Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Annual Report 2016 and 2017

Sisonke Msimang: Sook and Tired: A conversation about race and the media

In the last few years, questions of racial justice have re-emerged in America, South Africa and Australia. This conversation will look at media coverage of police brutality against African-Americans, and the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement that has developed in response. We will then look at media coverage of events in South Africa as it has grappled with the end of the ‘non-racial’ era and the emergence of the movement to tear down statues of John Cecil Rhodes and other colonial figures, before turning our attention to how Australia talks about race and racism, as exemplified by the Adam Goodes case.

Sisonke Msimang writes about race, gender and justice. She writes regularly for The New York Times, and has been published widely, including in The Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and the Huffington Post. Msimang has held a range of fellowships, including Yale University (2012), the Aspen Institute (2014) and the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa. She has worked for the United Nations and was the head of the Soros Foundation’s Southern Africa office from 2008–2012. Msimang is on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee and sits on the board of the New York-based International Women’s Health Coalition.

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Sisonke Msimang

26 July 2016

Associate Professor Chiara Bottici, New School for Social Research, New York: Bodies in Plural: Towards an Anarcha-Feminist Manifesto

Since the crisis of Marxism as a political ideology, it has become something like a common place to state that domination takes place through a multiplicity of axes, where gender, class, race, and sexuality intersect with one another. While a lot of interesting empirical work is being done under the heading of intersectionality, it is very rarely linked to the anarchist tradition that preceded it. In the following lecture, I would like to articulate this point by showing the usefulness but also the limits of the notion of intersectionality to understand mechanism of domination and then move on to argue for the need of an anarcha-feminist program (I). Secondly, I will try to provide the philosophical framework for such an enterprise by arguing that it is in a Spinozist ontology of the transindividual that we can best find the conceptual resources for thinking about the plural nature of women’s bodies and thus of their oppression (II). This will allow me to attempt to articulate the question ‘what it means to be a woman’ in pluralistic terms and thus also to defend a specifically feminist form of anarchism (III). In conclusion, I will go back to the anarcha-feminist tradition and will show why today it is the best possible ally of feminism in the pursuit of a critical theory of society (IV).

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27 July 2016

Thesis Eleven Centre Masterclass with Associate Professor Chiara Bottici, New School for Social Research, New York: Imaginal Politics

Philosophy is most of time the result of a contest between an entrenched vocabulary, which has become a nuisance, and half-formed new vocabulary, which vaguely promises great things. In this talk, I will explore the contest between the entrenched vocabulary of imagination (and ‘the imaginary’ as its necessary counterpart) and a half-formed vocabulary that promises a lot of interesting things: the vocabulary of ‘the imaginal’. After introducing the concept of the imaginal, I will move on to show its force and, in particular, the role it plays in contemporary politics and in so-called post-Fordist capitalism. This will lead us to explore the emancipatory potential that images, understood as representations that are also presences in themselves, can have in our time. In an epoch where the global society of the spectacle seems to have exhausted our creative capacity, reo-orientation and subversion of the ongoing spectacle is the only possible homeopathic remedy left for us: curing the evil with small doses of the evil itself.

Chiara Bottici is a philosopher and a writer. She taught at the University of Frankfurt before joining the New School for Social Research, where she is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy. She is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Men and States (Palgrave, 2009). With Benoit Challand, she also co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Routledge, 2010). With Benoit Challand she co-edited the collection of essays The Politics of Imagination (Routledge, 2011), and more recently with Simon Critchley and Jacob Blumenfeld she co-edited The Anarchist Turn (Pluto, 2013). Her short stories have appeared in Il Caffe illustrato, while her novel Per tre miti, forse quattro just came out with Manni Editore.

