We are delighted to invite you to a lecture on by Tony Bennett, acclaimed Professor of Sociology at the Open University in the UK and author of The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics.
Join us and learn about the theoretical and historical arguments concerning the relationships between culture and government. Professor will explore the ways in which a variety of agents (governmental, scientific, educational and cultural institutions) seek to mobilise particular forms of knowledge to influence social behaviour, with special reference to how museums operate using cultural resources to shape and order social and civic conduct.
What implications does this perspective have for the study of culture?
is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, Director of the Economic and Social Science Research Centre on Socio-Cultural Change, Professorial Fellow at the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
His publications include Formalism and Marxism; Outside Literature; Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero (with Janet Woollacott); The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics; Culture: A Reformer’s Science; Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Michael Emmison and John Frow); and, most recently, Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism; New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (edited with Larry Grossberg and Meaghan Morris), and The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (edited with John Frow).
The lecture is being organised by the History Department of the University of Athens as part of the European Doctorate and will be conducted in English.
Co-ordinator: Professor Antonis Liakos.
