Alterologies: Talk by Ghassan Hage

The talk will examine the degree to which we can augment our understanding of racism by considering racist classification as an instance of a more general, and, questionably, universal, way in which the human mind classifies all kind of otherness (human and non-human). The paper further examines some perennial analytical difficulties that mar empirical research on what is defined as racism.

GHASSAN HAGE is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Hage’s is among the most important work on racism today. He is the author, inter alia, of the important book White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, and has written extensively on Australian nationalism and on Arab Australians.

Sponsored by UCHRI.