[csaa-forum] Affect in cultural studies (Anna Gibbs)

Christopher Madden c.madden at ozco.gov.au
Mon Nov 1 08:14:32 CST 2004


Just to follow up Anna's message about affect. There seems to be more
attention being paid to affect and emotions in a number of the social
science disciplines (even economics). Some references that I found in a
really quick search are in: Madden, C.,2004, 'Creativity and Arts Policy',
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, vol. 34(2); 133-139.



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> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:58:57 +1000
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> Subject: [csaa-forum] 	Exhibit A conference: Display, Spectacle,
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> The AHCCA Postgraduate Association Conference 2004 will be held on
> Thursday 4th November in the Prince Philip, Sisalkraft and South lecture
> theatres in the Architecture building at The University of Melbourne.
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> The International Keynote Speaker will be Associate Professor Jim Collins,
> School of Film, Television and Theater at the University of Notre Dame,
> Indiana and author of High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment
> (2001).  See below for keynote abstract.  The conference will feature 50
> postgraduates from Australia and New Zealand delivering 20 minute papers
> on themes including display, spectacle and spectatorship.  Entry is free
> (voluntary gold coin donation).
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> For all enquires email Ryan Johnston: r.johnston at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
> Or visit: http://www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au/events/conferences/Exhibit-A/
> for updates and conference program.  
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> The Architecture Building is located off Swanston Street via Gate 3
> (between Faraday and Elgin Streets), reference F18 on the University map:
> http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/CampusMaps/Parkville.pdf
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> Keynote Address: Assoc. Prof. Jim Collins: "We're All Curators Now"
> How can an interdisciplinary department envision some kind of commonality
> of purpose, or at least identify paradigms that will be especially
> productive in terms of providing the basis for a shared conversation?
> "Cultural studies" as it has been practiced, is not the answer because it
> has reinforced traditional distinctions between high art and popular
> culture by focusing only almost exclusively on the latter. Yet cultural
> studies should have something to say about Culture when it becomes popular
> entertainment in the form of blockbuster museum shows, good design
> make-over television programs, opera singers as pop stars, etc. When any
> elite taste can be turned into popular culture, given the changes that
> have occurred within the past decade in information technologies and the
> targeting of quality audiences, we clearly need to pose some new questions
> about how culture is accessed and evaluated in the twenty-first century.
> Who gets to be a curator? What is an archive? And who fu!
>  nctions as an authority when connoisseurship (or how to get it) has
> become a thriving form of popular culture?
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> From: "Adrian Martin" <adrianmartin90 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [csaa-forum] Melb Uni Program?
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> Ryan - Is the program for the Melb Uni postgrad event really there on the 
> site you gave the link to? When I click on the program it only advises me
> on 
> audiovisual requirements !!!!!!
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> bewildered Adrian
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> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:53:16 +1000
> From: Anna Gibbs <a.gibbs at uws.edu.au>
> Subject: [csaa-forum] Affect in cultural studies
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> Dear All,
> 
> reading the CSAA newsletter, I was surprised to see that Greg Noble 
> has decided that affect is something Cultural Studies is 'crap at', 
> although at least he seems to make an exception for Elspeth's work. 
> Perhaps he is unaware of the work which has actually been happening 
> in this area since the late nineties, including by colleagues at his 
> own institution, who have long been working with theories of the 
> discrete affects, as well as on wider theories of affectivity.
> 
> With my UWS colleagues Virginia Nightingale and Maria Angel, I am a 
> member of the Affect-image-Media Research Group at UWS which we set 
> up  after I started a clinical training in 1998 in which affect 
> theory played a large part and it became clear that it could be used 
> in empirical as well as theoretical projects in media and cultural 
> studies.
> 
> Our major, internally funded, project is on Horror Images and 
> Negative Affects. Virginia Nightingale and I gave a joint paper on 
> this research at the Internet, Media and Mental Health Conference in 
> Brisbane in May this year. I presented another paper that grew out of 
> this work at the Gender Studies seminar at Sydney University in 
> August. An earlier paper of mine - 'Disaffected' - speaking to the 
> group's program was presented to the CSAA conference in Tasmania as 
> part of our group's symposium on affect and was subsequently 
> published in Continuum.
> 
> Maria and I were members of the Interinstitutional Silvan (not 
> 'Sylvan') Tomkins' Research Group which included academics from UWS, 
> Sydney University, UTS and Macquarie. It was an interdisciplinary 
> group: Melissa Hardie was the  other member who worked in Cultural 
> Studies. We organised a symposium ('Between the Clinical and the 
> Cultural') on the different understandings of affect in different 
> fields. This group also presented a symposium on Tomkins' work at the 
> Millennium Conference in Critical Psychology at UWS in 1999, and in 
> March that same year, Maria and I organised an interdisciplinary 
> conference on Darwin's work ('Darwin Undisciplined') at which there 
> were several papers dealing with Darwin's work on affect.
> 
> In 2001 my paper on Pauline Hanson and the contagion of distress was 
> published in the Australian Humanities Review. I continue to work in 
> the area of public emotion and am working on a linkage application to 
> this effect currently. I have also presented papers on other aspects 
> of affect at the Cultural Studies conference in Boston this year, at 
> the CSAA conference in Christchurch, and at various Psychoanalytic 
> and Writing conferences in both Australia and overseas, all of which 
> will soon appear in print.
> 
> Greg also mentions research on the brain in cultural studies: I am 
> currently working on a book about mimicry and affect which deals - 
> among other things - with the role of mirror neurons in human 
> mimicry.  Maria has also done work on the brain in the context of her 
> research on Face, and she has also recently had a major paper about 
> affect theory accepted for publication. Elspeth Probyn has also 
> recently written a paper that deals with the neural organisation of 
> the stomach.
> 
> There are many other people working on affect in cultural studies all 
> over the place  - in the last couple of years it has really been a 
> strong focus which has produced a lot of good research, some of it in 
> the form of as yet unpublished PhD theses both in mainstream Cultural 
> Studies and in Writing, of which I have supervised several and 
> examined others. More are in the pipeline.
> 
> In fact, I think Cultural Studies is finally getting good at affect, 
> seven or eight years after we first started thinking seriously about 
> it.
> 
> Anna G
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> Dr Anna Gibbs
> Affect-Image-Media Research Group
> School of Communication, Design and Media
> University of Western Sydney
> Locked Bag 1797
> Penrith South DC
> NSW 1797
> AUSTRALIA
> tel (612) 9852.5412
> fax (612) 9852.5424
> -- 
> Dr Anna Gibbs
> Affect-Image-Media Research Group
> School of Communication, Design and Media
> University of Western Sydney
> Locked Bag 1797
> Penrith South DC
> NSW 1797
> AUSTRALIA
> tel (612) 9852.5412
> fax (612) 9852.5424
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