‘Postscripts from the Antipodes’ 28th of November 2016 City Campus, La Trobe University 360 Collins Street, Melbourne. The Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University invites you to the 9th annual conference of the Castoriadis in the Antipodes Network. The Castoriadis in the Antipodes conference encourages an encounter of…
This issue of Thesis Eleven presents Agnes Heller’s essays. It is the first in a series of virtual special issues focusing on authors who have made significant contributions to Thesis Eleven.
Wednesday 22 October 2014 12 pm Visual Arts Centre, View Street, Bendigo South African writer Ivan Vladislavić has worked often with artists and especially with photographers. He will discuss the value of working in response – or resistance – to visual images. Vladislavić’s works include The Restless Supermarket (2001); Double Negative (2010), Portrait with Keys…
Monday 27th October 2014 12 – 1pm HUM477a Level 4 Humanities Building, Sandy Bay Campus South Africa is a fascinating modernity – images of idyllic landscape matched with those of cities and race relations that remain challenging, even twenty years after apartheid. Johannesburg has the reputation of being a tough, if not impossible city. Certainly…
What is remembered when the bombing of Hiroshima is remembered? Keith Tester, University of Hull introduced by Peter Beilharz @ La Trobe University 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, but now we are…
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,…
Tuesday 19 August 2014, 4 – 6 pm La Trobe University, Martin Building 362A Open to the Public (No RSVP required) Keith Tester and Peter Beilharz are among the leading interpreters of the work of Zygmunt Bauman. They began writing about this work when there was really no Bauman literature at all. That situation has…
Wednesday 20 August 2014 2.30 – 5.00 pm Donald Whitehead Building Room 222, La Trobe University Pre-reading available on request (email thesis11@latrobe.edu.au) Max Weber posed the central question: what should we do and how should we live? But from a strictly sociological point of view the question needs to be modified to: what do we…
30 June – 2 July 2014 University of Leeds Thesis Eleven will be conducting this seminar as a part of the Building Sustainable Societies Conference 2014 hosted by the University of Leeds – follow link for more details. What is sustainability? Sustainability is a common term in popular parlance today but it emanates from…
Across a career now spanning forty years Krishan Kumar has, like Thesis Eleven itself, led from behind or on the side. His work has covered many of the perennials – revolution, utopia – always hinged, after 1917, to dystopia, progress and prophecy, modern and postmodern, nation and national identity, empires, and so on. He also…
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