From baden.offord at curtin.edu.au Tue Nov 25 07:46:59 2014 From: baden.offord at curtin.edu.au (Baden Offord) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:16:59 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Call for Papers: 5th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015, Kobe, Japan Message-ID: <1416867414919.1993@curtin.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015 Art Center of Kobe, Kobe, Japan Thursday, May 28, 2015 - Sunday, May 31, 2015 (All Day) Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2015 ACCS2015 Conference Theme: "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" WEBSITE: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/accs2015/? Featured Speakers: Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney) John Erni (Hong Kong Baptist University) Angela Wong Wai Ching (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Amanda Third (University of Western Sydney) Human rights praxis and ideas of justice are now core fields of investigation for cultural studies, media studies and Asian studies scholars. One example of this is how cultural research into the convergence of new media with everyday life, has brought into relief the growing significance of how struggles for freedom and justice are enabled by flows of social media. Various communities and peoples are now enabled to make claims for social recognition within human rights frameworks and language. Cultural studies as a discipline is specifically attuned to studying questions of human rights and justice. As a field it is connected to human rights discourse and praxis through its ethical foundations and 'activating knowledge' as Stuart Hall once put it. One of the essential motivations of cultural studies scholars is to focus on the struggles evident in structures and institutions of power, representation, identity and subjectivity. This is undertaken with specific attention to power and its manifestation and negotiation in the cultural arena of everyday life. As a consequence, cultural studies researchers investigate ideas of justice and agency in compelling and innovative ways. They see agency, for example, as being implicated in the formation of moral, legal, political and ethical frameworks that are experienced in everyday lives, and which can be seen explicitly in the media. As cultural studies/human rights scholar John Erni notes, 'cultural studies has long been attentive to the complex interpenetrations of power, agency, and the social imaginary.' A central aim of this conference is to examine ideas of 'justice' and 'human rights? in relation to media and cultural production. The hope is to enable useful exchange, connection and dialogue around the praxis of human rights and to clarify the implications of how cultural transformation and the media are closely connected to social and political change in the everyday life of individuals, communities and nations. 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The program will explore the following themes : * research evidence for and against the role of violent games in fostering aggressive attitudes and behaviours and violent crime * the appeal and pervasiveness of games * the role of games in everyday life * ways in which games are approached and used in a variety of contexts Foregrounding thorny questions about education or regulation, with a line up of internationally and nationally recognised researchers, this conference will offer a rich array of information and viewpoints on the hotly debated issues. For further details and registration: http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/video-games-violence-beyond Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ViolenceResPrev Conference Hosts 'Video Games: Violence and Beyond' is a conference event presented by the Griffith University Violence Research and Prevention Program Nickola Lukacs Events & Administrative Officer Violence Research and Prevention Program Mount Gravatt Campus (Building M06 3.18) Griffith University, Qld 4222 Tel 373 55978 _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. If you received this email by mistake, please, as a courtesy, tell the sender, then delete this email. The views and opinions are the originator's and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Southern Queensland. 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(CRICOS Institution Code QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M, TEQSA PRV12081 ) From samitanandy at gmail.com Wed Nov 26 01:37:55 2014 From: samitanandy at gmail.com (Dr Samita Nandy) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:07:55 -0500 Subject: [csaa-forum] Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry Vol. 8 2014 - Conference and Publication (Deadlines) Message-ID: On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) board, I am pleased to announce that the 8th edition of *Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry* has been published. *Highlights include*: - Guidelines for Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Conference Panel or Workshop (Deadline: November 30, 2014) - From Dr Louis Massey - Multi-media Stardom in Hong Kong: Image, Performance and Identity (Routledge 2014) - From Dr Stephen Lax - Exhibition-Conference on The Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie 1965--2015 (Deadline: February 1, 2015) - From Dr Sean Redmond - Persona Studies - Inaugural Issue (Deadline: December 8, 2014) - From Dr Kim Barbour - Queering Paradigms (Deadline: November 30, 2014) - From Dr Will Visconti You may now access the newsletter for printing or review here . If you would like to subscribe, discuss scholarly publications / creative productions, or share contributions with our growing research network, contact us at info at cmc-centre.com . Visit our website and send an e-mail for criteria and details. *The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) is an international organization and research network that helps coordinating academic research and media commentaries on celebrity culture and popular arts. CMCS carries a pedagogical philosophy that inspires integration of research and media skills training in academic and public discourses of fame. The centre believes in intellectual, aesthetic, and ethical values of bridging gaps in higher education and media. With this view, CMCS helps coordinating research, publications, creative productions, and media commentaries to restore artistic and ethical acts for social change.