[csaa-forum] Symposium: Australian Social Sciences in the Asian Century

[Vera Mackie]

The Annual Symposium of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia this year will focus on Australian Social Sciences in the Asian Century.

Speakers will respond to the discussion paper on Australia in the Asian Century and will consider what we can learn from an engagement with the diverse social science traditions in the region.

Speakers include Sujata Patel (University of Hyderabad), Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore), Sylvia Estrada Claudio (University of the Philippines), Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney), Dennis Altman (La Trobe University) and Simon Marginson (University of Melbourne).

The one-day symposium will be held on 20 November 2012 in the Shine Dome in Canberra.

For the full program and resgistration form, see: http://www.assa.edu.au/programs/forums/annual_symposiums/2012.php

The Annual Symposium and Cunningham Lecture are open to non-Fellows.

Vera Mackie
University of Wollongong

(Co-convener of the Symposium)