[csaa-forum] Thesis Eleven's Popular Print and Visual Cultures Festival: Daily Program, 7th -15th June 2011

[John Tebbutt]

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Subject: RSVP NOW: Thesis Eleven's Popular Print and Visual Cultures Festival: Daily Program, 7th -15th June 2011

NB: UPDATED AND FINAL PROGRAM ATTACHED

ALL WELCOME Thesis Eleven's Popular Print and Visual Cultures Festival: Daily Program, 7th -15th June 2011

A Daily Program is attached for Thesis Eleven's upcoming festival of ideas 'Word, Image, Action: Popular Print and Visual Cultures', in June 2011. A registration form is also attached. Registration is free, and many events are catered, but we do ask that you formally register and indicate the events you will attend, for catering and seating purposes.

Please return the completed forms to Christine Ellem, at this email address: thesis11 at latrobe.edu.au

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W O R D,   I M A G E,   A C T I   O N:
POPULAR PRINT AND VISUAL   CULTURES
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
Tuesday 7th June - Wednesday 15th June 2011
KEY EVENTS
(full  details and program attached)




FESTIVAL OPENING @  North Melbourne Town Hall,  Tuesday 7th June, from 6pm
Music by Little  John (duo)
2011 Thesis  Eleven Annual Lecture with Ron Jacobs and  Eleanor Townsley Media,  Intellectuals and the Public Sphere
Opening Dinner @ The Institute of  Postcolonial Studies 8:40pm (RSVP  essential, by 30th May, contact details  below)

PRINT AND  VISUAL CULTURES WORKSHOP @ La Trobe  University, Bundoora campus,  Wednesday 8th June -Friday 10th, 9:30am -  4/6pm
A 3 day series of  lectures, invited papers, plenaries, film  screening, art exhibition,  artists discussion, and live performance from punk  art band 'This  Histrionics'.

WIKILEAKS FORUM @ The Wheeler  Centre,  Monday 13th June 3-5pm
Does Wikileaks Matter? A forum on   Wikileaks with Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Peter Vale and Eleanor   Townsley

BAUMAN FORUM AND DOCUMENTARY WORLD PREMIERE @  State  Library of Victoria, Experimedia Room, Tuesday 14th June,  4-8pm
Half-day  public forum on the work of Zygmunt Bauman with  speakers from The Bauman  Institute, Leeds and The Thesis Eleven Centre;  followed by world premiere  screening of 'The Trouble with Being Human  These days' by Director Bartek  Dziadosz. Concludes with reflections on  'The Trouble with Being Human These  days' from Zygmunt Bauman in  conversation with Keith Tester
trailer: http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com  <http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/><http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/>

PUBLIC LECTURES
Christopher Pinney  Impressions of Hell: Printing and Punishment in  India @North  Melbourne Church Hall, Saturday 11th June, 7:30pm hosted by  The  Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Ron Jacobs The Media Narrative in   the Global Financial Crisis @Melbourne University, Monday 13th June,   6:30pm, followed by dinner and drinks, hosted by the TASA Cultural  Sociology  Group
Anders Michelsen Atrocious imagination: the  paradox of affect -  the imagination of violence Keynote for  Violence and the Imagination  Colloquium @Monash University,  Caulfield Campus, Wednesday 15th June, 9  -10:30 am Program: http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/violence-imagination/

PUBLIC FILM SCREENING @State Library of   Victoria, Experimedia Space, Wednesday 8th June, 6 - 8pm
Public  screening  of Robert Nery's documentary 'In 1966 the Beatles came to  Manila'

ART EXHIBITION: VERNACULAR CULTURES AND CONTEMPORARY  ART FROM  AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND THE PHILIPPINES @LUMA, Glenn College  La Trobe  University, Bundoora, Friday, 10th June 4-6pm
Asks how  contemporary artists  remobilise vernacular cultures to interrogate and  mediate the cultural ethics  of globalisation, as they engage themes  including surf culture, tattoo  designs, informal architecture and  colloquial language.
Curators Lecture  by Ryan Johnston, and  discussion with local artists
With Punk Performance  Band 'The  Histrionics' and the Boombox Burgers Taco Truck

FILM  AND  VIDEO EXHIBITION: A POST BOOM BEIJING @Bendigo Visual Arts Centre,   View Street, Sunday 12th June 12:30 -4pm
Day trip to the Bendigo  Visual  Arts Centre, including viewing of Arena: A post boom  Beijing, film and  video exhibition.
Curators lecture by Laurens  Tan.

WALKING  TOUR: LANEWAYS, STREET ART AND PUBLIC  INSTALLATIONS@ Melbourne CBD,  Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm
Walking  tour of Melbourne laneways, street art  and installations as well as  local art and moving image museums (limited  places available, booking  essential. Contact details below)

MASTERCLASS INTENSIVES FOR  POSTGRADUATES @ La Trobe University  Bundoora, Wednesday 15th June,  10am -  5:30pm
Settler Societies And  Popular Culture Various  speakers, including Marilyn Lake, Peter  Vale, Patrick Wolfe and Anthony Moran  will discuss the popular cultures  of settler societies, exploring issues of  race particularly, and looking  comparatively across the experiences of  different settler  societies.

Keywords Masterclass   Inspired by  Raymond Williams Keywords (1983), thirteen thinkers will talk  each about their chosen or nominated keyword, approaching  their topics  in terms of traditional keywords (socialism, liberalism); 20th  century  innovations (such as the postmodern and schemata); or exploring the   currency of other words (such as utopia, the migrant, regions, urbanism,  walking and metanoia).




CONTACT:
Festival of  Ideas Project
Thesis  Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology
La Trobe  University

ph:  +613 9479 2700
fax: +613 9479 2705
email: thesis11 at latrobe.edu.au <outbind://95/thesis11@latrobe.edu.au>


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