Melbourne University 

 

Nikos Papastergiadis, was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, he was Deputy Director of the Australia Centre at the University of Melbourne; Head of the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of Arts; lecturer in Sociology and recipient of the Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester. Throughout his career, Nikos has provided strategic consultancies for government agencies on issues relating to cultural identity and has worked in collaborative projects with artists and theorists of international repute such as John Berger, Jimmie Durham and Sonya Boyce.  His major publications include, Modernity as Exile (1992), Dialogues in the Diaspora (1998), The Turbulence of Migration (2000), Complex Entanglements (2003), Metaphor and Tension (2004), and Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday (2006).