[csaa-forum] ICS Seminar Series 2016 schedule announced

[Emily-Kate Ringle-Harris]

Semester 1 of the Institute for Culture and Society's seminar series has been announced. The series presents an exciting breadth of social and cultural research from the Institute's renowned staff and PhD candidates as well as a range of national and international visiting scholars.

Seminars take place weekly during the semester (usually on a Thursday) from 11.30am-1pm at Western Sydney University Parramatta campus (South), room EB.2.02. Seminars are followed by a shared lunch.

Full details at: http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series

Thursday 25 February
Max Haiven (NSCAD University)
Notes Toward Articulating Financialization and/as Settler-Colonialism

Thursday 3 March
Declan Kuch (UNSW)
What's Energy Worth? Understanding Household and Social Enterprise Valuation of a Decentralised Energy System

Thursday 10 March
Brett Neilson (ICS)
>From Warehouse to Data Centre: Poetics and Infrastructures of Political Form

Thursday 17 March
John Cox (ANU)
Webs of Deceit: Ponzi Schemes, Fake Currency and International Fraud Networks

Thursday 31 March
Sukhmani Khorana (University of Wollongong)
Cosmopolitanisation and Everyday Australian Food Stories

Thursday 7 April
Raj Isar (The American University of Paris), Ien Ang and Philip Mar (ICS)
Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

Thursday 14 April
Matthew Hart (ICS)
Love Your Curves and All Your Edges: #NSFW Selfies and Young People's Digitally-mediated Neo-tribalism on Tumblr

Thursday 21 April
Anna Pertierra (ICS)
Cuba Connect: Social Networks and Digital Practices in an Era of 'Normalisation'

Thursday 28 April
Timothy Neale and Juan Francisco Salazar (ICS) and others
Thinking in Common: Anticipation

Friday 6 May
Daniel Miller (University College London)
Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media

Thursday 12 May
Ben Dibley and Gay Hawkins (ICS)
Animal Publics: Genres of Public Making in ABC Natural History Shows

Thursday 19 May
Elisabeth Simburger (University of Valparaíso)
Asymmetric Conditions of Knowledge Production: Chilean Sociology in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Dictatorship

Thursday 26 May
Gerda Roelvink (Western Sydney University)
Building Dignified Worlds

Thursday 2 June
Brian Cook (University of Melbourne)
Experts of Risk and the Risk of Experts: Knowledge Practices and Risk Management in an Age of Public Participation

Thursday 9 June
Ece Kaya (ICS)
Re-development and Lost Industrial History: Darling Harbour of Sydney

Thursday 16 June
Tim Rowse and Emma Waterton (ICS)
Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Distinction in the Politics of Australia's Military Heritage


Seminar Committee
Gay Hawkins: g.hawkins at westernsydney.edu.au
Timothy Neale: t.neale at westernsydney.edu.au
Sajal Roy: s.roy at westernsydney.edu.au



Emily-Kate Ringle-Harris | Communications Officer
Institute for Culture and Society
P: + 61 2 9683 8168
westernsydney.edu.au/ics

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