Day One - Teaching and Learning
A working model for the conference so far is based on three sessions of provocations each day.
Two speakers will provide responses to themes that have been established beforehand, following which the audience will be invited to take over the discussion.
Done in blocks of two hours, there will be two major themes for each session. [...]
The State of the Industry
Frankie magazine has a feature this month on postgrads with cool PhD topics. [Disclaimer: I know two of the three interviewees quite well; in fact it feels as though I "know" half the people in the issue in one way or another...] Nestled in with other stories of “creative types” who do what they do [...]
Always on: the seminar
CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES
PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES for 2008
Tuesday 9th September 2.00-3.30pm
Dr Melissa Gregg
Always On: Coping with Constant Connectivity
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room
Level 1 Duhig Building (Bldg 2) St Lucia Campus [See Map]
Abstract:
While expensive advertising campaigns continue to promote the benefits of new media technologies, particularly for time-poor executives [...]
Cultural studies after Melbourne
Last week on top of the excitement of meeting Lauren Berlant and Ian Horswill and the despair of seeing the Swans lose at ANZ stadium I had some interesting discussions about teaching and cultural studies with some of Melbourne University’s finest employees. It was exciting to hear that some of the material I’ve discussed here [...]
Anticipatory affects in the workplace
There’s a separate symposium I’m speaking at in Melbourne called “Affect and the
Human/ Machine Interface” which is being organised by Fiona Brideoake and the Minds, Bodies, Machines ARC Linkage Project. The event features Ian Horswill as plenary speaker on Tuesday afternoon, as well as a bunch of other very interesting looking sessions. I’m presenting more [...]
Lauren Berlant in Melbourne
Next week I’ll be in Melbourne because Lauren Berlant is coming to town! Hoping to see lots of you locals at this:
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Dean’s Lecture,
in association with The School of Culture and Communication
Professor Lauren Berlant
‘After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the Precarious [...]
The politics of publishing
Tomorrow’s MACS meeting is inspired by the amount of debate that has greeted the announcement of journal rankings in preparation for a new research evaluation initiative in Australia. Most of this online discussion happened while I was overseas, and given my current institutional in-betweenness, I didn’t get involved in the submission processes since coming back. [...]
Teaching or research?
My unfortunate lack of blogging lately is partly due to travel and the impact this has on other deadlines: I have three articles/chapters due this month and more presentations in Melbourne and Brisbane, as well as a graduate course to convene and an engagement party to organise! This workload was partly designed to fill in [...]