Institute of Postcolonial Studies Newsletter

Number Fifteen February 2003

Exploring the colonial encounter and its impact textual, historical, political and economic on the majority and minority worlds

Occasional Papers
The Institute is pleased to announce the launch of an Occasional Papers series, which will publish a range of works-in-progress, speeches, lectures and articles, which have been either presented at the Institute or written by members of the Institute community. The Occasional Papers series is aimed at making accessible to a broader audience some of the scholarly and activist work that is produced and presented here at the North Melbourne home of the Institute. It will also play an important role in raising public awareness of the role and activities of the Institute. The first paper in the series is Lowitja ODonoghues Australian Postcolonial Dilemmas which was her presentation to the Institute at the Patrons Function on 15 May 2002. The second paper, by Margaret Thornton, is entitled Inhabiting a Political Economy of Uncertainty: Academic Life in the 21 st Century. This paper was originally presented at the Institutes public forum Lean, Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and the Future of Australian Universities on 2 September 2002.

Occasional Papers editors Edgar Ng, Devika Goonewardene and Simon Obendorf (pictured with Edgars dog Minto)

The High Court and Land Rights

A Public Forum
Uniting Church 51 Curzon Street, North Melbourne 7.30pm Thursday 5 June

Moderated by: The Hon. Anthony North

Judge, Federal Court of Australia

Speakers: Marcia Langton

The Occasional Papers series is edited by Devika Goonewardene, Edgar Ng and Simon Obendorf. The editors express their thanks to Andrew Lek for the cover design (pictured above) and printing, and to Lucas Chirnside and Bianca Looney for design advice. Availability and pricing details for papers in the series will be available on the Institute website at www.ipcs.org.au. Inaugural Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne

Lee Godden
Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne For further details about this forum please check the website nearer the time

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Semester One Seminar Series Postcolonial Legal Scholarship

Convener: Ian Duncanson This seminar series is not intended for specialists who communicate in esoteric vocabularies, but for a general audience interested in discussing and evaluating what progressive legal scholarship can contribute to the current global political problems that concern postcolonial studies. Most of the presentations are works in progress to which responses will be very welcome. The series assumes, at its broadest, that, as the well known joke has it, colonialism has not been post-ed anywhere. Australia, a former British colonial is, for example, still doubly implicated, as an informal colony of the US and as a power exercising colonial control over indigenous people. Law was a tool of colonialism, aesthetically representing western rationality to native disorder and pragmatically overriding local understandings to suit the needs of the conqueror. It has operated at two levels; as international law it has upheld the interests of the dominant western powers; as the domestic law of the colony it has legitimated the colonists claim to pre-eminence. The idea that the colonized might use either of these levels of law to claim for their aims an equality with the aims of the colonizer is relatively new, dubious, as we have seen in both land rights litigation and (principally) US foreign involvements. Both the (often unconscious) religious and cultural freight of white law as we are familiar with it, and the conceptual machinery it uses, predispose it to reasonable white, western interests, against the unreasonable demands of the other. Diagnosing this problem is a precondition of its cure. The papers and discussion in these seminars will contribute to this diagnosis. Discussion should not assume that colonialism oppresses only along ethnic lines. Imperialism, with its emphasis on exclusive forms of sovereignty encouraged the process by which techniques of rule at the periphery could be imported into the metropole, often as a technology of order aimed at class or gender insurgency. At the same time, the experience of colonizing had an impact on the concept of law itself so that in some respects the process of giving meaning became restricted to the technical expert. We now find that the kinds of politics that have re-surfaced in recent clash of civilizations rhetoric produce a new authoritarianism, which in turn affects legal rights. Programme 13 March Jenny Beard The Art of Development A Genealogy of Western Origins First World politics of development, Rule of Law programs and economic restructuring for

