Staff profile

Dr Toula Nicolacopoulos

Senior Lecturer, Program Coordinator (Philosophy)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 209, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA LLB (Melbourne), BA (Hons-La Trobe), PhD (La Trobe).

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. Australasian Association of Philosophy.

Area of study

Philosophy
Gender
Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Brief Profile

Since completing her PhD on 20th century Anglo-American liberal and communitarian thought, Toula Nicolacopoulos has been studying Hegel in the light of feminist and radical left thinking on issues of global citizenship, justice and struggles for recognition. She is interested in developing theories of subjectivity, cultural diversity and political agency which draw upon the insights of critical race and whiteness theory and the history of Greek-Australian political activism.  

Research interests

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Feminist theories of subjectivity

Philosophy of the Mind

- Ethics

- Hegel’s logic

Teaching Units

 

PHI1GPI - Great Philosophical Ideas. PHI2MMW - The Making of the Modern Western Worldview. PHI2/3CET - Why bother? Communication Ethics and Global citizenship. PHI2/3WAP - War Peace and Survival. PHI2/3PAM - Plato and the Meaning of Being.

Recent Publications

Books

 

Nicolacopoulos, T (in press) The Radical Critique of Ronald Dworkin’s Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision, Part 2. Seddon,Melbourne, re. press.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T 2008, 'The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision', Part 1. Seddon, Melbourne, re. press.

 

Ashton, P, Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G (eds), 2008, The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking, Seddon, Melbourne, re. press.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, From Foreigner to Citizen: Greek Migrants and Social Change in White Australia, 1897-2000, (Greek) Melbourne and Pireas, Eothinon Publications.

 

Philosophy Papers

 

Nicolacopoulos, T 2007, ‘What's Wrong with 'Exporting Liberal Pluralism'? On the Radical Self-denial of Contemporary Liberal Philosophy’, Philosophical Inquiry: international quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 1-2, pp.89-111.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2007, 'The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel's Philosophy', Cosmos and History: the journal of natural and social philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, pp.84-116.

 

Ashton, P, Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2007, 'The Spirit of the Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking', Cosmos and History: the journal of natural and social philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, pp.1-4.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2006, 'Philosophy and Revolution: Badiou's Infidelity to the Event', Cosmos and History, Vol. 2, No. 1-2, pp.210-225.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2005, 'On the Systemic Meaning of Meaningless Utterances: The Place of Language in Hegel's Speculative Philosophy', Cosmos and History, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.17-26.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, 'On the other side of xenophobia: philoxenia as the ground of refugee rights', Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.63-77.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, 'Racism, foreigner communities and the onto- pathology of white Australian subjectivity', Whitening Race. Essays in social and cultural criticism., Ed(s). Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Canberra, ACT, Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 32-47.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2003, 'Inquiry into hope', Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy in Schools, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.1-7.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2003, 'Inquiry into hope': A brief Reply, Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of philosophy in schools, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.16-17.

 

Applied Philosophy Papers

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2006, 'Australian Cultural Memory and the Visionary Appropriation of History', Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), Vol. - pp.142-151.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2005, 'Rethinking the Radical Potential of the Concept of Multiculturalism', Tseen Khoo (ed(s)), The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 24/11/2004, University of Queensland's Australian Studies Centre (ASC), http://asc.uq.edu.au/bodypolitic/, pp.1-13.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T, Vassilacopoulos, G & Kyrkilis, J 2004, 'From Epistemological Indeterminism to Ontological Integrity: Ethnicity and Generational Differences in Collaborative Life-History Writing', Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 & 2, pp.275-285.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, 'Greek-Australian Community Development: Diversity and Solidarity in Place of Loyalty.', Kevin Brown, Jacques Boulet, Phil Connors, Linette Hawkins, Sue Kenny, Lorraine Kerr, Rosemary Leonard, Ruth Phillips (eds), Community Development Human Rights and the Grassroots: a conference to explore and celebrate the role of community development today., Deakin University, Melbourne, 14/04/2004, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, pp.182-194.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, 'Indigenous and White Australians: The Ontological Encountering and the Betrayal of Thought', Susanne Schech and Ben Wadham (ed(s)), Placing Race and Localising Whiteness, Flinders University, South Australia, 01/10/2004, Flinders University Press, South Australia, pp.1-7.

 

Cultural/Historical papers

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2009, 'The making of a new transnational integration discourse: The case of the Greek-Australian migrants in the 1940s’, Elizabeth Close, George Couvalis, George Franzis, Maria, Palaksoglu, Michael Tsianikas, (ed(s)), Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies. Flinders University, June 2007. Greek Research in Australia. Flinders University, 06/2007, Flinders University, Australia, pp.163-172.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2009, ‘Platon: Adelaide’s Greek Workers’ League’, Elizabeth Close, George Couvalis, George Franzis, Maria, Palaksoglu, Michael Tsianikas, (ed(s)), Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies. Flinders University, June 2007. Greek Research in Australia. Flinders University, 06/2007, Flinders University, Australia, pp.173-182.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2007, 'Struggles to Belong: Greek Migrants' Citizenship Rights', Elizabeth Close, Michael Tsianikas, George Couvalis (ed(s)), Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies. Flinders University, June 2005. Greek Research in Australia, Flinders University, 23/06/2005, Flinders University, Australia, pp.145-154.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2007, 'The Greek-Australian Unemployed Movement and the Construction of the Migrants' Rights Discourse', Elizabeth Close, Michael Tsianikas, George Couvalis (ed(s)), Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies. Flinders University, June 2005. Greek Research in Australia. Flinders University, 23/06/2005, Flinders University, Australia, pp.135-144.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2005, 'Becoming Australians by Choice: Greek-Australian Activism in 1960s Melbourne', Go! Melbourne. Melbourne in the Sixties, Ed(s). Seamus O'Hanlon & Tanja Luckins, Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Group Pty Ltd, pp. 245-259.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2004, 'Discursive Constructions of the Southern European Foreigner', Susanne Schech and Ben Wadham (ed(s)), Placing Race and Localising Whiteness, Flinders University, South Australia, 01/10/2003, Flinders University Press, South Australia, pp.73-81.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2005, 'Ethnicity as an Organisational Concept in the Life of the Community', Elizabeth Close, Michael Tsianikas, George Frazis (ed(s)), Greek Research in Australia, Flinders University, 11/04/2003, The Department of Languages - Modern Greek, Flinders University, Adelaide, pp.275-286.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2005, 'On the Methodology of Greek-Australian Historiography', Elizabeth Close, MichaelTsianikas, George Frazis (ed(s)), Greek Research in Australia, Flinders University, 11/04/2003, The Department of Languages, Modern Greek, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, pp.263-274.

 

Nicolacopoulos, T & Vassilacopoulos, G 2003, 'The Making of Greek-Australian Citizenship: From Heteronomous to Autonomous Political Communities', Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 11/12 pp.165-176.

Research projects

Philosophies of transition: from nation-states to the global state

Global citizenship, (in)security and the power of property-owning subjectivity Indigenous Sovereignty and the being of the occupier

History of Greek-Australian political activism