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Flinders Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series

 

Public Lecture: IUEU Visiting Scholar Professor Berteke Waaldijk

Special Event Seminar: IUEU Visiting Research Fellow Professor Jon Johnsen

The AusStage Symposium: Transforming Research into Live Performance (September 2008)

Miguel Delibes on the 60th Anniversary of the Publication of His First Novel: a Symposium (September 2008)

Public Lecture by Professor Rachel Blau duPlessis (July 2008)

Department of Languages Research Day (June 2008)

To the Letter: Contemporary Perspectives on Epistolarity (April 2008)

W(H)IP conference (April 2008)

FHRC member features on ARC's 2007 "Season's Greetings" card ... (December 2007)

Conference: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities (December 2007)

Masterclass: Dr Susannah Radstone (December 2007)

Special Event Seminar: Pablo Soler-Frost (October 2007)

The 7th International Conference on Greek Research (June 2007)

Public lecture by Visiting Scholar Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford (May 2007)

Australasian Humour Scholars Network Humour Colloquium 2007 (April 2007)

Special event - Public Lecture:
IUEU Visiting Scholar Professor Berteke Waaldijk

Monday, 8 December

5.00 p.m. for a 5.30 p.m. start

Migration Museum

82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

 

Professor Waaldijk is visiting Flinders University as part of the IUEU Visiting Research Fellows programme, and will give a presentation entitled

"Transnational citizenship and colonial history:
case study: the Netherlands
".

"Recent research in citizenship has argued for an expansion of the concept of citizenship. Forms of citizenship that go beyond a set of nationally defined rights and obligations may indeed help us to a better understanding of migration, gender equality, inclusion and exclusion in a world of global connections. In my paper I argue that both the concept of cultural citizenship (as elaborated by Nick Stevenson and Tony Miller) and the concept of transnational citizenship (Etienne Balibar, We the people of Europe: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, 2004) would profit from historical perspectives that include European colonial histories. Taking the history of Dutch colonialism as my starting point I will ask how and when European colonial empires could be seen as ‘experiments’ in transnational citizenship and as explorations of a cultural belonging that is not only national. One of the conclusions is that the image of the 19C as the ‘age of nationalism’ may require some modification. Concrete examples will address the role of Asian food in the Netherlands, the position of women’s movement in colonial debates and the interaction between popular culture and official imperial discourse around 1900."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Berteke Waaldijk’s research focuses on the history of gender, culture and citizenship. She received her doctor’s degree in 1996 with a comparative study on the gender and history of social work in the Netherlands and the United States. Her research centers around comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on (post)colonial and social definitions of citizenship and national identity." (from Professor Waaldijk's homepage).

 

Monday, 8 December

5.00 p.m. for a 5.30 p.m. start

Migration Museum

82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

 

All welcome.

Special Event Seminar: IUEU Visiting Research Fellow Professor Jon Johnsen

"What is the Council of Europe’s role in integration of human rights in Europe?"

 

Professor Jon Johnsen was until recently the Dean of the Law School at the University of Oslo, and is visiting Flinders for three months as the Innovative Universities European Union Centre (IUEU) Visiting Research Fellow. He has undertaken extensive research, including comparative access to justice research, legal services policy, human rights, criminal justice, and on the efficiency of the European national justice systems.

 

Wednesday, 5 November 2.00 - 3.30 p.m. Venue: Humanities 234

The AusStage Symposium:
Transforming Research into Live Performance

AusStage
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia

This symposium brings together a key group of performing arts scholars whose work on the AusStage Project has transformed research into live performance in Australia.

 

Please visit the conference site for more information.

 

 

 

Miguel Delibes on the 60th Anniversary of the Publication of His First Novel: a Symposium

Miguel Delibes

 

 

The Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Department of Languages at Flinders University, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Australian National University, cordially invite you to a Symposium entitled "Miguel Delibes on the 60th Anniversary of the Publication of his First Novel".

