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Wireless workshop

Now everything’s in place, I can finally let you in on a little pet project I’ve been working on…
Wireless Cultures & Technologies Workshop
Convened by Dr Gerard Goggin (USyd) and Dr Melissa Gregg (UQ)
Sponsored by the ARC Cultural Research Network Cultural Technologies Node
The University of Sydney, Friday 1 December, 1.30-5.00pm
Wireless technologies and cultures could be said [...]

Vale 80s ideologue rock

Video Hits is giving me what I want this morning: a countdown to tonight’s ARIAs. The ARIAs are probably my favourite award ceremony. You get a bit more spirit than the film or TV ones, where the script, if it’s Australian, is usually about demonstrating the need for more money (the refrain that doesn’t seem [...]

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 [...]

Warning: Adult Themes

Sydney people:
You’re invited to an ‘In Conversation’ event with Kate Crawford, author of Adult Themes, and Jenny Brockie of Insight on SBS. Come along to join a discussion about how the norms of adulthood are changing, and why generational stereotypes are missing the bigger story of political and economic change.
Where: Gleebooks upstairs
When: Wednesday Oct [...]

Sex in libraries

Call for Papers—International Conference
Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality in the Archive
April 26-28, 2007
Sponsored by Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Alice Domurat Dreger, Catherine Waldby, Elizabeth Kerekere, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Susan Stryker; others to be announced
The turn to new theories and practices of the archive in critical theory, cultural studies, [...]

Cultural Studies in Asia Symposium

Featuring Professors Ien Ang, Chua Beng Huat, Meaghan Morris, and Krishna Sen
Sponsored by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and the ARC Cultural Research Network
Thursday 23 November 2006, 2-5pm
Seminar Room 1, E356
3rd Floor Forgan Smith Building, East Wing, St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland
This symposium will explore the current state of [...]

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 [...]

Saturn returns

Last week I turned 28. As some of you following the progress of post-AoIR-related flickring have noticed, I died my hair blonde to celebrate! I’ve also since received numerous warnings that the next two years are pretty much going to suck. Is it wrong that I had no idea about this? I guess a [...]

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 [...]

Extreme conference week

I’ve been at three conferences this week, and we’re just over half way through AoIR now. I’ve met some cool new people and reconnected with some old friends from interstate and overseas, tho organising duties, change of season sleeping patterns and tendonitis are keeping me from seeing many papers. Yes, tendonitis: I’ve been ordered off [...]

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