Quasi-academic life coaching
Reading the comments on this post at Ferule and Fescue earlier today, it struck me all over again how poorly academic success prepares people for being happy in any long-term or conventional sense. It’s amazing how life goals can be listed here as a series of alternatives, each of which hold worthy potential, and how [...]
Sustaining cultural research
cultural research beyond the academy (communication strategies and skills)
University of South Australia
December 5, 2007
Following on from the success of 2005’s prefix: a postgraduate and early career researcher professional development day, the postgraduate and early career researcher node of the ARC Cultural Research Network invites you to participate in sustaining cultural research: cultural research beyond [...]
For Ethnography
I’m heading to Sydney this morning to speak at this conference at UTS tomorrow. It’s a chance to hear some of the work Catherine and I have been doing on our book if you have time to come along - we’d appreciate some feedback during these early stages. We’re also on in the last session [...]
It’s the postmodernism, stupid
Wow. If you wanted to take an opportunity to collapse every workplace grievance you felt in one very public statement, this feature in The Australian’s Higher Education lift-out today would seem to be a pin-up example. Let’s see: Cultural relativism = postmodernism / poststructuralism = cultural studies = Alan McKee & John Hartley = radical [...]
Ubiquitous Media, Tokyo, July
A colleague and I are trying to find people who might be interested in doing a roundtable with us at this conference. At the moment we’re thinking of something on the (very) broad theme of ’surveillance’, and roundtables need at least 5 participants. Interested? Give me a shout in an email or below.
Lasting impressions
See, you wait a few days and everyone else says it for you. I’m not sure Canberra could have been any more fun given that I arrived there in a Gold Mercedes, was susequently driven around most places by nice boys, and when I wasn’t being driven I was catching buses or drinking pitchers, champagne [...]
Moments
Glen managed to catch this sweet pic of Kate and I during our book launch in Canberra. It’s the only one I’ve seen from the launches that captures the seriousness and the emotion of what is on the surface such a happy event - when you realise people you respect are saying nice things to [...]
Cultural Studies Now
An International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007
Plenary speakers will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti, Kuan-Hsing Chen; Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Doreen Massey.
Cultural Studies, as the paradigmatic interdisciplinary project, has always been defined by its relationships to proximate sets of ideas, practices and institutions. As [...]
Dear Australian Research Council
Thank you very much for giving me another three years of getting paid.
DP0770241: “Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity” has been funded. You can see the full list of grants here.
Thanks to all of you who have wished me well and tried to keep me sane [...]
MACS tomorrow: Working with industry
Tomorrow is Kat’s talk on ‘Working with industry (during your PhD)’. If you haven’t been following her work here or here, Kat Jungnickel is a PhD student at INCITE, an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. She is currently undertaking a multi-sited ethnography [...]
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