Third World countries, can be seen as symptoms of loss within the West and linked to enduring Christian theologies of sin and salvation. Jenny recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne and is a Research Associate with the Federal Court. 27 March Rob McQueen and Scott Beattie Postcolonial Crime Fiction The well-known western genre of crime fiction often evolves in unpredictable directions when practiced in countries of the south. Rob McQueen is foundation Professor of Law at Victoria University, Melbourne, where Scott also teaches. 17 April Neil Andrews The Gospel of the Federal Court, or, (un)natural injustice, the adversarial process and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1983 The title derives from James Fitjames Stephens remark that our law is the gospel of the English, which admits of no disobedience Aborigines involved in the Hindmarsh Bridge case were told that they could resort to Australian law only on its terms (overlooking that it was not they who had initiated the litigation) and rebuked (for not revealing in court the evidence of Hindmarsh Islands sacred status to women) that they set the rights (of others) at nought in a way not even the Inquisition attempted. In demanding that the dispute involving the Heritage Act be adversarial, the court destroyed the purposes for which it was enacted. Neil teaches at Victoria University after unsuccessfully trying to put the rich in gaol while working at the corporate and securities section of the Commonwealth DPPs office. 8 May Ian Duncanson Praxis and Writing: History, Law and the Postcolonial The historiographical controversy over whether its significations r e f e r e n c e a past incontrovertibly there, waiting for the historian, or represent , as in a story that could be told differently, is largely absent from the law discipline. One interpretation of the law/storys becoming a privileged meaning derived from canonical texts by privileged readers might be

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the transformation of the British Empire with the loss of part of America. Ian has written in the areas of legal education, jurisprudence and law and history and is a Research Associate at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. 15 May Anne Orford American Beauty On Economics, Aesthetics and International Law Anne is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne and author of Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2003). She is currently a Senior Emile Noel Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, New York University Law School. 22 May Judith Grbich Ned Kelly as Fetish: Filming Laws Colonial Imaginary The outlaw film provides ample grounds for rethinking the age old reasons for dispossession, popular resistance and the desire for justice. Psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory suggest that law is complicit in the enjoyment of bushranger films. Judith Grbich is a Research Associate at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies 29 May Connal Parsley Rumor, Whisper, Statement, Logic, Ground, Authority Recent text based artworks, particularly Paul Carters works in stone at Melbournes Federation Square, articulate a heterogeneity of linguistic forms. This is borne out in much postcolonial theorizing about language and modes of communication. But language is ever grounded, and in this common grounding we find an embedded condition for exclusion not limited to the authorized speech of the sovereign. Connal completed his undergraduate studies in law and linguistics at the University of Melbourne in 2001. He is currently completing articles of clerkship with the Australian Government Solicitor in Melbourne. All seminars will be held at 7.30pm at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne. Admission - Members of the Institute: Free, Waged: $5, Unwaged/Student: $3.

Margaret Thornton addresses the Institute at the Public Forum Lean Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and the Future of Australian Universities held on 2 September 2002.

Journal: Postcolonial Studies

The November issue of the journal, issue 5.3, should by now have found its way from our publishers in England to subscribers. As announced in the last issue of the newsletter, it is a miscellaneous issue that speaks to the loose concept of crossing, as suggested by our cover image of an approach to the ghats of the Ganges. The lead article by Graham Huggan, author of The Postcolonial Exotic, is a state of the field review of the question of the Anxiety of interdisciplinarity in postcolonial studies, from the disciplinary stance of comparative literature. Review essays on Latin American postcolonialism, by one of the fields most eminent scholars, John Beverley, and by one of the foremost Hispanicists in Australia, Sergio Holas, focus on interdisciplinarity too, each providing an extremely useful overview of the way postcolonial scholarship has developed in Latin American studies. They form a very strong lead to a reviews section that also treats the Comaroffs collection, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism , and Wendy Websters Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity. Jacquie Lo and Penny Edwards, address the question of miscegenation in papers arising out of a conference at ANU: Los Miscegenations dusky human consequences examines the early 90s case of the Gillespie kidnapping in the context of an Australian lineage of high-profile, twentieth-century miscegenation scandals. Edwards, Half-cast: staging race in Burma, draws on archival material to canvass the British perception of the Eurasian in Burma, linking this to colonial perceptions of Burmese theatre. Finally, Amitav Ghosh recalls his friend, the Kashmiri poet, Agha Shahid Ali, in a quietly resonant token for memorys sake, The Ghat of the only world. The first issue of volume 6, currently in press, addresses matters arising in a post-9/11 world. It features four previously untranslated essays by the French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, each of which speaks to his conception of monotheism as the defining factor of

