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Michael Freeden, The University of Sydney (two events)
Monday 12 Sept ⋅ 16:00 – Tuesday 13 Sept 2022 ⋅ 11:00
Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
Prof. Michael Freeden (emeritus, Oxford) is in Sydney next week for two
in-person only events at The University of Sydney. He is one of the world’s
leading political theorists and historians, and the global authority on the
theory of ideology.If you’d like to attend one or both events, please
follow the RSVP links below. If you have any questions about these events,
please write Prof. Alexandre Lefebvre (alex.lefeb...@sydney.edu.au)Event
#1Ideology: Picking up the pieces? A conversation with Michael
FreedenMonday 12 September, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pmUnited States Studies Centre,
Institute Building (H03)In recent decades, ideology studies have attempted
to break free from two encumbrances. The one – European – relates to the
residues of the Marxist conception of ideology as distorted and dogmatic.
The other – American – is the resort to crude dichotomies as very imperfect
research tools. In response, ideology studies focused on fluid
morphological configurations and on uncovering histories that serve as
suturing palimpsests. Now a newer turning point is emerging, recognizing
the fragmented and discontinuous nature of ideologies as normal, as well as
their colloquial and commonplace manifestations. It concerns
deintellectualization; the brevity of transmitted messages; the
democracy-challenging super-atomization of voices in the public domain – in
the US, notably, through its replacement with demotics; the increasing
speed of change; the easy transfer of ideas across conventional boundaries;
and a subtle opacity, often unintentionally concealed. Liberal-democratic
political super-conventions, such as acknowledging electoral defeat, are
weakened by validating the ideological myth of ‘alternative facts’,
adopting the guise of epistemological pluralism. And the convention of
attributing liberal neutrality to the US Supreme Court is outed as a
spurious ideological device, sustained by enlisting obfuscating
philosophical abstractions such as Rawls’ public reason. Please
register here.Event #2Communicating political thought: The inevitability
and hazards of interpretation Tuesday 13 September, 10-11amSydney Policy
Lab, RD Watt Building Political information is never directly accessible
but disseminated through selective filters of interpretation. Some of them
are designed to distort, crudely or subtly. Others reflect the choice of
sources employed as evidence or depend on competing understandings of what
‘the political’ entails. Political interpretation is also always subject to
variations in collective memory, to cultural shifts, and to the fluidity of
conceptual morphology. Underlying all that has been a move in political
theory away from universal truths, decontextualized abstraction, key
individuals, or the advocacy of stipulative solutions to tenacious
dilemmas. How might we think about the inevitability and hazards of
interpretation? What reflections could we share from the practice of policy
development with communities? And how might this alter our methods in
communicating political thought? For this special event, please join an
intimate discussion in the Sydney Policy Lab with Michael Freeden, Emeritus
Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at
Mansfield College to explore these issues and their potential practical
consequences. A light morning tea will be served.Tickets are free but
limited, so registration is essential. To RSVP please click here or reach
out to the Lab team on policy....@sydney.edu.au.
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