home cooked theory

How to make friends and influence boomers

The title might be deceptive, but this isn’t another post about the pre-fix professional development day, which Az and Ange have documented. A while ago now I wrote a book review of Lindsay Tanner’s Crowded Lives which apparently some people actually read, and as a result I’ve been asked to contribute to a new book [...]

PTA meeting

James Boag, Knopwoods Hotel, Hobart July 05
Glen mentioned the new flickr group I started for Public Toilet Ads. I’d like to use the group for a research project, though I’m not sure how much luck we’ll have getting this going in the current security climate. Here’s an example of what I’m looking for, anyway. [...]

CSAA

Thanks to all of you for the discussion in the last post. Whether or not we mean the same thing when we say solidarity it’s been great to see such intensity, and I’ve been really pleased that people have tried to get a conversation going despite my initial anxieties. Fear that that couldn’t happen is [...]

Post solidarity (?)

[Cross-posted at Memes of Production]
There’s enough dissing of cultural studies in the blogosphere to make me want to get therapy. Seriously: if anyone has reason to hate cultural studies, it’s me. It stole my social life. It made me move state twice. It pushes me to work the longest hours. And it’s making me blinder [...]

Uses of Blogs

Congratulations to Axel and Joanne Jacobs who have just submitted the manuscript for the Uses of Blogs collection. We Brisbanites are hoping it will be ready for launching at the AoIR conference next year! Come on, Peter Lang, the timing is too good to miss!

End of year MACS

Monthly MACS is a cross-institutional network of early career researchers, postgraduate students, postdocs, RAs and sessional staff working in Media and Cultural Studies across Brisbane. We meet once a month during semester to discuss issues which relate to these roles, debate wider trends in the field and have a few drinks afterwards.
The final MACS meet [...]

Whiteness and the Horizons of Race

7-9 December 2005
A conference hosted by the Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland
Please click here for a printable registration form.
International Keynote Speaker: Professor David Roediger.  Professor Roediger is currently Chair, the Department of History, University of Illinois.  His current research is on immigration and racial formation in the United States. He has written extensively on [...]

Yay!

Someone thinks I’m a feminist! Thanks Sour Duck.

Comments problems

Just a note to say a lot of readers seem to be getting an error message when they post comments lately, even though from my side they are all coming through to the blog without a problem. I’ve been deleting a lot of the repeated ones but not sure what to do about the error [...]

New cultural studies bloggers

Worth checking out: Ted Striphas has started Differences and Repetitions. I have no idea what’s behind the title of that one. Ted’s ex-UNC Chapel Hill, now at Indiana and amongst other things he’s the guy who edited the special issue of Cultural Studies on institutionalisation.
A bit closer to home (in the office right across [...]

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