[csaa-forum] Reminder: Team Australia???? "Race, Values and Culture in Contemporary Australia" Thursday 9 Oct Sydney Uni

[Baden Offord]

The Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney and the Centre for Human Rights

Education, Curtin University, invite you to a mini symposium and launching of the recently published book,
Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values (Anthem, 2014).

"Race, Values and Culture in Contemporary Australia"

WHEN:     5.00pm to 7.00pm: Thursday 9 October
WHERE:    S226 Seminar Room, John Woolley Building (A20)
                   Level 2, entry off Manning Road
                   University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus

RSVP essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/race-values-and-culture-in-contemporary-australia-tickets-13193557285

Given Australia's status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called 'empty' landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialisation, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy - all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption and triumph of the Western mind - materially, psychologically, culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. Tony Abbott's recent invocations of 'Team Australia' and his view that the arrival of the First underscore the persistence of such specific values. This mini symposium will examine how race, values and culture are evident in contemporary Australia. What are the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture?What assumptions continue to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values? Where did 'Team Australia' come from?

PANEL SYMPOSIUM: 5-6.30PM
M/C: Professor Gerard Goggin, ARC Future Fellow, Dept. of Media and Communications, University of
Sydney

Confirmed Panel:
Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Race Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
Dr Tanja Draher, School of Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong
Dr Kiran Grewal, Institute of Social Justice, Australian Catholic University
Dr Rob Garbutt, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University
Professor Baden Offord

Discussant: Professor Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

6.30PM: BOOK LAUNCH (with refreshments)
Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values
Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell and Kirsten Pavlovic
With Foreword by Ashis Nandy and Afterword by Vinay Lal
http://www.anthempress.com/inside-australian-culture

'This book is a bold statement on issues of deep importance in Australian life: our cultural history, our racial
politics, and the shape of our public culture. The authors have produced a highly readable and also disturbing book, most relevant to our disturbing times.' Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

Copies of the book will be available for sale at a special discounted cost of $60 for this launch. Cash only.?

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>From 22 January 2015:?
Dr Baden Offord
Director and Professor
Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities

Curtin University
GPO Box 1987, Perth, WA 6845, Western Australia
Tel | +61 (0) 8 9266 7186
Fax | +61 (0) 8 9266 3818
Email | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au<mailto:Steffen.Lehmann at curtin.edu.au>
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