http://homecookedtheory.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:13:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am finally writing the last chapter of my book. It is the one called "Long hours, high bandwith: Negotiating domesticity at a distance". This chapter illustrates how office and home space are each transformed and rendered visible as ambient technologies allow a widening number of close companions throughout the ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/03/13/last-chapter/ I hadn't seen this before. Thanks to Acheron LV-426. http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/03/13/on-topic/ Graeme Turner, who is currently based at the Annenberg School, sent me this article the other day. It's lucky I didn't read it straight away, given my depress-o state lately. The letters the author talks about receiving from graduate students reminded me of emails I got last year after my ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/03/09/please-discuss/ This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women's Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/03/08/international-womens-day/ I went on holiday last month for the first time ever, I think, since I began working in academia. Of course, there have been lots of trips before - many that wouldn't have happened without a job to pay for the airfare - but they have all involved work. The ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2010/03/08/boo-hoo-blues/ Proposals are due this week for Crossroads in Cultural Studies, to be held at Lingnan University in Hong Kong in June 2010. As a member of the conference committee I've been busy organising a number of the spotlight sessions over the past few months, but have yet to organise my ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/12/26/crossroads-panel/ Now one cannot demonstrate scientifically what the duty of an academic teacher is. One can only demand of the teacher that he have the intellectual integrity to see that it is one thing to state facts, to determine mathematical or logical relations or the internal structure of cultural values, while ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/12/23/ipf09-debrief/ Thanks so much to New Matilda for publishing this piece just before the conference. I tried to crystallize some of the things mentioned here in recent days and months. See you on Thursday, I hope! http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/11/24/smart-choices/ With thanks to Tammi and Jen... The RED Report: The contribution of sessional teachers to higher education, Australian Learning and Teaching Council, 2008 From the introduction, by Professor Rob Castle, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International), University of Wollongong: To maintain for permanent staff the ideal of being teaching and research academics, we ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/11/23/related-reading-soi09/ Over the past few months panelists for the SOI conference have been meeting and sharing plans for what they will present in their allotted time at the beginning of each session. The conference format is not the traditional paper-giving mode, but rather an open discussion with the audience following a ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/11/21/10-things-graduate-students-want/