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what others might call globalisation, and as the crux of the present global conflict. The Confronted Community, Deconstruction of Monotheism and Consecration and Massacre are recent pieces written either just prior to September 11 (and updated in the light thereof), or in the year following: they turn on Nancys particular conception of community, and his distinctive notion that the confrontation between Islam and the West is a conflict internal to the West. The War of Monotheism has come to us only in the past week and deploys the philosophical framework established in the other pieces to grasp the current situation. Ramchandra Gandhis Is the Heart on the Right Side? is offered as a non-dualist counterpoint to Nancys protestation from within monotheism. There follow pieces by Christine Battersby (Terror, Terrorism and the Sublime: Rethinking the Sublime after 1789 and 2001) and Bill Routt (Who Dances when Terror Strikes), each providing a genealogy of terror that bears on 9/11, the first a formal philosophical account, the second a more multi-generic approach. Finally, the reviews section focuses on works generated by the September 11 phenomenon. Thanks to Udesthra Naidoo for his hard work and acute assessments of the 9/11 field in the early stages of 6.1s conceptualisation. His assistance to the editorial process was extremely valuable. With 6.1, we welcome to the editorial team Tim Watson who will serve as the North American Associate Editor to Michele Grossman on the Reviews section. Tim is based in English studies at Princeton, and has already made a great contribution to the journal. Our forthcoming special issue on Taiwan, guest edited by Shu-mei Shih (6.2) is currently being finalised, and will provide a very interesting and diverse set of essays on different disciplinary and cultural aspects of Taiwan.

Jennifer Rutherford Visit

A Report by Adam Driver
The farrago of ideas, passions, actions and inertia otherwise known as the IPCS student group was especially pleased to present two firsts in a series of seminars: Jennifer Rutherfords Cutting Ordinary: An ABC True Story and the more student orientated Infuriating Intruders: Narrative Form and Writing Style: Psychoanalysis as Socioanalysis as Ethical Practice. While focused upon two different types of production a film and a book respectively Jennifers presentations touched directly upon some of the explicit aims of the Institute: alternative forms of intervening in public debates and of presenting academic knowledge. In its rough cut, Ordinary Australians was a political documentary that explored the brutal logic of the farright. An uncomfortable film, it drew its audience into an encounter with the unpalatable characteristics of Australian racism while at the same time exploring why and how people were interpellated by Pauline Hanson. After an injection of funds from central Australian cultural institutions - and consequent loss of directorial control - the film saw the light as A True Story, a documentary that celebrated a bunch of Ordinary Australians. The political/poetic narration was replaced by "pure journalism" and the central character became iconic of a mythologised Australian heroism. The story of this editing process provided in microcosm an exemplification of how central cultural institutions reproduce the mythology of white Australia and how the idea of what constitutes a story perpetuates ideas of nation and national character. A series of quite simple editorial interventions exclusion of the filmmaker from the visual frame; a shift from first to third person narration; the valorisation of a single character over analysis of a movement and its global context removed the uncomfortably intimate dialogue between educated intruder and ordinary Australianness. Racist sensibilities and the aggressivity of the moral good became located at the fringe of Australian culture and not its centre. By removing the cuts from identification to recoil the audience was safely positioned away from questioning moral codes common to the One Nation movement and more liberal Australian imaginings. Jennifer showed various examples of the way in which a film that was conceived as a livre-experience [] a text that stops the reader in their tracks and forces them to think otherly, turned into a missed encounter. She also related, however, an instance of missed recognition that touches more particularly upon one of goals of the IPCS: to make the fruits of academic endeavour accessible to a broader audience. During the height of the movement, members of One Nation bought almost every academic text published with One Nation in the title. However, Jennifer

Postcolonial Studies editor Sanjay Seth and Council member Rob McQueen debate the merits of Lynne Cheneys America: A Patriotic Primer at the forum Who Cares about Democracy?

