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PETER MURPHY IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
MONASH UNIVERSITY
 
 
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Publications and Articles Online
 
Books
Edited Collections
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Reviews
Other Publications
Public Commentary
Lectures, Papers and Addresses
 
 
PUBLICATIONS

A. BOOKS

Peter Murphy, Simon Marginson, and Michael Peters, Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy (New York: Peter Lang, contracted).

Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy and Michael Peters, Global Creation: Space, Mobility and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy (New York: Peter Lang, contracted).

Michael Peters, Simon Marginson, and Peter Murphy, Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (New York: Peter Lang, 2009).

Peter Murphy and David Roberts, Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (London and New York: Continuum, 2004), pp 236. Hardcover ISBN 0-8264-7204-4; Paperback ISBN 0-8264-8786-6

Peter Murphy, Civic Justice: From Ancient Greece to the Modern World (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2001). pp 339. ISBN 1-57392-951-4

A1. LECTURES

Peter Murphy, Joel Kahn, Joseph Camilleri, Australian Perspectives on Southeast Asia, Australia and the World (Manila: PASN/Ateneo de Manila University, 2005), pp 90. ISBN 971-92296-6-7

B. EDITED COLLECTIONS

Peter Murphy and Eduardo de la Fuente (eds) Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music (Leiden: Brill Publishers, contracted).

Peter Murphy and Johann Arnason (eds), Agon, Logos, Polis (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001), pp 256. ISBN 3-515-07747-2.

Peter Murphy (ed.) Friendship a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 97: 1, Winter 1998), pp 226. ISBN 0822364565

Peter Murphy and Michael Crozier (eds), The Left In Search of a Center (Urbana-Champaign: Illinois University Press, 1996), pp 232. Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02199-1. Paper, ISBN 0-252-06497-6.

C. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

74. ‘The power and the imagination: the enigmatic state in Shakespeare’s English history plays’ Revue Internationale de Philosophie Vol 63, No 1(Brussells: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009).

73. ‘From Information to Imagination: Multivalent Logic and System Creation in Personal Knowledge Management’ in G. Gorman and D. Pauleen (eds) Knowledge Management: Preparing for Inevitable Change (Aldershot, UK: Gower Publishing, forthcoming).

72. ‘The Limits of Soft Power’ in D. Black, S. Epstein, A. Tokita (eds) Complicated Currents: Media Production, the Korean Wave, and Soft Power in East Asia (Melbourne: Monash E-Press, forthcoming).

71. ‘Bob Dylan Ain’t Talking: One Man’s Vast Comic Adventure in American Music, Dramaturgy, and Mysticism’ in Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy (eds) Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music (Leiden: Brill Publishers, forthcoming).

70. ‘I am not who I am: Paradox and Indirect Communication, or the Case of the Comic God and the Dramaturgical Self’ in Special Issue on Paradox and Communication, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication (Bristol: Intellect Books, forthcoming 2010).

69. ‘Politics’, George Ritzer (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Second Edition (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming).

68. ‘Sacred Icon: Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House’ in Makarand Paranjape and Andrew Hassam (eds) Sacred Australia (Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan, forthcoming).

67. ‘The N-Dimensional Geometry and Kinaesthetic Space of the Internet’ in Margherita Pagani (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking Second Edition Volume II (Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009), pp 1042-1047.

66. ‘Public Opinion and the Internet’ in Margherita Pagani (ed.) Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking Second Edition Volume III(Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009), pp 1994-1999.

65. ‘Nature’s God: Emerson and the Greeks’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 93 (London: Sage, 2008), pp 64-71.

64. ‘The Pitch Black Night of Human Creation: Calling Heidegger’s Philosophy of Terror to Account’ in Vrasidias Karalis (ed.) Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp 65-78.

63. ‘"You Are Wasting My Time":Why Limits on Connectivity are essential for Economies ofCreativity' University of Auckland Business Review 91:2, 2007, pp 17-26.

62. (with David Pauleen) ‘Managing Paradox in a World of Knowledge’, Management Decision 45: 6 (Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2007), pp 1008-1022.

61. ‘Imitation and Creation’ in Christine Magerski, Robert Savage, and Christiane Weller (eds) Moderne begreifen (Wiesbaden: Deutschen Universitäts-Verlag, 2007), pp 365-380.

