Queer Thinking preparations

Plans are well underway for this year’s Queer Thinking events. As was the case last year, the Sexuality and Space Group at Sydney is teaming up with New Mardi Gras to bring a special guest speaker for the weekend. This year it is the brilliant Professor Sara Ahmed. Sara is a regular visitor to the [...]

The 8 hour day in the iPhone age

This is my text for tonight’s ALP fringe event hosted by the Australian Services Union. The opening story is a small edited section from “On Call”, Chapter 9 of Work’s Intimacy. The first time we interviewed Jodi* she was enjoying working from home once every few weeks. These were days when Jodi was encouraged to [...]

Book reviews, excerpts & party!

Work’s Intimacy has been out in Australia for a few weeks now after an earlier release in the UK. Some reviews are coming in already; this one from The Guardian is very exciting, as is this in The Irish Times. There is also a write up in the Times Higher Education. In Australia a couple [...]

Understanding Underbelly

US trip

I am doing a couple of talks at the end of the month on the back of the Chicago Cultural Studies Association conference. It is just a quick US trip because it is the middle of a teaching semester… but one of the events is this talk at Rutgers University. Affective Labor and its Limitations. [...]

Lisa Adkins @ Sydney this Friday

Very happy to see this: Department of Gender and Cultural Studies 2011 seminar series MONEY IS TIME: TEMPORALISATION, ECONOMIC CRISIS and BOURDIEU Professor Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle This paper considers events related to the recent global financial crisis from the point of view of temporality. More specifically, it will elaborate how such events were [...]

A special moment

Thanks to everyone who came out to welcome Lauren Berlant on her visit to Sydney last weekend. It was an incredible paper, and we are all in the department basking in the afterglow of a fantastically inspiring visit. I also wanted to say sorry to those who couldn’t make it in to Saturday’s lecture – [...]

Lauren Berlant visit

Holidays are over! Time to start getting ready for another big year… Next month the Sexuality & Space group will be sponsoring a couple of sessions at the Queer Thinking event at the Seymour Centre, including: Lauren Berlant, “Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin” Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney February 19, 4pm “Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious [...]

Gender, labour & technology: Background

Here is a bit more background for tomorrow’s roundtable, for those interested. For others, maybe see it as a chance for some insight into how to write a “background” section for a grant application! Many scholars have noted that a gendered division of labour was foundational to the social contract of modernity (see Adkins, 2008; [...]

Technologies of gender and labour

One of my big projects for the year comes to fruition next week. The Technologies of Gender and Labour roundtable I’ve been organising with Ann Deslandes is funded by the Academy of the Humanities International Science Linkages scheme. It’s an amazing opportunity to bring together some big names from here and overseas to talk about [...]

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