 

Saturday, 20 September 2008;

9.15 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.


Flinders University, Humanities Building, Room 101

(next to Matthew Flinders Theatre).

Programme:

 

9:15

Reception

9:45

Welcome

10:00

Keynote Address: Dr. Ramón García Domínguez: “Miguel Delibes: Fifty years writing novels (1948: La sombra del ciprés es alargada – 1998: El hereje)”

11:00

Coffee

11:30

Dr María Luz Long: “Miguel Delibes and his engagement with his times”

12:15

Readings from Delibes’ novels

12.30

Lunch

1.30

“Miguel Delibes and the cinema”. Round table discussion.

3.00

Closing remarks

 

Please RSVP by 12 September to Maureen Taylor (phone 8201 2385, or email maureen.taylor@flinders.edu.au).

 

All sessions will be in Spanish; notes in English will be available.

 

Free parking available in Car Park 5.

 

Public Lecture by Professor Rachel Blau duPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Lecture

Internationally-renowned feminist scholar and creative writer Rachel Blau DuPlessis will visit the FHRC in July, and will give a lecture entitled "The Hole: Death, Sexual Difference, and Gender Contradictions in Robert Creeley’s Poetry".

 

Wednesday, 16 July, 2.00 p.m.

Room 105, Humanities Building.

 

Professor DuPlessis is Professor of English at Temple University. You may visit her websites here and here.

 

Department of Languages Research Day

Monday, 16 June
Humanities Room 121

 

The Department of Languages at Flinders is holding a Research Day on Monday, 16 June. All are welcome to attend the afternoon session, during which there will be three public presentations of research being undertaken in the Department.

 

Time

Speaker

Topic

1.00 - 1.45

Jeff Gil

“English language teaching today: From dilemmas to professional obligations”

1.45 - 2.30

Colette Mrowa-Hopkins and Antonella Strambi

“Saying ‘no’ to the Boss: Alignment and divergence in conflict discourse among French and Italian co-workers”

2.30 - 2.45

Break

 

2.45 - 3.30

Philip Martin-Clark

“The Poet and Spanish Society in Lopez Anglada's La vida conquistada (1948-1951)”

To the Letter: Contemporary Perspectives on Epistolarity

 

pointing hand

23-24 April 2008

 

This symposium provides an interdisciplinary space to explore both 'traditional' kinds of letters, and contemporary changes in social forms and interpersonal 'becomings' concerning epistolary forms.

 

For further information, please visit the "To the Letter" symposium webpage.

 

Flinders W(H)IP: Work (Honestly!) in Progress

21-22 April 2008

 

 

Flinders W(H)IP is a new intensive two-day conference/ symposium organised especially for Flinders University’s English postgraduate students, designed to provide a space to workshop thesis material and present works-in-progress in a supportive and stimulating environment. For more information and contact details, please see the W(H)IP flyer.

 

 

 

 

 

ARC Season's Greetings card

ARC Season's Greetings card 2007

 

 

FHRC member Professor Sue Sheridan's ARC funded Discovery Project, "Lost Generation: Women Writers and Postwar Modernity", has been chosen to feature on the ARC's "Season's Greetings" card for 2007.

 

Image courtesy of the Australian Research Council. Click on the image to see a larger version.

 

 

 

Conference 2007

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory.

Flinders University
Adelaide, South Australia
3 - 6 December 2007

This conference will examine issues of migration, transnational connection, displacement heritage, global space and cultural memory created by the movements of peoples between cultures in the modern world. For more information, visit the conference site.

 

Masterclass 2007

Masterclass: Dr Susannah Radstone

In association with the Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities conference, the Flinders Humanities Research Centre presents a masterclass with Dr Susannah Radstone:

 

Memory/Nation/Culture.
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Maximum number of participants: 15.