60. ‘The Art of Systems: The Cognitive-Aesthetic Culture of Portal Cities and the Development of Meta-Cultural Advanced Knowledge Economies’ in David J. Pauleen (ed.) Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Knowledge Management (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), pp 35-63.

59. ‘Politics’, George Ritzer (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp 3463-2467.

58. ‘Hannah Arendt’, George Ritzer (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp 166-175.

57. (with David Pauleen) ‘Being Virtually There: The Role of Social Capital’, University of Auckland Business Review, 8:1, 2006 (Auckland: University of Auckland Business School), pp 61-67.

56. ‘American Civilization’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 81 (London: Sage, 2006), pp 64-92.

55. ‘Sealanes’ in P. Beilharz and T. Hogan (eds) Sociology—Place, Time and Division (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 38-44.

54. ‘Social Phusis and the Pattern of Creation’, Budhi: A Journal of Culture and Ideas IX: 1 (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University, 2005), pp 39-74.

53. ‘Knowledge Capitalism’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 81 (London: Sage, 2005), pp 36-62.

52. (with David Pauleen), ‘In Praise of Cultural Bias’, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2005, Volume 46, Number 2, 2005, pp 21-22.

51. ‘Trust, Rationality and the Virtual Team’ in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.) Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2005), pp. 3018-3021.

50. ‘The N-Dimensional Geometry and Kinaesthetic Space of the Internet’ in Margherita Pagani (ed.) Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking Volume 2 (Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2005), pp 742-747.

49. ‘Public Opinion and the Internet’ in Margherita Pagani (ed.) Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking Volume 2 (Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2005), pp 863-868.

48. ‘France’s Mediterranean Antipodes’ in Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Mauro Peressini (eds) The Mediterranean Reconsidered: A Multidisciplinary View (Québec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2005), pp 249-260.

47. ‘Communication and Self-Organization’, Southern Review 37:3 (Melbourne: RMIT University, 2005), pp 87-102.

46. ‘The Book of the Dead: A Response to Johann Arnason’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 80 (London, Sage, 2005), pp 114-116.

45. ‘Cornelius Castoriadis’ in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Theory (London: Sage, 2005), pp 82-83.

44. ‘The City of Ideas: Cavafy as a Philosopher of History’ in Modern Greek Studies 11/12 (Parkville, Vic: Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand, 2004), pp 75-102.

43. ‘Portal Empire: Plastic Power and Thalassic Imagination’, New Zealand Sociology 19:1 (Wellington: Victoria University, 2004), pp 4-27.

42. ‘Agnes Heller’s Great Society’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 75 (London: Sage, 2003), pp 96-107.

41. ‘Trust, Rationality and Virtual Teams’ in David Pauleen (ed.) Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes (Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2003), pp 316-342.

40. ‘The Ethics of Distance’, Budhi: A Journal of Culture and Ideas VI: 2/3 (Manila: Ateneo University Office of Research, 2003), pp 1-24.

39. ‘The Dance of Love’, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 72 (London: Sage, 2003), pp 65-90.

38. ‘The City’ in A. Leontis, L. E. Talalay, K. Taylor (eds), What These Ithakas Mean. Readings in Cavafy (Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 2002), p 74

37. ‘Marine Reason’, Thesis Eleven 67 (London: Sage, 2001), pp 11-38.

36. ‘Introduction’ (with J. P. Arnason) in Peter Murphy and Johann Arnason (eds) Agon, Logos, Polis (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001), pp 7-14.

35. ‘Architectonics’ in Peter Murphy and Johann Arnason (eds) Agon, Logos, Polis (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001), pp 207-232.

34. ‘The City of Reason’ in Norman Crowe, Richard Economakis and Michael Lykoudis (eds), Building Cities (London: Artmedia Press, 1999), pp 24-25.

33. ‘The Existential Stoic’, Thesis Eleven 60 (London: Sage, 1999), pp 87-94.

32. Entry on Agnes Heller in Ellis Cashmore and Chris Rojeck (eds) Dictionary of Cultural Theorists (London: Arnold, 1999), pp 230-232.

31. ‘Metropolitan Rhythms: A Preface to a Musical Philosophy for the New World’, Thesis Eleven 56 (London: Sage, 1999), pp 81-105.

30. ‘Introduction’ in Friendship issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 97: 1, Winter 1998), pp 1-4.

29. ‘Friendship’s Eu-topia’ in Friendship issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 97: 1, Winter 1998), pp 169-186.

