ICS Seminar Series

2012 Seminar Series: Institute for Culture and Society. Purple banner with white writing and abstract image in a strip across the bottom.  

Next seminar

Date: Thursday 21 June
Time: 2–4.30pm
Venue: Room EB.2.21, Building EB, UWS Parramatta campus, corner James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere
RSVP: ics@uws.edu.au 

Speakers: Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology: Four Public Enquiries and No Political Funeral: The Unexpected Return of Media Policy Debates in Australia, and Emma Power, School of Social Sciences and Psychology / UWS: More-than-human Neighbouring in Sydney Apartments: Materialities, Textures and Apartment Design.

Abstracts and biographies will be available closer to the time.

2012 seminar schedule

The first-semester schedule is as follows. Seminars for the second half of the year will be confirmed shortly.

Thursday 16 February

  • Handel Wright, University of British Columbia: Liquid Community and the Awkward Resilience of Multiculturalism
  • Donald McNeill, ICS / UWS: The ‘Original Globalizer’? A Spatial Ontology of Roman Catholicism

Thursday 15 March

  • Tim Rowse, ICS / UWS: The Identity of Indigenous Political Thought
  • Ben Dibley, ICS / UWS: ‘The Shape of Things to Come’: Theses on the Anthropocene and Attachment

Thursday 19 April

  • Colin McFarlane, Durham University: Infrastructure and the Metabolic Commons: Informality and Sanitation in Mumbai
  • David Rowe, ICS / UWS: The Global Toy Department? A 21-Country Salute to the Sport Press

Thursday 17 May

  • Anna Reading, School of Humanities and Communication Arts / UWS: Globital Memory Wars: Gender, Memory and Digitisation
  • Brett Bennett, School of Humanities and Communication Arts / UWS: The Rise and Fall of Ecological Liberalism in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, 1890-1994

Thursday 21 June

  • Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology: Four Public Enquiries and No Political Funeral: The Unexpected Return of Media Policy Debates in Australia
  • Emma Power, School of Social Sciences and Psychology / UWS: More-than-human Neighbouring in Sydney Apartments: Materialities, Textures and Apartment Design
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