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suggested that an opportunity for a productive encounter was cut short, not by the complexity of language or concepts, but by a mode of address. The works went unheard, if you like, because One Nation members were not directly addressed as readers who might respond.

Book Series: Writing Colonialism

Past

In August of last year, our London-based international publisher, Continuum, took a decision to cease publication in the areas of literary studies and the social sciences and its Editorial Director, Janet Joyce, had no alternative but to cancel the series. The final monograph to be produced under the imprint of Continuum International is Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan (eds.), Postcolonial Geographies , to be published in February this year. Much as the Editorial Board regretted losing its first publisher, it recognised the unique and valuable opportunity this provided for reviewing the series and bringing it up-to-date with current markets and publishing trends. As a result of a number of meetings late last year, the Board produced a position paper stating in clear and precise terms what the series stands for, what sort of market it is aimed at and how we see it functioning in relation to other kinds of publications in the postcolonial area. Overall we are looking to provide cutting-edge publications which will help set the agenda in the many different areas that postcolonial studies has come to embrace since the early 1990s. We hope to accomplish this by offering works which: Engage with contemporary issues or problems Bridge the gap between the university and the public spheres Address the gap between theory and practice Are interdisciplinary in approach as well as in subject Experiment with new kinds of structures or methodologies

Institute Director Phillip Darby with Jennifer Rutherford and Student Group Convenor, Adam Driver The title of the seminar the following afternoon Infuriating Intruders was a reference to the unease with which some took to the jumps between objectified analysis, poetic phrasing and, particularly, an oversharing I. These stylistic shifts are techniques differently repeated in Jennifers book The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy (MUP, 2000). While hardly uncommon in postcolonial studies, and always inadequate, they disturbed not only the commissioning editor of the film at the ABC, who didnt see directors, only producers, but also a number of reviewers of the book in the Australian intellectual scene as well. Jennifer spoke powerfully about a series of public yet productive failures brought about by such attempts to use alternative forms of texts, of teaching, of style to intervene in some of the conceptual impasses in Australian culture and, perhaps, bring about a new kind writing style through addressing a different kind of reader: one that would attempt to figure the impasses of language and speaking position, rather than repeat the linear precision of Australian academic writing and its imbrication with a questionable nationalist imaginary. Since most students at the seminar were using psychoanalytic theory for research into the non-clinical arena and had no specialist training there, we also spent time discussing the shift into socioanalysis that many, perhaps most, Lacanians don't accept and its translation from a metropolitan, mannered and masculinist French tradition. This, of course, led us to a series of questions: If the analytical situation is an ethical encounter, what kind of encounter does a psychoanalytic cultural critique envisage? Is this somehow an especially different issue for critical interventions more generally? The written version of the seminar Cutting Ordinary can be found at http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/IssueJan-2003/rutherford2.html

Thus prepared, we approached three publishers, University of Hawaii Press, Cavendish in London and Melbourne University Publishing. It was the Board's view that the University of Hawaii Press would be the ideal principal publisher for the series, complemented by co-publishing agreements with Cavendish and Melbourne University Publishing. University of Hawaii Press has responded positively. Its Director, Bill Hamilton, is attracted by the idea of the Institute and by our commitment to attempt to reach out to a broader constituency of readers. The position we have reached is that the decision about the series will be made very largely on the basis of the Press's response to a package of book proposals to be submitted in early March. We are delighted to announce that an agreement has been reached with Cavendish Publishing for copublication of law-related texts and the Institute looks forward to a broader collaborative relationship in the future. The Institute is most grateful to Dr Beverley

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Brown, Commissioning Editor Cavendish Publishing/GlassHouse Press for her support. On the day this newsletter went to press, Phillip Darby had encouraging discussions over an abstemious lunch with Louise Adler, publisher and CEO of Melbourne University Publishing. A reinvigorated co-publication arrangement with MUP, relating particularly to Australian and Indigenous titles, is now on the agenda.