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Dr Chiara Bottici

24 October 2016

The Persistence of Graffiti – Styles, Sites, Innovations

Inside: Prison inmate graffiti

This paper examines inmate-created graffiti in Australian, US and UK prisons. Despite its unique nature, few studies of prison graffiti have occurred. A visual ethnographic approach is employed to interpret the images’ meanings and infer something of their creators’ experiences. While street graffiti, ‘paint-ups,’ ‘tagging,’ and so on are for public viewing, much prison graffiti is ‘private’ and hidden from view. Inmate-graffitists’ motives tend to reflect concerns arising from total, often dangerous, confinement. Their graffiti echoes prison-specific issues of personal power: sexual frustration and aggression as self-assertion; resistance to perceived oppression; or reactions to boredom. Some prison graffiti function as a form of personal diary. The stylistic and motivational differences between inmate graffiti in private spaces and that found outside underscore the need for further research.

Jacqueline Z Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Collaborative Centre for Australian History at Federation University Australia. She has authored over 40 scholarly publications, including Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism (2008), which was the first national study of prison tourism, and she is the lead editor for The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism (2016). She is also involved in ongoing projects with colleagues on archival systems for children who grew up in out-of-home state care. Jacqui is a former ward of the State of Victoria and an activist and advocate for Care Leavers in Australia. Her research is concerned with historical justice, national memory and experiences of state care and punitive welfare systems.

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28 November 2016

Thesis Eleven Centre, in collaboration with The Research Unit in Public Cultures and the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, present

Craig Calhoun in conversation with Peter Beilharz and Nikos Papastergiadis: Public Culture: Is there anything left after global spectacles and local events?

Craig Calhoun is President of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, which works globally to advance cross-cultural understanding, improve governance, and deepen knowledge of great transformations shaping the human future. Calhoun was previously Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor, and before that President of the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and University Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. His books have been translated into 18 languages and include Does Capitalism Have a Future? (2013), The Roots of Radicalism (2012), and Nations Matter (2007), which predicted rising nationalist and populist challenges to cosmopolitanism grounded in a highly unequal global economy.

Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University, Perth. For many years he was Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne. In 1980 he co-founded the international journal of social theory, Thesis Eleven. From 2002 to 2014 he was Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe. He was Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard 1999–2000. Peter has written or edited 27 books, including Labour’s Utopias (1992), Postmodern Socialism (1994), Transforming Labor (1994), Imagining the Antipodes (1997), Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (2002), Socialism and Modernity (2009), Thinking the Antipodes (2015), The Martin Presence (2015) and 200 papers. He is Fellow in Cultural Sociology at Yale and Visiting Professor at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds. He was recently Research Fellow at STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa and is affiliated with the Aesthetics Project at Sichuan University in Chengdu.

Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, at The University of Melbourne. He is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and founder – with Scott McQuire – of the Spatial Aesthetics research cluster. He is Project Leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, ‘Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere’, and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space’. His publications include Modernity as Exile (1993), Dialogues in the Diaspora (1998), The Turbulence of Migration (2000), Metaphor and Tension (2004), Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (2006), Cosmopolitanism and Culture (2012). He is also the author of numerous essays, which have been translated into over a dozen languages and appeared in major catalogues such as the Biennales of Sydney, Liverpool, Istanbul, Gwangju, Taipei, Lyon, Thessaloniki and Documenta 13.

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16 May 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre in collaboration with Research Focus Area, Building Healthy Communities, La Trobe University present:

Dr Pam DeLargy, Special advisor to United Nations special representative for Migration and International Development: How the European Migration ‘Crisis’ has challenged humanitarian standards. Followed by a discussion with migration and public health experts.

Dr Pam DeLargy has spent 20 years engaged in UN humanitarian response, with particular attention to the needs of women and adolescents in emergency and conflict settings, and served in numerous countries in Africa and the Middle East. Most recently, she was Senior Advisor to the UN Special Representative for Migration, focusing primarily on policy responses to the cross-Mediterranean migration to Europe. Her graduate training was in political science and public health and she is a specialist on the Horn of Africa.

