[SydPhil] Next Thursday: Emergences and Convergences Postgraduate Conference

[Joanne Faulkner]

Emergences and Convergences
Thursday, 31 October, 10:00am-5:30pm
Morven Brown Rooms 310 & 309
UNSW Kensington Campus


Next Thursday the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW will be
hosting an annual Postgraduate Conference under the banner of
Emergences and Convergences.

Interdisciplinary panels will speak to diverse themes: Social
Movements, Language & Cultural Modernity, Contemporary Philosophy,
History & Historiography, Japanese Language Education, and
Environmental Humanities. Paul Patton, Lisa Ford, Eben Kirksey, Peter
Collins, Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson, Lindsay Kelley, and Jean Taylor
will be chairing these panels and serving as discussants.  A keynote
lecture by Prof. Franson Manjali, visiting from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, will explore “The Story of Language, Culture and Religion
in the Colonial Context. “

Students from ANU, Deakin University, University of Sydney, Victoria
University, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Western
Australia, UTS, and University of Sydney will be giving presentations
alongside our own students.   Isonbelle Barrett Meyering, Sophie
Robinson, James Keating, Rick Arruda, Emily J Huges, Francesco
Paradiso, Antje Kuhnast, Andrei Miroiu, Kate Colgan, Molly O’Halloran,
Prue Gibson, Tetsushi Ohara, Yuji Okawa, and Kaori Shimasaki will be
presenting from UNSW.

The full program is available on-line: http://tinyurl.com/unsw-emergences

For more information contact: Dr. Eben Kirksey, Deputy Postgraduate
Coordinator, School of Humanities and Languages.  eben (dot) kirksey
(at) unsw.edu.au