The Institute of Postcolonial Studies will be hosting another event tomorrow night @ 7:30pm. Do it. In recent years there has been a growing interest in everyday knowledges in the non-European world, much of it concerned with bringing these knowledges into conversation with post-enlightenment thought. The hope is that by connecting long-suppressed non-European knowledges with recessive traditions in Western thought, we might better be able to address intractable issues such as sustainable futures or even the movement of peoples across state borders or conflict resolution. There are, however, formidable problems facing this project which is essentially about decolonising ways of knowing. Foremost among them is the global knowledge machine and its procedures for authorising, recording and rewarding the production of knowledge. Might not this mean that other ways of knowing are likely to be adjunct, decidedly secondary at that? Can other ways of knowing be extracted from lived experience without losing their social purpose? As most everyday knowledges are local, how might they be broadened out on a regional or similar basis without strain? By way of challenge to the dominant paradigm that the West provides methods, there is an emerging literature on “Asia as Method”. Is this an appropriate and viable project? Panel Discussion, followed by question and answer session John von Sturmer is a Senior Fellow of the Institute. His early career linked him with French structuralist thought. In 1969 he commenced anthropological fieldwork in western Cape York Peninsula, principally among the Kugu-nganycharra. In 1970 he was appointed the first lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Queensland, in conjunction with the Austrlalian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. In the 1970s and 1980s he was very active in the promotion of Aboriginal dance and ceremonial work, as well as serving on many intergovernmental committees. Since 1994 John has worked as an independent researcher. He has also taught and practiced as a psychoanalyst. Yassir Morsi completed his Ph.D in political science and Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne. His main area of research is racism and Islamophobia. Yassir was president of the University of Melbourne Islamic society for two years and is in active dialogue with numerous Muslim organisations and the youth in Sydney and Melbourne. Yassir is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Australia where he researches at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding. Phillip Darby is Director of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and a principal fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Charges: Waged: $5, Unwaged: $3, Members free For more information: - Email: [email protected] - Website: ipcs.org.au - Facebook: facebook/groups/ipcsadmin/ - Twitter: twitter/InstPCS https://facebook/events/689399227819853/
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:42:13 +0000