17 May 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre, in collaboration with the La Trobe University Office of the Vice Chancellor, the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor, and College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce present:

Professor Craig Calhoun, President of the Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles, USA: The Future of Nations: Anxieties about Voice and Belonging to a Global World

In an era of globalization, it has been common to assert that nations and nation-states will lose significance and perhaps even fade away. Observers have accordingly been surprised by the renewal of nationalist politics around the world. But in fact, nation-states are still of enormous practical influence, and socio-cultural nations are basic to the way they work. Nations are also important to the identities of individuals and to projects of social cohesion. Nationalism need not always be belligerent or oppressive but for the foreseeable future it will remain important, influencing both domestic politics and international relations. The key question is not whether nations have a future, but whether in the future nations and national politics can be organized for greater global cooperation, and better domestic integration.

Craig Calhoun is President of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, which works globally to advance cross-cultural understanding, improve governance, and deepen knowledge of great transformations shaping the human future. Calhoun was previously Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor and before that President of the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and University Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. His books have been translated into 18 languages and include Does Capitalism Have a Future? (2013), The Roots of Radicalism (2012), and Nations Matter (2007), which predicted rising nationalist and populist challenges to cosmopolitanism grounded in a highly unequal global economy.

Professor Calhoun’s visit to La Trobe is part of the 50th anniversary celebrations and is jointly sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor, The College for the Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, and the Thesis Eleven Centre.

27–30 June 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology

Three-day conference in collaboration with Curtin University, Western Australia – Writing Place, Pushing Genre: Adventures across South Africa and Australia

MCCA’s event, ‘Writing Place, Pushing Genre: Adventures across South Africa and Australia’, ran from 27–30 June, and was a collaborative effort between MCCA, Thesis Eleven journal, and visiting academics from South Africa. This series of research-focused events was funded by a MCCA Strategic Research Grant, Humanities Research & Graduate Studies, Thesis Eleven and CUSP. The opening public lecture, ‘Writing South African Cities’, was presented by Noëleen Murray from Wits City Institute, South Africa, with Peter Newman from CUSP as discussant. This was followed by two full day workshops. The first was an informal opening conversation presented by Noëleen Murray and Ivan Vladislavić from the University of Witwatersrand, with responses from Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, Sian Supski, and comments from Sisonke Msimang, John Mateer and Meg Samuelson. The second workshop was a mix of conversations and short papers by Peter Beilharz, Sian Supski, Ivan Vladislavic, Sean Gorman, Kim Scott, Naama Grey-Smith, Matt Roberts, Meg Samuelson, Renee Schipp, Peter Newman and Dora Marinova. A final public talk was held at Pakenham Street Art Space in Fremantle on Friday, 30 June, with an audience of more than 50. This event was held in collaboration with Another Antipodes, a WA based arts organization which strives to strengthen communication and understanding between Australia and Africa.

Thanks to Sian, Tim Dolin, Steve Mickler, Pakenham Street Art Space, Thesis Eleven and Another Antipodes. Special thanks go to Stephanie Sik from MCCA Admin for her exceptional administrative and logistical support. We began the first day of workshop by applauding her in and presenting her with a sign of our appreciation – flowers from WA and South Africa.

The outcomes of the events are as follows:

We propose that in result of these proceedings and their success, further prospects for collaboration now present themselves. The Wits City Institute is keen to discuss the possibility of personnel exchange, especially at postdoc level. We propose to hold a follow-up meeting in Joburg in 18 months including senior Curtin executive staff (Mickler, Dolin) and the most active Curtin professorial staff (Scott, Newman). This event should also include Meg Samuelson, who has recently relocated from Cape Town to the University of Adelaide, and who is connected to the JM Coetzee Institute there. There are commonalities across Curtin, Wits, Adelaide and Thesis Eleven in the areas of place, writing, race, camps, mining, and so on which can now be further explored.

Thesis Eleven will establish a direct link with the Wits City Institute, joining our other affiliates in Delhi, Leeds, Copenhagen, New Haven, Chengdu, Delhi and Manila. We propose to develop two research canopies here, one open and general and following on from the discussion proceedings held at Bentley, including the interest in writing and place; and a second, more closely defined thematic and comparative platform where parallel experiences such as camps, mining, city design, race regulation, antipodes and the south and cultural traffic might be pursued.