* *Dr Samita Nandy*Director, Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) PhD Curtin University, Australia (Celebrity / Media) MA and BA York University, Canada (Communication) URL : http://www.cmc-centre.com/ | www.samitanandy.com Twitter: cmcstudies | samita_nandy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20141125/938e2abd/attachment.html From Andrew.Hickey at usq.edu.au Wed Nov 26 19:07:10 2014 From: Andrew.Hickey at usq.edu.au (Andrew Hickey) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:37:10 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Special Issue Release: fusion, Issue 5 Message-ID: <2AFB1AAE3D370F41B0A0EE32F25CCCD62D9EE464@EXCH-MBX-PRD-T2.usq.edu.au> Dear Cultural Studies Colleagues, On behalf of colleague Assoc. Prof. Jane Mills, could I draw your attention to the release of Issue 5 of fusion. This special issue of fusion has been compiled from papers delivered at the CSAA supported Intermezzo Symposium, 'The Uses of Literacy', hosted by UNSW earlier this year. Please also note the call for papers for Issue 6 'The rise and fall of social housing' as detailed below. Issue 5 of fusion, an international open access online scholarly journal for the communication, creative industries, and media arts, is now live; http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/005-fusion-changing-patterns-and-critical-dialogues-new-uses-of-literacy/ Edited by Associate Professor Jane Mills (UNSW, Australia) and Dr Nasya Bahfen (Monash University) This issue comprises papers from the New Uses of Literacy Symposium initiated by the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) and staged by the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, and other specially commissioned contributions. The symposium theme emerged from ongoing local and international debates about the different approaches to ?literacy? in contemporary Cultural Studies. According to Stuart Hall, ?there would have been no Cultural Studies? were it not for Richard Hoggart?s The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957). The importance of literacies as a topic reflects Graeme Turner?s concern that the research projects of many students (and many academics, we may add) ?are too often reduced to their topic rather than situated with the broadest possible relation to a body of ideas, concepts and approaches? (What's Become of Cultural Studies? 2012). This issue of fusion asked contributors to return to Hoggart?s seminal text to (re)consider current scholarship in the intersecting disciplines of Literacy Studies and Cultural Studies, and other interrelated fields of research including Media Studies, Communication Studies, Screen Studies, and the Creative Industries. Issue 6 ? The Rise and Fall of Social Housing: future directions Deadline for submissions: 30 January, 2015 Publication date: 30 April, 2015 Guest editors: Dr. Ursa Komac and Dr. Milica Muminovic, University of Canberra, Australia. Not until the rise of modern industrial city in the mid-nineteenth century did the problem of housing become a serious issue for planners, architects, social reformers and state officials. With the divide between the city and country, the rise of the Metropolis and its subsequent transmutation into the Megalopolis put pressure on governmental agencies to establish housing policies to accommodate unprecedented urban migrations, and residual regional populations. The ideals underpinning early modernist architects? concern with social housing projects and its relationship with the city were met with obstacles or ended up as a failure when transformed into reality. With the advent of globalization, the fluidity of capital investment and mass migration compromised the project of social housing together with its urbanity. The neo-liberal political order is unable to meet the crisis that is taking place in the margin of every megalopolis around the world. The essential role of social housing in the city keeps haunting architects, planners, governments and communities. In this situation, the relationship between the city, urbanity, social housing and quality of life are becoming fundamental issues for an increasing number of professions in the 21st century. We invite architects, urban and regional planners, public intellectuals, cultural critics, economists, political philosophers, artists, sociologists, anthropologists, and public administrators to critically re-visit the theoretical-historical question of social housing and its role in contemporary urban and regional development. Suggested themes for papers include, but are not exclusive to: Relationships between housing and: typology, morphology, history, public life, public space, everyday ordinary space, urbanity, public-private, dwelling, sustainability, ethics, and place identity. Dr Andrew Hickey, Ph.D Senior Lecturer (Communications) School of Arts and Communications Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba | Queensland | 4350 | Australia Ph: +61 7 4631 2337 | Fax: +61 7 4631 2828 | Email: Andrew.Hickey at usq.edu.au - President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. If you received this email by mistake, please, as a courtesy, tell the sender, then delete this email. The views and opinions are the originator's and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Southern Queensland. 