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unAustralia (Call for Papers)
unAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Canberra, 6-8 December, 2006. If things are ‘un-Australian’ it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA. Where is it? Who lives there? How does it come to be? What is its past and what is its future? While raising some very local questions of critique and desire, […]
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Seminar: The Gendered Ties that Bind
The Gendered Ties That Bind the ‘New Global Governance’ to the ‘New Information Economy’ Associate Professor Lisa McLaughlin CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES Thursday 20th April, 2.00-3.30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) illustrates, […]
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Ideas Festival
The Ideas Festival, four days of ideas, innovation and invention will be held from 29 March to 2 April 2006 at Brisbane’s South Bank. The Festival program includes: o 100 national, international and local speakers o 73 speaker sessions o 23 sessions for secondary students in the new Ideas for Schools program o a free […]
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AoIR Panel
[Apologies for loooooong blockquotes] I recently received word that the AoIR 7.0 panel I’m organising with Melissa Gregg, Sal Humphreys, David Berry and Christina Spurgeon has been accepted. The title of the panel is ‘Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Perspectives on the Cultural Economy of New Media’, and here’s the abstract: In recent years there […]
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Public talk on participatory design
I’m going to this – quite excited that there is such an interest in critical design theory in Built Environment and Engineering at QUT: Faculty of the Built Environment and Engineering School of Design and Design Research Theme Invite you for a public talk Design for, by and with users: from participatory design to meta-design […]
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CFP: Creativity, IAG/NSGS/IGU Brisbane 2006
CFP for a session on creativity at IGU 2006: Regional Responses to Global Changes: a view from the Antipodes: 3-7 July 2006 Brisbane, Australia Co-sponsored by the Cultural and Rural Studies Groups of the Institute of Australian Geographers Session description: The cultural turn in human geography has, inter alia, highlighted the complex ways in which […]
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remembering the furniture that glows
Josh and I are off to Sydney at a truly ridiculous hour tomorrow morning for the Australian Television History Conference where John (Hartley) is presenting our co-authored paper, “Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History”, which we are all a bit crazy and overexcited from writing and talking about. program abstracts […]
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first person: international digital storytelling conference
I’m going to be presenting at this – should be an interesting collision of practitioners and researchers (and people who are both): First Person: International Digital Storytelling Conference Friday 3 February – Sunday 5 February 2006 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia First Person will showcase Digital Storytelling as a new cinema […]
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Call for Papers: IR 7.0
CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and […]
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Daniel Meadows: Digital Storytelling Lecture
Daniel Meadows is a world leader in the Digital Storytelling movement and is here at QUT to offer a master-class workshop on new directions for digital storytelling. Come and join us… Public Lecture: Digital Storytelling: the journey from ‘doing media to people’ to ‘enabling people to do media’. When: Tuesday 1st November (THIS COMING TUESDAY) […]