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A Future Humanities: An International Colloquium

Published: 4 June 2008

A colloquium organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.

The colloquium marks the launch of the newly created Centre for Critical Inquiry.

As a beginning to the Centre's activities, the Colloquium will look at the position of the humanities within the University. At the same time as the structure of research operative within the sciences is applied to the humanities, economic models more appropriate to commercial enterprises are being used to regulate their overall funding. While there have been important and at times radical transformations within the humanities these developments are not in synch automatically with these external transformations within the academic world.

The aim of this International Colloquium will be to think through possible futures for the humanities.

Chaired by Andrew Benjamin (Monash University). Speakers: Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College), Catherine Malabou (Université Paris), Graeme Turner (University of Queensland), Pauline Nestor (Monash University), Martin McQuillan (University of Leeds). The Colloquium will be opened by Faculty of Arts Dean Professor Rae Francis.

Time: 3.00pm to 6.00 pm
Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Venue: Link Theatre, S Building, Level 2, Caulfield Campus
For further information please contact Gail Ward.
Phone: +61 3 9905 2208
Email: gail.ward@arts.monash.edu.au