28. ‘The Age of Contingency’, Daimon: Revista de Filosofia 17 (Murcia, Espana: Universidad de Murcia, 1998), pp 101-118.

27. ‘The Triadic Moment: The Anti-Genealogy of Hellenistic Marxism’, Thesis Eleven 53 (London: Sage, 1998), pp 102-113.

26. ‘The Roar of Whispers: Cosmopolitanism and Neohellenism’ in Journal of Modern Greek Studies15:2 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp 274-281.

25. ‘Grace Notes’ in Private Maps of Public Spaces: Essays on Culture and Space (Ballarat: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Enquiry, University of Ballarat, 1996), pp 1-21.

24. ‘Peregrini’, Thesis Eleven 46 (London: Sage, 1996), pp 1-32.

23. ‘Romantic Modernism and the Greek Polis’ (translation) in Social Sciences Abroad 5 and 6 (Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1996).

22. ‘Introduction: In Search of the Civic Center’ (with M. Crozier) in The Left in Search of a Center (Urbana-Champaign: Illinois University Press, 1996), pp 1-30.

21. ‘Classicism, Modernism, Pluralism’ in The Left In Search of a Center (Urbana-Champaign: Illinois University Press, 1996), pp 118-139.

20. ‘The Birth of Humanism’, Thesis Eleven 40 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), pp 44-67.

19. ‘The Body Politic’ in Paul Komesaroff (ed.) Troubled Bodies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).

18. ‘The Dark Knight of Faith and the Epicurean Hero’, Thesis Eleven 39 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994), pp 105-118.

17. ‘Postmodern Perspectives and Justice’ in Dennis Patterson (ed.) Postmodernism and Law (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1994; Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994), pp 3-18.

16. ‘Civility and Radicalism’ in John Burnheim (ed.) The Social Philosophy of Agnes Heller (Editions Rodopi: Atlanta/Amsterdam, 1994), pp 169-192.

15. ‘Pluralism and Politics’ in John Burnheim (ed.) The Social Philosophy of Agnes Heller (Editions Rodopi: Atlanta/Amsterdam, 1994), pp 193-238.

14. ‘Romantic Modernism and the Greek Polis’, Thesis Eleven 34 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), pp 42-66.

13. ‘Socialism and Democracy’ in Between Postmodernity and Totalitarianism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp 12-31.

12. ‘Is the philosophy of rights enough?’, Thesis Eleven 32 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp 13-36.

11. ‘Republican Jurisprudence and the Modern Constitution’, Thesis Eleven 31 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1992), pp 154-167.

10. ‘Agnes Heller’ in Peter Beilharz (ed.) Social Theory - A Guide to Central Thinkers (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992), pp 141-146.

9. ‘Postmodern Perspectives and Justice’, Thesis Eleven 30 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991), pp 117-132.

8. ‘To Create Anew the Universe: Political Romanticism and the Promethean Vision of Roberto Unger’, Thesis Eleven 28 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991), pp 113-126.

7. ‘Socialism and Democracy’, Thesis Eleven 26 (Melbourne, 1990), pp 54-77.

6. ‘Radicalism and the spheres of value’, Thesis Eleven 25 (Melbourne, 1990), pp 39-58.

5. ‘Between Romanticism and Republicanism: The Political Theory of Claude Lefort’, Thesis Eleven 23 (Melbourne,: Thesis Eleven, 1989), pp 131-142.

4. ‘Happiness and Freedom: The Pathos of Modernity in Agnes Heller’, Thesis Eleven 16 (Melbourne: Thesis Eleven, 1987), pp 40-55.

3. ‘Meaning, Truth and Ethical Value’ (Part II), Praxis International 7:1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), pp 35-56.

2. ‘Meaning, Truth and Ethical Value’ (Part I), Praxis International 5:3 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), pp 224-246.

1. ‘Moralities, Rule Choice, and the Universal Legislator’, Social Research 50:4 (New York: New School For Social Research, 1983), pp 757-801.

D. REVIEWS

13. Review of Sandra Braman, Communication Researchers and Policy-Making in Online Information Review 29: 2 (Bradford, West Yorkshire : MCB University Press, 2005).

12. Review of Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response in Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 76 (London: Sage, 2004).

11. Review of Cornelius Castoriadis, On Plato’s Statesman in Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 74 (London: Sage, 2003), pp 126-133.

