[eccr] The Event, Culture and Contingency Symposium

>CONFERENCE: 'THE EVENT, CULTURE AND CONTINGENCY'
>
>Friday, 01 July 2005,
>09:30-17:30
>
>Venue:
>Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne (Grattan Street, Parkville)
>
>Cost: 
>Free 
>
>"The Event, Culture and Contingency" is a one-day symposium bringing together
>postgraduate scholars and creative writers from across Australia and 
>overseas for a day
>of interdisciplinary debate and academic exchange.
>
>Integral to understanding changes in both ourselves and our world, 'the 
>event' is a
>concept attracting increased critical attention.  Described as "a 
>difference that makes a
>difference", events "[m]ay happen, or be manufactured, affect us and be 
>effected by us",
>and thus emerges from the impossible cusp between contingency and 
>necessity.  Papers
>will consider both what constitutes 'an event', and how different events 
>have been, are,
>and might possibly be, constituted and reconstituted.
>
>Keynote speaker:
>Ghassan Hage (University of Sydney)
>'There is nothing here': Notes on Diasporic Ontologies
>Ghassan Hage is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University 
>of Sydney.
>He is the author of White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism, and 
>Arab-Australians
>Today.
>
>Details available on-line:
>http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/antithesis/events.html
>
>Organised by:
>
>The editors of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the Department of English 
>with Cultural
>Studies and Creative 
>Writing
>University of Melbourne

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