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There has been a change to the venue and time for The Australian Sociological Association public lecture and AGM.
The AGM will be at 3.30pm-5.00pm in the State Library of South Australia (same venue as previously).
The Public Lecture has moved to a larger venue and will now be held at:
5.30pm - 7.00pm, Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia
Professor Anthony Elliott
Extreme Reinvention: the Rise of Makeover Culture
TASA members are invited to join colleagues from the Flinders Sociology Department and the TASA Executive for refreshments at:
7.00pm - 8.00pm, Restaurant, Art Gallery of South Australia
Please email sociology@flinders.edu.au or ring Gillian Keightley on 08 8201 2026 to confirm your attendance (or RSVP)
at the Public Lecture (and refreshments) with this revised time and venue.
Hosted by the Flinders University Sociology Department,
the lecture is being held in
Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia
On Tuesday September 26, 2006 at 5.30pm - 7.00pm
In this provocative public lecture on the social consequences of makeover culture, Anthony Elliott investigates what drives people to demand instant self-reinvention - from plastic surgery to online therapy, from compulsive consumerism to the self-help movement. He argues that we are witnessing the emergence of a "new individualism", and outlines a novel sociological perspective on people’s emotional experiences of globalization.
The lecture will focus on the debate over globalization, with particular stress on the consequences of global transformations for the self and identity. Contesting mainstream explanations that view today’s craze for reinvention as a result of the cult of celebrity, Elliott argues that an "ambient fear of globalism" haunts the new individualisms surfacing in the polished, expensive cities of the West. Surviving the new individualism, he suggests, is central to the tasks of a public sociology.
Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University . He was formerly Chair of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury , UK . Professor Elliott’s writings have been translated in ten languages, and his recent books include Critical Visions: New Directions in Social Theory (2003), Social Theory Since Freud (2004), Subject to Ourselves (2nd Edition, 2004) and, with Charles Lemert, The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization (2005).
RSVP to sociology@flinders.edu.au OR Gillian Keightley on 08 8201 2026
The 2006 TASA AGM will be held in the The Institute Building , State Library of SA, Adelaide from 3.30pm-5.00pm Tuesday 26 September. More information is available for members click here.