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Identities and Communities Node
presents:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT color=#000000>Complexities
and Mobilities<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT color=#000000>a Masterclass
with Professor John Urry<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>Department of Sociology & Centre for <?xml:namespace prefix =
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w:st="on">Mobilities</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Research</st1:PlaceName> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>Two classes:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#000000>Centre for Cultural Research, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western
Sydney</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:place></st1:City>, April 24-5,
2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Flinders</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, function room, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:place></st1:City>, 1-6pm Monday,
May 2, 2007<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#000000>The ARC Cultural Research Network Identities and Communities Node
is seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers who wish
to take part in one of 2 Masterclasses with Professor John Urry. Each class will
be limited to 20 participants who are engaged in research relating to the theme
of ‘Complexities and Mobilities’. Participants will be chosen based on a
competitive application process. The Masterclass will include a discussion of
the work of Professor Urry and presentations from participants.
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size=3><FONT color=#000000><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Theme:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <SPAN lang=EN-GB>This
Masterclass will examine recent developments in two areas where Professor John
Urry has been seeking to develop some new ideas for 'rethinking' the nature of
social life. First, it will consider the possible strengths of the complexity
sciences for examining the nature of 'social-and-material’ systems conceived of
as complex, adaptive and co-evolving. This develops from Prof. Urry’s 2003 book
on <I>Global Complexity</I> which sought to apply such notions to the ‘global’
and from the <I>Theory, Culture and Society</I> special issue on the complexity
turn (2005). Second, we will consider one particular set of such systems, that
is ‘mobility systems’. This discussion will draw from and develop his writings
on specific systems (see the co-edited <I>Automobilities</I>, 2005, with Mike
Featherstone and Nigel Thrift), on social networks (see <I>Mobilities,
Geographies, Networks</I>, 2006), and on the more general attempt to ‘mobilise’
the social sciences as in the forthcoming <I>Mobilities</I>, 2007.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#000000>Details<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3><FONT color=#000000><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Cost:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The masterclasses are
free of charge to successful applicants, and include lunch and morning/afternoon
teas. Participants travelling from outside the city in which the class is held
will be eligible for travel and accommodation
subsidies.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
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size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Applications</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT color=#000000>
are due by Monday 26<SUP>th</SUP> March, 2006.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications must include a completed
application form that includes a 250-word summary of your research topic,
highlighting links to the Masterclass theme, and a one-page curriculum vitae.
Application forms and further information are available from Greg Noble at
</FONT><A
href="mailto:g.noble@uws.edu.au">g.noble@uws.edu.au</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
color=#000000>John Urry<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT color=#000000
size=3>John Urry<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>is<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>Professor, Department of Sociology,
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City></st1:place>. He was educated at <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:City>, with a BA/MA
(double first) in Economics and a PhD in Sociology. He has since worked at
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> where he has
been Head of Department, Founding Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty and
University Dean of Research. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,
Founding Academician, UK Academy of Social Sciences, Member (1992) and Chair RAE
Panels (1996, 2001), and has an Honorary Doctorate from Roskilde University. He
has received recent research funding from DTI Foresight Programme, Dept for
Transport (twice), EPSRC, ESRC, and the Forestry Commission. He has published
c35 books and special issues, c100 refereed articles and c80 chapters in books.
His work is translated into 11 languages, and he has lectured in c30 countries.
His is currently Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City></st1:place> that has
extensive links throughout the world relating to the study of physical movement
and its interconnections with the ‘virtual’ and the ‘imaginative’ (see </FONT><A
href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/index.htm"><FONT
size=3>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/index.htm</FONT></A><FONT
color=#000000 size=3>, and </FONT><A
href="http://www.cemore.blogspot.com/"><FONT
size=3>http://www.cemore.blogspot.com/</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT
color=#000000>). <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Some
recent books include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sociology beyond
Societies</I>, Routledge (2000), <I>The Tourist Gaze. Second Edition</I>, Sage
(2002), <I>Tourism Mobilities. Places to Play, Places in Play</I>, Routledge
(2004), <I>Performing Tourist Places</I>, Ashgate (2004),<I> Automobilities</I>
(2005), <I>Mobile Technologies of the City, </I><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Routledge (2006), <I>Mobilities, Networks,
Geographies</I> (2006), <I>Mobilities</I></SPAN>, Polity (2007)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Dr Greg Noble</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Associate Professor</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>School of Humanities and
Languages</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>University of Western
Sydney</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=1>NSW 1797, Australia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Tel +61 2 9685
9634</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Co-author of <EM>Bin Laden in the
Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other</EM> (Sydney Institute of Criminology,
2004)</FONT></DIV>
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