Tony BENNETT (UK / Australia)

Title of Speech:  After Culture

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.  He will be moving to the University of Western Sydney in 2010 as Professor of Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre for Cultural Research.   He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent publications Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism; New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (edited with Larry Grossberg and Meaghan Morris); The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (edited with John Frow) and Culture, Class Distinction (with Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright).