October 25th: "Transcultural ‘home’" - Seminar by Dr Divvia P.Tolia-Kelly

Transcultural ‘home’ - ‘Timeless’ Ecologies and PhilosophiesThe Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, with support from theDepartment of Human Geography and the Division of Environmental LifeSciences,Macquarie University, invites you to a seminar by Dr Divvia P.Tolia-Kelly (Durham University, UK)Abstract: ‘Home’ has been theorised within the social sciencesthrough the lens of feminist accounts of the value of the domestic scenepolitically, socially, culturally and economically. These accounts haveproliferated in the disciplines of geography, anthropology, culturalstudies, law and sociology. Contemporary research on the cultural valuesof home has rested on notions of ‘being’ and ‘feeling’ human andat home in the space of ‘dwelling’ (Heidegger) or ‘habitus’(Bordieu). These are critical philosophical starting points intothinking about the role of ‘home’ in human consciousness, identitypractices and in socio-political economies and networks. However, theseare squarely based in a western canon. This seminar on transculturalvalues of ‘home’ attends to the need within international qualityresearch to think ‘home’ transculturally and internationally beyondthis framework of thinking. This is not to dismiss the cultural andphilosophical values of ‘home’ based on notions of ‘dwelling’and ‘habitus’ but to build and extend dialogues across to theAntipodes where Maori and Aboriginal cultural values offer differentstarting points, timescales and relationships between individuals andsociety. The starting point for this symposium will be the figuring of‘home’ in non-Western cultures (such as Aboriginal, Maori andInuit). ‘Home’ in these social groups and contexts isphilosophically embedded in different frameworks of time, heritage,territory and ‘dwelling’. Most importantly ‘social’ and‘posthuman’ accounts of human-land relations are critical torites, rituals and notions of social laws of land rights, human rights,appropriation and governance. The seminar will engage with the temporaland spatial evolution of 'home' through a truly interdisciplinaryapproach.Date & time: Thursday October 25th @ 3pm - 5pmVenue: Venue: C5C 498 Macquarie UniversityThis seminar is free but bookings are recommended.To reserve your place (and for directions), please contact:Dr Armen Gakavian - crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au, tel: 9850 9171ORDr Nicole Cook- ncook@els.mq.edu.au, tel: 9850 8385For further information and abstract, visit www.crsi.mq.edu.au