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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">International Symposium</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">22 October – 12 November, 2020</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hosted by Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design</span></b></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Organizers: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gay Hawkins and Ned Rossiter</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Summary</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate, this event explores the current conjuncture through
these vectors to address issues of rising unemployment, restricted movement, increasing governance of populations through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits. Design logics underscore both biological contagion and political technologies. Contagion
is redesigning how labour and migration are differentially governed, experienced and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and protection from contagion and become a resource for managing biological and social life. Data turns contagion into models
that make a virus actionable and calculable. But can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and control the contingencies of a virus? The aim of this event is to explore these issues and their implications for cultural, social and political
research. If contagion never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a constitutive force in the production of social life, how might we redesign the viral as the friend we love to hate?</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This event organised by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University includes speakers from the ICS together with national and international colleagues.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please note:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> there are 4 events held over a 4-week period. The details of each event are included below, including the links to register.
You may register for all or some of the events. Please register separately for each event you would like to attend.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Full pdf of the symposium program can be downloaded from the url above.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Migration and Labour</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">22 October, <span style="background:white">
11:30am – 1pm</span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register on Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyyhns6s"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/yyyhns6s</span></b></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair: Brett Neilson</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, ‘Economic Informality and Democracy in India at the Time of Covid-19’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Joyce Liu, ‘What Comes After the Lockdown? A New Wave of Nationalisation and the Local Divide’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Anne McNevin, ‘Temporal Contagion as an Antidote to Renationalization’</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contagious Mutualities</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">29 October, 4–5.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register on Eventbrite:</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y6x2brga"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y6x2brga</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair: Katherine Gibson</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E">Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch, ‘Contagious Mutuality: Spreading Postcapitalist Possibilities’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Peter North, ‘Building Back Better in the UK or Back to Work?’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Teppo Eskelinen, ‘Redefining Community in Nordic Countries After the Pandemic’</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Habits of Contagion</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">4 November, 4–5.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register on Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4yto3jo"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y4yto3jo</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair: Tony Bennett</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Franck Cochoy, ‘On the Art of Burying One's Face in a Band: How the Sanitary Mask Encounters the Habits of Laypersons and Experts’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ben Dibley, ‘Demophobia and the Infrastructures of Infection’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gay Hawkins, ‘Social Distance: Security, Suggestion, Insecurity’</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Data Contagion</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">12 November, 11am – 12.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register on Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5ed2lb6"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y5ed2lb6</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair: Ned Rossiter</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mark Andrejevic, ‘Biometrics “at-a-distance”: Touchlessness and the Securitization of Circulation’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Rolien Hoyng, ‘Datafication and Contingency in Circular Economies’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Orit Halpern, ‘Resilient Natures: Algorithmic Finance, Radical Events and Ecological Models’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ned Rossiter | Director of Research<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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