University of New South Wales
15-17 June 2005

Theme: The Politics of Being

Keynote speakers

• Robert Bernasconi
• Wendy Brown
• Judith Butler
• Eugene Holland

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Conference Themes

• Political exclusion and violence
• cosmopolitanism and hospitality
• diversity and impossible community
• ontology of war
• race and the politics of identity
• becoming responsible
• justice and the rights of beings
• forms of life and the concept of the human
• technoscience and biopolitics
• politics and ethics of the posthuman
• immanence
• human and animal
• temporality and the politics of being.

Conference convenors

• A/Prof Rosalyn Diprose
• Dr Catherine Mills
• Prof Paul Patton
• Dr Simon Lumsden