Bringing the private back to the public sphere: PSI Postgraduate Symposium
27 and 28 October 2010
On behalf of the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, we would like to welcome you to the annual PSI Postgraduate Symposium being held this year at the Caulfield campus. Having built upon past success and now in its 12th year of running, we are proud to announce that for the first time the symposium will run across two full days.
This year’s theme, Bringing the Private Back to the Public Sphere, speaks to the need for an elevated sense of collegiality; for providing postgraduate researchers with a welcoming and receptive ‘public’ space to interact and engage with others, away from what can often, over the course and duration of our respective studies, be an isolating or rather ‘private’ affair. The symposium draws together students from the school’s broad range of disciplines including Anthropology, Behavioural Studies, Criminology, Politics, Sociology and Women’s Studies; and is an event which provides budding researchers with an opportunity to present their research in a friendly and relaxed environment. We would also like you to note that lunch on the 2nd day of the symposium, generously subsidised by the School, also presents another excellent opportunity to develop both professional networks and personal friendships.
We welcome postgraduates across various stages of progress in their research and/or coursework. In particular, for those who are just starting out, this is a fantastic occasion to introduce yourselves and your work to the rest of our postgraduate community and we encourage you to share your work regardless of the stage in its development – this platform provides an opportunity to receive valuable feedback on your initial forays into the chosen field of your research. To those recently confirmed or presenting as part of the mid-candidature process, we encourage and congratulate you in continuing to invigorate the general scholarly community within the School. And for those recently completed, we look forward to hearing about your experiences and the sort of exciting things that we can look forward to in the future and beyond! The closing panel session of recently completed postgraduates along with two early-career researchers promises to deliver in this regard and we are excited about the sort of discussions to be had here and
To all the delegates this year, we look forward to an exciting symposium and hope you find the proceedings both stimulating and enjoyable.
download the program for the 2010 PSI Postgraduate Symposium