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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Aesthetics, government, freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">an advanced seminar with Tony Bennett (Institute for Culture and Society, UWS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Place: University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date: 10am – 5pm, Thursday, 7<sup>th</sup> June, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Eligibility: Participation is limited to postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers (those who have been awarded a PhD in the
last 5 years). Places are limited to twenty-five and the selection of participants will be based on an application process (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cost: There is no cost for attendance for accepted participants. Participants travelling from interstate will be eligible to apply
for a limited number of travel bursaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Co-sponsored by: the University of Canberra / the
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Asian and Pacific Cultural Studies Network, Australian National University / the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, Australian National University</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the theme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In recent years the cultural theory of Pierre Bourdieu has gained traction in a number of fields that cross the humanities and social
sciences, including cultural policy studies, media studies, and cultural sociology, and has been of major significance for projects in transnational cultural studies, including Asian and Pacific cultural studies. Bourdieu’s sociology of aesthetic taste has
proven particularly attractive to researchers seeking to link evidence-based accounts of cultural practices to the concerns of governmental agencies in the arts and culture sectors. Such studies have sought to empirically test Bourdieu’s thesis on the role
of aesthetic culture for social reproduction, and qualify the explanatory remit of Bourdieu’s specific concepts, such as cultural capital and social field. Tony Bennett has been a key contributor to such an endeavour. Furthermore, in recent years Bennett has
sought to bring Bourdieu’s methodologies into dialogue with neighbouring approaches, such as Foucault’s work on governmentality and more recent attempts to rethink the ways in which ‘culture’ and ‘the social’ have been materially made up and brought into relation
with one another as historically distinct modes of governmental intervention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the seminar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The morning and early afternoon sessions will provide an advanced introduction to debates concerning the relations between aesthetics,
government and freedom. Central to this discussion will be a focus on Tony Bennett’s own work. In the morning session Tony Bennett will discuss some of his recently published articles that engage with Bourdieu’s sociology of aesthetics, Foucault’s perspectives
on government and freedom, and Jacques Rancière’s aesthetic regime of art. As preparation for this, participants will be provided with relevant background readings in advance. The format of the afternoon session will be an open discussion in which participants
will have the opportunity to discuss the day’s theme and relate it to their own current research projects. As preparation for this, participants are required to submit short written descriptions of their research which will be circulated to the group prior
to the seminar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lunch and morning and afternoon tea will be provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Applications will be assessed with reference to the above eligibility criteria as well as the relevance of the seminar theme to the
applicant’s current research. In addition to the attached application form, applicants are required to submit a one page statement of their current research. All applicants will be notified promptly about their acceptance, including the availability of a bursary
for interstate participants. All accepted participants will receive a reading pack and program six weeks prior to the seminar.
<b>Application forms can be downloaded here</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.canberra.edu.au/ucresearch/early-career-academics-research-help/events<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Applications are due Friday 9<sup>th</sup> March.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the presenter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tony Bennett is currently Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory and Research Director (Designate) at the Institute for Culture
and Society, University of Western Sydney. Previously he has held the positions of
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor of Sociology at the Open University where he was also a Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, and Professor of Cultural Studies at Griffith University
where he was also Director of the ARC Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor Bennett’s interests span a number of areas across the social sciences and humanities, with significant contributions
to the fields of cultural policy, literary theory, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and museum studies. His most recent books include the coauthored study on cultural consumption in the UK
<i>Culture, Class, Distinction</i> (2009), <i>Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals</i> and
<i>Culture and Society: Collected Essays </i>(2007), <i>Pasts Beyond Memories: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism</i> (2004), (edited with Patrick Joyce)
<i>Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn</i> (2010) and (edited with Chris Healy)
<i>Assembling Culture </i>(2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scott Brook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assistant Professor of Writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Faculty of Arts and Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">scott.brook@canberra.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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