[csaa-forum] Seminars in the ACT (oops)

[Jennifer Webb]

Sorry folks, the abstract for Community of Communities reads:

This paper examines the negative reception in the public sphere of the
Runnymede Trust's, The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. It looks closely at
the content of the report and discusses Bhiku Parekh's ideas on
multiculturalism. He was the principal author of the Runnymede Trust report,
which is commonly known as 'the Parekh report'. The paper compares Parekh's
perspective on multiculturalism favourably with that of the American Samuel
Huntington's, whose book, The Clash of Civilizations, which has been hugely
influential, particularly regarding the tension between 'Western
civilization' and 'Islamic Civilization'.



On 23/2/05 1:07 PM, "Jennifer Webb" <Jennifer.Webb at canberra.edu.au> wrote:

>  
> Visiting Professor Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis at
> Loughborough University, UK, will give two seminars at the University of
> Canberra in March. All welcome to attend.
> 
> The first, A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES
> will be held in room 9C25 on March 10 at 3:30pm (drinks to follow)
> (Enquiries: Ann Willis, 02 62012035 or email: Ann.Willis at canberra.edu.au)
>  
> ABSTRACT:
> This paper draws connections between cultural studies as an
> interdisciplinary field and the emergence of 'cool capitalism'. Drawing on
> the work of Thomas Frank amongst others, a distinct affinity is identified
> between the one-dimensional emphasis on consumption in a great deal of
> cultural studies research and the phemonenon of cool capitalism, which
> amounts to a decline and incorporation of dissent in contemporary culture
> and society The paper is not so much a critique of cultural studies itself
> as of a particular trajectory in the field that has, arguably, been dominant
> in recent years. There are, however, alternative trajectories to it.
>  
>  
> The second, CULTURAL STUDIES AND COOL CAPITALISM
> will be in the Council Room (Bldg 1) on March 11 at 3:30pm (drinks to
> follow)
> (Enquiries:  Jen Webb, 02 62012321 or email: Jennifer.Webb at canberra.edu.au)
>  
> ABSTRACT:
> This paper draws connections between cultural studies as an
> interdisciplinary field and the emergence of 'cool capitalism'. Drawing on
> the work of Thomas Frank amongst others, a distinct affinity is identified
> between the one-dimensional emphasis on consumption in a great deal of
> cultural studies research and the phenomenon of cool capitalism, which
> amounts to a decline and incorporation of dissent in contemporary culture
> and society The paper is not so much a critique of cultural studies itself
> as of a particular trajectory in the field that has, arguably, been dominant
> in recent years. There are, however, alternative trajectories to it.
>  
> 
> BIO NOTES:
> After studying at the Universities of Bradford, Leeds and Leicester, Jim
> McGuigan worked as a research officer at the Arts Council and as a script
> editor in BBC TV¹s Drama (Plays) Department. His research at the Arts
> Council was published in 1981 as Writers and the Arts, which immediately
> attracted a great deal of media attention and public debate.
>  
> Jim¹s interests are in critical social theory and cultural studies,
> sometimes with a policy orientation. He recently conducted an empirical
> research project on the Millennium Dome, funded by the Arts and Humanities
> Research Board. He has published a number of books, his best known being
> Cultural Populism, which came out in 1992. Since then, he has published
> Cultural Methodologies (1997), Culture and the Public Sphere (1996),
> Modernity and Postmodern Culture (1999), and Rethinking Cultural Policy
> (2004); and he has co-edited Studying Culture (1993 & 1997) with Ann Gray
> and Technocities (1999) with John Downey. Jim has also published in numerous
> journals, including Cultural Studies, the Sociological Review and Sociology.
> He is on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies
> and the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
>  

-- 
Assoc Prof Jen Webb
School of Creative Communication
University of Canberra
ACT 2601
telephone:  +61 (0)2 6201 2321
fax:        +61 (0)2 6201 5300