This year’s Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Susan L. Robertson (Monash University) Left-Right, or Left Right Out? Knowledge Economies, Social Inequalities, Education and Authoritarian Populism
This year, the fortieth anniversary of Thesis Eleven, the 20th Annual Lecture will be delivered by Founding Editor, Peter Beilharz. This event is hosted by the Thesis Eleven Forum for Social and Political Theory, La Trobe University and concludes a program of events celebrating 40 years of Thesis Eleven.
From the violence at the mine in Marikana to the almost daily scenes of evictions from occupied buildings in the inner city of Johannesburg, and from the protests in working class areas like Eldorado Park, to the perfect storm and raging wild fires that have surrounded the drought stricken province of the Western Cape – I shall be working with notions of how the histories of settlement and the settler state underpin the present, and how these might and might not resonate with Australian realities.
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Wednesday 20 August 2014 UPDATED TIME: 1pm – 2pm Martin Building Lecture Theatre 488, La Trobe University (To be followed by Postgraduate Masterclass from 2.30-5pm in DWB 222) According to Gunther Anders, the bombing of Hiroshima signified the dawning of the age of the Inverted Utopia – utopians, he said imagine what they cannot achieve,…
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