[csaa-forum] Couplings / Connections Body&Soul this Thursday 4 November

[Meredith Jones]

Apologies for cross-posting

 

Dear Friends,

 

The Centre for Cultural Research is hosting the third Couplings/Connections postgraduate seminar, to be held this Thursday 4 November, from 10am until 3.30pm, in the Superintendent's Cottage, (Building ET) Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney.  

 

Please come and enjoy the day with us.  

 

Morning tea and lunch provided, but RSVP for catering purposes by midday Wednesday 3 November, to the Centre for Cultural Research 9685 9600 ccr at uws.edu.au <mailto:ccr at uws.edu.au> 

 

TIMETABLE & PRESENTERS

 

10.00

Matthew D.T. Le

Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Myriad Practices Leading to the Pure Land: Buddhist Practices of the Sangha and Laity in Suburban Sydney

10.30

Philippa Mansor

Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Astrology and Prediction: Global and Local Effects

11.00

Morning tea

11.30

Dennis Leo

 

 

Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

Faculty of Media, Society and Culture

Division of Humanities

Curtin University

Étude Technologique: Music, Technology, and the Performing Body in Brian Ferneyhough's Time and Motion Study II

12.00

Reena Dobson

Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Ki to été?: Construction and maintenance of everyday ethnic identities in Mauritius

12.30

Jessica Cadwallader

Department of Critical and Cultural Studies

Macquarie University

The suffering subject: body modification and self-fulfilment

1.00

lunch

2.00

Karen Healey

English Programme, Canterbury University Christchurch, New Zealand

Art, Erotica, or Pornography? : The Challenges To Categorisation Posed by SuicideGirls.com

2.30

Raya Massie

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney

Am I becoming-rat or losing my ear?  Becoming posthuman in a confrontation with franken-rat

3.00

Meredith Jones

Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Makeover Culture