Where and when was the symposium held?
When: Thursday 24 July 2008 (Following the Moving Ideas and Research Policies Conference)
Where: Japanese Studies Centre, Bld 54, Clayton campus
Symposium program (pdf 413Kb) - includes abstracts
Key questions
- Is your research too parochial?
- Are your ideas stuck in one place?
- How do ideas travel?
- How can you ensure your ideas will travel?
Specially invited speakers
- McKenzie Wark (New School for Liberal Arts and Sociology, New York);
- Dennis Altman (La Trobe University);
- Katherine Gibson (ANU, Canberra); and
- Susan Robertson (University of Bristol, UK)
McKenzie Wark is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research, New York City. His research interests include media theory, new media, critical theory, cinema, music, and visual art. He has authored a number of books, including A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.
Dennis Altman is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. He first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. This book, which has often been compared to Greer’s Female Eunuch and Singer’s Animal Liberation was the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and was published in seven countries, with a readership which continues today. Since then Altman has written eleven books, exploring sexuality, politics and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States and now globally. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-5), and has been invited to lecture on AIDS and sexuality in countries across the world, including periods as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and New York University. In 2005 he was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, and is a member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society and the Board of Oxfam Australia. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008. His recent books include: 51st State? and Gore Vidal’s America.
Katherine Gibson is a Professor of Economic Geography in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Her research involves rethinking economic concepts in the light of feminist, poststructuralist and class process theory. She has a strong commitment to action research with communities interested in reconstituting economic practices in place. She shares a collective authorial presence as J.K. Gibson-Graham with her long-term collaborator Professor Julie Graham. Books include: The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy and A Postcapitalist Politics.
Susan Robertson is a Professor of Sociology of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. Susan's academic career has spanned four countries - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and England. In 1999 Susan took up a post at the University of Bristol where she has worked to create the first centre of its kind in the UK - the Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies (GES). Along with her colleague Roger Dale, she also is founding editor for the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education. There is now a core and critical mass of scholars working with her in the GES. Susan has just completed a Synthetic Review of Globalisation, Education and Development for the Department of International Development. Between 2002-2005 she was co-director of a major ESRC funded project on new technologies and learning InterActive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age, with a particular interest in the wider policy issues.
Who is the Symposium for?
This symposium has been created for honours, masters and doctoral candidates in the Humanities and the Social Sciences to attend.
About the Symposium
This symposium involves globally mobile intellectuals whose travels have shaped their ideas and early career researchers for whom travel is a central feature of their research. They will answer the key questions, showing how travel has impacted on their ideas and on the movement of theory in their field while also meditating on travelling research and researchers in global geographies of knowledge and power.
Rationale
International travel has been integral to many researchers' intellectual formation and is increasingly central to researchers' ideas and identities. Research projects and programs are now often influenced by where we travel and with whom we mix. For doctoral candidates this is more and more the case as epistemological communities become further globally connected: conceptually, physically and virtually.
Speakers will share their travelling tales and their views on the implications of travels for research. Further, alongside early career researchers, post graduate research students will be provided with the opportunities to not only exchange ideas with such senior colleagues but also to discuss their own perspectives on the links between their research and travelling ideas.
Outcome
This event will be included in the exPERT program for the advanced skills development of Monash's graduate research students. It will be video recorded and edited and a pod-cast and a DVD will be developed, as will a teaching script. The package will be titled Travelling Research Literacies in a Transnational World, and this will then be available to all research students. It will be a unique offering of the Monash Research Graduate School (MRGS).
Symposium enquiries
Annabelle.Leve@education.monash.edu.au
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- Professor Edwina Cornish DVC (Research)
- Professor Stephanie Fahey DVC (International)
- Professor Adam Shoemaker DVC (Education)
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