School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology POSTGRADUATE BULLETIN 15 OCTOBER 2003 1. Industrial Action - 16 October 2. antiTHESIS presents... Intolerable Cruelty 3. CERC Workshop: Australia and the European Union: Partners or Adversaries? 4. CERC Conference: Corruption, Organised Crime and Terrorism: Europe and Australia Compared 5. Institute of Postcolonial Studies Legal Scholarship Seminar - Monday 20 October 6. Bulletin Archive *********************************************** 1. Industrial Action - 16 October The NTEU National Council has called for its members to participate in a national 24-hour strike on Thursday 16 October 2003. There will be a picket line at the University campus: it is your choice whether or not to cross it, but be advised that many staff members across the University may not be at work on this day. *********************************************** 2. antiTHESIS presents... Intolerable Cruelty The exclusive antiTHESIS opening night screening of Intolerable Cruelty is being held: At: Cinema Nova, Lygon Street, Carlton Date: Thursday 23 October, 2003 Time: 6:30pm (movie starts at 7pm) Cost: $15 adult/$11 student/concession (including food and wine) Wine and snacks are included in the ticket price. The film will be introduced by Dr Mark Nicholls, lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne. Mark also lectures in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's Screen Education Program and is a regular film reviewer on ABC radio. "Be among the first in Melbourne to see this irreverent legal comedy, thanks to antiTHESIS, the interdisciplinary postgraduate journal based in the University of Melbourne's English department. Our inaugural symposium earlier this year attracted speakers from Victoria and interstate, and our fully refereed 2004 edition, fuse, is now in production. But we need your support to help cover our production costs." "What do you get when the left-field Coen brothers try their hands at directing a screwball comedy? Intolerable Cruelty - the tale of a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win. George Clooney plays a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney looking for a new challenge. Catherine Zeta Jones plays a serial wife scheming to get even. Throw Geoffrey Rush and Billy Bob Thornton into the mix, and you're in for a barrel of maliciously competitive laughs." "Have some drinks and nibbles, see an intriguing new movie, and help maintain one of Australia's longest-running publishing opportunities for new critical and creative work. It's a win-win situation!" Tickets will be on sale: At the English Department office: Level 2, West Tower, John Medley Building, University of Melbourne (off Grattan Street), from 9am to 5pm daily In the Union Building, University of Melbourne: 12-2pm every day from Thursday 16 October to Thursday 23 October For further enquiries, contact the editors: antithesis@adhocalypse.unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 3. CERC Workshop: Australia and the European Union: Partners or Adversaries? Wednesday, 5 November 2003 at The Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia has strong linkages with Europe, as well as shared goals. Institutional values and practices in Australia are largely a product of the adaptation of European ideas to unique surroundings. This applies to notions of government and law as well as economic systems. Though Australia has developed distinctive cultural symbols, economic structures and strong elements of a national identity, the heritage of Europe is pervasive. Australia has welcomed European migrants, cultures and traditions and there are strong personal and community as well as formal ties between Australia and Europe. Australia’s relationship with the European Union is constantly evolving in new and often unpredictable directions. European integration and Australia’s engagement with the Asia-Pacific region have generated novel and far-reaching dialogues. This could become the source of further strengthening our relationship. However, it could also develop into clashes over perceived divergence in interests. This important national workshop will highlight, discuss and analyse current tensions between complementary and divergent approaches in a wide range of policy areas, including agriculture, trade liberalisation, the environment and foreign policy. It will seek to clarify misunderstandings and common interests and will address issues which are likely to emerge in the future. Keynote speakers include: * Dr Linda Botterill, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Europe Centre * Annmarie Elijah, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, University of Melbourne * John Gage, Deputy Director of the National Europe Centre * Dr James Jupp, Director, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, ANU * Donald Kenyon, AM, former Australian Ambassador to the EU, Brussels and Luxembourg, DFAT * Dr John Kunkel, Trade Consultant and former adviser to Trade Ministers Tim Fischer and Mark Vaile * Michael Longo, Faculty of Law, Victoria University * Dr Philomena Murray, Director, Contemporary Europe Research Centre and President of CESAA * Professor Elim Papadakis, Director, National Europe Centre * Professor Greg Tegart AM FTSE FIEAust, Former Secretary, Australian Science and Technology Council * John Tinney, Former general manager of Austrade’s European operations Details of this workshop are available at www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 4. Corruption, Organised Crime and Terrorism: Europe and Australia Compared Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November 2003 at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053. CERC's 2003 international conference will address the connections between corruption, organised crime and terrorism, with particular reference to Europe and Australia. Europe has experienced major corruption scandals in recent years; the problems of corruption in Central and Eastern Europe are well-rehearsed, but it must not be forgotten that leading EU states such as Belgium, France, Germany and Italy as well as the EU itself - have also experienced major scandals. Europe is also the home of two of the worlds five major organised crime groupings (the Italian mafiabroadly understood; the Russian mafia). Other groupings, such as the Japanese Yakuza, have moved into Europe only in the past decade. Europe has also long been subject to terrorism (in the past three decades, the Red Brigades, Baader-Meinhof, the IRA and ETA, to name just some of the more prominent examples). But all three forms of crime have become much more internationalised and interconnected as globalisation, including via the Internet, has developed. Australia, which was once seen as essentially off the mapof some of the less desirable criminal and violent developments elsewhere, was forced onto it; the Bali bombings were just one of the more visible and recent manifestations of this. One of the objectives of the conference is to analyse the developments and changes of recent years, as well as the evidence on interconnectedness. Speakers include: · Dr Peter Chalk (RAND Corporation, USA) · Prof. Dr. Petrus Van Duyne (Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands) · Dr Veronique Pujas (University of Grenoble, France) · Several of Australias leading specialists It is anticipated that the conference will attract diplomats, policy makers, academics, and members of the public. For further information, including workshop programme and registration details, please see http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au or telephone 8344-9502. *********************************************** 5. Institute of Postcolonial Studies Legal Scholarship Seminar Monday 20 October, 7.30pm the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 76 Curzon Street, North Melbourne Professor Sandra Berns Law, Griffith University On having your cake and eating it too: theorizing soft patriarchy. This paper will explore the ways in which patriarchal attitudes and ideals have progressively reconfigured themselves: through the appropriation of equal opportunity discourse, through the increasing self-representation of men/boys as victimsand through the burgeoning literature on fatherhood, specifically on the configuration of the genetic/legal father a critical to the socio-cultural development of the child following relationship breakdown. It will argue that the archetypal symbolic presence of the fatherfollowing relationship breakdown is a key strategy in reaffirming male control of women through the control of children. The paper is not an argument against active male involvement in raising children, which the author has argued elsewhere is central for a more egalitarian society. Rather the argument is that by privileging the role of the father following relationship breakdown whilst disregarding it prior to breakdown (and failing to develop socio-economic structures essential if fathers are to care for, rather than just about, their children) political and legal structures reinforce patriarchal control coopting the labor of women to facilitate on a lifelong basis mens relationship with their children. In this way, it is argued, Family Court decisions and proposed Family Law Act amendments reinstate Rousseaus central claim that only the wife can ensure a continuing bond between father and child. Sandra Berns has degrees from the Universities of California and Tasmania and taught at the University of Tasmania before moving to Griffith University, where she was formerly Dean of Law. She is a prolific author and in addition to articles has written books on jurisprudence, a feminist study of company law and, recently, a text on the legal implications of the mens movements. *********************************************** 6. Bulletin Archive Current and previous issues of the postgraduate bulletin are archived on the web at: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/courses/postgraduate/bulletin.html