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<TITLE>Creative Suburbia: Cultural Research and Suburban Geographies Symposium l 29-30 September, 2010 </TITLE>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Forthcoming event<BR>
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</B></SPAN><FONT COLOR="#993366"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'>Creative Suburbia: Cultural Research and Suburban Geographies Symposium l </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>29-30 September, 2010 <BR>
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Keynote Speakers</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>Rob Shields</B>, Henry Marshall Tory Research Chair and Professor of Sociology/Art and Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada, and Founding Editor of <I>Space and Culture</I>; <BR>
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<B>Louise Johnson</B>, Associate Professor of Human Geography, School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University, and author of <I>Cultural Capitals: Revaluing The Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces </I>(Ashgate, 2009). <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#993366"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>Symposium Themes</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B> <BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>New suburbanisation: </SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>how suburbs have been changing since the 1990s, with the rise of Master Planned Communities, enhanced access to mortgages and consumer credit, and perceptins of the suburbs as the electoral battleground of Australian politics?; <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>Cosmopolitan suburbs: </B>the relationship between patterns of migration and suburban development, and the increasingly multicultural nature of Australian suburbs?; <BR>
<B>Cultural and creative spaces: </B>how do those working in the cultural and creative industries operate in suburban locations, and what implications may this have for urban policy and cultural policy?; <BR>
<B>Suburban practices and representations: </B>are there changes in how Australian suburbs are represented in popular media and elsewhere, and what is the significance of new suburban social movements such as ‘green citizenship’?;<BR>
<B>Creative workforce: </B>where are creative industries workers located, and how does networking occur outside of the fabled inner-urban <I>milieux </I>of bars, cafes and nightclubs?; <BR>
<B>Chinese cities in transition: </B>are these developments of relevance to the most populous nation on Earth – the fast growing and rapidly urbanising People’s Republic of China?; <BR>
<B>Trends and issues in suburban demographics: </B>what do we know about the relationship between where people live and work, and are there moves away from clustering, both in the creative industries and the economy more generally. <BR>
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Other Guest Speakers</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B> <BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Fiona Allon (Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Andy Bennett (Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Chris Brennan-Horley (University of Wollongong)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Christy Collis (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Stuart Cunningham (ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Anna Daniel (Monash University)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Alan Davies (Pollard Davies Pty Ltd).
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Emma Felton (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Terry Flew (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Chris Gibson (Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Mark Gibson (National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Angela Lin Huang (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Tania Lewis (School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Alan McKee (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Justin O’Connor (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Aneta Podkalicka (Swinburne University of Technology)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Deborah Stevenson (School of Social Sciences and Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Geoff Woolcock (Urban Research Program, Griffith University)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Wen Wen (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Xin Gu (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT). <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#993366"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>For further information and to register for this event, please go to </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#333399"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>www.creativesuburbia.com</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <<a href="http://www.creativesuburbia.com/">http://www.creativesuburbia.com/</a>> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Please feel free to circulate this to interested colleagues and if you have any questions about the Symposium, please email me at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="suburbia@qut.edu.au">suburbia@qut.edu.au</a></FONT> <<a href="https://outlook.qut.edu.au/OWA/suburbia@qut.edu.au">https://outlook.qut.edu.au/OWA/suburbia@qut.edu.au</a>> <BR>
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I hope that you can join us, and look forward to seeing you there! <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#333333"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Nicki Hunt<BR>
<B>Event Coordinator/Research Assistant (Creative Suburbia)<BR>
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