 

How do film, literature and other media ‘remember’ national pasts? Over the last fifteen years or so, theories of cultural memory and trauma have had a profound impact across the humanities, encouraging researchers at all levels to approach novels, films and television as ‘memory media’. The same period has witnessed the production of a wide range of films, novels and other art forms whose concerns are with recent - and not so recent - national pasts, including W G Sebald’s Austerlitz and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River, and the films Amistad and Rabbit Proof Fence. Such texts have become the primary sources for many studies of cultural, literary and film memory. But how do theories of trauma and cultural memory help us to engage with national literatures and cinemas and what are the most useful methods for the analysis of memory media?

 

Susannah Radstone is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She writes on cultural theory, particularly on psychoanalysis and memory and on contemporary film and literature. Recent publications include (ed. with C. Bainbridge et al.) Culture and the Unconscious, Palgrave, 2007; (ed. with Perri 6 et al.) Public Emotions, Palgrave 2007; The Politics of Memory: Contested Pasts and Memory Cultures (both ed. with Katharine Hodgkin), Transaction 2005; Memory and Methodology (ed.), Berg, 2000. Forthcoming books include On Memory and Confession: The Sexual Politics of Time, Routledge, and Mapping Memory (ed. with Bill Schwarz), Fordham University Press.

 

Special Event Seminar: Pablo Soler-Frost

Visiting Mexican Author: Mr Pablo Soler-Frost

Wednesday, 24 October

3.00 p.m.

Function Centre, Humanities Drive

 

Mexican author Pablo Soler-Frost will visit Flinders under the auspices of the Mexican Embassy in Canberra. He will give a presentation (in English) entitled 'Discovering Mexican Literature'. Refreshments served from 2.30. Hosted by the Spanish Department.

 

Pablo Soler Frost was born in Mexico City in 1965. He has written novels, poems, short stories and essays, which have been published by the leading publishing houses in Mexico. He has also translated works by Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, John Henry Newman and Horace Walpole. His new novel, Yerba americana (American Grass), and his film 40 days are both due in January 2008. The Embassy of Mexico and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs have sponsored this lecture.

 

The 7th International Conference on Greek Research

28 June - 1 July 2007

Education Development Centre, Milner Street, Hindmarsh.

 

The cross-disciplinary conference will include papers on Greek and Cypriot studies from the wider spectrum of the following areas: Literature and Language, Classical Studies, Philosophy, Society and Culture, History and Migration.

 

For more details, please see the conference website.

 

 

Special Event: Public lecture

Europe as Empire:
Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.

Public lecture by Visiting Scholar Professor Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow, University of Oxford.

 

Co-hosted by the Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange

and the School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University

 

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

5.00 p.m.

Noel Stockdale Room,

Flinders University Library,

Flinders University.

 

Jan Zielonka is Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow at St Antony's College. He studied Law at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and Political Science at the University of Warsaw, where he received is Ph.D. in 1981. In 1982 he settled in the Netherlands, first at the University of Groningen and then, as from 1984, at the University of Leiden. In January 1996 he was appointed Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence (Joint Chair in European Studies at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Political and Social Sciences). He took up his present position at the University of Oxford in January 2004. He has published numerous works in the field of comparative politics (Soviet and Eastern European Studies), the history of political ideas, international relations, human rights and security. His current research deals with the evolving nature of the European Union and the process of the EU’s eastward enlargement. His books include Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union (Oxford University Press, 2006), Europe Unbound: Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union (Routledge, 2002), Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe, vols 1 & 2 (Oxford University Press, 2001), Explaining Euro-paralysis: Why Europe in Unable to Act in International Politics (Macmillan, 1998), and Political Ideas in Contemporary Poland (Avebury, 1989).

 

Australasian Humour Scholars Network Humour Colloquium 2007

Australasian Humour Scholars Network: 2007 Invitational Colloquium

with Post-Graduate Section
on Humour Research
and special focus on “Humour and Satire in an ‘Age of Terror'”

Conference Room, Function Centre, Flinders University
11 - 12 April 2007

For more detail, please see the Australasian Humour Scholars Network homepage, and the Colloquium programme.

 

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