Details for MACS on Friday
Monthly MACS is a cross-institutional network of academics, 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. You can read more [...]
Post Transit
Bloc Party are right: East London is a vampire, it sucks the joy right out of me. Chris Rojek is also right: there is something very wrong with English cultural studies when one figure - Stuart Hall - casts such a shadow over the efforts of scholars past and present to move the field forward, [...]
Pig City symposium is tomorrow
There have been over 200 RSVPs, so if you haven’t let us know you’re coming yet, please do… we want everyone to have a seat. The email is in the flyer below.
For those of you who have asked about whether the event is being recorded, Radio National will be doing some audio and additional interviews [...]
London calling, #2
Update: Judith Halberstam’s title has changed, see below….
In just over a week, I’m heading over to the UK again for the Cultural Studies Now conference at the University of East London. Before the event, Angela McRobbie has kindly offered to host a seminar for those of us coming such a long way where we can [...]
Promo posters
These should start to appear out and about in the next week. Feel free to reproduce the image if you have a space to run it. And let us know if you’re coming: the email for RSVPs is on the flyer. I got my VIP tickets for the concert yesterday. The perks of my job! [...]
Pig City - The symposium
Locals may have seen the posters around town for Pig City, a concert being held at UQ in a couple of weeks. Inspired by the book, and UQ’s association with festivals past, the day features a bunch of bands that helped build the underground rock scene during the darker days of Brisbane’s past, setting the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Happy Ladyfest
More details including the full program, here.
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