[csaa-forum] UniSA Research Seminar next Friday 22 March - Dr Uzma Jamil and Dr Phil Bagust

[Susan Luckman]

School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, UniSA
Seminar Series
Friday 22 March at 3pm in lecture room C1.79, UniSA Magill Campus, Adelaide


Presentations by Dr Uzma Jamil and Dr Philip Bagust

[cid:image001.gif at 01CE2237.54F4FB50]   Dr Uzma Jamil - Place Making Narratives in Regent Park and Toronto
Regent Park was built with great optimism in the 1950s as a public housing neighbourhood in Toronto, mapping the morality of good citizenship onto physical space. Over the years, however, it has come to be seen as a failure of this ideal and stigmatized as a poor, crime-ridden, violent, neighbourhood with large numbers of immigrants. Recent urban revitalization efforts aim to transform the physical space as well as to re-brand the neighbourhood in more positive ways as part of a diverse, multicultural city. This paper critically considers the construction of meaning of Regent Park as a community and as a place, between the external representations of the city's urban developers and internal, 'lived experiences' of its residents. In tracing this history, this paper also analyzes the construction of meaning of Regent Park as a lived Muslim space within the representation of Toronto as a Canadian, multicultural city.


Ø  Uzma Jamil is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MnM Centre, UniSA. Her research focuses on how the global socio-political war on terror affects minority Muslim communities in Canada. She has completed research studies at McGill University and the University of Toronto on the views of self and other among Muslim immigrants in Montreal and Toronto in the war on terror context, and is currently working on a monograph that analyses their experiences as racialized Muslim minorities through the lens of minority-majority relations in Quebec and Canada.


[cid:image001.gif at 01CE2237.54F4FB50]   Dr Philip Bagust - Mars, Mohawks, Mashups and (new) Media: NASA/JPLs 'Seven Minutes of Terror'
This paper considers NASA/JPLs recent and very popular 'Seven Minutes of Terror' Mars mission YouTube video. It briefly reviews the history of NASA/JPL unmanned spaceflight video public outreach, and subjects the above text to a shot analysis. It then considers its status as a new kind of 'filmic paratext' (Kernan 2004 & Gray 2010) highly dependent on social media distribution and fan-based 'para-para-textual' production. It finally asks the question - are the social lives of texts like these, as popular as they are, really understood by their sponsoring agencies?


Ø  Phil Bagust is a Lecturer in Advertising and Creative Industries at UniSA. He also lectures at Adelaide University in Natural and Urban Systems (Landscape Architecture). Phil completed his PhD in Communications in 2006. He has numerous research publications and recently co-authored the second edition of 'The Native Plants of Adelaide', a field guide whose first edition was published with the Urban Forests Biodiversity Project and which has sold nearly 6000 copies and which is now out again.

ALL WELCOME - refreshments and nibbles provided
Please RSVP to CILResearch at unisa.edu.au<mailto:martina.nist at unisa.edu.au> by COB Wednesday
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