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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As part of our MFCO Seminar Series 2025, our very own
<b>Dr Brett Nicholls</b> will be presenting next week on Tuesday 29<sup>th</sup> April. Please join us at 3pm in Burns 4 or via Zoom link (register
<a href="https://forms.gle/LuMtYkY5Fj9NzgKm9">here</a>). Seminar details follow:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The communist empty signifier: the Australian League of Rights and the Voice to Parliament referendum</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In 2023, voters across Australia resoundingly rejected the Constitutional institution of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Among several claims made by vote no campaigners against this institution, a text published in the 1980s by the notorious extreme right organization, The Australian League of Rights, surfaced. The central claim of this text, titled <i>Red Over Black</i>, is
that Aboriginal claims for justice and land rights are a communist conspiracy. In the lead-up to the referendum, the campaign to vote no echoed this claim. Drawing upon the Laclauian Discourse Analysis, the seminar considers how this signifier, ‘communist,’
continues to resonate in political campaigns in Australia. My claim is that the foundations for this continued resonance emerge in enduring reactionary organizations such as the Australian League of Rights, which was founded in the 1940s. The seminar thus
outlines how the League imagines the communist conspiracy and explains how this conspiracy remains embedded in political discourse today.</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Rosemary Overell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pűkenga Matua | Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pâpâho, Whitiâhua, Pârokoroko | Media, Film & Communication Programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ôtâkou Whakaihu Waka | The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Otepoti | Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Aotearoa New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2024). ‘<i>Don’t Worry Darling</i>: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’.
<i>Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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