and of Muslim women, in different ways pointing out how the mainstream constructs them as compromised (non)subjects and therefore invalid speakers. (2) After the success of the seminars presented by Jennifer Rutherford around The Gauche Intruder last year, another seminar series is being developed with invited guest speakers presenting their work and an opportunity to dialogue with them more intimately in a smaller student seminar. This will (almost certainly) begin with Ghassan Hage. And, (3) a newly revamped webpage. For more information on the student groups activities visit our homepage www.ipcs.org.au/student.html or join our email list by emailing: IPCSstudentssubscribe@smartgroups.com Finally, congratulations to our virtual student group member Surya Parekh (currently at UC Irvine) on the birth of his baby boy Pranav on 22nd January 2002.

Student Group
Over the last 6 months the student group has remained largely focussed around the reading group, but has a number of other projects in process. The reading group began with a detailed discussion of Spivaks (1999) revision of Can the Subaltern Speak? In an attempt to get a better understanding of the details of her text we then began to unpack some of the references to other writers, covering moments in Mahasweta Devi, Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault, among others. Throughout our discussions we have tried to understand the implications of these texts for our own positions as (relatively) privileged intellectuals attempting to ethically engage with others across the structures of (post?)colonial subject formation. The topic of ordering Pizza also remains a recurring preoccupation. Another ongoing activity of the student group has been the choosing of a name for our proposed e-journal. So far the top position on the short-list has been stubbornly claimed by Echo - defined by Spivak (1996) as a name for the random possibility of the emergence of an occasional truth of a kind. Over the summer break the main reading group has formed a splinter group which is devoted to reading Spivak (1999) in its entirety. This group appears set to continue for some weeks it is currently up to chapter two. Some rather late moves have also been made to affiliate with vicpeace, in order to formalise the direction of some of the groups anti-war energies. In 2003, the main reading group will continue meeting on fortnightly Tuesdays at 6pm. In the first or second week of semester we plan to hold a viewing of National Geographics film Search for the Afghan Girl (2002) a film replete with opportunities for outrage at the contemporary manifestations of the Western obsession with unveiling the third world as authentic spectacle. This session will be a good one for those who may be thinking of joining the group, as it will allow a fairly low-key chance to get to know each other over video, informal discussion, food and drink. Come along, well be happy to meet you. Other planned activities are (1) a seminar in which Anna Szorenyi & Juliet Rogers will present papers given at the December Fear of Strangers conference in Adelaide papers which consider media representations of refugees

Tammi Jonas and Marilyn Lake, following Marilyns presentation On Being a White Man: Australia circa 1901 on 29 October 2002

Institute welcomes Savitri Taylor

Savitri Taylor, from the School of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, will be joining the Institute in first semester as Research Scholar. She is working in the area of refugee studies, playing particular attention to the Pacific Solution.

New resident at the Institute

The Institute offers a warm welcome to its newest resident, Gabrielle Simm. Gabrielle entered into residence in early February 2003 after a year studying Lao language and working in Laos. Before that, she worked in Canberra in the public service for 4 years and completed a masters in international relations, following on from undergraduate work in arts and law. She is particularly interested in maintaining her links with South East Asia and in exploring postcolonial critiques of international law. The Institute extends its best wishes to Dirk Tomsa, former resident, for his PhD studies in the future.

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Institutional Linkages
Pursuant to our association with the Department of International Relations at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), a paper being prepared by a study group of the Institute will be forwarded to Jadavpur in March. The Department at Jadavpur will then produce a paper in response. It is envisaged that both papers will be published in the Occasional Papers series (see page one) and that further down the track, there will be an international collaborative publication. In November of last year, Dr Sanjukta Battacharya took over from Dr Anjali Ghosh as Head of Department at Jadavpur. The Institute very much looks forward to working with Sanjukta. In December of last year, John Strawson of the Encountering Legal Cultures Research Group of the Faculty of Law, University of East London (with whom we have an Agreement of Association) visited Melbourne and had discussions with the Institute about possible joint initiatives. He presented a draft proposal for a collaborative project Palestine and Australia: Questions of Land and Justice which might be pursued by the two bodies in conjunction with the Institute of Law at Birzeit University, Palestine. John envisages an international conference held in the Middle East, perhaps in Amman or Cairo, in 2004.

