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Topics:<BR><BR> 1. The Italian Effect Syd Sep 9-11 (Melissa
Gregg)<BR> 2. Re: Re: glass ceilings (Tony
Mitchell)<BR> 3. Postdocs: University of Illinois (Amanda
Wise)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
1<BR>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:36:50 +1000<BR>From: Melissa Gregg <<A
href="mailto:m.gregg@uq.edu.au">m.gregg@uq.edu.au</A>><BR>Subject:
[csaa-forum] The Italian Effect Syd Sep 9-11<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au">csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au</A><BR>Message-ID:
<<A
href="mailto:41216F42.2090002@uq.edu.au">41216F42.2090002@uq.edu.au</A>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<BR><BR>Conference
Announcement<BR><BR>The Italian Effect: Radical Thought, Biopolitics and
Cultural Subversion<BR>Sydney University, September 9-11,
2004<BR><BR>Presented by: the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social
<BR>Sciences, University of Sydney, the Institute for International Studies
<BR>and the Transforming Cultures Unit, University of Technology, Sydney,
<BR>the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney and the
<BR>Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University.<BR><BR>Aims
of the Conference<BR>After several decades during which the humanities in
Australia and <BR>globally have been strongly influenced by French thought, in
the new <BR>millennium the work of Italian thinkers is having a profound
impact upon <BR>intellectual activity. The most notable signs of this "Italian
effect" <BR>are the widespread interest in the work of Giorgio Agamben and the
<BR>popularity of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire, but this is only
<BR>to scratch the surface of the productivity of the diversity of
<BR>contemporary Italian thought across a wide variety of disciplines. This
<BR>conference will address the current and potential international impact
<BR>of radical Italian thought, focusing not only on Negri and Agamben but
<BR>also on the work of Franco Berardi (Bifo), Ida Dominijanni, Paolo Virno,
<BR>and others. The conference will consist of the following
sessions:<BR><BR>---Negri, Multitudes and Empires<BR>---The Theory and
Practice of Autonomia<BR>---Italian Feminism, Gender and
Alterity<BR>---Agamben and the Camp<BR>---Italian thought, Autonomy and
Aesthetic Practices<BR>---Radical Italian Thought, Postmodernity and
Critique<BR>---Italian and Gobal Media Subversions<BR>---The Multitude, Luther
Blissett's Q and Ecopolitics<BR>---Post-Autonomy, Common Places and Cultural
Activism<BR>---Security, Internment and Pre-Emptive War<BR>---Potential
Politics, Networks and Mythopoesis<BR>---Agamben, Biopolitics and Bare
Life<BR><BR><BR>Keynote Speakers<BR>Franco Berardi (Bifo)- Leading Italian
cultural theorist and media <BR>activist whose media projects include Radio
Alice and Telestrada.<BR><BR>Ida Dominijanni- Professor of Political theory
and journalist of Il <BR>Manifesto as well as being a key figure of radical
Italian feminism.<BR><BR>Registrations<BR>Registration payments should be made
out to: Sydney University and sent <BR>to Research Institute of Humanities and
Social Sciences (RIHSS), Woolley <BR>Building A20, The University of Sydney,
NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA. The rates <BR>are as follows:<BR>Earlybird registration
(received by 31/8/04):AUD $88 (Full)/AUD $66 <BR>(Concession)<BR>Regular
registration: AUD $110 (Full)/AUD $77 (Concession).<BR><BR>Venues<BR>UTS
Event, Performance Space, Building 3 (Bon Marche), Cnr. Broadway and
<BR>Harris Street<BR>Sydney University, Education Building, Manning Road (next
to Manning bar).<BR><BR>Website<BR><A
href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/italianeffect.html">http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/italianeffect.html</A><BR><BR>Additional
Event at the University of Western Sydney<BR>Centre for Cultural Research
Public Lecture<BR>COGNITIVE LABOUR IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY<BR>Franco Berardi
(Bifo)<BR>Respondent:Ida Dominijanni<BR>Wednesday 8 September 2004
3.00-5.00pm<BR>University of Western Sydney<BR>Parramatta Campus<BR>BLD EZ,
Female Orphan School, Gallery Floor<BR>Map and directions available at <BR><A
href="http://www.uws.edu.au/about/locations/parramatta">http://www.uws.edu.au/about/locations/parramatta</A><BR><BR>RSVP
by Monday 6 September 3.00pm to: (02) 9685 9600 or <BR><A
href="mailto:ccr@uws.edu.au">mailto:ccr@uws.edu.au</A><BR><BR>-- <BR>Melissa
Gregg<BR>Postdoctoral Research Fellow<BR>Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies<BR>4th Floor, Forgan Smith Tower<BR>University of Queensland
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2<BR>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:39:32 +1000<BR>From: Tony Mitchell <<A
href="mailto:Tony.Mitchell@uts.edu.au">Tony.Mitchell@uts.edu.au</A>><BR>Subject:
Re: [csaa-forum] Re: glass ceilings<BR>To: CSAA discussion list <<A
href="mailto:csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au">csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au</A>><BR>Message-ID:
<<A
href="mailto:AB4DD792-EFF6-11D8-9D94-00039386D2FE@uts.edu.au">AB4DD792-EFF6-11D8-9D94-00039386D2FE@uts.edu.au</A>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed<BR><BR>Just a brief response to
Rowan's email (and an acknowledgment of John's <BR>unique and scandalous
situation - John is one of our most important <BR>jazz and popular music
researchers and it is outrageous that he cannot <BR>make a living from his
work, which includes the recent Currency <BR>Companion to Music and Dance in
Australia - a major project on which he <BR>worked for 7 years on the
breadline) - more optimistically perhaps (but <BR>not much) my university has
advertised 2 level A positions in Cultural <BR>Studies in the past 2 years.