The editors of Thesis Eleven have placemarked a dedicated issue of the journal for the publication of outcomes. The presenting challenge here is how best to achieve project development, i.e. how best to cultivate the most suitable papers from the Perth events and how to complement them creatively with other pieces yet to be solicited, in order to build upon the previous three South African issues and the West Australian issue of the journal. This new special issue needs to be comparative, both to reflect these events and to develop the existing record of achievement. Supski and Beilharz will take immediate responsibility for this next step, in direct liaison with Noëleen Murray. These three will also begin the conversation as to the next step, in Joburg for 2019.

This was a great opening, bringing together common themes and opening up new paths for collaboration. We are deeply grateful for the financial and moral support, which made this possible.

We are grateful for the support shown by Steve, Tim, MCCA Admin staff (including Stephanie and Marissa) and to Andrew McLean for stewardship of the events and their planning and execution.

Peter Beilharz, 3 August 2017

4 July 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre Annual Lecture

Professor Noëleen Murray, Director of the Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: Unsettled

Raging wild fires, drought, big weather patterns and urban unrest – renewed protests, burning of trains and busses, land invasions and contestations over private property and development. These have been the issues sending shock waves through the South African press in the last months, where cities across the county have been faced with renewed crises of ‘service delivery’, ‘disaster management’ and all at once the question of the promise of the post-apartheid has become terrifyingly, devastatingly erased.

Thinking through the question of South African space right now, through the notion of being Unsettled, I shall bring together illustrations of how the interplay between forms of spatial practice and resistance to these practices have played themselves out. In thinking anew about material realities and public processes at play in the post-apartheid city, I shall argue that growing inequality and state failure are affecting and complicating the lives of poor and rich alike. From the violence at the mine in Marikana to the almost daily scenes of evictions from occupied buildings in the inner city of Johannesburg, and from the protests in working-class areas like Eldorado Park, to the perfect storm and raging wild fires that have surrounded the drought stricken province of the Western Cape – I shall be working with notions of how the histories of settlement and the settler state underpin the present, and how these might and might not resonate with Australian realities.

Noëleen Murray is the Director of the Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds the Andrew. W. Mellon Chair in Critical Architecture and Urbanism. Her key academic books include Desire Lines – Space, Memory and Identity in the Postapartheid City (2007) and Becoming UWC: Reflections, Pathways and the Unmaking of Apartheid’s Legacy (2012). Her most recent book, Hostels, Homes, Museums, memorializing migrant labour pasts in Lwandle South Africa, co-authored with LeslieWitz, appeared in 2014 and was awarded the Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology by the Council for Museum Anthropology of the American Association of Anthropologists. Her work offers a reading of architecture under and after apartheid. Current projects in Johannesburg extend this interest in architectural history as well as her passion for gathering spatial archives.

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5 July 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre Masterclass with

Professor Noëleen Murray, Director of the Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: Critical reflections on space and placemaking: South Africa and Australia

6 July 2017

Thesis Eleven Centre and the Collaborative Research Centre in Australian History, Federation University present:

A conversation with Professor Noëleen Murray, Director of the Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: A conversation on space and place-making with Noëleen Murray

Hosted by Trevor Hogan and chaired by David McGinniss

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Photo supplied by Ailsa Brackley du Bois, Creative Director, The Editorial Suite

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21 September BALLARAT

Organized in conjunction with Minerva’s Books, this event at the glorious Ballarat Mechanics’ Institute was a great opportunity to connect with scholars from the nearby Federation University Campus. Associate Professor Jeremy Smith of Federation University very kindly agreed to launch the book and offered many insightful comments. Robust discussion between attendees engaged the changing shape of multiculturalism in Australia as well as its regional variances.

12 October MELBOURNE

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Professor Peter Beilharz graciously launched the book at this event and made a thought-provoking contribution, which focused on its postcolonial aspects. In the very interesting discussion that ensued, attendees considered the different ways in which Australia’s colonial history frames contemporary intercultural encounters while enjoying wine and nibbles.

