News & Events
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TfC holds events of all kinds: Seminar Series, Public Lectures, Annual Lectures, Workshops and Postgraduate Masterclasses, Reading Groups and Conferences. There are also partnership events such as Exhibition Panel Discussions with the UTS Gallery and the Yarning Circle with Jumbunna IHL twice per semester.
For details on Past TfC Events (2008 and before), link to our News and Events archive here.
For further details on these or any other TfC events, contact Transforming.Cultures.
2009 News & Events
* Conferences
* Lectures
* Transforming Cultures Wednesday Lunchtime Series
* Yarning Circle
* IOSARN Seminars
* Reading Group
* Research Projects News
* Research News
For those who missed the TfC annual lecture given by Kathleen Stewart (University of Texas, Austin) on 'Atmospheric Attunements', please click here to download [pdf].
The Wednesday Lunchtime Series 2010
The Bagel: 
The Bagel provides a space for critically engaged discussion and informed debate. Organised and hosted by TfC members. The Bagel is also available for members to book for reading groups, presentations and informal discussions.
Contact Transforming Cultures for further information on any of the above.
The Transforming Cultures Wednesday Lunchtime Series:
This seminar and workshop series provides an opportunity to showcase TfC core member and associate members' research work in a friendly setting, providing ample opportunity for further discussion. They are open to all and free.
In 2010 TfC hosts a variety of event formats:
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Seminars
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Work in Progress Sessions
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Grants Workshops
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HDR Workshops and other events
Date: Every Wednesday during semester time, between 12:00 - 2:00.
Venue: The Bagel, Transforming Cultures Research Centre, Building 3, Room 4.02.
Please click here to download the TfC 2010 Wednesday Lunchtime Series Calendar [pdf].
UPCOMING WEDNESDAY EVENTS:
17 March
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION: Dr. Chris Ho (Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Change, UTS):
''A little Something about me': The Politics of Digital Storytelling'
Abstract
As part of its anti-terrorism strategy, the Australian government has pumped tens of thousands of dollars into community arts, with the aim of integrating young Muslims into 'mainstream Australia' in order to prevent their 'radicalisation'. This research focuses on a digital storytelling project in Western Sydney, run by Information and Community Exchange (ICE), to analyse the relationship between community arts and anti-terrorism. Can learning to make digital stories, or mini-short films, help to integrate young Muslims into the community? What does integration mean in this context? While examining this case study, the research will address broader questions of why community arts have been deployed in anti-terrorism policy, what social goals can be achieved by community arts, and the politics behind efforts to integrate Australian Muslims into the 'mainstream' community.
Please RSVP to: Transforming.Cultures@uts.edu.au
IOSARN Seminars Series: (Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network)
Date: The IOSARN seminar are scheduled for Friday fternoons, 5.30 pm; exact dates to be individually announced.
Venue: TfC Bagel, Building 3, Level 4, Room 4.02
For more information on the IOSARN seminars, visit www.iosarn.com
Reading Group
Research Projects
Convenors: Tanja Dreher (UTS), Justine Lloyd (Macquarie University), Penny O'Donnell (Sydney University), Cate Thill (Notre Dame)
A series of workshops looking at the politics, technologies and practices of listening. The project develops a new area of study through an innovative model of networking, bringing together researchers across a range of disciplines as well as media and cultural producers.
[Sponsored by the ARC Cultural Research Network. CRSI Centre for Research on Social Inclusion and TfC]
Click here for more information on the Listening Project.
Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 23 Issue 4 2009: 'Listening - new ways of engaging with media and culture'. Click here to access the articles.
The Listening project now has its own website. Please visit www.thelisteningproject.net/
Lectures
15 March
PUBLIC PANEL: Writers' Anthology - Fear Factor: Terror Incognito (edited by Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle)
6 - 7.30 pm, UTS Gallery, Building 6, Level 4 (702 Harris St)
You are invited to join five of the Anthology Authors to discuss the effect of terror on people's everyday lifes.
KEYNOTES:
Meenakshi Bharat
Sujata Sankranti
PANELLISTS:
Rosie Scott
Susanne Gervay
Andrew Kwong
CHAIR:
Devleena Ghosh
Please click here to download the Panel Flyer [pdf]
RSVP is required: Transforming.Cultures@uts.edu.au
There will be a book sale at the venue.
PARKING: The car park in building 6 (access from Harris St) will be open till 8 pm.
This event is jointly organised by TfC and Sharon Rundle.
Conferences
28-30 April
FORUM: Open Fields
This inaugural unthemed academic camp will be held at UTS and Serial Space Gallery, April 28-30, 2010, and is organised by TfC HDR students.
For more information and the call for submissions, please read further here or visit openfieldssydney.wordpress.com
Research News
TfC congratulates Prof. Anne Cranny-Francis (TfC Director) and TfC member Dr Tara Forrest who have been awarded an ARC Discovery Grant for 2010 funding.
Prof. Anne Cranny-Francis: Jack Lindsay: critic, writer, socialist
The national benefits of this project are two-fold. Firstly, it aims to describe the process by which people are ableto move beyond conventional ways of thinking and working and to be both creative and innovative, whereinnovation refers to the ways in which this new creative thought is put into practice as a new product ortechnology. The other benefit of the project is that it describes the landmark work of an Australian artist andintellectual who is not as well-known as he should be, Jack Lindsay, oldest son of Norman Lindsay. It will provideaccess to Jack Lindsay's ideas and writing, both analytical and creative, to show how these can contribute to ourcurrent need for new and creative ways of working and thinking.
Dr. Tara Forrest: Alternative Public Spheres: Alexander Kluge's Film and Television Experiments
This project will make a significant contribution to the emphasis on 'Promoting an Innovation Culture andEconomy' outlined in Research Priority 3 through its analysis of the important role film and television producerscan play in the establishment of alternative public spheres. Taking Alexander Kluge's groundbreaking work as acase study, it will highlight the integral relationship between an active public sphere and the sustenance of aninnovative and democratic culture in which the capacity to think 'outside the square' is fostered, supported, andappreciated. In doing so, it will internationalise Australia's knowledge base in the field, and place Australia at theforefront of international debates in Screen Studies.
Transforming Cultures members have successfully been awarded funding through the ARC Discovery and Linkage grants process to commence in 2008.
1. Intercolonial networks of the Indian Ocean: Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, Stephen Muecke, Michael Pearson [ARC Discovery Grant, 2008 - 2010].
2. Information and Cultural Exchange: a study of best practices in community building, participation and cultural citizenship through creative practices: Ilaria Vanni, Tanja Deher, Devleena Ghosh, Chris Ho, Tony Mitchell [ARC Linkage Grant, 2008 - 2010].
Past Events
2009: See Recent Events for further details.
2008 - 1998: See Past Events for further details.
