Institute for Culture and Society

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).

Contact

For more information on the Lunchtime Seminar Series please contact the convenors, Ingrid Matthews and Kev Dertadian.





Past seminars

ICS Seminar Series - Jerry Watkins, Shanthi Robertson

Speakers: 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'. ....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.

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 - 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 - 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.

Urban Research Centre and Institute for Culture and Society Research Seminar

Date: Thursday July 18, 2013 at 10.30am-12.30pm. Speakers: Constantin Petcou, atelier d’architecture autogérée Paris and Doina Petrescu, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK. The lecture will address aspects of the contemporary process of reinvention of the ‘commons’ in relation with architecture and activism. ....Read more.

ICS Seminar Series - Dr Allen Chun

ICS Seminar Series - Dr Allen Chun ....Read more.