Marcia Langton
The Institute extends its warmest congratulations to Marcia Langton on her receipt of the first Neville Bonner Indigenous University Teacher of the Year Award. Marcia was nominated by the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne, with the support of the University. A parallel award went to Professor Larissa Behrendt of the University of Technology, Sydney.

Foreshadowing Second Semester

Ashis Nandy Visit It is with great pleasure that the Institute announces that Ashis Nandy, Distinguished Fellow of the Institute, will be paying a return visit to the Institute in second semester. Ashis had originally proposed to come to Melbourne in first semester but was forced to postpone his visit. We look forward to having Ashis and Uma back with us. Seminar Series Rachel Fensham and Amanda Macdonald will convene the seminar series for Semester 2 under the head of 'The Postcolonial Comic'. The series will present a mix of presentations both by comedians and by academics with a take on the comic. A highlight of the series will be performance by Max Gillies. The role of the jest in postcolonial situations and within postcolonial studies has received relatively little attention, and the series hopes both to interrogate laughter and to import a good deal of the actual article into the IPCS. Postcolonial Legal Scholarship Series This series will flow into second semester. Sandra Berns, Roshan de Silva and Bill Macneil, all from the School of Law at Griffith University will each present a paper. In addition, at least one other public forum is planned. Colloquium on the Cultural Unconscious and the Postcolonising Process This conference, sponsored by the Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine, The Ashworth Program in Social Theory, University of Melbourne and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, will take place on the 6-8 September. The conference will critically engage with psychoanalysis and conceptualisations of the unconscious, in order to better analyse the formations of subjectivity under colonial and postcolonial conditions. It will pay particular attention to contemporary processes, including globalisation, mass migrations and displacement, nationalism and citizenship, privatisation and corporatisation. The conference will be by invitation but open sessions will be arranged in the evenings. It is expected that a book will be produced from the conference proceedings.

The Hon John Cain, former Premier of Victoria at the Institutes forum Lean Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and the Future of Australian Universities, 2 September 2002

Advisory Group
A small advisory group has been set up to advise Council, the Board of Directors and the Director about strategic planning, financial issues and the public role and profile of the Institute. We are honoured that the Hon. John Cain, former Premier of Victoria, Ms Hilary McPhee, Vice-Chancellors Fellow, University of Melbourne, and Gary Highland, National Spokesperson, Corporate Public Affairs, Australia Post have agreed to be members of this group.

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Subscriptions
Annual subscriptions will now run for 12 months from the date of payment, rather than (as previously) being due for renewal every January. Personalised subscription reminder notices will be mailed to members one month before their subscriptions are due to expire. New members can pay their subscriptions in person at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies or by cheque mailed to the Institute. Annual subscription rates are as follows: Student Membership: $20 per annum Student Membership (including subscription to Postcolonial Studies): $60 per annum Ordinary Membership: $40 per annum Ordinary Membership (including subscription to Postcolonial Studies): $80 per annum Corporate Membership: $100 per annum In addition to a substantial discount on the journal, as above, membership offers free access to the panel series, occasional lectures and social events at the Institute as well as generous discounts on purchases of books from the book series. Members will receive regular updates of our programme (both through mailings and electronically) and will receive invitations to members only functions.

Professor Brad Morse, Law School, Ottawa University addresses the Institute on 'The Continuing Significance of Historic Treaties and Modern Treaty-Making: A Canadian and United States Perspective', 22 July 2002

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Professor Tony Coady Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the forum Lean Mean and Obscene: Neoliberalism and the Future of Australian Universities, 2 September 2002

Chandani Lokuge, Director, Centre for Postcolonial Writing, Monash University at her presentation The Imaginary Homeland of Michael Ondaatje held on 7 August 2002

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