I thought the Melbourne Uni conference was quite informative and helpful, and the environment was great.
Let’s keep an eye out for any other interesting ones going on. I’ll let you guys know if I hear about a good one myself.
One thing though, I found it difficult to engage with some topics, and leave all ideologies behind.
What I mean is that throughout the second part of the conference that I attended, many issues were being approached from a Neo-Liberal perspective, where capitalism and globalization were unchallenged.
But then again, this was an anthropological conference, so perhaps this point is invalid.
Did anybody else feel this way??
Let’s keep an eye out for any other interesting ones going on. I’ll let you guys know if I hear about a good one myself.
One thing though, I found it difficult to engage with some topics, and leave all ideologies behind.
What I mean is that throughout the second part of the conference that I attended, many issues were being approached from a Neo-Liberal perspective, where capitalism and globalization were unchallenged.
But then again, this was an anthropological conference, so perhaps this point is invalid.
Did anybody else feel this way??
2 comments:
In fact it was not an Anthropological Conference. The conference was organized by the Developmental studies department, which is a cross disciplinary, and incorporates geographers and sociologists.
I did not attend the afternoon sessions but mostly enjoyed the morning ones. It was a new environment for me altogether and I thought the topics corresponded well with Effy's subject. Of particular interest to me was the influence of print media in relation to social engineering and how this is not always a necessary tool, consider Ghandi and his passive resistance to the bureacracy of the British colonisers. Yvonne Darburn
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