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 [...]
Hot chips, wine & amphetamines
Yesterday, as part of the Brisbane Writers Festival, I went to a masterclass on how to sustain a freelance career. John Birmingham and Antony Loeweinstein took turns sharing their experiences in front of an almost entirely female audience. The turnout was interesting in itself, and I asked them to comment on it. I was particularly [...]
Ladyfest vs. SOOB
This Ladyfest benefit joins forces with Straight Out Of Brisbane on the gloriously parochial Ekka holiday in QLD. With BIFF just winding up - immediately following the Brisbane Festival - it’s a great time to be living in this city (and a bad time to be writing job applications to leave it).
New Splendour Tickets
Just got this in my inbox:
Splendour In The Grass organisers can announce that a FINAL, STRICTLY LIMITED, ONLINE ONLY general release ticket sale will take place this FRIDAY JULY 7TH. Splendour organisers offered refunds on tickets up until last Friday, June 30th. Refunded tickets then went into a special release of tickets to Byron [...]
Last one out, turn off the lights
A few weeks ago my PhD student Ian used this phrase to sum up the sheer number of people he knew leaving Brisbane. As someone who still feels like I only just got here, I didn’t relate to it very much at the time, and given how much we hear in the media about Brisbane [...]
A few of my favourite things
POLITICS IN THE PUB
From Left to Right: Navigating the Political Spectrum in Contemporary Australia
As parties confront challenging contemporary problems, listen to opinions on the evolution of the political spectrum. Explore the ideological basis to current policies & consider whether the concepts of left & right are as clear as they used to be. Duration 2 [...]
Poetry-Proof Fence
Feminist cultural studies in Brisbane?
Since leaving the Sydney Gender Studies department where I did my PhD, and taking up a position in a Cultural Studies research centre, I’ve begun to miss the sense of a shared theoretical and political framework for the kind of work I do. This perception of losing a collective project - and it is only [...]
Out and about
Neighbour-y homes
Last weekend I learned that at 27 I am too old to see live music without being in some kind of physical pain (or Sigur Ros is a sit-down show the second time around). In January I had to leave the Mars Volta before 10.30pm because I seriously thought I was going to [...]
Levinas Centenary Conference
Emmanuel Levinas Centenary Conference: Levinas Today
The University of Queensland: 30 June - 1 July 2006
The Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
Third Announcement: 22 March 2006
Extended Title Deadline 30 March 2006
Speakers
David L. Clark: Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Health Studies Program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Ghassan Hage: Associate Professor [...]