Seminar Program for 2nd Semester 2003

Seminars by members of the Department and visiting scholars are typically held in the Department at lunchtime on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Semester 2 2003

Tuesday 25 November
Feminist Forum
Trading in Flesh: Kangaroos, women and 'the absent referent'

Rheya Linden

All staff and postgraduates interested in feminist ideas are welcome.

5th Floor Function Room, John Medley Building
5.30 - 7.00 pm

Wednesday 29 October CANCELLED
Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in the Russian Transition

Prof. Archie Brown
(St Antony's College, Oxford)

Room 212, Level 2
234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
1.00pm-2.00pm

Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC)

Tuesday 28 October
Feminist Forum
Lesbians in League? International feminist activism between the two world wars

Carole Moschetti

All staff and postgraduates interested in feminist ideas are welcome.

5th Floor Function Room, John Medley Building
5.30 - 7.00 pm

Tuesday 14 October
The Convention's Draft Constitution: Towards a more federal EU?

Prof. Finn Laursen
(Director, Centre for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark)

Room 212, Level 2
234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
1.00pm-2.00pm

Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC)

Thursday 9 October
Facilitating Community Sustainability? Inter-organisational network structures and the governance of place

Dr Jo Barraket
(Lecturer, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
1.00pm-2.00pm

Tuesday 7 October CANCELLED
Feminist Forum
Cold Sunshine: The racialised, gendered and diasporic experiences of African Caribbean women in Britain

Millsom Henry-Waring

All staff and postgraduates interested in feminist ideas are welcome.

5th Floor Function Room, John Medley Building
5.30 - 7.00 pm

W. Macmahon Ball: Political Communicator & Diplomat

A one-day symposium
Friday, 3 October 2003
Asialink, Sydney Myer Asia Centre

Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 September
Postgraduate Seminar Days

Postgraduate Room, 4th Floor, West Tower, John Medley Building

Postgraduates in the Department present papers on their research for discussion by staff and fellow students.

Thursday 18 September
Social World and the Embodied Experience of Injecting Drug Use

Dr John Fitzgerald
(Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
1.00pm-2.00pm

Thursday 4 September CANCELLED
Much More Than Just a Sporting Icon... Exploring the racialised, gendered and nationalistic subjectivities of Cathy Freeman

Dr Millsom Henry-Waring
(Lecturer, Sociology Program)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
1.00pm-2.00pm

Tuesday 26 August
Feminist Forum
Sexual Gazing in Hate Speech: The Role of Public Disrobing of Out-of-Place Bodies in Antisemitic and Heterosexist Violence

Nicole Asquith

All staff and postgraduates interested in feminist ideas are welcome.

5th Floor Function Room, John Medley Building
5.30 - 7.00 pm

Tuesday 26 August
Why EU Policy Harmonisation Undermines Refugee Burden-Sharing

Prof. Eiko Thielemann
(London School of Economics)

Room 212, Level 2
234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
1.00pm-2.00pm

Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC)

Thursday 21 August
Joining the Dots or Closing the Circle? Networks of influence in health

Dr Jenny Lewis
(Senior Research Fellow, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
1.00pm-2.00pm

Wednesday 20 August
Aesthetic Labour

Prof. Chris Warhurst
(Strathclyde University)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
4.00pm-5.00pm

Tuesday 19 August
American Unilateralism: The United States as a Rogue Nation (that doesn't know it)

Clyde Prestowitz
(President, Economic Strategy Institute, USA)

Theatre A
Elisabeth Murdoch Building
1.00pm-2.00pm

Tuesday 12 August
The Death of the West? The Transatlantic Alliance in an Age of American Ascendancy

Prof. Michael Cox
(London School of Economics)

Room 212, Level 2
234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
1.00pm-2.00pm

Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC)

Thursday 7 August
From Network to Market and Hierarchy: What Does the Internet Tell Us of the Prospects of Network Governance?

Dr Peter Chen
(School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology)

Room 519, John Medley Building
Level 5, West Tower
1.00pm-2.00pm

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