3rd Australian Political Theory and Philosophy Conference 2019

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONAbstract submission is open now and

will close 30 November 2018.

Associate Professor Mary Walsh

APTP2019@canberra.edu.au

ONLINE REGISTRATIONRegistration is open 20 August 2018

and will close 6 January 2019.

To register: Online Registration

Papers on contemporary and historical themes or topics on political theory, political philosophy or continental philosophy are welcome to apply.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA IS EXCITED TO HOST THE 3RD ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA

WHEN15-16 February 2019

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WHEREAnn Harding Conference Centre, Building 24,University of Canberra

David McKnight is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of a number of books in the fields of me-dia, politics and history. They include a book on the global media giant, Rupert Murdoch: an investigation of political

power (published in the UK as Murdoch’s Politics), as well as Big Coal (co-au-thor) and Beyond Right and Left which discusses renewal of the progressive political vision. He has also written on political surveillance during the cold war in Australia Spies and their Secrets and on Soviet intelligence in Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. He was formerly a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald and on ABC TV’s Four Corners as well as the weekly Tribune. His most recent book is Populism Now! (NewSouth Books) which discusses the case for progressive populism after Brexit and Trump.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of the Quan-damooka people (Moreton Bay). She was the first Indigenous person to graduate with a PhD from a Queensland Uni-versity in 1999 and is Australia’s first Indigenous Distin-guished Professor. She is currently Professor of Indig-

enous Research in the Indigenous Research and Engagement Unit at the Queensland University of Technology. She was formerly the Director of the Australian Research Council’s National Indigenous Research and Knowledg-es Network (NIRAKN), which has capacity built Indigenous postgraduate students and early career researchers nationally. Aileen is a member of the Ex-ecutive of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC) committed to progressing, elevating and imple-menting Indigenous knowledges within universities and increasing the avail-ability of higher education to our communities. Her published books number 5 and her monograph The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s (NAISA) subsequent book prize in 2016. Her edited collection entitled Crit-ical Indigenous Studies: First World Locations and Engagement was published by Minnesota Press in 2016. Aileen serves on several editorial boards includ-ing American Quarterly, the Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Australian Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies Review and Critical Ethnic Studies and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She was elected to the Native Amer-ican and Indigenous Studies Association’s (NAISA) inaugural nomination’s committee as Chairperson in 2008 and appointed to American Quarterly the flagship journal of the American Studies Association. In 2018 she served as a member of DET’s Research Training Implementation Working Group in response to the Australian Council of Learned Academies Review of Aus-tralian Research Training. Aileen has recently been appointed to Universities Australia’s Deputy Vice Chancellor Committee (Research).

David McKnight

Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson