The Food for Thought Network will interview Professor Mary Kalantzis about her personal life, and rise through academia on Sunday 14 November, 3pm.
One of themes explored earlier in the year through the Food for Thought Networks’ Lens Series was promised brides, and similarly, Ms Kalantzis’ “domestic destiny came to pass in the form of an arranged marriage at 17.” Hear about the cultural conditioning at the time, and how attitudes have evolved since then for women of Greek migrant parents.
Professor Mary Kalantzis is one of 42 inspirational women featured in the book, HER VOICE: Greek Women and Their Friends, by Food for Thought Network founder Varvara Athanasiou- Ioannou.
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Mary Kalantzis is a Professor at the University of Illinois. From 2006 to 2016, she was Dean of the College of Education there. Before then, she was Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University, Melbourne, and president of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She has been a board member of Teaching Australia and the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership, a commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, vice president of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, and a member of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board. With Bill Cope, she is co-author or editor of a number of books, including New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, 2008, 2nd edition 2012, with Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Portuguese and Russian editions; Literacies, 2012, 2nd edition 2016, also with Greek, Spanish and Portuguese editions, and the two-volume grammar of multimodal meaning: Making Sense and Adding Sense, 2020.
All are welcome to join the Zoom session on Sunday 14 November at 3.00 pm Melbourne time, to hear her inspirational story.
Bookings can be made via Trybooking.
