home cooked theory

Academics’ blogs

For the upcoming AoIR conference, I’m expanding the project I began in ‘Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship’ to look at blogs that talk explicitly about academic life - the day to day banalities of teaching, doing research, getting ahead and getting along with colleagues. You can read the abstract for the paper here.
Some [...]

Calendar girls

Just got back from Melbourne after four days at the 21st Century Feminisms conference. Interestingly, this story broke the morning I gave my paper, providing a delightfully timely discussion prop on top of my already formidable number of visuals showing ladies using IT at work (or not, as the case may be).
The discussion at [...]

Abstract written

Following Mel’s lead, here is the paper I proposed for the Canberra conference, part of a panel submission with Kate Crawford and Will Tregoning. The panel title, hastily negotiated via Skype late Friday, is “We Work Hard For the Money: Cultural Studies and/of Work.”
On Friday Night Drinks: Neoliberalism’s Compulsory Friends
In the final season of HBO’s [...]

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 [...]

Abstract writing

John and I have been brainstorming about potential papers for the CSAA conference given that abstracts are due at the end of the week. Is anyone else planning to go?
I’m plotting a presentation that will finally draw together my two research interests - affect and workplace culture - using the trajectory of Claire’s character [...]

Getting organised

Filling out the CRN nomination and contemplating the prospects for ongoing employment last week have me feeling super anal about getting my affairs in order. I’ve just updated a bunch of stuff on my work homepage (check out the ‘research‘, ‘publications‘ and ‘MACS‘ pages) which led me in a bout of inspiration just now to [...]

Web editor job

Research Assistant (Level 5) to the Web Editor of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (3 July 2006 to 25 June 2007).
Expressions of interest are sought for a casual research assistant position to support the Web Editor in maintaining the CSAA web site. We are seeking a Cultural Studies postgraduate with at least basic [...]

RIP Movie Show

It’s all over - the game where I get to indulge my fascination with Megan Spencer’s stockings and compare current trends in New Farm, Newtown and St Kilda hairdressing.
I feel a bit ripped off. I thought they would have at least provided a summary of the films that scored the highest all-time ratings. It [...]

Weekends at Bunnings

New study

This is where the theory will be cooking at my place from now on. On Saturday morning these walls were mustard! For non-Australian readers, Bunnings is the biggest home hardware franchise taking over the southern hemisphere. They have ‘free ladies nights’ (no, not that kind) and sell sausages outside their stores on weekends. Although [...]

Change of plans

I haven’t written much lately - firstly because there is an exciting new updated blog design on the way and I have been looking forward to coming back new and improved (no pressure, Nick!). But also I’ve been a bit reticent to say that I’ve had to pull out of going to the Crossroads in [...]

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