[csaa-forum] ICS Seminar Series - Semester 1 2018 Schedule

[Emily-Kate Ringle-Harris]

The Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University is excited to announce its seminar schedule for semester 1 2018. 

The series presents an exciting breadth of social and cultural research from the Institute's renowned staff and doctoral candidates as well as a range of national and international visiting scholars. Seminars take place weekly during the semester: Thursdays from 11.30am-1pm at Western Sydney University Parramatta campus (South). Please check www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events for full details each week. A shared lunch will be held after each seminar. 

Thursday 22 February
Paul Irish (University of Sydney) 
*Aboriginal Sydney: The Legacy and Heritage of a  Hidden History*

Thursday 1 March
Professor Anna Yeatman  (Institute for Culture and Society)
*The Professions and Democracy*

Thursday 8 March
Dr Kiu-wai Chu (Institute for Culture and Society and  Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture)
*Comparative Ecocriticism: Chinese Visual Culture in the Anthropocene*

Thursday 15 March
HDR panel: Jian Lin and Karen Sy de Jesus (Institute for Culture and Society) 
*Un/Becoming Chinese: Subjectivities Under the Rise of China* and *(Un-)Becoming Chinese Creative: Transnational Creative Workers in Beijing, Creative Labour and Subjectivity*

Thursday 22 March
Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh (UTS) and  Professor Linda Connor (University of Sydney) 
*Coal and Community: Comparative Research on Land and Climate Justice in the South and North*

Thursday 12 April
Associate Professor Amanda Third (Institute for Culture and Society)
*Young and Digital: Children, Technology and Rights*

Thursday 19 April
Professor Andrew McWilliam (Western Sydney University)
*Livelihoods, Vulnerability and Social Protection in Sama Bajo Communities of Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia)*

Thursday 26 April
Dr Malini Sur (Institute for Culture and Society)
*Road and Race: The Making of India's Northeastern Frontiers*

Thursday 3 May
Australian Cultural Fields panel
*Culture, Habitus, Taste*

Thursday 10 May
Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath  (Institute for Culture and Society)
*TEDified Islam - Conceptualisation of Postsecular Sermons in New Media*

Thursday 17 May
Professor Tim Winter (Deakin University)
*The Cultural Politics of One Belt One Road*

Thursday 24 May
Associate Professor Mary Hawkins and Dr Helena Onnudottir (Western Sydney University)
*A Bright Future? Political and Social Transformation in Iceland 2010 - 2018*

Thursday 31 May
Dr Shanthi Robertson (Institute for Culture and Society)
*Chronomobilities of the Middle: Temporality in Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration*

Thursday 7 June
Thinking in Common panel
*What Are Digital Media?*

Seminar Committee:
Gay Hawkins: g.hawkins at westernsydney.edu.au
Stephen Healy: stephen.healy at westernsydney.edu.au
Malini Sur: m.sur at westernsydney.edu.au
Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath:  j.musthafa at westernsydney.edu.au