28 NOVEMBER TO 2 DECEMBER

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS IN 2018

We directors are currently involved in preparing a number of events and visits for 2018 including:

13–17 MARCH 2018

Thesis Eleven delegation to the ‘World literature and its post-colonial discontents’ conference at Delhi University co-organized by Dr Ira Raja (Delhi University) and Professor Dick Wieman, Potsdam University, Berlin: Dr Rachel Busbridge (Sociology, Australian Catholic University), Dr Meg Samuelson, (English Literature, University of Adelaide) and Mr Julian Potter (HDR, Sociology, La Trobe university).

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Also in late July we will host our Annual lecture…watch this space – we are currently in talks with our guest speakers for 2018–2020!

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Conference at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, November 2018.

Thesis Eleven is co-hosting a conference on the Budapest School and Critical Theory and will be sending a delegation with partial sponsorship by La Trobe Asia.

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Centre Research Associates: Emeritus Professor Peter Beilharz

Books (forthcoming)

2018 ed Alastair Davidson – Gramsci in Australia, Brill

2018 ed Circling Marx – Essays on Marx and Marxism, 1980–2018, Brill

2018 The Bauman Phenomenon – Living with Bauman, and After, Manchester UP

Essays

2016 ‘All That is Solid…Maelstrom and Modernity in Zygmunt Bauman’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 3, 291–304

2016 ‘From Marx to Gramsci to Us’, Thesis Eleven 132, 77–86

2017 ‘The Power of Culture, and response to critics’, Prace Kulturoznawcze, 20, 19–28, 43–46

2017 Bernard, Wordsmith, in J. Anderson et al. (eds) The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Power Institute, 129–139

2017 ‘The Legacy of Zygmunt Bauman’, J of Sociology, NYP

2017 ‘Zygmunt Bauman’, Global Dialog/ISA, 7/2, 21–22

2017 ‘Zygmunt Bauman and Thesis Eleven’, Thesis Eleven 142, 3–4

2017 ‘Bauman and Heller – Two Views of Modernity and Culture’, Comparative Literature: East and West, 1/1: 51–60

2017 ‘Provincializing Frankfurt?’, American J Cultural Sociology, June, 1–7

2017 ‘The Decline of the West’, Promoteo, Dec NYP

2017 ‘The Roots of Radicalism’, Thesis Eleven 138, 140–2

2018 ‘The Budapest School – Travelling Theory?’, in J Rundell (ed.) The Budapest School, Routledge, RKP

2018 ‘Modern and Postmodern’, in J Hall et al. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, rev ed, NYP

2018 ‘The Marxian Legacy’, in P. Kivisto (ed.) Cambridge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Cambridge UP, NYP

with others:

2016 with Jon Stratton, ‘Mapping Western Australia’, Thesis Eleven 135, 3–13

2016 ‘Finding Ivan Vladislavic’, Thesis Eleven 136, 5–19

2016 ‘A Tale in Two Cities’, Thesis Eleven 136, 20–30

2016 with Sian Supski, ‘Writing Sideways’, Thesis Eleven 136, 3–4

2017 with Fu Qilin, ‘The Conference on East European Marxist Aesthetics’, Thesis Eleven 142, 56–68

2017 ‘A Sociology of Caravans’, Thesis Eleven 142, 34–43

2018 with Supski and Macainsh, ‘From Sharpies to Skyhooks’, Thesis Eleven, NYP

Peer-reviewed academic articles

‘Culture: Two Theses and Deathworks’, Prace Kulturoznawcse, no. 20, 2017: 53–62.

Contributions to edited books

‘Zygmunt Bauman’, in B. Evans and T. Carver (eds) Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought, London: Zed Books, 2017

Translations

Zygmunt Bauman ile Söyleşiler, Ankara: Heretik, 2017.

Books

Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society (London: Sage, 2017), pp. 136.

Chapters

‘Conservative Thought as a Form of Dissident Thinking’, in Patrick Boumard, Vito A. D’Armento and Antonio Carnevale (eds) Etnografie del dissenso Volume 1 ‘Teorie e Discorsi’ (Lecce: PensaMultimedia, 2017).

