[csaa-forum] Thinking Race and Identity, UNSW, July 31

[Melissa Gregg]

Thinking Race and Identity
31 July 2004, 8:30am - 5:30 pm at:

The Tyree Room, The Scientia, University of New South Wales
Kensington Campus, Sydney

This conference provides a forum for people interested or working in the
area of contemporary French philosophy to discuss concepts of race and
identity. It brings together philosophers, activists, race theorists,
and community to discuss race, identity, justice and racism to create a
dialogue between philosophical research and the research and work
currently being undertaken in the community and other disciplines.
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Keynote Speakers:

Lewis Gordon, Laura Carnell University Professor of Philosophy at Temple
University; Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government at the University
of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; and President of the Caribbean
Philosophical Association. 
Professor Gordon is author of Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Humanities
Press 1995), Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on
Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Routledge 1995), Her Majesty’s Other
Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age (Rowman and
Littlefield 1997) and Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana
Existential Philosophy (Routlege 2000).
Professor Marcia Langton, Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies,
University of Melbourne
Noted anthropologist and social and political theorist, her most recent
publications include articles in The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art
and Culture (Oxford University Press 2000) and Blacklines: contemporary
critical writing by Indigenous Australians (Melbourne University Press
2003).
Plenary Speech
Senator Aden Ridgeway Senator Democrats
Senator Ridgeway’s current portfolios areas are: Arts & Sport; Consumer
Affairs; Forestry; Indigenous Affairs; Industry, Small Business &
Tourism and Trade & Overseas Development. 
Senator Ridgeway is the Chairman of Bangarra Aboriginal Dance Company
and a board member of the Tikkun Australia Foundation, the Lumbu
Indigenous Community Foundation and a trustee of the Charlie Perkins
Children's Trust.

Other guest speakers include: 
Mr Shane Phillips, Redfern Community Activist, Tribal Warrior.
Professor Paul Patton, Chair of Philosophy, University of NSW. 
Associate Professor Rosalyn Diprose, Philosophy, UNSW
Dr Irene Watson, ALRM and School of Law, Flinders University.
Dr Jean-Philippe Deranty, Philosophy Macquarie University
Contact the organisers

Information joshuamullan at hotmail.com and RSVP by 27 July to
danieledavis at hotmail.com, marrkoneill at hotmail.com, 
or phone 02 96659323

For information on how to get to the UNSW go to:
www.transport.unsw.edu.au 
Registration: 8:30am – 9:00am  
Cost: waged $60, students and unwaged $20(includes m/afternoon tea,
lunch and reception) 
Supported by the Australian Research Council, the Faculty of Arts & Soc
Sciences &the School of Philosophy, UNSW.

-- 
Melissa Gregg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
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University of Queensland 4072
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