The Ethics of Consuming - Workshop One
University of Melbourne
14 November 2008
Fourteen participants will be invited to attend the one day workshop, which will be held at the University of Melbourne. In the lead up to the workshop, questions for consideration and discussion, as well as an outline of each participant’s chapter theme, will be circulated. On the day, each participant will speak to their theme, followed by general discussion amongst the group, where participants will be offered feedback for developing their papers. A concluding discussion, led by the convenors, will seek to draw out points of commonality and divergence, and further questions for consideration that will feed into book’s introductory essay.
A book proposal is currently being drafted for Routledge, with whom the convenors have already discussed the collection. Routledge have so far been very encouraging of the project.
The first ‘Consuming Ethics’ workshop was held at the University of Melbourne on November 14. This closed workshop brought together eleven Australian contributors (including five CRN members) to the edited collection Consuming Ethics with the intention of speaking to, and developing in conversation, individual chapters and the editorial ambit of the collection. The day was exceptionally generative: questions had been circulated beforehand in order to focus discussion; each contributor in turn spoke to their chapters, followed by a dynamic group discussion that offered feedback for further development. This feedback also informed the response (by the editors) to Routledge’s reviewers’ reports on the book proposal. The group also briefly discussed the second ‘Consuming Ethics’ event to be held 2009, collectively working through its theme and potential outcomes.
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