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Seminars 2008

Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange

- Seminar Series. Mondays during term time, 3.00 - 4.30 p.m. Humanities 234

Seminars have concluded for the year, and will begin again mid-March 2009.

View the entire programme for Semester Two, 2008 , or the programmes of past FHRC Seminar series.

Public Lectures 2008

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

Directions

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."

Professor Berteke Waaldijk

Gender Studies/History

Utrecht University

"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

Directions

All welcome.

Please RSVP to Nena Bierbaum by Thursday, 4 December.

Symposia 2008

(for details of past Symposia, please see the archive.)

Conferences 2009

(for details of past Conferences, please see the archive.)

The 8th International Conference on Greek Research

2 - 5 July 2009

This cross-disciplinary conference will encompass a wide range of 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. The conference will also feature a Youth Forum exploring the experiences of youth in the Greek diaspora.

For more information, please see the conference website.

Hume and the Enlightenment - a conference

13 and 14 July 2009

Hume continues to have a profound influence on philosophical thought and ideas. Yet Hume’s influence extends well beyond philosophy to a range of others disciplines including politics, history, literature and economics. ...   We are currently calling for papers on Hume’s philosophical and other writings, and for papers focused on Enlightenment ideas as they may relate to Hume and his intellectual influence in the broadest sense.

For more information, and contact details, please see the conference website.