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Thinking culture now updating

Just to cross-promote to readers who may be interested, the GCS blog, Thinking Culture, is now up and running again. I’m hoping some of you will be keen to subscribe to that feed in addition to this one. As well as offering a space for students and staff in our Department to write, I’m trying [...]

How do you buy a wedding ring?

The next bit of wedding planning is to buy the rings, since we both agree we’d like to have one. It was different with the engagement. I proposed to William so I didn’t expect a ring. I am also not much of a jewelry person. But wow, try explaining that to someone sometime, that you [...]

Literature and cultural studies

One of our grad students in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies is organising a panel for the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference in June. It’s exploring links between literature and cultural studies. As part of the preparations, she is doing a survey of postgraduates and early career 
scholars working on literature in the [...]

Blogroll update

I’ve been reading some new bloggers lately, and changes have been made to the blogroll accordingly. I’ll share a little bit about them below. In other news, I’ll soon be reanimating the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies’ site, Thinking Culture, a group blog featuring our staff and students. We’re going to use it to [...]

Happily ever before and after

Yesterday we met our wedding celebrant for the first time. We were a bit nervous beforehand. So far the celebrant plans have fallen through twice. My sister in law’s mother was first to be asked, but unfortunately illness means she can’t risk traveling to the wedding. Then after a trip home to Tassie last year [...]