The Culture and Communication Graduate Committee at the University of Melbourne begin this year’s Friday Seminar Series of graduate presentations on Friday the 22 February, starting at 4pm in Room 106 of the John Medley Building. Felicity Ford will be presenting ‘Embracing the Abject in Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher’. Staff and graduate students are welcome. […]
When I started my PhD project I was warned by various researchers that the group I was targeting was going to be very difficult to source and even more difficult to stay connected with. Because I was interested in talking to a wide range of drug users, from the occasional to the addicted, I became […]
Bettina Roesler (Sydney, UWS): Bettina is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society (University of Western Sydney). With a background in Literature Studies, Foreign Language Teaching and Translation Studies, in her thesis Bettina is exploring the tensions between cultural diplomacy making, government funding for the arts and artist exchanges, in particular […]
The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners, including the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, is proud to announce the Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from May 24-26 2013, at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new […]
Main theme: Beyond the Culture Industry Date: July 3rd to July 5th 2013 Venue: National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge Campus Organizers: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Asia Research Institute, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS …more details Please get in-touch if you want to get together to form a panel! The submission deadline has […]
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Your input is needed! This site is meant as a platform you – postgraduate students. That means you need to be proactive and share your insights, recommendations, ideas, and knowledge. Even things you might not consider important enough can be worth sharing. So keep your eyes and ears open – then share. Consider this a […]
Reading groups or circles can be a great thing. You can get together and share your thoughts, discuss meanings and figure out alternative ways to making sense of a text or theory. It is a great opportunity to explore ideas in collaboration with other great minds – you would be surprised how productive and rewarding […]
Kenneth Yates PhD Candidate, National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR, University of New South Wales) Vitellone’s (2003) work on the syringe as an object-in-use provides a useful framework for research about people who inject drugs and the equipment that they use. The notion of the object-in-use suggests that the needle and syringe might usefully be […]
Jed Horner PhD candidate, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales Borders, and practices of what Van Houtum et al. (2005) term ‘b/ordering’, whereby borders are seemingly rendered meaningful and concrete, remain a focus of political discourse(s) in Australia and are increasingly an object of analysis. In this paper, I respond […]
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