Seminar Program for 2004

Seminars by members of the Department and visiting scholars are typically held in the Department at lunchtime on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted.
Room 519, Level 5, West Tower, John Medley Building
1.00 - 2.00 pm
Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Semester 2 2004

Wednesday 24 November

Feminist Forum
Coming out in the bush: lesbians, gay men and gender difference in regional and rural Victoria

Dr Lorene Gottschalk
(Management & Human Resource Management, University of Ballarat)

Tuesday 23 November
Representing People, Representing Nature, Representing the World

Issues around the problems of the representation of nature in deliberative democracy.

Prof. John O'Neill
(Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Lancaster)

Wednesday 27 October
Feminist Forum
Cold Sunshine: The Racialised, Gendered and Diasporic Experiences of African Caribbean Women in Britain

Dr Millsom Henry-Waring
(Sociology Program, the University of Melbourne)

Thursday 14 October
International legislation and New Zealand's abolition of the right of appeal to the Privy Council

Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth McLeay
(Victoria University of Wellington)

Wednesday 13 October

2004 Ashworth Lecture
A New Work and Care Settlement: Can Australia's Institutions Catch Up With Australians?

Assoc. Prof. Barbara Pocock
(The University of Adelaide)

Wednesday 15 September
Feminist Forum
Sexual Pleasure as a Human Right: Helping or Harming Women in the Context of HIV/AIDS?

Jennifer Oriel
(School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, the University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 25 August
Feminist Forum
Researching the unbearable: pornography and hate crimes

Sheila Jeffreys and Nicole Asquith
(School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, the University of Melbourne)

Thursday 5 August 2004
Democratic Justice in the Constitutional State and Beyond

Shane O'Neill
(School of Politics at Queens University, Belfast)

Semester 1 2004

Tuesday 22 June CANCELLED
Feminist Forum
"Whatever choice you make as a woman, it is not the right choice" - Mothering, Choice and Ideology in Australia and the UK

Lise Saugeres
(Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University)

Thursday 3 June 2004

Postgraduate Seminar Day: Geist '04

Geist '04 is a day-long conference of new thinkers in Politics / Policy / Sociology hosted by the School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, and associated centres and programs, the University of Melbourne.

Tuesday 25 May
Doing Time, Losing Being? Parental identities, parental expectations and imprisonment

Gayle Letherby
(Centre for Social Justice, Coventry University)

Tuesday 25 May
Feminist Forum
Gender, Outdoor Advertising and Public Space

Lauren Rosewarne
(School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, University of Melbourne)

Monday 24 May
A-secular atheism and religious cultural war: William Connolly's ethos of radical civility

Dr Jeffrey Minson
(Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University)

Presented with the Ashworth Program in Social Theory.

Tuesday 11 May, 7:30pm
Shadowing History: National Narrative and the Persistence of the Everyday

Prof. Harry Harootunian
(New York University)

Institute of Postcolonial Studies,
78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3051

Presented with the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.

Thursday 29 April
Mimesis, Authenticity, & Chinese tourist theme parks

Tim Oakes
(Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Presented with the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies.

Tuesday 27 April
Feminist Forum
Objectified, Empowered or Predatory? The "Sex and the City" Generation

Belinda Morris
(School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 30 March
Feminist Forum
Why We Watch, and Why it Matters: Women and Reality Television

Prof. Iva Deutchman
(Hobart and William Smith College, U.S. Visiting Professor in Political Science)

Monday 23 February
Virtual Environmental Citizenship: Web-based Participation in Rulemaking in the US

David Schlosberg
(Northern Arizona University)

Previous Seminar Programs

• Seminar Program for the current semester
• Seminar Program for 2nd Semester 2003
• Seminar Program for 1st Semester 2003