PUBLIC LECTURE: �Reframing Justice in a Globalising World�
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The Victorian Peace Network
With the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
and the Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA
Present a public lecture by
Nancy Fraser, Professor of Political and Social Science
New School, New York
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.
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.
Profile: Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics in the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at New School University. Nancy is one of the leading figures of Critical Theory and widely regarded as the most important feminist critic and moral philosopher of the present moment.
After receiving her Ph.D. from the City University of New York, she taught for many years at Northwestern University, before coming to the New School in l995. Co-editor with Andrew Arato of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, she has published extensively in political philosophy, social theory, “Continental” philosophy, and feminist theory.
Nancy’s recent international appointments include: Spinoza Professor of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Jantina Tammes Professor of Gender Studies, University of Groningen, Research Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2004-2005 and Vice-President and Member, Conseil scientifique, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, 2003-present. She has held Visiting Professorships and Research Fellowships at many institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Paris, the London School of Economics, the University of Stockholm, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna) and the University of Groningen and has delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University and her work has been the focus of a number of recent academic symposia.
Recent publications include Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange. (co-authored with Axel Honneth). London: Verso, 1998; Justice Interrupturs: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition. New York: Routledge, 1997; Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. (co-authored with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell). New York: Routledge, 1994; Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and Polity Press, 1989.
Eli Zaretsky is Professor of History at the New School University in New York.
His publications include Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (2004); The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History (editor, 1995); Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Life (1986).
ALL WELCOME. NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED
Speaker(s) |
Nancy Fraser, Professor of Political and Social Science
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Location |
Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA
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Contact |
Institute of Advanced Studies
<[email protected]>
: (08) 6488 1340
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URL |
http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au
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Start |
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:00
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End |
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:00
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Submitted by |
Milka Bukilic <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:49
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