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I will be participating in Politics in the Pub, speaking on the topic ‘Islamophobia in Australia: The politics of race hate in neoliberal Australia’ on February 19 2015. The other speakers are Yassir Morsi and Jock Collins. The event is held at the Harold Hotel, Glebe and begins at 18.30. I hope to see you there.
Update:
Here is the text of my talk from last Thursday’s event. A video will be made available soon.
Comments closedI was asked to participate in an event recently organised by the Philosophy @ UWS initiative, Encountering the Author, a discussion of Blood: A Critique of Christianity by the Columbia University Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Gil Anidjar. I could not attend but produced…
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I just got back from Brisbane where I co-coordinated two panels at the 2014 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Conference with my colleagues from the Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, Gilbert Caluya and Yassir Morsi.
The first panel, on ‘The State of Race I: Postracialism and its Limits’ had papers by myself, Angela Mitropolous, Gilbert Caluya and Yassir Morsi.
Comments closedI’ll be in Europe giving a few talks and things in June/July. If you’re in Berlin, please come to the Institute for Cultural Inquiry on June 30 to hear me talk on Race, Post-Race
Comments closedIn December 2013, I organised this conversation with Sohail Daulatzai, Aamer Rahman and Suvendrini Perera. Enjoy!
Comments closedI recently gave a talk on Good and Bad Diversity: The Crisis of Multiculturalism as a Crisis of Politics at the Reconfiguring Antiracism Conference, held at Deakin University, Melbourne (9-10 December 2013). This paper emerges from The Crises of Multiculturalism, the book I co-wrote with Gavan Titley in 2011 and…
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On December 2-3, I am organising a workshop for graduate students at the University of Western Sydney on the topic, Are We Really Post-Race?. There is a fantastic line-up of international and local speakers: Suvendrini Perera, Joseph Pugliese, Sherene Razack, Sohail Daulatzai and Christopher Kyriakides. Pleasse find the Programme for…
Comments closedI had the pleasure of participating in a live debate on Wednesday August 28, Organised by Intelligence Squared Versus Debates, on the question ‘Has Martin Luther King’s Dream Been Realised?’ It was a tough gig at 4 am for me in Sydney, but it proved well worth it, especially due…
Comments closedI shall be participating in this global debate on 28 August to commemorate 50 years of Dr King’s assassination and ask has his dream been realised. In a purportedly ‘postracial’ world, many would claim it has but, as Gavan Titley and I argued in The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in…
Comments closedI will be speaking on ‘Good and Bad Diversity: The Crises of Multiculturalism as a Crisis of Politics’ at the AISSR as part of IMES-Podium (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam) on Friday June 21, 15h-17h (Venue) Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in…
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