Where do the limits on academic freedom begin and end? Who defines this and how?

On Monday 23rd June at 5.30pm (Theatre D- Old Arts, University of Melbourne) Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory Ghassan Hage will speak at the inaugural Traffic seminar on the subject of academic freedom. Professor Hage has been named as one of the top 25 public intellectuals in Australia and is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society and White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. School of Culture and Communication PhD candidate and University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association President Tammi Jonas will act as a respondent.

All University staff and students, and interested members of the public are invited to attend the first seminar of this innovative series.

For further inquiries, or to RSVP for the event, please email the Traffic editor, Michelle Smith at traffic (a) umpa.unimelb.edu.au.

A note on the Traffic seminar series: Since 2002, Traffic has published research from all disciplines at the University of Melbourne in one refereed postgraduate journal.

Traffic is now bringing established scholars and postgraduates together in a series of interdisciplinary forums to discuss issues that are important to us all. The seminars will encourage dialogue between leading scholars from different fields and draw on the abilities of the University's postgraduate researchers.