaspora: Harbin Russians in China and Australia
Monday 13th September
June 2007
National Social Cohesion Symposium: Australian Muslims- Growing Together or Apart?
Convened by Affinity Intercultural Foundation, Macquarie University, University of Technology, Sydney and Newcastle University
Date: Friday 29th June 2007
Time: 6:45 for 7:00pm start
Venue: Mason Theatre, Building E7B
For more information: info@affinity.org.au
Seminar: Reconciliation as Ideology and Politics
Organised by the Philosophy Department Seminar series andCRSI
Date: Tuesday 12th June 2007
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Venue: Building W6A, Room 107
For more information: Mianna Lotz on 9850 8804
May 2007
Book launch: Interrogating the War on Terror
Date: Monday 28th May
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Macquarie Co-op Bookshop
April 2007
Asia Pacific Skilled Migration to Australia Workshop
A two-day workshop
funded by the ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network and CRSI, and coordinated by Dr Selvaraj Velayutham.
Date: 19-20 April 2007
Time: 9:30-5:30
Venue: Senate Room, Macquarie University
For more information: Selvaraj.Velayutham@scmp.mq.edu.au
March 2007
Book launch: Breasts, Bodies, Canvass: Central Desert Art as Experience
Date: 23 March 2007
Time: 5pm for 5:30pm start
Venue: College of Fine Arts, Paddington
Screening of Ra Choi, a movie about Vietnamese street kids in Sydney, followed by discussion.
Date: Sunday 11 March 2007
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Macquarie Theatre, Macquarie University
The event is free. refreshments will be served. Sponsored by CRSI and Macquarie Asia Network. More...
Public lecture
Date: Monday 5th March
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Venue: Rooms 247/244, E3A
Title: Social Theory and Social Issues
Presenter: Professor Jacques Levy
Summary: Can we think and practice social sciences beyond 'methodological nationalism'? After some general remarks on the complex relations between social sciences and the state, three examples will be elaborated: geopolitics and geography of politics; spatial capital and the sociology of globalisation; the issue of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. In conclusion, the Dia-Logos project, an actor-oriented project for social sciences, will be presented.
March-May 2007
'Work and the Social Bond' workshop series
When: Wednesdays
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: Philosophy Seminar Room, W6A720
For more information: Jean-Philippe Deranty, convenor, CRSI's Critical Theory and Social Hope cluster at Jean-Philippe.Deranty@scmp.mq.edu.au
February 2007
Masterclass for PhD students
Date: Wednesday 28th February
Time: 10am - 4pm (lunch will be provided)
Venue: Saville Room, Dunmore Lang College
Title: Globalisation and the City
Presenter: Professor Jacques Levy
Summary:
* Urbanity: a concept and a theory.
* Some figures of urbanity: serendipity, virtuality, public space.
* In a globalised world, is there only a single model of urbanity?
* Urban sustainable development: a relevant framework or a dangerous oxymoron?
November 2006
'Critical Theory in Crisis?' Postgraduate Conference
A two-day conference organised by postgraduate philosophy students, and led by Andrew Montin.
Date: Thur-Fri 30 Nov-1 Dec
Time: 9:30am-6:30pm
Venue: E7B100 & E7B164, Macquarie University
For more information: Andrew.Montin@scmp.mq.edu.au
'Concept of Labour' Workshop
A small workshop organised by CRSI's Critical Theory and Social Hope Cluster for invited participants and HDR students.
When: Wednesday 29 November
Time: 9:30am-5:00pm
Venue: Senate Room, Lincoln Building, Macquarie University
For more information: crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au
October 2006
Postgraduate workshop
A one-day workshop where CRSI postgraduate students will present their latest work.
When: Friday 6 October
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Venue: Building X5B, Museum Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University
For more information: Sheila.Watkins@scmp.mq.edu.au
September 2006
Everyday Multiculturalism Conference
A two day Conference on everyday multiculturalism with a full day featuring papers analysing the Cronulla Riots. More ...
August 2006
Throughout Semester Two the Work study group is hosting a Honours seminar of interest to students in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, politics, and history. The seminar aims to explore some of the key philosophical problems that arise in relation to work, notably: the problem of its definition; the place and significance of work in the subject's life, the debate around the centrality of work; the place of work in social life, the definition and description of the social division of labour. We approach these problems by revisiting the most important philosophical interventions on these debates. These include texts by Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx Hannah Arendt, Jurgen habermas and others.
Venue: W6A 720 Time: TBA
For more information: nicholas.smith@scmp.mq.edu.au or jean-philippe.deranty@scmp.mq.edu.au
'Early Career Publishing and Public Speaking': seminar with Professor Michael Herzfeld (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) hosted by ANSA, the Australian Network of Student Anthropologists and sponsored by CRSI.
