* Violence and the Post-Colonial Welfare State in France and Australia* October 18, 2007 9.00am - 5.30pm (registration from 8.30am) Professorial Board Room, Main Quadrangle University of Sydney
The relationship between violence and the welfare state in post-colonial societies has recently entered the public debate in Australia and France. The debates over the meaning and significance of this violence and its relationship to the coercive power of the state have proven to be highly politically charged and a challenge to established notions of ethical responsibility. This workshop brings together for the first time eminent international and national scholars with expertise in the post-colonial violence of Indigenous Australian communities and manifestations of violence among immigrant communities from former colonies in France. The workshop will provide a forum for these two groups of scholars to discover valuable connections across different national contexts and to explore innovative approaches to these issues. The presented papers will address major topics of relevance to understanding violence and the post-colonial welfare state, like the collective legacies of colonial terror, the ambiguous social structural positions of violent actors, the regimes of state intervention, the gendered complexion of violence, the dilemmas of the imposition of state protection, and the complications of the ethnographic framing of understandings of violence. Click here for more info and for online registration. <http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=18> Keynote speakers: Didier Fassin Anthropology & Sociology University of Paris 13 and EHESS Judy Atkinson College of Indigenous Australian People Southern Cross University Other speakers include: Robert Aldrich (History, The University of Sydney), Craig Browne (Sociology, The University of Sydney), Gillian Cowlishaw (Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney), Chris Cunneen (Criminology, The University of New South Wales), Deirdre Howard-Wagner (Sociology, The University of Sydney), Michael Humphrey (Sociology, The University of Sydney), Gaynor Macdonald (Anthropology, The University of Sydney), Phillip Mar, Elizabeth Rechniewski (French Studies, The University of Sydney), Emmanuel Renault (Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, France), Irene Watson (Law, Flinders University and The University of Sydney) This conference has been generously sponsored by the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at The University of Sydney via an award from the Strategic Development Fund, 2007.
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