[csaa-forum] FW: notice re toby miller talk in melb

[Buettner, Angi]

> The Culture, Language and Diversity research group in the Faculty of Education, and the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Faculty of Arts at Monash University present a free Public Lecture:
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> Professor Toby Miller
> 'Cultural Citizenship'
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> 6pm-7.15pm, Wednesday May 3, 2006
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> The Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
> (entry via La Trobe St)
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> This lecture will focus on the implications for the citizen-consumer of deregulation and technology change. It will also examine how niche consumer TV channels focusing on life style, consumption and basic information (eg weather and food channels) are beginning to introduce key contextual and background information, complicating the notion that they play merely to consumerist lifestyles.
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> Toby Miller is Professor of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies, and Director of the Program in Film & Visual Culture at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism. Professor Miller is based in Brisbane during April-May 2006 as a Queensland Government Smart Returns Fellow and a QUT Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Visitor. This will be his only public talk in Melbourne.
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> Enquiries: Dr Tania Lewis, tania.lewis at education.monash.edu.au 
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> Dr Tania Lewis
> Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> Faculty of Education
> Monash University
> Clayton 3800
> Victoria
> Australia
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> ph: 61 3 9905 2890
> fax: 61 3 9905 5400
> email: tania.lewis at education.monash.edu.au
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