TfC Visiting Scholars
Anna Obradors Pineda [May - October 2008]
Anna will be presenting a Lunchtime Talk - on the 15th July 2008, 12:30 - 1:30.
Venue: TfC Bagel (UTS Building 3, Room 4.02).
Contact: Transforming Cultures for more information.
All Welcome
Anna's research addresses the field of social exclusion and new policies for social inclusion. Since 2000 she has been developing various research projects on these issues at the Institute of Governance and Public Policy in the Autonoma University of Barcelona where she is currently completing her PhD. Anna's PhD research seeks to do a policy frame analysis on the National Action Plans for Social Inclusion (NAPSI) in Spain. The implementation of the European NAPSI was started from the E.U. Conference in 2000. As the rest of the European Community members, Spain is currently developing its 4th National Plan, but any evaluation on the theoretical frames of those Spanish national plans had been done. Her work while at TfC is to develop her own approach to the notions of social exclusion and inclusion based on a critical review of the main dominant theories behind the European NAPSI, and so on, establishing the methodological bases that will guide further evaluation of the Spanish plans.
Institute of Governance and Public Policy general website.
See member: Anna Obradors Pineda webpage at the Institute.Contact: email Anna here.
Shing Au Yeung [June - October 2008]
Shing Au-Yeung is a researcher and art worker from Hong Kong. He is a Ph.D Candidate in Sociology, at the University of Hong Kong and has been a researcher at the University's Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR). He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2000 and subsequently obtained his master's degrees in New Media (M.Sc., CUHK) and Sociology (M.Phil, HKU). He started his research career by involving in the Baseline study on Hong Kong's Creative Industries (2003), conducted by CCPR and commissioned by the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong government. As an art worker, he produces video art and has been active in various new media projects. Every summer from 2001-2004, he curated and taught the government and university sponsored "Video-making day camp" for teenagers. He was a board member of Videotage, a Hong Kong based Asian media arts organization until early 2008. He is also currently an examiner of Hong Kong Arts Development Coucil's Film and Media Arts Committee. In Sydney, he is working closely with Information and Cultural Exchange. Shing's research interests include comparative cultural policy and the study of new media arts organizations.
Contact: email Shing here.
Gaia Giuliani [July - October 2008]
Gaia will be presenting some of her work in a TfC talk, on Thursday the 24th July, 3:00-5:00.
Venue: The Bagel, TfC, Building 3, Room 4.02
Contact: Transforming Cultures for more information
Read the Abstract here.
All Welcome
Gaia Giuliani is a Post-doctoral student in History of Political Thought and a scholar in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the Dept. of "Politica Istituzioni Storia" (University of Bologna). She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies and Transforming Cultures in 2007 and 2008. Amongst her publications are, the book Beyond curiosity. James Mill e la nascita del governo coloniale britannico in India [James Mill and the creation of the colonial government in India], Aracne, Roma 2008, several essays on the colonial imaginary entailed in British imperial experience, on the contemporary debate on race and racism, and on Fascist biopolitics. She is a member of the editorial board of the first Italian review on Cultural Studies "Studi Culturali". Her research field includes Gender and Feminist theories: she has published The Body, Sexuality, Precarity ("Feminist Review", 2007, n. 87 and "Posse", June 2008, n. 8), Donne Politica Istituzioni. Uno spazio "politico" in sé [Women, Politics, Institutions: a political space in itself] ("Inchiesta" 2008), and several other articles on sexuality and new queer imaginaries in the Italian newspaper "Liberazione" and in the "Quaderni d'altri tempi" on-line review (Sept. 2008). She has recently translated the American philosopher Judith Butler's Subjects of desire (Laterza, Roma 2009) into Italian.