All interested postgraduates from any institution are welcome to attend
When: Wednesday 2 August
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Venue: Building X5B, Museum Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University
RSVP: Jovan Maud at jovan@ansa.asn.au
'The Workchoices Battle: is the union campaign succeeding? - Three views from the university and the labour movement
| Speakers: | Alison Barnes, Department of Employment Relations, University of Western Sydney Secretary, Australian Services Union NSW Deputy Assistant Secretary, Unions NSW |
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| When: | Thursday 31 August 2006 |
| Time: | 3pm - 5pm |
| Where: | Macquarie University Room 131 |
June 2006
Postcolonial and Gklobalisation Cluster Meeting
| Speaker: | Mark Paterson, Division of SCMP, Macquarie University |
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| When: | Wednesday 7th June 2006 |
| Time: | 10am |
| Where: | Macquarie University Building E7A Room 704 |
Mark Paterson is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Division of SCMP and this is an opportunity for the cluster to discuss the relevance of his work on technology and the role of touch in bringing-near, to our themes of globalisation. Access two of his articles on the Staff Only page of SCMP homepage.
Macquarie University Fellowship Information Session
| When: | Friday 2nd June 2006 |
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| Time: | 10am - 12pm |
| Where: | Macquarie University Building W6A Room 707 |
April 2006
Anthropologies and Geographies of Globalisation
| Speaker: | Dr Katharine Rankin, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto |
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| When: | Wednesday 5 April 2006 |
| Time: | 3pm - 5pm |
| Where: | Macquarie University E7A 829 |
Dr Katharine Rankin is a visitor to the Department of Human Geography/CRSI. She is undertaking comparative research into local impacts of globalisation and neoliberalisation involving field studies of the role of women in microfinance schemes in Nepal and Vietnam. Members of the postcolonial and urban®ional spaces clusters of CRSI are organising this workshop for all CRSI members exchange ideas about our approaches to the phenomenon and discourse of 'globalisation' and its relationships to our research on social inclusion.
Click here for Dr Rankin's recent paper "Anthropologies and geographies of globalisation". The workshop will begin with a presentation from Dr Rankin reflecting on her paper and her recent work in Vietnam and Nepal followed by discussants from anthropology and human geography, two more short presentations on members' current research in related areas of anthropology and human geography, and then plenty of time for group discussion about the ideas and issues.
February 2006
Forum on Ethical Issues in Prenatal Screening and Disability
| When: | Tuesday 21 February 2006 |
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| Time: | 11am - 1pm |
| Where: | Macquarie University W6A 107 |
| Presenters: | Dr. Jackie Leach Scully, Dr. Stephen Wilkinson |
| Introduction: | Dr. Mianna Lotz, Philosophy, Macquarie University |
| Chair: | A/Prof. Catriona Mackenzie, Philosophy, Macquarie University |
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) combined with IVF allows would-be parents with genetic disorders to screen their early embryos so as to select for implantation only those free from such disorders. However, it also presents the opportunity to select for specific impairments. The question is posed: Would it be wrong to use reproductive technology to deliberately create a child with a genetic impairment? This workshop will draw on actual and hypothetical cases to present a range of philosophical perspectives on the ethical acceptability of such uses of PGD.
Each presentation will be followed by a brief question time. After both presentations the forum will be open for debate and discussion.
Dr. Jackie Leach Scully teaches and researches in the Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences, University of Basel. Originally a molecular geneticist, she spent some years in medical research before further study in bioethics. Her research interests are broadly to do with how different constituencies, especially marginalised social groups, make moral evaluations of novel scientific and medical issues. Specific areas of interest are embodiment and disability; feminist bioethics; social impact of new technologies; media representations of ethical issues: and religious understandings. Her involvement with disability activism goes back over 20 years, and she is currently working on a book about ethics and disability. From December 2005 to March 2006 she is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, and at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney.
Dr Stephen Wilkinson is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University. His most recent research is on reproductive ethics and the regulation of reproductive technologies, including a project funded by the Wellcome Trust's Biomedical Ethics Programme entitled Eugenics and Genetics - the role of the concept of 'eugenics' in contemporary debates about the regulation of genetic and reproductive technologies. Dr Wilkinson's previous phase of research focussed on the commercial exploitation of the human body and his book, Bodies for Sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body trade was published by Routledge in 2003. He has published widely in biomedical ethics on topics including conjoined twins, euthanasia, futility, the use of empirical evidence in bioethics, and the philosophy of mental health; a paper on the latter won the 1999 Philosophical Quarterly International Essay Prize. From January until March 2006 he is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy.