home cooked theory

MACS @ QUT

This afternoon we’re having MACS at QUT’s Creative Industries Precinct for the first time. The topic is how the Creative Industries paradigm relates to Media and Cultural Studies research and vice versa. We thought this was a pretty timely issue to be discussing given that QUT has just been granted the first ever humanities Centre [...]

Heroes

I’ve been known to argue that academics need to have a few heroes, and today I get to hear one of mine: Professor Judith Brett, Professor of Politics, Latrobe University ‘Relaxed and comfortable with the Liberal Party’ 4pm – 6pm Eleanor Room, UQ Staff and Graduates Club These past few days I’ve been reading some [...]

Not consuming

Is anyone else having trouble logging in to All Consuming the last few days? I get to the log in page and enter my password and then it moves to the next page without recognising I’ve signed in. Grrr. I want to tell the world I’ve finally finished the first season of Carnivale and it [...]

Small victories

Really pleased to hear that the two Australian speakers I put forward to give plenary addresses at Crossroads have apparently accepted. They join a very interesting line-up so far.

On Katrina

“…however ‘natural’ the disaster, the differential experience of the victims is entirely man-made…”

My two research loves

Affect and technology together at last: thanks to Jill for posting about the ‘Moodgrapher’ tool which charts emotions on LJ. More details here. Note the pivotal research question: Is it true that people drink more on weekends?

Blogging ethics

The AoIR list has a bit of a thread going on blogging ethics at the moment. I find it hard to believe that no one is writing about this stuff in any academic outlets. There’s so much that could be said, and so much anecdotal material that suggests the need for a decent conversation. But [...]

Crossroads in Cultural Studies

Over the past few months I’ve been involved in organising the venue and some of the topics for Crossroads in Cultural Studies in Istanbul next July. It should be a formidable event, just look at the website and you can probably tell they’re very organised and well resourced hosts. After some of the problems experienced [...]

Ladyfest week

It’s Ladyfest week in Brisbane. Get yr tickets before they all go! There are rock shows on Friday and Saturday nights, plus after-parties. Ouch! And I just noticed on the website that late on Friday night at No. 12 it’s “Black Fag Vs Ladyfest” which sounds very dangerous. It’s been a long time since I’ve [...]

Online identities

Tomorrow I’m giving a talk about the pros and cons of online identities when pursuing humanities research, part of a professional development seminar run by the Australian Studies Centre. Mostly I’ll be talking about blogging and how useful it is for niche research projects (good to see Ian On’s PhD blog up and running!) but [...]

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