10. Review of Richard Freadman and Seumas Miller, Re-Thinking Theory in Policy: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas 10: 2 (St Leonards, NSW: Centre for Independent Studies, 1994).

9. Review of Agnes Heller and Ferenc Feher, The Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism in Theory and Society 22:4 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993).

8. Review of C. Kukathas, D. Lovell and W. Maley (eds), The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in Gorbachev's USSR in Policy: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas 8: 2 (St Leonards, NSW: Centre for Independent Studies, 1992).

7. Review of S. Alomes and D. den Hartog (eds), Post Pop: Popular Culture, Nationalism and Postmodernism, in Australian Journal of Political Science 27:1, 1992.

6. Review of Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism: Adorno, or The Persistence of the Dialectic in Australian Journal of Political Science 26:3, 1991.

5. Review of Gisela Kaplan and Clive Kessler (eds), Hannah Arendt in Australian Journal of Political Science 26:2, 1991.

4. Review of Norman Geras, Discourses of Extremity in Political Theory Newsletter 3:1 (Canberra: ADF/University of News South Wales, 1991).

3. Review of John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State and John Keane, Democracy and Civil Society in Thesis Eleven 26 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990).

2. Review of Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind in Policy Report (St Leonards, NSW: Centre for Independent Studies, Dec./Jan. 1988-89).

1.Review of Rajchman and West (eds), Post-Analytic Philosophy in Telos 68 (New York: Telos Press, 1986).

E. OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2. ‘Printing, Communication and Silence in the Ottoman Empire: Reflections on Empire and the Architectonics of Justice’ in Proceedings of 2002 Seoul International Conference for History (Seoul: Executive Committee 2002 Seoul International Conference for History, 2002), pp 99-101.

1. ‘The Irish Thing: A Conversation on the Australian and American Irish Diaspora with Candice Ward, Introduction by Vassilis Lambropoulos, Special Issue on Diaspora and Immigration, South Atlantic Quarterly 98:1/2 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), pp 117-134.

F. PUBLIC COMMENTARY

3. ‘How the left-leaning media hurt Labor’, The Age (Melbourne: Fairfax Press), December 9, 2004.

2. Commentator, ‘Target Australia’, Insight television program, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia, Septeber 14, 2004.

1. ‘A Step Beyond Refugee Camps’, The Age (Melbourne: Fairfax Press), December 23, 2002.

G. LECTURES, PAPERS AND ADDRESSES

CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

I. Invited Papers and Addresses:

50. Opening Remarks, Cosmopolitan Melbourne: Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion Conference, Monash University, March 28, 2008.

49. Opening Remarks, ‘Agnes Heller’ introducing the La Trobe Inaugural Agnes Heller Lecture, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University.

48. Paper, ‘Emerson and the Greeks’, From Aristotle to Us: An International Conference, La Trobe University, May 1-2, 2007.

47. Paper, ‘Icon: Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House’, Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, April 20, 2007

46. Paper, ‘Unsocial Sociability: The Paradoxes of Intellectual Capital Formation and Social Capital Networks’, Copenhagen Business School, April 19, 2007.

45. Paper, ‘The Comic Agon’, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, April 18, 2007.

44. Paper, ‘Art and Innovation: The Economy of Paradox’, Art and Innovation Faculty Panel, Humanities Faculty, University of Copenhagen, April 17, 2007.

43. Paper, ‘Soft Power and Hard Power in the East Asian Portal Ecumene: The Reach and Limits of Aesthetic Authority’, International Symposium on Media and Popular Cultural Flows in East Asia, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, August 4-5 2006.

42. Paper, ‘Hannah Arendt’s Beginnings: The Paradoxes of Political Time and the Act of Social Creation’, Symposium on Hannah Arendt, The Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics, 20-21 July 2006.

41. Paper, ‘Romanticism: A-Causal Creation and the Divine in History’, Seminar on Romanticism, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, March 28, 2006.

40. Paper, ‘Aesthetic Life and Nature’, Symposium on Martin Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living, Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, The University of Sydney, December 12-13th 2005.

39. Paper, ‘America’, Seminar on American Civilization, La Trobe University, December 7, 2005.

38. Paper, ‘Creation: Time Out of Mind’, History and Philosophy of Science and Social Theory Seminar, University of Melbourne, October, 2005.

37. Paper, ‘The Art Firm’, Going Virtual The Future of Work, The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Remote Virtual Working. Conference, Brisbane, September 2005.

