home cooked theory

Issues

Just wrote an email to the CSAA-forum asking for input for a panel I’m speaking on at the Crossroads conference (this is in addition to the workplace culture panel I’m doing with Kate). The idea is for ACS board members from different regions to talk about industrial issues in their part of the world so [...]

Split personality

My loyalty to cultural studies is this morning sorely tested, i.e:
Sonic Youth, Grinspoon, DJ Shadow, The Grates, Death Cab for Cutie, TV on the Radio, Augie March, The Avalanches (DJ set), Youth Group, Brittle Fex, Atmosphere and Paul Mac; Brian Wilson, Wolfmother, Scissor Sisters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jose Gonzalez, Snow Patrol, You Am I, Decoder [...]

CFP

unaustralia

If things are ‘un-Australian’ it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA.
Where is it?
Who lives there?
How does it come to be?
What is its past and what is its future?
While raising some very local questions of critique and desire, the theme is open to international perspectives and interpretations. Do other places have their own unplaces? What [...]

Feminist cultural studies in Brisbane?

Since leaving the Sydney Gender Studies department where I did my PhD, and taking up a position in a Cultural Studies research centre, I’ve begun to miss the sense of a shared theoretical and political framework for the kind of work I do. This perception of losing a collective project – and it is only [...]

May MACS – “collaboration”

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 regularly during semester to discuss issues which relate to these roles, debate wider trends in the field and have a few drinks afterwards.
The next MACS meet will be [...]

Out and about

Neighbour-y homes

Last weekend I learned that at 27 I am too old to see live music without being in some kind of physical pain (or Sigur Ros is a sit-down show the second time around). In January I had to leave the Mars Volta before 10.30pm because I seriously thought I was going to [...]

Inspiration

So the wordpress update went well, if that can be quantified solely in terms of solving my major headache of hundreds of spammers descending on my innocent thoughts [edit: after writing all this I now realise my links aren't working properly and my 'write post' box is a bit demented. I will struggle on and [...]

Updating

It’s a public holiday so I am cleaning up around here… please be patient!

Also: comments

The paper I gave at the Hoggart conference – ‘The Importance of Being Ordinary’ – is being considered for two of the publications coming out of the event: a book and a special issue of IJCS. Apparently this means I need a 4000 and an 8000 word version of the paper. I already have about [...]

Back

I have been in the UK for the past week and a half, and now I’ve dealt with the consequences of being away I finally have a bit of time to reflect. (Some of my students missed a class because a tutor had to quit two days before I left – yes, the only tutor [...]

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