The first had over 70 applicants, the <BR>second had 58 - an indication of the
severe employment drought in the <BR>area - but in both cases the job went to
a (female) candidate who had <BR>not yet completed their PhD, despite the fact
we had applicants with <BR>books, etc.<BR><BR><BR><BR>On 14/08/2004, at 3:03
PM, John Whiteoak wrote:<BR><BR>> Just to add another perspective to that
of Rowan. I completed my PhD <BR>> in 1993 (having entered uni as a
mature age student with no secondary <BR>> education to speak of )
and found a publisher of repute soon <BR>> thereafter, and a half time
academic position. My department was <BR>> closed as redundant at the end
of the 90s with much public outcry and <BR>> gnashing of teeth. I am
still an honorary research associate with <BR>> another uni
department but this has very minimal advantages apart from <BR>> being
somewhere to give away my annual publication listing as <BR>>
research quantum for that struggling department.<BR>> Yet, I somehow
continue to very much enjoy academic research and <BR>> writing (supported
by the dole, very modest needs. chooks and a <BR>> garden) and especially
the situation of being able to spent lots and <BR>> lots of quality time
researching and thinking about whatever topic I <BR>> am most
interested in. Because of this freedom, I can produce work
<BR>> of a reasonably consistent quality and never have to submit copy on
<BR>> the mere chance of it being published.. There are always several firm
<BR>> requests in the pipeline. From the perspective of book
and article <BR>> publication profile, mine is therefore an ongoing success
story, <BR>> except that I live and will die in (financial) poverty.
This is <BR>> therefore one way of getting by and it works well for me--and
the dead <BR>> have no needs. Best<BR>> John
Whiteoak<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> <A
href="mailto:r.wilken@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au">r.wilken@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au</A>
wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Hi all, while a newcomer to this list and a
relative latecomer to <BR>>> this discussion of academic life and
publishing, I would like to add <BR>>> my own observations (both bleak
and optimistic).<BR>>><BR>>> I can relate to the need to find
respite on a Welsh beach (although <BR>>> at this time of year a
Melbourne beach would do just a well), for I <BR>>> am what academic job
ads describe as a PhD candidate 'near <BR>>> completion'. At present,
however, this seems more like a euphemism <BR>>> for 'the slough of
despond' or 'utter confusion'; that which is <BR>>> supposed to be
winding up is taking on Sisyphean proportions. (By a <BR>>> perverse and
possibly dubious kind of logic, my partner - who has her <BR>>> PhD -
says this is a sure sign I am near the end.)<BR>>> My own despondency
is, I suspect, not helped by a greater sense of <BR>>> futility in the
face of a very unpromising academic employment <BR>>> climate. More than
once I made the naive mistake of thinking that <BR>>> academic job ads
were genuine when they stated that a job was open to <BR>>> PhD
candidates 'near completion'. In truth, however, this statement <BR>>>
seems more like a joke in poor taste, one designed to make postgrads
<BR>>> with academic aspirations miserable and spend time they can't
afford <BR>>> applying for jobs they won't get. I have learnt this by
trial and <BR>>> error. The feedback I have managed to gather (and
believe me, getting <BR>>> any comment on unsuccessful uni job
applications is no mean feat; <BR>>> feedback is, in my experience,
reluctantly given if it is given at <BR>>> all) has been especially
dispiriting. I have come to accept the <BR>>> statement that 'it is not
a question of quality, it is just that <BR>>> applications that don't
have a completed PhD won't be considered'. <BR>>> Why then bother
including it at all? But I have more!<BR>>> trouble with the
following: 'in addition to a completed PhD and <BR>>> established
publication record, you will be better placed if you have <BR>>> one or
more books published with a major publisher.' And this is for <BR>>> a
Level A position, and before the main selection criteria are even <BR>>>
mentioned! Mind you, mine was an honest mistake, as I knew of at <BR>>>
least person who had secured a position without either of the above
<BR>>> (although I'm beginning to wonder if this was in fact a dream I
had <BR>>> ... or an urban myth). Nevertheless, such tales do lead one
(or at <BR>>> least me) to wonder if the whole academic job market is
either <BR>>> horribly riddled with politics and nepotism, or a complete
- and <BR>>> completely mysterious - lottery. And so it has come to pass
that, <BR>>> even with a soon-to-be-completed PhD and what I consider to
be a <BR>>> fairly healthy publication record, the university employment
horizon <BR>>> is looking increasingly bleak (aside from the treadmill
life of the <BR>>> sessional, that is, whose prospects, it seems to
me,!<BR>>> vary little from those of the seasonal fruit picker).
