SCMP News: May 2006
- Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy Prize Award Ceremony , 23rd May, 2006 [Posted: 03/05/2006]
- Media Department and Biennale of Sydney Announce Details of Symposium, July 7-9 [Posted: 03/05/2006]
- Anthropology Colloquium - Special theme: Post-Socialism [Posted: 02/05/2006]
- Media Department Lunchtime Seminar with award-winning writer Nicholas Shakespeare [Posted: 01/05/2006]
- Anthropology Colloquium - Post-Socialism Seminars 1
- Sociology Colloquium - Thursday 18th May, 2006
Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy Prize Award Ceremony , 23rd May, 2006 [Invitation Flyer]
Time: 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Tuesday, 23rd May 2006
Location: Whiteley Room, Level 3 Union Building
Students who received prizes in the Departments of Anthropology, Media, Philosophy, Sociology, Warawara and Women's Studies will receive their prize certificates and cheques.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, award winners, presenters and guests are invited to a light refreshments with staff members of the Division.
R.S.V.P. to:
Catherine McMahon ext. 8831 or
email: Catherine.mcmahon@scmp.mq.edu.au
by Wednesday, 17th May, 2006
Media Department and Biennale of Sydney Announce Details of
Symposium, July 7-9
Time: July 7 to July 9, 2006
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Media Department and the Biennale of Sydney will co-host a three-day symposium in July entitled After the Event: Rewriting Art History.The Symposium, co-convened by the Artistic Director & Curator of the 2006 Biennale Dr Charles Merewether and Associate Professor John Potts, Head of the Department of Media, will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from July 7 to July 9, 2006.
The Symposium will undertake a rethinking of art history, contemporary art practice and media culture - including an investigation of performance, re-enactment, the documentary and the archive - in the era of globalisation. The Keynote Address will be given by Professor Boris Groys, (Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy for Design, Karlsruhe, Germany) on Friday 7 July. The symposium continues on Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July with papers delivered by leading international and Australian writers and theorists.
Selected international speakers include Lolita Jablonskiene (Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania); Geeta Kapur (curator, critic and writer, New Delhi, India); Dipesh Chakrabarty (Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, The University of Chicago, USA); Michael Renov (Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Cinema - Television, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, USA); Peter Osborne (Professor of Modern
European Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, School of Arts, Middlesex University, UK); Midori Matsui (Critic and Writer, Yokohama , Japan ); and Lee Weng Choy (Artistic Co-Director, The Substation, Singapore).
Participants from the Media Department are John Potts, Kathryn Millard and Maree Delofski.
Sessions include 'New Art Histories'; 'After the Post-colonial and Empire'; 'Other Spaces and Indigenous Art Histories'; 'Documentary and the Archival'; 'The Event and Memory'; 'Popular Culture/ Media Culture / Globalisation'; and 'Re-enactment and Performance'. There will also be other Biennale-related talks and seminars held on the Macquarie campus.
Anthropology Colloquium - Special theme: Post-Socialism
Time: 10.30 am Thursday May 4th
Location: C3A630
All Welcome
The colloquium will be presented by Melanie Beresford of Macquarie University and is entitled; Markets as Social Networks: the economics of village networks on the rice trade of a Red River delta village. [Seminar abstract]
Find more about Anthoropology Seminars 2006 at http://www.anth.mq.edu.au/about_seminars.html
Media Department Lunchtime Seminar with award-winning writer Nicholas Shakespeare<
Time: 1 pm Wednesday May 3rd
Venue: W6A 808
Light Lunch will be provided
Topic: "Donkeys and Carrots" : Nicholas Shakespeare discusses his experiences writing fiction, non-fiction, screenplays (his adaptation of his novel The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich, 2002), and writing for television (his award-winning BBC 'Arena' Programme on Dirk Bogarde (2001)).
Biography
Novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester, England, in 1957. He spent his childhood in the Far East and in South America where his father worked as a diplomat. After graduating from Cambridge University he worked as a journalist and was literary editor of both the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers between 1988 and 1991.
He is the author of four novels: The Vision of Elena Silves (1989), which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award; The High Flyer (1993), the story of a diplomat and his relationship with a young woman, for which he was chosen as one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists; The Dancer Upstairs (1995), a political thriller set in Peru, was selected by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997, and adapted by Nicholas for John Malkovich's film of the same name; and Snowleg (2004), exploring issues of love and identity against the bleak, snowy backdrop of East Germany.
Nicholas also wrote the authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin. He divides his time between England and Tasmania, the subject of his last book, In Tasmania (2004).
Anthropology Colloquium - Post-Socialism Seminar 1
Time: 10.30am - 12.30 pmThursday May 4th
Location: C3A630
All Welcome
Multi-Faceted Resistance: an Anthropology of Joke-telling in Enver Hoxha's Albania Shannon Woodcock (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
This paper analyses political jokes about Enver Hoxha, the dictator of communist Albania, in order to begin writing about the taboo of postsocialist studies: the ways we love our dictators. The research of humour under socialism from a diaspora post-socialist context also enables us to approach questions of an imperative to forget and/or accept atrocity in order to continue living.
Find more about Anthoropology Seminars 2006 at http://www.anth.mq.edu.au/about_seminars.html
Sociology Colloquium - Thursday 18th May, 2006
Time: 3 - 5 pm Thursday May 18th
Location: C3B-501A
All Welcome
Wine and nibbles to follow
Adulthood and Social Recognition
Harry Blatterer, Sociology, University of New South Wales/Macquarie
Find more about Macquarie University Sociology Seminars, 2006 at http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/MQ_SOC_Colloquium_Program_S1_2006.pdf