THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
IN A GLOBALISING SOCIETY
Symposium
Central Lecture Block Theatre 1
University of New South Wales
Friday August 13
2 - 5 p.m.
ALL WELCOME!!
By a lucky chance, I have managed to synchronise stopovers in Sydney by two distinguished Italianists and "Europeanists", Renate Holub from Berkeley and Patrick McCarthy from the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center. To take advantage of their presence in Sydney, the Centre for European Studies and the School of Sociology are organising a symposium on Friday afternoon, August 13; there will be lectures by both visitors, ample time for discussion, afternoon tea and closing drinks. Please come along and bring your friends!
PROGRAM
14.00 - 15.15
Renate Holub
(Interdisciplinary Studies and International and Area Studies, Berkeley)
The Dialectics of Euro Islam
+ discussion
15.15 - 15.45
coffee
15.45 - 17.00
Patrick McCarthy
(Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center)
Fans old, new but much the same; Soccer ever more global and ever less identity
+ discussion
17.00
drinks
Renate Holub teaches social theory and Comparative European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Among her publications is Antonio Gramsci. Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1992). She is the principal investigator, with Paul Lubeck of Santa Cruz, of the international collaborative research project: In Search of New Identities and Social Policies: Europe, Multiculturalisms, and Globalization. Her current research focuses on Europe's Intellectuals and the Challenge of Islam.
Patrick McCarthy is Professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, an outpost of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of The Crisis of the Italian State, St Martins Press 1995, 1997. He has also published Il silenzio e le fiabe, Turin, Harmattan 1998. His edited works Italy since 1945 and The Franco-German relationship in the 21st century will appear next year. McCarthy is also preparing a special number on sport for the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.