Wednesday Night at the NIB: Nairn on Blair
The New International Bookshop presents Tom Nairn -- New Left Review
editor and Professor of Nationalism and Cultural Diversity at RMIT --
speaking about his new book Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom.
In a blistering polemic against the pretensions of the Blair regime, Tom
Nairn argues for democratic and cultural reform and draws some
disturbing parallels about Australian politics.
Educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Rome, Professor
Nairn taught at Birmingham University and Hornsey College of Art, London
in the 1960s and was Senior Research Fellow of the Transnational
Institute, Amsterdam from 1973 to 1979. In the 1980s, Professor Nairn
worked for Scottish Television and as a writer-producer with Agenda
Productions, before returning to academic life, working with Ernest
Gellner at the Central European University, Prague. During the late
1990s he taught in the Graduate School of the University of Edinburgh.
He is the author of seven books including 'The Break-Up of Britain', a
book that was pivotal in remaking our understanding of nationalism.
6.30pm, 4 September
New International Books
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Carlton Sth 3053
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