Nancy Fraser’s Australian Tour.
26 July — 7 August 2005
Sponsored by the Victorian Peace Network and
the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University and others.
Nancy Fraser is a Professor of Political and Social Science at the New School, New York, whose work sheds light on the interaction between rival conceptions of justice. She will be speaking on:
“Reframing Justice in a Globalising World.”
Background Information
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Synopsis of Nancy Fraser’s work.
Synopsis of Australian Tour.
Nancy Fraser’s Home Page at the New School, New York.
Rethinking Recognition, Nancy Fraser. New Left Review May 2000.
Nancy will be accompanied on the tour by Eli Zaretsky, who has his own parallel program of activity. Eli recently published a history of psychoanalysis Secrets of the Soul..
Program
Tuesday 26th July: Perth
Public Lecture: “Reframing Justice in a Globalising World.”
7:00pm, Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia
Eli Zaretsky will be taking a postgrad workshop, 11am at UWA.
Wednesday 27th July
11:00am Masterclass at UWA;
Terri-ann White, Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, is responsible for the W.A. leg of the tour.
Thursday 28th July: Melbourne
Radio Interview: 11:00am, “The Conversation Hour,” with Jon Faine, 774AM
Lunch and Seminar: 12:30pm, “Networking for Gender Justice: A Dialogue with Nancy Fraser,” Victorian Women’s Trust (invitation only, contact Kim Toffoletti), co-hosts Deakin and Latrobe Universities and the VWT. There will be a discussion of Nancy’s draft paper, Mapping the Feminist Imagination, from Redistribution to Recognition to Representation.
6:30pm: Book Launch of Eli Zaretsky’s Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History
at Readings, Carlton
Public Lecture: 7:30pm, “Reframing Justice in a Globalising World.”
Storey Hall, R.M.I.T., Swanston Street; tickets from New International Bookshop 9662 3744 or Readers Feast, corner Bourke St and Swanston St.
Friday 29th July
Workshop for social service sector workers and volunteers.
Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, with the support of VCOSS, Brotherhood of St. Laurence and Our Community.
“A Day with Eli Zaretsky,” is also on Friday 29th July: contact Doug Kirsner.
Saturday 30th / Sunday 31st July:
Interdisciplinary Academic Conference at Deakin University
See conference website: The Politics of Recognition: Identity, Respect and Justice. Closing date for Registration 15 JULY;
Andy Blunden is responsible for the Melbourne leg of the tour.
Monday 1st August: Sydney
Radio Interview: 10:00pm, “Late Night Live,” Radio National 621
Tuesday 2nd August
Public Lecture: 7:30pm, “Reframing Justice in a Globalising World.”
General Lecture Theatre, Univesity of Sydney (reception 6:30pm, Nicholson Museum)
Wednesday 3rd August
“Recognition and Redistribution,” – an academic seminar at University of Sydney.
Robert van Krieken, Chair of Department, Department of Sociology & Social Policy; University of Sydney, is responsible for the Sydney leg of the tour.
Thursday 4th August: Brisbane
Daytime Seminar – 5pm to 7:30 at the Ship Inn Function Room, Graduate Studies Centre, Queensland College of Art, South Bank.
Fiona Paisley, of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, is responsible for the Brisbane leg of the tour, in collaboration with the Brisbane Institute and the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University.
Saturday 6th / Sunday 7th August: Byron Bay Writers Festival
9.00am Saturday: Feminism: why did the movement begin and what is its relevance now? with Anne Summers, Nancy Fraser, Kate Jennings and Julia Baird, chaired by Lucy Clark
1.30pm Saturday: In Conversation Nancy Fraser & Mary Delahunty.
Eli Zaretsky is participating in events: 11:45am Friday: Aftermath: the trauma of natural and man made disasters. Putu Wijaya, Maria Tumarkin, Eli Zaretsky Chair: Sally Neighbour. 11:15am Sunday: Love versus obsession, power and abuse, Emily Maguire, Gabrielle Morrissey, Eli Zaretsky, Sonja Hartnett, Chair: Alan Close. 2:30pm Sunday: In Conversation, Eli Zaretsky & Rachael Kohn.
Contact Jill Eddington for information about the Byron Bay Writers Festival.
Media seeking interviews or further information, please contact Andy Blunden, tel. 03-9380 9435. Institutions or individuals seeking further information about the tour, or wishing to participate, please email the contact for the relevant leg of the tour.
Nancy and Eli will be Visiting Fellows at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University until about 18th August and then returning to Melbourne briefly to participate in the Melbourne Writers Festival.