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Michael
Taussig
Columbia University, New York.
Cultural anthropologist,
author of, among other works, Shamanism, Coloniality and
the Wild Man (Chicago UP 1987) Mimesis and Alterity
(Routledge 1993) and Defacement (Stanford UP 1999).
Michael Taussig is in Australia as a joint intitiative of
the On The Beach conference and the Transforming Cultures
Group, UTS.
On
the Beach at Ibiza with Walter Benjamin.
First keynote address, December 4, 10am
- 11.15am
Philip
Hayward
Macquarie University, Sydney.
Founding editor
of Perfect Beat and author most recently of Music
at the Borders: Not Drowning, Waving and their Engagement
with Papua New Guinean Culture (1986-96) (John Libbey,
1998)
Beaches,
Decks and Betweens - The Re-Creational Project of Music.
Second keynote address, December 5, 9.00am
- 10.15am
Anne
Freadman
University of Queensland.
Author of many
studies of genre and semiotics and most recently of "The green
tarpaulin: another story of the Ryan hanging" in UTS Review
Nov 1999.
The
Functions of a Fossil: What's Semiotics Doing in Cultural
Studies?
Final keynote address, December 6, 9.00am
- 10.15am
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