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Katrina Schlunke and Jeannie Martin<BR>
"Think Differently, Write Differently? Imagining Alternative Modes of Academic Writing"<BR>
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WHEN: Friday, 29 May, 2pm<BR>
WHERE: Western Tower Boardroom (J4.03), Quadrangle (A14), University of Sydney<BR>
The seminar will followed by drinks at Manning Bar. All very welcome!<BR>
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ABSTRACT:<BR>
How do words work again?<BR>
This talk wants to engage with two thoughts to consider the particular place and politics of writing in our particular academic setting. The two thoughts are:<BR>
- Every new thought demands its own poetics.<BR>
- Signification is no longer a question of meaning but of affect.<BR>
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Where does writing go when its role in meaning making shifts? Where are the new poetics that might suggest new thought? Perhaps we need to try a few things 'on the page' or find writing in our touching world or live our words experimentally. Or maybe we need to stop writing or at least stop that thing usually called writing.<BR>
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:<BR>
Katrina Schlunke teaches Cultural Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. She is an editor of Cultural Studies Review and author and co-author of Bluff Rock:Autobiography of a Massacre and Cultural theory in Everyday Practice. At the moment she is concerned with the ways we write the past, particularly in relations to over determined events such as the landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay.<BR>
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Jeannie Martin is a Research Associate with the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. She was a member of academic staff in Anthropology at Macquarie University and then University of NSW before joining Humanities at UTS in mid 1980s. Her publications are in the areas of migration, women and work, women and the state, racism and multiculturalism. She was the Founding Director of the UTS Shopfront, founding member of the editorial committee for the journal InterAsia Cultural Studies, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research (2001-7). Her major research focus from 1996 has been on daily life in public places.<BR>
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RSVP/Apologies to Fiona Allon (<a href="fiona.allon@usyd.edu.au">fiona.allon@usyd.edu.au</a>).<BR>
If you have any questions about the seminar series or how to find the venue, please feel free to contact me.<BR>
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Dr Fiona Allon<BR>
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies<BR>
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<BR>
The University of Sydney, NSW 2006<BR>
AUSTRALIA<BR>
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Office: J6.09, Main Quadrangle (A14)<BR>
Tel: + 61 2 9351 6815<BR>
Fax: + 61 2 9351 3918<BR>
Mobile: 0409 901 039<BR>
Email: <a href="fiona.allon@usyd.edu.au">fiona.allon@usyd.edu.au</a><BR>
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