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for cross-posting; please note extended deadline<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=6 color="#339933" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:#339933'>Urban Cultural Economy in an Age of Globalisation</span></font></b></strong><font
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-right:1.3pt;text-align:center'><em><b><i><font
size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
color:black;letter-spacing:1.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Master Class with Professor
Sharon Zukin</span></font></i></b></em><font size=4 color=black><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:1.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>The Centre for
Cultural Research at the </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=4
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;letter-spacing:
.1pt;font-weight:normal'><ns0:PlaceType w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType></ns0:PlaceType></ns0:PlaceType><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> of </span></font><ns0:PlaceName
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w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:PlaceName w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>Western Sydney</span></font></st1:PlaceName></ns0:PlaceName></ns0:PlaceName><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> is seeking expressions of interest from
post graduate research</span></font></span></font></b></strong><font size=4
color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'>students</span></font><strong><b><font size=4
color=white face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:white;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'> </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>interested in
participating in a master class with eminent urban scholar Professor Sharon
Zukin of </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font size=4 face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:
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w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:PlaceName w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Brooklyn</span></font></st1:PlaceName></ns0:PlaceName></st1:place></ns0:place></ns0:PlaceName></ns0:place><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font><ns0:PlaceType
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:PlaceType w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>College</span></font></st1:PlaceType></ns0:PlaceType></ns0:PlaceType><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> and the City University of New York.
Details of Professor Zukin's achievements are listed below. </span></font></span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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inter-ideograph'><font size=4 color=white face=Garamond><span style='font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:white;letter-spacing:.1pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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inter-ideograph'><strong><b><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;
font-weight:normal'>The master class will commence on the morning of the 11th
July and run until lunchtime on the 12th. It will include a presentation by
Professor Zukin and participants will be given the opportunity to discuss their
own research. Some readings will be supplied. The event will be held at the UWS
Parramatta campus with a maximum of 23 participants. There will be a </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Century><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Century;
color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>$</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>30 registration
charge to cover the cost of lunch and morning/ afternoon teas. There will
also be a dinner arranged</span></font></b></strong><font size=4 color=blue
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:blue;
letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span></font><strong><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;
letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>the evening of the 11th that is not
covered in the registration charge.</span></font></b></strong><font size=4
color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.3pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph'><font size=4 color=white face=Garamond><span style='font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:white;letter-spacing:.1pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.3pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph'><strong><b><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;
font-weight:normal'>We invite expressions of interest from those who are
working in the fields of sociology, geography</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'>,</span></font><font size=4
color=blue face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:blue;letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span></font><strong><b><font size=4
color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>cultural studies</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=white face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:white;letter-spacing:.1pt'>, </span></font><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'>and urban studies.
Please send a brief summary of your research</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'> </span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'>and its relevance to the title of the
master class </span></font><strong><b><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;
font-weight:normal'>(200 words maximum) to George Morgan (</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'><a
href="mailto:george.morgan@uws.edu.au" target="_blank"
title="mailto:george.morgan@uws.edu.au"><strong><b><font face=Garamond><span
style='font-family:Garamond;font-weight:normal'>george.morgan@uws.edu.au</span></font></b></strong></a><strong><b><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond;font-weight:normal'>) by </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>June </span></font></b></strong></span></font><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
letter-spacing:.1pt'>22<sup>nd</sup></span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
letter-spacing:.1pt;font-weight:normal'> (extended deadline).</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:white;letter-spacing:.1pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.3pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph'><font size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Sharon Zukin,</span></font><font
size=4 color=black face=Garamond><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt'> the Broeklundian Professor of
Sociology at </span></font><font size=4 face=Garamond><span style='font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Garamond;letter-spacing:.1pt'><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:PlaceName w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>Brooklyn</span></font></ns0:PlaceName><font color=black><span
style='color:black'> </span></font><ns0:PlaceType w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>College</span></font></ns0:PlaceType></ns0:place><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>, City University of New York, is one of the world’s
foremost observers and theorists of the contemporary city. The author of five books,
including <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Landscapes of Power: From Detroit
to Disney World</span></i> (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1991), for which she won the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award, her work
sits at the intersection of sociology, geography, cultural studies, and
political economy. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Loft Living</span></i>
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982) tracked the cultural and economic
processes through which parts of </span></font><ns0:State w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>New York</span></font></ns0:place></ns0:State><font color=black><span
style='color:black'> were transformed into gentrified residential spaces. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Culture of Cities</span></i> (Blackwell, Oxford,
1996) examines the regeneration of central urban areas, and how vernacular
cultures are often marginalised in the process of establishing new symbolic
economies based on tourism and cultural industries. Her most recent book <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American
Culture</span></i> (2004) critically examines urban spaces of consumption.
Although the </span></font><ns0:country-region w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>United
States</span></font></ns0:country-region><font color=black><span
style='color:black'> and specifically </span></font><ns0:State
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2007-06-13T12:39:00Z"><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>New York</span></font></ns0:place></ns0:State><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>, have provided the empirical focus for much of her work,
Zukin's work has great relevance to Australian cities. Broadly, her work
examines the cultural economy of the contemporary city, including themes such
as culture-led urban regeneration; spaces of consumption; urban development,
art and real estate; racialised ghettoes; public space; and the transformation
of urban life and form under globalisation. </span></font></span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span></font><font color=black><span
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