AuSI New York bound: 2020 Winter Institute, NYU

AuSI New York bound: 2020 Winter Institute, NYU
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Tuesday 24 December 2019

Beyond Identity Politics: Global Challenges and Humanistic Responses

NYU-PKU-Univ. of Tokyo-ANU Winter Institute, Jan 6-10, 2020 New York

The Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is looking forward to attending the 2020 Winter Institute at NYU’s Washington campus in early January.

The Winter Institute is an annual collaboration between ANU, New York University / Peking University, and the University of Tokyo. 2020 will mark the fifth annual Winter Institute, with New York University the host on this occasion.

The General Theme for the coming Institute is: Beyond Identity Politics: Global Challenges and the Humanistic Responses. The sub-themes are:

  • Identities and Their Discontents: Rethinking Political Ontology of Human Groupings in the Post-Globalization Era;
  • Necessities and Limits of Minorian Identities vis-a-vis National and Global Trends
  • Literary Humanities and the Shaping of Emergent Identities
  • Universalism as Utopia and Ideology
  • Geopolitical and Cultural Reconfigurations and Critical Asian/Area Studies

The AuSI delegation will consist of Professor Paul Pickering (Director), Professor Shirley Leitch (Professorial Fellow) and Mark Kenny (Senior Fellow).

AuSI is delighted to announce that the following scholars will also be part of the ANU Winter Institute delegation:

PhD Students:

  • Cox, Katherine, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics: Insecure identities: reading identity politics through the affect and logic of national security
  • Mortensen, James, National Security College: The “Unacknowledged Consensus”: The forgotten identity of security
  • Sim, Lee-Anne, College of Law: Influencing the Social Impact of Financial Systems – Alternative Strategies

ANU Academic Staff:

  • Alwast, Peter, School of Art and Design: Contemporary positions on aesthetics and politics beyond identity and representation
  • Emmerich, Nathan, Bioethics: Expertise and the Claims of Lived Experience
  • Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi, Centre for Digital Humanities Research: On Machine-Readable Ontologies and the Representation of Human Groupings
  • Strange, Carolyn, School of History: Identifying Victims of Violence by Gender: Historical Constructions and Future Considerations

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