Somebody please go to this for me!
Posted on | September 21, 2005 |
Sorry about the late notice…
History of Theory Seminar
Centre for the History of European Discourses
University of Queensland
Title: ‘Australian Cultural Studies: people, institutions, discipline’
Presenter: Professor John Frow, Department of English & Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
Date: Thursday, 22 September 2005
Time: 4-6pm (participants are requested to be seated by 4.00 pm)
Venue: James Birrell Room at the UQ Staff & Graduates Club
Part memoir, part genealogy, this paper will think about the emergence of cultural studies in Australia in the 1980s in terms of particular, and rather diverse, uptakes of ‘import theory’ and their shaping by and within particular institutions (courses, journals, conferences). My interest is in the processes by which a discipline is formed - the intellectual formations, the understandings of a developing direction, the sense of political engagement, and the excitement of the new. Rather than freezing this ‘moment of theory’ in a superseded past, I’ll try to indicate why its horizons still constrain us.
Bio: Educated at Wagga High School and the ANU, John Frow lived and worked in South America in 1970 and 1971 and then did graduate studies from 1971 to 1975 in the Comparative Literature Program at Cornell University, including a year at the University of Heidelberg. He worked at Murdoch University in Western Australia from 1975 to 1989, and was then appointed to a Chair at the University of Queensland, where he worked from 1990 to 1999. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to take up the Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He is currently the Head of Department. He has held visiting research and teaching positions at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. Key publications include: Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison), (Cambridge UP, 1999); Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity (Clarendon, 1997); Cultural Studies and Cultural Value, (Clarendon, 1995); Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (ed. with Meaghan Morris), (Allen and Unwin and Uni. of Illinois Press, 1993); and Marxism and Literary History, (Harvard UP and Basil Blackwell, 1986).
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September 22nd, 2005 @ 7:16 am
I’ll be there, will take copious notes in best chicken scrawl. Please bully me to blog them, i could do with an excuse to actually add some content to C/M
September 24th, 2005 @ 12:42 pm
Consider yourself bullied! See how scary I am…