Lighthouse Lecture Series: Reading Qantas History: Discourses of Intersectionality and the Early Years of Qantas

Event Name	Lighthouse Lecture Series: Reading Qantas History: Discourses of Intersectionality and the Early Years of Qantas
Start Date	Mar 6, 2018 4:00 pm
Description	The Faculty of Business and Economics welcomed Professor Albert J. Mills, Director of the Sobey School of Business PhD Management Program at Saint Mary’s University (Canada) through the Visiting International Scholar Award (VISA) Scheme to deliver a talk as part of the Lighthouse Lecture Series on Reading Qantas History: Discourses of Intersectionality and the Early Years of Qantas. Professor Mills presented on preliminary research that seeks to understand the relationship between historical context, the past and the way that discriminatory practices cohere (or intersect) in different ways. In particular the talk examined how airline founder Hudson Fysh’s histories of Qantas serve to re/create specific hierarchies of race, class and gender.

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Mar 6, 2018 4:00 pm

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The Faculty of Business and Economics welcomed Professor Albert J. Mills, Director of the Sobey School of Business PhD Management Program at Saint Mary’s University (Canada) through the Visiting International Scholar Award (VISA) Scheme to deliver a talk as part of the Lighthouse Lecture Series on Reading Qantas History: Discourses of Intersectionality and the Early Years of Qantas.

Professor Mills presented on preliminary research that seeks to understand the relationship between historical context, the past and the way that discriminatory practices cohere (or intersect) in different ways. In particular the talk examined how airline founder Hudson Fysh’s histories of Qantas serve to re/create specific hierarchies of race, class and gender.

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