[csaa-forum] Anyone for a conference?

[Mark Davis]

Sorry I missed this earlier, but replying as the only OzProspect  
member on the list, we just don't have the resources at the moment -  
everything goes to the fellows and is granted to us on that basis by  
foundations, so a conference would require a new round of squeezing  
blood out of the Oz philanthropic stone (pebble), and we'd probably  
rather spend the money on new fellows anyway . . .

Best
Mark
--
Mark Davis
Publishing and Communications Program
Department of English with Cultural Studies
University of Melbourne
61-3-8344-3349




On 30/07/2006, at 1:10 PM, Felicity Colman wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Perhaps OzProspect might consider convening a seminar/conference that
> addresses ‘the role of the academic AND the role of the public
> intellectual’ in Australia. Not everyone wishes to be both, and why  
> this
> continual demand to collapse the work of academics (poorly  
> resourced, and
> low salaried compared with private sectors)? It seems to me that the
> *Everyday Multiculturalism* CFP hit all the right buttons with  
> their very
> timely call for people to comment on difference, diversity, and  
> failures
> and successes of assimilation in this country.
>
> As Ien Ang thoughtfully noted -
>> All in all, this whole affair serves to remind us once again that  
>> 'the
>> public sphere' is a rough, potentially dangerous and often unfair  
>> place,
>> where many get hurt. We have to be prepared to wear this, and accept
>> that engaging within it is hard and risky work.
>>
>
> It's good to hear people acknowledge this. The point I wanted to  
> raise:
> the language that the fellowship student at Monash utilises (in  
> addition
> to the comments Vera Mackie made a few days ago in this list)  
> demonstrates
> that academia is often a place where cries for help go unnoticed.  
> Perhaps
> her supervisors were unaware, or unavailable, for consultation?
>
> I certainly encounter very angry students nearly every day. And so  
> they
> should be. Often I share their anger and frustration, and through
> discussions, reading groups, etc., it has been those same students  
> that
> have assisted me in finding a way that we can address our ideas + our
> commitment to working through those ideas - to keep on teaching
> inspiration - even through institutional and public hostility to
> questioning knowledge.
>
> As a junior academic (as my institution likes to call me, even  
> though I’m
> fast approaching 40years), also labeled as a theorist, (sometimes  
> unkindly
> - anyone interested, I’m happy to mail you a copy of my last batch  
> of ARC
> reports), I would be most interested to assist in convening  
> something that
> would assist in airing some of these interesting pedagogic concerns.
> Perhaps even have some research outcomes. Perhaps we can approach the
> Australian media for some sponsorship! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Felicity Colman
>
>> --
> Dr Felicity Colman,
> School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology
> http://www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au
> The University of Melbourne  Victoria  3010 Australia
> Tel: 61-3-834 45565\tFax: 61-3-8344 5563 fcolman at unimelb.edu.au
>
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