<div dir="ltr"><div>The New Zealand-based Creative Practice & Cultural Policy research network invites you and your colleagues to our third seminar, at 2.30–4pm on Thursday 18 July 2013. <br><br>Dr Bridget Conor from Kings College London will be discussing ‘What does creative labour mean?' by drawing on her own work in screenwriting. Please see below for more information about Bridget's presentation.<br>
<br>This seminar will take place in universities throughout NZ via the Access Grid. These locations are listed on the eSocSci site (but must be booked in advance): <a href="http://www.esocsci.org.nz/contact/access-grid/">http://www.esocsci.org.nz/contact/access-grid/</a>. <br>
<br>If you would like to attend the seminar, please RSVP by emailing Melanie Milicich (<a href="mailto:m.milicich@auckland.ac.nz">m.milicich@auckland.ac.nz</a>) to register, stating which Access Grid venue you would like to attend at.<br>
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<br>*What does ‘Creative Labour’ mean?*<br><br>In this talk I will discuss the term ‘creative labour’ and the development of ‘creative labour’ studies. Empirical investigations of creative work in the last two decades have materialised work in the “new cultural economy”, assigning terms to the work creative people do (flexible, project-based, multivalent), highlighting specific creative occupations (from fashion and web designers to film and television producers) and analysing subjective accounts of everyday working lives in the cultural production industries. I will use my own work on screenwriting as creative labour to reflect on the development of the term and the epistemological and methodological challenges it poses. I hope to also facilitate a dialogue about the links, that I will argue need much more critical attention, between creative and academic labour.<br>
<br>*Dr Bridget Conor*<br><br>Bridget Conor is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her research interests include screenwriting work and workers, creative labour, and inequalities in cultural production industries and she is currently writing a book on screenwriting as creative labour. She previously studied and taught at AUT and the University of Auckland.<br>
<br><br><br>--<br>__<br><br>Emma Blomkamp<br><br>PhD Candidate - Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, and Centre for Cultural Partnerships, University of Melbourne<br><br><a href="http://auckland.academia.edu/EmmaBlomkamp">http://auckland.academia.edu/EmmaBlomkamp</a><br>
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