The Victorian Peace Network and the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University have jointly invited Nancy Fraser to tour Australia July/August 2005. Nancy will be accompanied by Eli Zaretsky, with a separate parallel tour being organised for Eli by Doug Kirsner and Geoff Boucher of Deakin University.
The tour aims to use a mixture of academic and social movement events for Nancy to engage at multiple levels with the social justice community in Australia. It is hoped that Nancy’s tour will make a material impact on the quality of relations between the different social movements and on progressive political/ethical discourse in Australia overall and contribute to strengthening the broader Peace Movement.
Nancy and Eli arrive in Perth on 25th July and will depart from Sydney on 8th August 2005. The centrepiece of the tour is a 2-day academic conference in Melbourne, organised by the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation on the weekend of 30/31st July, for which a call for papers has already been issued.
The title of Nancy’s talks will be “Re-framing Justice in a Globalizing World.”
The Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia will host two days of public and academic events for Nancy and Eli 26/27th July. The Sociology Department at Sydney University, in collaboration with colleagues at UTS, will be hosting a public lecture as well as internal postgraduate seminars, for 2nd and 3rd August. It is expected that Nancy and Eli would visit Brisbane around 4th August, and they will wind up the tour at the Byron Bay Writers Festival where Nancy and Eli will each participate in an “interview” and a “panel discussion” on the closing weekend of the Festival.
A one-day seminar for workers in the social services sector, community organisations and charities is planned in Melbourne, and a “town hall” meeting for the general public.
Participating institutions are each sponsoring Nancy for one or two days. Hosting institutions are encouraged to collaborate with other organisations so that the widest possible section of the social justice movement in Australia participate in the tour.
It is important that the tour develop as a single program of events, with different activities contributing to the whole. Events in the same city therefore should target different sections of the community, and no other institution should call for papers in competition with the ICG Conference. There remains nevertheless, considerable scope for institutions to use Nancy and Eli’s visit in a variety of ways to suit their own needs and strategies.
For further information re Nancy’s tour, please contact Andy Blunden on 03-9380 9435 or by email on ablunden@mira.net or Michael Leach on 9244 3923 Fax: 03-9244 6755 or by email: mpleach@deakin.edu.au. For further information re Eli’s tour, please contact Doug Kirsner on 924 43980 or by email on dkirsner@optusnet.com.au, or Geoff Boucher on 03-53 686 805 or by email on boucher@deakin.edu.au.
Andy Blunden
6th September 2004