[csaa-forum] CCR SEMINAR SERIES 08: Panel led by Hart Cohen + Paper by Greg Noble - 12 June

[Reena Dobson]

Apologies for cross-postings 

 Centre for Cultural Research

University of Western Sydney

 

invites all to attend

the CCR Seminar Series 2008

featuring

 

Panel Presentation: 

Associate Professor Hart Cohen (CCR, UWS), 

Dr Peter Dallow (SoCA, UWS), 

Steven Hayes (ACL, University of Sydney) 

Rachel Morley (SoCA, UWS)

 

 

and

 

Associate Professor Greg Noble

(CCR, UWS)

 

Date: Thursday, 12 June

Time: 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Venue: Gallery Floor, Female Orphan School (Building EZ), Parramatta
Campus

Afternoon tea and cakes provided 

RSVP: Jacqui Kingi j.kingi at uws.edu.au or 9685 9600

Apologies: Kay Anderson k.anderson at uws.edu.au   

 

 

 

>From Visual Narrative to Database Documentary: TGH Strehlow's 'Journey
to Horseshoe Bend'

Hart Cohen, Peter Dallow, Steven Hayes, Rachel Morley

This project has had a number of phases and developments over its three
years as an ARC -funded linkage grant with the Strehlow Research Centre.
It is now entering a significant phase in that one of  the projected
outcomes - a database and digital repository has taken shape. In the
context of recent media arts theory, Lev Manovich posed the question as
to whether narratives and databases were "natural enemies" or potential
partners. By this he meant to posit that databases structure information
and communicate experiences in a fundamentally different way than linear
narratives. His own construction of this problem looked at how
narratives can emerge from databases - be they archives, collections or
other forms of information aggregation. Our project has inverted this
problematic by taking a linear though dense narrative and extending its
reach through a range of visual, textual and mapping representations
with dynamic linking possibilities. The project is still incomplete but
we have reached a point where the vision of a narrative as a hyperlinked
database populated with a number of archival sourced materials can be
accessed with multiple points of entry and exit into and beyond the
text.

 

 

 

"Who do they think you are? From the Politics of Recognition to the
Sociability of Acknowledgement"

Greg Noble

Recognition has become a central category in our understanding of
cultural identity within the theoretical and policy frameworks of
multiculturalism. This paper argues that this focus is inadequate for
two key reasons: as a primarily philosophical argument it doesn't
grapple adequately with the messiness of the everyday, and it tends
towards the reification of ethnicity. The paper draws on several
research projects on young people to argue that the emphasis on the
primacy of ethnicity often embedded in the 'politics of recognition'
fails to capture the diverse modalities of social being, especially for
young people from migrant backgrounds. It instead opts for a focus on
'acknowledgement', which foregrounds the sociability of young people:
their multiple and provisional attachments, and the situated and
temporal nature of their subjectivities, only captured in an ethnography
of the encounter.

 

 

 

Hart Cohen is Associate Professor in Media Arts in the School of
Communication Arts at UWS. He has led two ARC Linkage Projects related
to the Strehlow Collection held at the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice
Springs, and is the director/producer of two films, Mr. Strehlow's Films
(SBSI 2001) and Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006).

Peter Dallow lectures in Media Studies in the School of Communication
Arts at UWS. He has a background in media production and creative arts,
and is a member of the ARC funded team developing the Journey to
Horseshoe Bend digital archive project. He is currently investigating
new media visualization processes. 

Steven Hayes (Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney)
is the principal designer and architect of the Journey to Horseshoe Bend
database. He is also the ACL's Business and Project Manager. 

Rachel Morley is a Research Assistant on the Journey to Horseshoe Bend
project. Her work has principally related to archival research and to
excavating the many stories that lie nestled beneath the text.  She is a
doctoral candidate at Macquarie University. 

 

 

Greg Noble researches and writes in the intersecting areas of: youth,
ethnicity and identity, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, material
culture and technology, consumption and subjectivity and the cultural
analysis of education. His current research includes being co-Chief
Investigator on the ARC Linkage project, Cultural Practices and
Learning.  A recent related publication is, "Respect and Respectability
amongst Second-generation Arab and Muslim Australian Men' in the Journal
of Intercultural Studies (2007).

 

 

 

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