15/16 August 2011
Other Cosmopolitanisms
Keynote: Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Northern and Southern Cosmopolitanisms’
Date: 15/16 August 2011
Time: 9:30am–5pm
Location: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, Level 3, Mary Ann House, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo
Registration is free: ccs@uts.edu.au
Cosmopolitanism is an affiliation to humanity-in-general. As such it is often defined as a globalist orientation, associated with elite cosmopolites. Yet cosmopolitanism is also embedded in social relations and in civil societies. It can have a powerful insurgent quality, and capacity to disrupt elitism, if not unseat it. Dominant cosmopolitanism, in the singular, is thus displaced by ‘other Cosmopolitanisms’, in the plural. This conference explores these latter manifestations, whether as ideologies, programs, identifications or practices.
Papers will investigate historical aspects, for instance in the anti-colonial period, and contemporary themes, whether in everyday contexts, or in policy and social movement practice.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of ‘Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: an Interdisciplinary Journal’: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/mcs
Conveners:
Devleena Ghosh, Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network: devleena.ghosh@uts.edu.au
James Goodman, Cosmopolitan Civil societies Research Centre: james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Please find Event Flyer, Draft Program and Abstracts for more detailed information.
19/20 November 2010
Indian Cinemas – Oceanic Assemblages
A symposium organised by IOSARN and the India Research Centre at Macquarie University
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RSVP required by 8 November: Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au
17 – 19 March 2010: Advancing a sustainable future: strategies for cross-disciplinary practice around the Indian Ocean
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11-13 MARCH 2009: Intercolonial networks; Oceanic Circulations; Re-thinking the Indian Ocean
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