36. Summation. ‘Concluding Remarks’, Going Virtual The Future of Work, The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Remote Virtual Working. Conference, Brisbane, September 2005.

35. Paper, ‘Paradoxes of Intellectual Capital Formation and Social Networking’, International Symposium on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics: SOIC 2005, Orlando, Florida, July 2005.

34. Paper (with Trevor Hogan), ‘Creative Cities and Intellectual Capital: Megapolis, Technopolis and the China Seas Region, 8th Asian Urbanization Conference, Kobe, Japan, August, 2005.

33. Public Lecture, ‘The City In Asia: Megapolis and Technopolis’, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, June 2005.

32. Paper, ‘The Pattern of Creation’, Asian and Antipoden Modernities, Buhdi Colloquium in Manila, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, June 2005.

31. Address, ‘The Philippines Into The 21st Century—the Promise and the Prospects’, Australia-Philippines State of Play Briefing, Australia-Philippines Business Council, Melbourne, April 2005.

30. Paper, ‘Social Memory, Creation and History: Reflections on Castoriadis’, Revisiting Cultural Memory in the Greek World, 7th Biennial Conference, Modern Greek Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, 9-11 December, 2004.

29. Public Lecture, ‘Designing Intelligence and Civic Power: Maritime Political Economy From Athens to Australia’, Philippines-Australia Study Network, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, February 2004.

28. Public Lecture, ‘Epicurean Philosophy of History and the Stoic-Epicureanism of Constantine Cavafy’, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, February 2004.

27. Public Lecture, ‘Stoicism in the Digital Age’, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, January 2004.

26. Public Lecture, ‘Stoicism, Love and Friendship’, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University,
Manila, Philippines, January 2004.

25. Public Lecture, ‘Pneuma and Civilization’, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, January 2004.

24. Public Lecture, ‘Designing Fire’, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, January 2004.

23. Roundtable Paper, ‘A Comment on Intellectual Capital and Ivan Szelenyi’s Social Theory’, La Trobe Institute for Advanced Studies, November 2003.

22. Paper, ‘The New Dialectic of Modernity: Art, Artifice and Architecture in America’, Centre for Comparative Literature Symposium: In What Style Shall We Build? Style and Time, Style and History Monash University, Melbourne, April 2003.

21. Public Lecture, ‘The Ethics of Distance’, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines,
February 2003.

20. Paper, ‘Plastic Power and Information City’, Ateneo de Manila University Colloquium: Cities, Nations, Civilizations, Manila, Philippines, February 2003.

19. Paper, ‘Printing, Communication and Silence in the Ottoman Empire: Reflections on Empire and the
Architectonics of Justice’, 2002 Seoul International Conference for History/ 11th Annual Conference for the World History Association, 15-18 August 2002, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

18. Paper, ‘Order and Contingency’, Seminar on Social Theory, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, June 2002.

17. Paper in Response to Keynote, Seminar on Art and Science, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, April 2002.

16. Paper, Agon: A Conference on the Common Place, Tragic Fate, Contemporary Return and Democratic Future of the Classical, The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), April 1997.

15. Talk, ‘Explaining Australia’, International Issues (Pacific Rim) Seminar, Council on International Education, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

14. Keynote Address, Model UN Conference, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

13. Paper, Seminar, Department of Classics/ Hellenic Studies, Ohio State University, April 1996.

12. Summation, Conference on the Future of Hellenism in the University Curriculum, Hellenic Studies Program, Ohio State University, March 1996.

11. Public Lecture, Department of Communications and Mass Media, Panteion University, Athens, December 1995.

10. Paper, ‘The Future of Political Theory’ Roundtable, Australian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Melbourne, September 1995.

9. Paper, Seminar, La Trobe University Department of Sociology, Melbourne, May 1955.

8. Paper, Conference-Workshop, ‘Descent From The Acropolis’, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 1995.

7. Paper, ‘After Greece’ Seminar, Modern Greek Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, November 1994.

6. Paper, Conference on Extending Democracy, Deakin University, Melbourne, September 1994.

5. Paper, ‘The Cultural Advantage of Nations’, Department of Economic History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, October 1993.

4. Paper, Seminar, Theory, Culture and Society 10th Anniversary Conference, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

3. Paper, Seminar, Department of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School For Social Research, New York,November 1991.

