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<p class="MsoNormal">Semester 1 of the Institute for Culture and Society’s seminar series has been announced. The series presents an exciting breadth of social and cultural research from the Institute’s renowned staff and PhD candidates as well as a range of
national and international visiting scholars.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Seminars take place weekly during the semester (usually on a Thursday) from 11.30am–1pm at Western Sydney University Parramatta campus (South), room EB.2.02. Seminars are followed by a shared lunch.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full details at: <a href="http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series">
http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 25 February<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Max Haiven (NSCAD University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notes Toward Articulating Financialization and/as Settler-Colonialism<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 3 March<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Declan Kuch (UNSW)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What’s Energy Worth? Understanding Household and Social Enterprise Valuation of a Decentralised Energy System<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 10 March<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brett Neilson (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From Warehouse to Data Centre: Poetics and Infrastructures of Political Form<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 17 March<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Cox (ANU)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Webs of Deceit: Ponzi Schemes, Fake Currency and International Fraud Networks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 31 March<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sukhmani Khorana (University of Wollongong)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cosmopolitanisation and Everyday Australian Food Stories<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 7 April<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Raj Isar (The American University of Paris), Ien Ang and Philip Mar (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 14 April<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Matthew Hart (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Love Your Curves and All Your Edges: #NSFW Selfies and Young People’s Digitally-mediated Neo-tribalism on Tumblr<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 21 April<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna Pertierra (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cuba Connect: Social Networks and Digital Practices in an Era of ‘Normalisation’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 28 April<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Timothy Neale and Juan Francisco Salazar (ICS) and others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thinking in Common: Anticipation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday 6 May<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Daniel Miller (University College London)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 12 May<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ben Dibley and Gay Hawkins (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Animal Publics: Genres of Public Making in ABC Natural History Shows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 19 May<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elisabeth Simburger (University of Valparaíso)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Asymmetric Conditions of Knowledge Production: Chilean Sociology in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Dictatorship<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 26 May<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerda Roelvink (Western Sydney University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Building Dignified Worlds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 2 June<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian Cook (University of Melbourne)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Experts of Risk and the Risk of Experts: Knowledge Practices and Risk Management in an Age of Public Participation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 9 June<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ece Kaya (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Re-development and Lost Industrial History: Darling Harbour of Sydney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 16 June<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tim Rowse and Emma Waterton (ICS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Distinction in the Politics of Australia’s Military Heritage<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Seminar Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gay Hawkins: g.hawkins@westernsydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Timothy Neale: t.neale@westernsydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sajal Roy: s.roy@westernsydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emily-Kate Ringle-Harris | Communications Officer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Institute for Culture and Society<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P: + 61 2 9683 8168<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">westernsydney.edu.au/ics<o:p></o:p></p>
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