‘Topological Creation and the Homoeomorphic Imagination’, in Cort Ross Dinesen, Morten Meldgaard, Anders Michelsen, Henrik Oxvig, Inger Berling (eds) Architecture Drawing Topology (Baunach: AADR/Spurbuch Verlag, 2017).

‘Combination, Collaboration and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns’, in Sondra Bacharach, Siv B. Fjærestad and Jeremy Neil Booth (eds) Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 179–186.

‘The Platform University: The Destruction and Resurrection of Universities in the Auto-Industrial Age’, in R. Barnett and M. Peters (eds) The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives (New York: Peter Lang, 2017).

Articles

‘Design Research: Aesthetic Epistemology and Explanatory Knowledge’, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation 3:2 (Shanghai: Tongi University Press and Elsevier, 2017).

‘Land versus Sea’, Thesis Eleven 142: 130–145.

‘Christianity’s Paradox: Chesterton after Kierkegaard’, Budhi: A Journal of Culture and Ideas 20:3 (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Office of Research, 2016), pp 1–21.

Commentary

‘University Rankings and the Coming of the Auto-Industrial Age’, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation 2: 3 (Shanghai: Tongi University Press and Elsevier, 2016), pp. 231–233.

Publication

Short article on ‘Funda’, pp. 308–310 in Special Issue titled ‘Keywords’, of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 40(2) (2017): pp. 308–310, Guest Editors: Meera Ashar, Trent Brown, Assa Doron, and Craig Jeffrey.

Conference organization

Organized an international conference titled ‘Writing the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Genre Transactions in a Globalising World’, at the University of Delhi, 12–13 December 2016. A seven-member delegation from Potsdam University, including faculty members and doctoral students, arrived in Delhi for the two-day conference, which also saw the participation of nearly 14 faculty members and students from the departments of English and Germanic and Romance Studies (GRS), Delhi University. The proposal for publishing a volume of selected papers presented at the conference is underway.

Any other relevant information

Dr Ira Raja was nominated to visit the Department of English, Potsdam University, for a period of six weeks, as part of a faculty exchange program between the universities of Delhi and Potsdam. 1 May 2017 to 15 June 2017.

Invited lecture

‘When Ripeness Isn’t All: Ageing and Death in Three Indian Short Stories’, Guest Lecture, Department of English, Potsdam University, 7 June 2017.

Conference paper

‘‘To Everything There is a Season’: Some Speculations about Body and Iime in Indian Fiction’, National Conference on Ageing, Ageism and Cultures,

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 21 September 2017.

Research Outputs and Service by Directors: Trevor Hogan

Grants:

2017 Australian Government. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant Scheme. ‘Manila: Culture & Place’: $49,500 in total funding for 15 students to undertake short-term study in the Philippines for the program with Ateneo de Manila University and Carlos Cedran Walk This Way. (=15 students @ 3 k, staff admin fund, 4.5 k). With Andrew Butt, Vincent Alessi, Hannah Robert.

2017 Australian Government. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant Scheme. ‘Women’s Health and Rights in the Philippines: Multidisciplinary Approaches’: $33,000 in total funding for 10 students to undertake short-term study in the Philippines for the program with Ateneo de Manila University and a variety of partners like the Human Rights Resource Centre and the University of the Philippines (Diliman & Baguio) to name a few. (=10 students @3 k, staff admin fund, 3 k). With Hannah Robert, Kerstin Steiner, Kristin Duncanson, Kayli Wild, Emma Henderson, Anastasia Kanjere, Sonia Reisenhofer.

2017 La Trobe Asia China Strategy Implementation Grants scheme: (2017: $ 6,650; 2018: $8,560) Project Title: Developing Formal Partnership between La Trobe University and Sichuan University and Two Social Theory Journals with Sichuan University.

