[csaa-forum] MQ CRSI Seminar 3 June 2008

[Selvaraj Velayutham]

Macquarie University
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion Seminar


"Enduring Occupations?"
By Professor David Theo Goldberg

Date: Tuesday, 3rd June 2008
Time: 12-1:15pm
Venue: Building C5C Room 371  Macquarie University


Abstract:

"Enduring Occupations" considers how occupations, across all their meanings, are central to contemporary neoliberalism, and how neoliberalism has refashioned occupations, racially re-arranged and re-shaped.


David Theo Goldberg directs the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute (www.uchri.org). He is also Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Critical Theory Institute, at the University of California, Irvine. He has authored several books, including The Racial State (Basil Blackwell, 2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Basil Blackwell, 1993). He has also edited or co-edited many books, including Anatomy of Racism (University of Minnesota Press 1990), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Basil Blackwell 1995), Between Law and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Relocating Postcolonialism (Basil Blackwell, 2002), and The Companion to Gender Studies (Basil Blackwell, 2004). His current monograph, The Threat of Race, will be published by Basil Blackwell in October 2008.

Goldberg is the co-founder and co-leader of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts,Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). HASTAC (www.hastac.org http://www.hastac.org> ) is a global consortium of eighty institutions committed to the development, application, and analysis of digital technologies in, for, and by the humanities, arts, and social scientists in collaboration with technologists, engineers, and computational scientists. He has turned his attention increasingly to promoting the creative and dynamic use of digital technologies to advance research, teaching and learning in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. With Cathy Davidson of Duke University, he is running the annual national HASTAC-Macarthur Competition in Digital Media and Learning, awarding $2-3 million in grants each year.

Sponsored by: The Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (Migration, Multiculturalism and Nation Cluster) and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre, Macquarie University.

For inquiries contact: Dr Selvaraj Velayutham at selvaraj.velayutham at scmp.mq.edu.au