ICS Seminar Series


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Date: Thursday 30 May
Time: 2-4.30pm
Venue: EB.3.33, UWS Parramatta campus (opens in a new window), corner James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere
RSVP: ics@uws.edu.au

Speakers are Jerry Watkins from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on Upwardly Mobile; and Shanthi Robertson from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on Temporality and the (non)temporary subject: emerging forms of labour migration in Australia.

Chaired by Greg Noble.

Abstracts and biographies will be available closer to the time.

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2013 seminar schedule

Below is a list of upcoming seminars for semester 1. The seminars for semester 2 will be announced mid-year.

  • Download the semester 1 schedule (opens in a new window)(PDF, 546KB).
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      ICS Seminar Series - Paul Tabar, Jessica Whyte

      Speakers: Paul Tabar from the Lebanese American University on ‘Expanding the Concept of Political Remittances: The Case of the Lebanese-Australians during 2009 Elections in Lebanon’; and Jessica Whyte from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney on ‘Humanising Militarism: On the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses’. ....Read more.

         
       

Past seminars

   

ICS Seminar Series - Bob Hodge, Michele Lancione

Speakers: Bob Hodge from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on ‘The Hydra paradox: global disaster management in a world of crises’; and Michele Lancione from the University of Technology, Sydney, on ‘Postcards from the City of the Homeless Subjects’. ....Read more.

ICS Seminar Series - Russell Hitchings, Juan Francisco Salazar

Speakers: Russell Hitchings from University College London on ‘New Cultural Geographies of Ambient Temperature Control: The Shopping Centre and the Sports Stadium’; and Juan Francisco Salazar from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on ‘Future Geographies of Place-Making: An Antarctic Ethnography’. ....Read more.

ICS Seminar Series - Megan Watkins, Elizabeth Strakosch

Speakers: Megan Watkins from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on ‘Asian Success and the Ethnicisation of Educational Achievement’; and Elizabeth Strakosch from the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, on ‘Between Settler Government and Sovereignty’. ....Read more.

 
      

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Watch Professor Ien Ang’s seminar presentation on Navigating Complexity: From Cultural Critique to Cultural Intelligence, which formed part of a special issue of the journal Continuum.