[csaa-forum] CSAA 2012 Pre-fix Event for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers

[Amanda Third]

Dear cultural studies colleagues

Please find below some information and the agenda for the CSAA 2012 Pre-fix Event for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers to be held on Monday 3rd December in Sydney. This event is always a really great opportunity for postgrads and early career researchers working in cultural studies to meet each other and learn about/share some tricks of the trade.

Please circulate this email to anyone you think may be interested and encourage early career researchers and postgrads to attend.

Best

Amanda Third
CSAA President



CSAA ‘Materialities: Economies, Empiricism and Things’
Pre-Fix Event     Monday 3 December 2012

Pre-Fix Sydney 2012 continues the CSAA tradition of providing a special day dedicated to addressing the needs of postgraduate students and early career researchers. The day will be structured around guest speakers talking about: managing careers, balancing researching and teaching, funding and fellowship opportunities, mentoring and the use of social networking and moving between academic and non-academic life. At the end of the day there will be a speednetworking session, and then everyone is invited to attend the Pre-Fix dinner at The Rose Hotel, Chippendale to socialise with other students and academics from Australia and internationally.

Program

WELCOME & COFFEE         9.30 to 10.00            Pru and Catherine

10.00 to 11.00           Career Planning: Research and Teaching

11.00 to 12.00           Scholarly Journal Publishing

LUNCH                       12.00 to 12.45

12.45 to 1.45             DECRA and Postdocs

1.45 to 2.45               Work/Life

AFTERNOON TEA    2.45 to 3.00

3.00 to 4.00               Moving between Academic and Non Academic Work

4 to 4.45                     Academic Use of Social Networking

DRINKS & SPEED NETWORKING  4.45 to 7.00             Pru and Catherine


DINNER                      7.30    The Rose, cnr Cleveland and Shepherd Sts, Chippendale



Details about the speakers for each session will be available once they have been confirmed.

Any questions about the day please contact: prudence.black at sydney.edu.au or catherine.driscoll at sydney.edu.au
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Dr Amanda Third
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Institute for Culture and Society
University of Western Sydney
ph: +61 2 9772 6028 (w) +61 420 36 47 58 (m)
email: a.third at uws.edu.au<mailto:a.third at uws.edu.au>

- President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (www.csaa.asn.au)
- Research Program Leader, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre (www.youngandwellcrc.org.au)
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