So, and without<BR>>> meaning to sound too downcast, at age 35, and in
light of the above, <BR>>> I am having to reluctantly face the prospect
that my dream of <BR>>> entering academic life possibly won't eventuate.
Even so, it is a <BR>>> prospect I continue to resist (in spite of the
many hurdles that <BR>>> prospective academics are made to jump
through).<BR>>> All of this has made me think afresh about what I hold
as important <BR>>> in my life, like my family and thinking/writing.
With respect to the <BR>>> former, having two small children is a great
tonic for a whole host <BR>>> of disappointments (one example is seeing
the excitement of my 2 year <BR>>> old when he recognised for the first
time the letter 'L', the letter <BR>>> his name begins with; moments
like this put a lot in perspective and <BR>>> prompt an appreciation of
the simpler things in life). With respect <BR>>> to the latter, I am
trying to remain creative and write as much as <BR>>> possible
regardless of the forum. In other words, while it has taken <BR>>> me a
while, I have come to a similar conclusion to Phil Barker when <BR>>> he
writes that the Academy does not have to be the only place where <BR>>>
thoughtful intellectual work can take place. Nor do I believe that it
<BR>>> is correct, as Mel fears, that having a job at university is the
only <BR>>> way that your thoughts can have any public legitimacy. The
real issue <BR>>> I think, as Phil suggests,!<BR>>> is not
so much the forum for the expression of these thoughts but <BR>>> how,
as an independent scholar/researcher/writer, one can support <BR>>> this
intellectual output. This is indeed a difficult issue, and I <BR>>>
don't pretend to have the answers, but I'm hoping that the following,
<BR>>> with which I will conclude this lengthy post, might at least
<BR>>> encourage Mel and others.<BR>>><BR>>> Some time ago,
for my own amusement and encouragement, I began <BR>>> compiling a list
of writers I admired who worked outside the academy <BR>>> and/or held
down not-so-glamorous jobs to support their writing <BR>>> (doubtless it
will grow to become a very long list given the economic <BR>>> realities
of most forms of creative output, but writing in <BR>>> particular). For
example, there is Naguib Mahfouz, admittedly not an <BR>>> 'academic',
but a Nobel prize winning novelist who worked for the <BR>>> Egyptian
public service in the mornings and wrote in the afternoons <BR>>> and
evenings. Then there is Roland Barthes who, unless I am mistaken, <BR>>>
did not secure an academic post until quite late in his writing <BR>>>
career. There is also Georges Perec, one writer I find particularly
<BR>>> inspiring; this keen observer of the everyday and master of the
<BR>>> literary constraint worked for many years in a medical library
<BR>>> writing a weekly crossword and numerous other pieces while
travelling <BR>>> back and forth each day on the Paris
Metro.<BR>>> Cheers,<BR>>><BR>>> Rowan Wilken.<BR>>>
<A
href="mailto:r.wilken@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au">r.wilken@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au</A><BR>>>
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<BR>FELLOWSHIP AWARDS<BR>2005-2006 -- "BELIEF"<BR><BR><BR>THE ILLINOIS PROGRAM
FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF<BR>ILLINOIS AT
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OF THE UNIVERSITY WITH AN INTERST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY<BR>AND
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The IPRH will appoint two external post-doctoral Fellows for<BR>2005-2006.
Each Fellow will receive $35,000 for the year as well as a<BR>$2,000 research
account. Each Fellow will be invited to teach one course<BR>based on his/her
current research and writing, and to participate in the<BR>yearlong
interdisciplinary seminar coordinated by the IPRH in<BR>conjunction with the
annual theme, "Belief."<BR><BR>QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
<BR>********Applicants will have completed all requirements for the
Ph.D.<BR>degree by December 1, 2004.<BR>********Applicants must have two or
more years of teaching experience;<BR>teaching done as an advanced graduate
student counts toward the<BR>fulfillment of this
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at the<BR>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, engaged in research
and<BR>writing, and will teach one course based on their research. Fellows
are<BR>required to live within 15 miles of the IPRH during the academic year
of<BR>the award.<BR>********NOTE: These are external post-doctoral
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