The open mind and its enemies: Anthropology and the passion of the political

The Australian Anthropological Society
Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology
A public lecture to be delivered by Ghassan Hage
Future Generation Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.

Ghassan Hage is an internationally acclaimed thinker, both as an academic and an arresting public intellectual. He is the author of many works on nationalism, racism, multiculturalism and migration from a comparative perspective. The
most well-known is White Nation (2000)examining White experiences of Australian
Multiculturalism, and his latest is Waiting(2009). Prof. Hage taught Anthropology at
the University of Sydney for fifteen years until 2007. He has held many prestigious
visiting professorships including at Harvard University, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Copenhagen and the American University
of Beirut. His provocative, insightful and sometimes moving press and radio
discussions have been a valuable part of public life in Australia during the last decade.
Tuesday 8th December 2009 State Library of NSW Macquarie Street, Sydney Metcalfe Auditorium - Free Admission
Program:
6pm Refreshments will be served
6.30 – 7.15 Lecture
7.15 – 7.45 Questions from audience
8pm Finish
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