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Current events
BORDER KNOWLEDGES SEMINAR:
Dr Christopher Ziguras
The future of transnational education
RMIT Melbourne - Building 15.3.3
Monday 1 August 2005
(all welcome)
BORDER KNOWLEDGES SEMINAR:
Professor Mary Kalantzis
Learning environments and their contribution to the emerging 'knowledge society'
RMIT Melbourne - Building 15.3.3
Monday 3 October 2005
(all welcome)
Previous events
Aleida Guevara: Speaking Tour
Che and the winds of change in Latin America
Storey Hall, RMIT Melbourne: Thursday 26 May 2005
Sydney Town Hall: Saturday 28 May 2005
Aleida Guevara will tour Australia in May 2005. The 44-year-old daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara will speak at public meetings and launch several new books. A pediatrician in a Havana children’s hospital, Aleida Guevara has emerged as a prominent figure in the anti-globalization and anti-war movements. She was the principal speaker at the 25,000-strong European Social Forum in October 2004 and was one of the principal speakers at the 2003 and 2005 World Social Forums in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
A previous visit to Australia in June 2003 saw sell-out meetings in Melbourne and Sydney and wide media coverage. They were the largest meetings in solidarity with Cuba ever held in Australia. Aleida Guevara will speak in Melbourne and Sydney at public meetings on the topic: “Che and the winds of change in Latin America.” The Melbourne public meeting will be held on Thursday, May 26 (7pm Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston Street, Melbourne) and in Sydney on Saturday, May 28 (7pm Sydney Town Hall).
For further information and booking details please contact Pilar Aguilera on (03) 9326 4280 / 0404 165 331 or by e-mail on
pilar@oceanbooks.com.au
Or drop in to:
Hasta la Victoria St Bookshop,
360 Victoria St,
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Sponsored by Ocean Press and the Globalism Institute, RMIT University.
BORDER KNOWLEDGES: Dialogues across borders of difference
Melbourne Museum
Friday 22 October 2004
Abstract
A team of researchers from the Globalism Institute and across RMIT recently met with postgraduate students and other academics from the University of Melbourne and Victoria University for a one-day forum held at the Melbourne Museum on the 22nd of October. The group with an interest in the field of cultural knowledge systems spent the day engaged in discussion around the research theme of Border Knowledges.
This area of research examines different ways of understanding or knowing across cultural borders. It investigates the diversity, the contradictions and the commonalties in traditional and modern ways of understanding in the global world. The researchers working on this project are focusing on knowledge within areas such as changing communication technologies, transnational education, pedagogy and organisational knowledge, medicinal practices and financial cultures.
The forum program consisted of presentations and open discussions including papers from researchers on tribal medicinal practices in Papua New Guinea, communication technology use in the Pacific Islands and Arctic Canada and the changing financial culture in Australia. In addition, scheduled sessions for open discussion stimulated a vigorous debate on the meaning of cultural sustainability. The participants also enjoyed a guided tour of the Bunjilaka exhibition at the Museum which celebrates Aboriginal culture.
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