2017 La Trobe University. Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic. ‘Enhancing Global Citizenship through Transformative Study Abroad Programs: A Study Tour to New Orleans and Mississippi’ – with Raul Sanchez-Urribarri and Terrie Waddell. $2,000 for a Project officer to assist us in writing a research article on the course learning and research goals and outcomes relating to developing graduate capabilities of social responsibility and global citizenship.

2016 Australian Government. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant Scheme. $33,000 (= 10 students @ 3 k, staff admin fund, 3 k) and to be repeated in 2019 a further $33,000 for international study subject HuS3RS1: Tracking Indigeneity in the Philippines. Subject ran from 1December 2016 to 1 March 2017 and the study tour component ran from 27January to 14February, 2017. With Mark Rose and Julie Rudner.

2016 Australian Government. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Endeavour Mobility grants (SMTP) $43,000 = 20 students @2 k plus 3 k for staff admin fund for international study subject HUS2IST/HUS3STT: ‘When the Levee Breaks: New Orleans and the Mississippi’. With Raul Sanchez-Urribarri and Terrie Waddell.

(We applied for same in 2017 but a La Trobe IT submission error meant all La Trobe applications were not received by the government, so the La Trobe Study Abroad office offered us $22,500 = 10 student grants @2 k plus 1.5 k staff administration fund by way of compensation for this bureaucratic and technological error.)

2015–16: La Trobe, School of Humanities and Social Sciences - Internal Research Grant Scheme: $10,000 for organising Philippine Indigenous Research Delegation to Manila for a week of public and academic events and a 3 day field trip to indigenous region of Cordillera, January–February, 2016.

Chapters in books

2017 ‘Twenty-first Century Asian Urban Imaginaries and the Longue Durée: An Antipodean Perspective’, in Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Co-edited by Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh, Berlin: Jovis.

2016 ‘Australian Suburbia as Material Culture and Civilization: Some Ruminations on Driving Home and Away’, in Indo-Australian Connections: Retrospect and Prospects. Edited by Santosh Sareen, Swati Pal, GJV Prasad, and Meenakshi Bharat. India-Australia Studies Association. New Delhi: Pinnacle Learning Publishers, pp. 48–54.

Review

2017 Calhoun, Craig, ‘The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements’, Thesis Eleven 138: 146–148.

Principal supervisor:

2017 Timothy Andrews: ‘Everyday life at the Cross-roads of Modernity: Intersections in the Thought of Cornelius Castoriadis, Agnes Heller and Henri Lefebvre’. (with Peter Beilharz)

2017 Andrew Gilbert ‘The Crisis Paradigm: The Concept of “Crisis” and its Limits in Lukács, Koselleck, Arendt and Habermas’. Winner of University Nancy Millis Award 2017 for PhD of outstanding merit. (with Peter Beilharz)

2016 Andrew Butt ‘Planning out of Place and the Place of Planners: Culture, Landscape and Planning for Farmland Protection in Peri-urban and Multi-functional Regions in Australia’. Special commendation in Rhys Isaac Prize, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

2016 Scott Doidge ‘The Anxiety of Ascent: Middle Class Narratives in Germany and America’. Book ms in consideration by Continuum. Winner of University Nancy Millis Award 2017 for PhD of outstanding merit. Winner of Rhys Isaac Award for best doctoral thesis, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016–2017. (with John Carroll)

2016 Marby Villaceran ‘Seeking Love in a Strange Land: The Lives of Filipina Marriage/Partner Migrants in Cross-cultural Relationships in Australia’. (with Helen Lee)

Co-supervisor:

2017 Medha Gunawardhana: ‘Integration of Community Decision Making Into Planning Practice: Five Case Sites on Understanding Community Coping Behaviour in Response to Rapid Socio-Economic Change and Natural Disaster, Hambantota Sri Lanka’. (with Julie Rudner and Cecilia McMichael).

2016 Gary Devilles: ‘City Sense: An Interdisciplinary Essay on Sensing Manila’. (with Norie Neumark, Creative Arts program) Winner of Nancy Millis Award, awarded by Graduate Research School for PhD thesis of outstanding merit, 2016.