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(CRICOS Institution Code QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M, TEQSA PRV12081 ) From N.Rossiter at uws.edu.au Wed Nov 26 20:06:55 2014 From: N.Rossiter at uws.edu.au (Ned Rossiter) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:36:55 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Digital Life seminar - UWS Message-ID: Digital Life research seminar Institute for Culture and Society in conjunction with Digital Humanities Research Group University of Western Sydney Tuesday 2 December 2014 Time: 11am-4pm Venue: EZ.2.14 (Elizabeth Macquarie room), Parramatta (South) Campus 11am-1pm: Professor Roger Burrows, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 1pm-2pm: Lunch 2pm-4pm: Associate Professor Michael Darroch, Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, University of Windsor Please RSVP to Christy Nguy C.Nguy at uws.edu.au by 27 November so that catering can be organised. Speaker 1 Professor Roger Burrows, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London Title ?Living by Numbers? Metrics, Algorithms and the Sociology of Everyday Life? Abstract This talk will focus on the role digital data has in restructuring our everyday lives. As individuals, we are all too aware of the identities created for us by business and commerce based on what, when and how we buy. As professionals, we are faced with a growing number of performance metrics influencing work targets and strategy. The reactions to such data deluges and their possible consequences will be examined in two examples likely to be of interest to the audience ? city life and academic labour. Bio Roger Burrows is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London where is also currently Pro-Warden for Interdisciplinary Development. He is the author of over 130 articles, chapters, books and reports ranging across urban studies, social media, health and illness, the body, consumption, political economy and migration. His research current interests are in the fields of: the social life of methods; the public life of data; the urban consequences of the 'super-rich'; and algorithmic power in the academy. Speaker 2 Associate Professor Michael Darroch, Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor Title Patterns that Connect: Scholarly Networks across Transatlantic Media Studies Abstract This talk traces the largely unacknowledged contributions of Edward Snow Carpenter, Co-Director and founder of Explorations as its chief editor. From the 1940s, Carpenter was exposed to anthropological study that advocated humanistic, poetic, and artistic approaches to documenting cultures and cultural memory through multiple media (photography, film, sound, literary and visual arts) and that opposed positivist ideals of value-free scientific anthropological research. He was involved with CBC radio and television in the late 1940s and 1950s, contributing his studies of visual media and indigenous cultures to the very shape that media studies would take during this period. He committed himself to research and pedagogy crossing the boundaries of media studies and anthropology by drawing upon theoretical vocabularies from across humanities, fine arts, social and natural sciences. His later media experiments among peoples of Papua New Guinea (1969) and his monumental re-evaluation of art historian and anthropologist Carl Schuster's unfinished analysis of cultural patterns across ancient symbolism (12 volumes, 1986-88) led him to produce a series of radical pronouncements about visual anthropology?s role in creating comparative frameworks within broader media and cultural studies, and the interdisciplinary and experimental methods needed for studying contemporary culture and cultural memory (Carpenter 1975). Carpenter?s emphasis on ?patterns that connect? different forms of cultural expressivity across space, time, and media lends itself in particular to the creation of a digital archive. Bio Associate Professor Michael Darroch teaches in Media Art Histories and Visual Culture, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor. He holds a PhD form McGill University in Art History and Communication Studies. He is currently a Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London. His most recent publications include Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban, co-edited with Janine Marchessault (McGill-Queen?s University Press, 2014). He was recently awarded a successful SSHRCH Insight Grant for a project titled, Patterns the Connect: Re-Curating Edmund Carpenter?s Anthropological Media Studies, 2012-16. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This talk reports on new research on the access and use of mobile and internet services by people experiencing homelessness and engages with key issues of digital exclusion in the context of a society-wide shift in connectivity and the reform of a wide range of public and commercial services around these changes. The research, funded by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and carried out in early 2014, included 95 surveys and interviews with clients of specialist homelessness services in Melbourne and Sydney. The research revealed that for this group there is the potential for greater benefit and harm that comes with the integration of digital technology into everyday sociality and service delivery. The talk argues for the need to recognise the ways that life situations and circumstances of hardship, such as homelessness, factor into the patterns of mobile and internet connectivity, creating unique issues of digital access and equity. 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Please RSVP to philosophy at uws.edu.au for catering purposes Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Respondents: Chris Fleming (UWS), Simon During (UQ), Alana Lentin (UWS), Miguel Vatter (UNSW), Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. [Gil Anidjar]Gil Anidjar is a professor of religion, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. 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The Association's AGM is typically a lively and engaging affair and provides an important forum for discussing the Association's future direction. In conjunction with items including the President's and Treasurer's reports, a snapshot of initiatives undertaken over the last two years will be presented, along with an opportunity to discuss further initiatives currently planned by the Executive of the Association. You are invited to contribute to this important dialogue and decision making process, and I look forward to seeing you at the AGM, Andrew Hickey President of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. If you received this email by mistake, please, as a courtesy, tell the sender, then delete this email. 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