2. Paper, Seminar, Centre for Western European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, November 1991.

1. Paper, Seminar, Monash University Department of Sociology, Melbourne, September 1990.

II. Invited Lectures:

22. Lecture, Communication Techology is Making Us and Breaking Us, 1st year undergraduate class, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, October 10, 2006.

21. Lecture, Class, City and Creativity, Session One and Session Two, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, March 23, 2006.

20. Online Lecture, Virtual Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, May 2005.

19. Lecture, Knowledge Cities: America and East Asia, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, Social Sciences, La Trobe University, April 2005.

18. Online Lecture, Virtual Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila,
Philippines, May 2004.

17. Online Lecture, Ethics of Friendship, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila,
Philippines, April 2004.

16. Lecture, Learning from American Cities, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, La Trobe University,
April 2004.

15. Lecture Series, Philosophy of Architecture, Departments of Fine Arts and Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, January-February 2004.

14. Lecture Series, Therapy of Desire (Stoicism and Epicureanism), Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, January-February 2004.

13. Lecture, Successful Cities, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, La Trobe University, August 2003.

12. Lecture, The New Dialectic of Modernity: Art, Artifice, and Architecture in America, 3rd year undergraduate architectural theory class, Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture and Design, May 2003.

11. Lecture, Port Cities and Economic Geography: North American Cases, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, August 2002.

10. Lecture, Port Cities, Architecture, and Economic Innovation, 2/3rd year undergraduate class, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, August 2002.

9. Lecture, The Bell Curve, Master of Communications, SIM, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, September 2002.

8. Lecture, War and Communications, Master of Communications, SIM, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, September 2001.

7. Lectures, Asian International Relations, Department of Political Science, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

6. Lectures, Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

5. Lectures, Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

4. Lecture, World Culture, Department of Political Science, Baylor University, Texas, November 1996.

3. Seminar, Political Theory Class, Department of Political Science, University of San Francisco, April 1996.

2. Lecture, Modern Political Thought, Department of Politics, University of Melbourne, October 1993.

1. Lecture, Social Theory, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, September 1993.

III. Conference Papers:

16. Panel Remarks, ‘Theology and Social Theory: A Roundtable with John Carroll on The Existential Jesus’, Cultural Sociology Group Sessions for The Australasian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, December 2008.

15. Discussant, Collaborations: Creative Partnerships in Art and Writing Seminar, Monash University, October 2008.

14. Paper, ‘The Political Dramaturgy of Rat Cunning’, International and Intercultural Communications in the Age of Digital Media Conference, Monash University, August 2008,  

13. Paper, ‘I am not who I am: Paradox and Indirect Communication, or the Case of the Comic God and the Dramaturgical Self’, Symposium on Paradox and Indirect Communication, Monash University, May 2008.

12. Paper, ‘Bob Dylan Ain’t Talking: One Man’s Vast Comic Adventure in American Music, Dramaturgy, and Mysticism’, Music, Culture and Society Conference, Monash University, March 2008.

11. Paper, ‘Troy and Gallipoli: The Australian Myth of Foundation’, The Greeks: Myths, Muses and Modernities International Seminar, Monash University, May 3, 2007.

10. Paper, ‘Going Mobile: From Walking Stick to Cell Phone, or, What Chicago School theories of human locomotion tell us about the communion of strangers, the civilisation of cities, and the progress of the human species’, City, Society and Self: A National Colloquium on the Chicago School of Sociology, Monash University, October 9-10, 2005.

9. Paper (with T. Hogan),‘Technopolis and Megapolis: The Economics of Paradox’, 8th Asian Urbanisation Conference, The University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences (UMDS), Kobe, Japan, August 2005.

8. Paper, ‘Megapolis and Technopolis’, Sixth International Social Theory Consortium Conference, National University of Singapore, June 2005.

7. Paper, ‘The Pattern of Creation’, Sixth International Social Theory Consortium Conference, National University of Singapore, June 2005.

6. Paper (with Trevor Hogan), ‘Discord and Order in the New Urbanism of Asian-Pacific Cities’, Fifth International Social Theory Consortium Conference, Toronto, June 2004.

5. Paper, Australian Political Science Association Conference, Melbourne, September 1993.

4. Paper, Reason and Imagination Conference, Monash University, August 1991.

3. Paper, Postmodernism and Social Science Seminar, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, July 1990.

2. Paper, Australian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, September 1990.

1. Paper, TASA Sociology Conference, La Trobe University, December 1989.


 
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