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<B>From: </B>Thesis Eleven <Thesis11@latrobe.edu.au><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:55:46 +1000<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>RSVP NOW: Thesis Eleven's Popular Print and Visual Cultures Festival: Daily Program, 7th -15th June 2011<BR>
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ALL WELCOME Thesis Eleven's Popular Print and Visual Cultures Festival: Daily Program, 7th -15th June 2011<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">A Daily Program is attached for Thesis Eleven's upcoming festival of ideas <B>'Word, Image, Action: Popular Print and Visual Cultures'</B>, in June 2011. A registration form is also attached. Registration is free, and many events are catered, but we do ask that you formally register and indicate the events you will attend, for catering and seating purposes.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Please return the completed forms to Christine Ellem, at this email address: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>thesis11@latrobe.edu.au <BR>
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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><B>FESTIVAL OPENING </B>@ North Melbourne Town Hall, Tuesday 7th June, from 6pm<BR>
Music by Little John (duo) <BR>
2011 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture with Ron Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley <B>Media, Intellectuals and the Public Sphere</B> <BR>
Opening Dinner @ The Institute of Postcolonial Studies 8:40pm (RSVP essential, by 30th May, contact details below)<BR>
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<B>PRINT AND VISUAL CULTURES WORKSHOP </B>@ La Trobe University, Bundoora campus, Wednesday 8th June –Friday 10th, 9:30am – 4/6pm<BR>
A 3 day series of lectures, invited papers, plenaries, film screening, art exhibition, artists discussion, and live performance from punk art band ‘This Histrionics’.<BR>
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<B>WIKILEAKS FORUM </B>@ The Wheeler Centre, Monday 13th June 3-5pm<BR>
<B>Does Wikileaks </B>Matter? A forum on Wikileaks with Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Peter Vale and Eleanor Townsley<BR>
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BAUMAN FORUM AND DOCUMENTARY WORLD PREMIERE </B>@ State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Room, Tuesday 14th June, 4-8pm<BR>
Half-day public forum on the work of Zygmunt Bauman with speakers from The Bauman Institute, Leeds and The Thesis Eleven Centre; followed by world premiere screening of ‘The Trouble with Being Human These days’ by Director Bartek Dziadosz. Concludes with reflections on ‘The Trouble with Being Human These days’ from Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Keith Tester<BR>
trailer: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com">http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com</a> <a href="http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/"><http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/></a> <BR>
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<B>PUBLIC LECTURES <BR>
</B>Christopher Pinney <B>Impressions of Hell: Printing and Punishment in India</B> @North Melbourne Church Hall, Saturday 11th June, 7:30pm hosted by The Institute of Postcolonial Studies<BR>
Ron Jacobs <B>The Media Narrative in the Global Financial Crisis</B> @Melbourne University, Monday 13th June, 6:30pm, followed by dinner and drinks, hosted by the TASA Cultural Sociology Group<BR>
Anders Michelsen <B>Atrocious imagination: the paradox of affect – the imagination of violence</B> Keynote for <I>Violence and the Imagination Colloquium</I> @Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Wednesday 15th June, 9 -10:30 am Program: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/violence-imagination/">http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/violence-imagination/</a></U></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'> <BR>
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<B>PUBLIC FILM SCREENING </B>@State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Space, Wednesday 8th June, 6 – 8pm <BR>
Public screening of Robert Nery’s documentary ‘In 1966 the Beatles came to Manila’ <BR>
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ART EXHIBITION: VERNACULAR CULTURES AND CONTEMPORARY ART FROM AUSTRALIA, INDIA AND THE PHILIPPINES</B> @LUMA, Glenn College La Trobe University, Bundoora, Friday, 10th June 4-6pm<BR>
Asks how contemporary artists remobilise vernacular cultures to interrogate and mediate the cultural ethics of globalisation, as they engage themes including surf culture, tattoo designs, informal architecture and colloquial language. <BR>
Curators Lecture by Ryan Johnston, and discussion with local artists<BR>
With Punk Performance Band ‘The Histrionics’ and the Boombox Burgers Taco Truck<BR>
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<B>FILM AND VIDEO EXHIBITION: A POST BOOM BEIJING </B>@Bendigo Visual Arts Centre, View Street, Sunday 12th June 12:30 -4pm <BR>
Day trip to the Bendigo Visual Arts Centre, including viewing of <B>Arena: A post boom Beijing</B>, film and video exhibition.<BR>
Curators lecture by Laurens Tan.<BR>
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<B>WALKING TOUR: LANEWAYS, STREET ART AND PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS</B>@ Melbourne CBD, Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm <BR>
Walking tour of Melbourne laneways, street art and installations as well as local art and moving image museums (limited places available, booking essential. Contact details below) <BR>
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MASTERCLASS INTENSIVES FOR POSTGRADUATES </B>@ La Trobe University Bundoora, Wednesday 15th June, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>10am – 5:30pm<BR>
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><B>Settler Societies And Popular Culture </B>Various speakers, including Marilyn Lake, Peter Vale, Patrick Wolfe and Anthony Moran will discuss the popular cultures of settler societies, exploring issues of race particularly, and looking comparatively across the experiences of different settler societies.<BR>
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<B>Keywords Masterclass </B>Inspired by Raymond Williams <I>Keywords</I> (1983)<B>, </B>thirteen thinkers will talk each about their chosen or nominated keyword, approaching their topics in terms of traditional keywords (socialism, liberalism); 20th century innovations (such as the postmodern and schemata); or exploring the currency of other words (such as utopia, the migrant, regions, urbanism, walking and metanoia).<BR>
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Festival of Ideas Project<BR>
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology<BR>
La Trobe University<BR>
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ph: +613 9479 2700<BR>
fax: +613 9479 2705<BR>
email: thesis11@latrobe.edu.au <outbind://95/thesis11@latrobe.edu.au> <BR>
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