Principal supervisor

Alonso Casanueva Baptista: ‘Padeia and Pedagogy in the Concept and Practice of Education: Castoriadis, Dewey, Illich and Freire’. (commenced August, 2014; due to submit October, 2018) (with George Vassilacopoulos)

Julian Potter: ‘Faust and Technological Modernity’. (due to submit February, 2018). (with Peter Beilharz)

Magdalena Szypielewicz: ‘Hipsterism as Urban Subculture and the Gentrification Conundrum’. (commenced February, 2017) (with Andrew Butt)

Humaira Tabassum: ‘Terrorism and Planning in Pakistani Cities’. (commenced December, 2013; due to submit, June, 2018) (with Julie Rudner)

Nguyen Khai Huyen Truong: ‘Housing in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’. (commenced April, 2013; on maternity leave, due to submit April, 2018) (with Andrew Butt)

Co-supervisor (with Julie Rudner)

Fatemah Shahani ‘Creating Muslim Spaces in a Multi-cultural Public Sphere’. (commenced October, 2014; due to submit October, 2018)

Publications 2016–2017

‘The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics: A Relational Perspective.’ 2017. With Bjoern Dressel and Alexander Stroh. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 13.

‘Venezuela (2015): Un Régimen Híbrido en Crisis.’ 2016. Revista de Ciencia Política 36(1): 365–81.

‘Constitutional Courts in the Region: Between Power and Submissiveness.’ 2017. In Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America. Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg (Eds.). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 276–299.

‘A Tale of Two Waves: Latin American Migration to Australia.’ 2016. With Vicente Perez de Leon, Mara Favoretto, Elizabeth Kath, John Sinclair and Annie Fergusson. Australian-Latin American Relations: New Links in a Changing Global Landscape. Elizabeth Kath (Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, 15–33.

Book reviews

‘Perils of Judicial Self-Government in Transitional Societies.’ By David Kosař. 2017. I-CONnect, Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, June.

‘Constitutional Courts as Mediators: Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America.’ By Julio Ríos Figueroa. 2017. Law and Politics Book Review – Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association

‘Police, Picket-Lines and Fatalities: Lessons for the Past.’ By David Baker. 2016. Labour History, November (111).

Select publications in professional outlets

‘Introduction: The 2017 (Authoritarian) Venezuelan Constituent Assembly.’ Introduction to Mini-Symposium organized dabout the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, at I-CONnect, Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. August 2017.

‘Debates: Venezuela.’ LASA Forum: Official publication of the Latin American Studies Association.’ Coordination of Symposium and Introduction (with John Polga-Hecimovich, U.S. Naval Academy, and Iñaki Sagarzazu, Texas Tech University). December 2016.

‘Venezuela: Towards Regime Change?’ Australian Outlook. Australian Institute of International Affairs. May 2017.

‘Witness of Venezuela’s Crisis’ Australian Outlook. Australian Institute of International Affairs. February 2017.

‘Venezuela on the Verge of Dictatorship: Can Dialogue or Demonstrations Turn it Around?’ (With Laura Gamboa, Utah State University) The Conversation, December 2016.

‘La Politización de la Justicia en Regímenes Autoritarios: Notas para Analizar el Caso Venezolano.’ Con Distintos Acentos. Online publication edited by the Iberoamerican Institute of the University of Salamanca. November 2016.

‘The Suspension of the Recall Referendum in Venezuela.’ (with Laura Gamboa, Utah State University) Democracy Blog, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Online publication, December 2016.

‘Venezuela: Demise of the Bolivarian Revolution?’ Australian Outlook. Australian Institute of International Affairs. September 2016.

Principal Supervisor

Silvana Grande (LLM by Research, March 2017),

Principal Supervisor

Kyle Slade (PhD, Legal Studies); Michael Ramos (MA, Politics).

Co-Supervisor

Eshan Arya (PhD, Politics); Gonzalo Carrasco (MA, Latin American Studies); Perla Guarneros (PhD, Law); Stephen Cuttriss (PhD, Latin American Studies); Thomas Rose (PhD, Latin American Studies).