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font-family:Arial'>The Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) is pleased to
announce two events at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Contemporary Art</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
Circular Quay on May 17th, 2007 : </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>First, a public talk of Professor Tony Bennett, scheduled
as part of our seminar series for 2007 (see abstract below). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Second, the launch by Tony
Bennett of <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Race
and the Crisis of Humanism</span></font></i></em><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'> </span></font>by Professor Kay Anderson (see
attached invitation). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tony's talk will commence at 3pm. The cafe at MCA can be
accessed for afternoon tea. The book launch will begin at 5pm,
followed by drinks.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The afternoon's events will be chaired by Professor David
Rowe, Director of CCR. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Time: 3pm-6.30pm<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'> </span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Sydney </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please RSVP</span></font></u><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> by Monday May 14th to <font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'> <a href="mailto:ccr@uws.edu.au">ccr@uws.edu.au</a></span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Aesthetics and politics <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Tony Bennett, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Open University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has played a
significant role in cultural analysis in suggesting that our relations to texts
– whether visual, literary, or auditory – are mediated via
class-based habitus that provide unified and unifying principles of taste that
are manifest across the full range of an individual’s cultural
interests. Yet Bourdieu claimed that his own habitus was a divided or
cleft one as a consequence of the conflicting experiences arising from his social
mobility. This lecture will suggest that such a divided habitus is the
rule rather than the exception, and that the notion of a unified habitus
– which plays a central role in Bourdieu’s sociology of consumption
– is unsustainable. The argument will be illustrated by drawing on
the evidence regarding the social distribution of cultural tastes from a recent
study of the relationships between cultural practices and cultural capital in
the <ns0:country-region w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2007-05-02T13:03:00Z"
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Its implications for accounts of the relations between aesthetics and politics
will be explored by contrasting Bourdieu’s interpretation of the social
inscription of aesthetic discourses in processes of class distinction
with competing accounts focused their role in relation to development of
liberal forms of governance. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University. His
research is situated at the interface of sociology, cultural studies and
cultural history, and includes a focus on the history and theory of museums,
modern forms of cultural governance, studies of everyday cultural practice and
their relevance to contemporary class theory and cultural policy, and the
relationships between social and cultural theory. Among his numerous publications
are: <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pasts Beyond
Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism</span></font></i></em> (2004), <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>New Keywords</span></font></i></em>
(2005) (with L. Grossberg and M. Morris), <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures</span></font></i></em> <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>(</span></font>1999<font color=black><span
style='color:black'>)</span></font><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'> </span></font>(with
J. Frow and M. Emmison) and an (in press) <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Handbook of Cultural Analysis</span></font></i></em>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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