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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=395164906-17072007><FONT
color=#0000ff><SPAN class=753582903-18072007> </SPAN></FONT>Professor
Sharon Zukin's visit to the Centre for Cultural Research,
UWS.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=395164906-17072007>19 July, 3pm, CCR
Seminar Series, Building EA Lecture Room G-19, Parramatta Campus - abstract
below</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=395164906-17072007>23 July, 5pm, Public
Lecture, Riverside Theatres, Parramattta - see attached</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt">ABSTRACT:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"> Contrasting a
small, local park with the globally known site of a terrorist attack, this
presentation examines how the idea of the public is constitu<?xml:namespace
prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">ted</st1:PersonName>, institutionalized, and “emplaced” in different
types of urban public spaces.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Union</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Square</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType>
is loca<st1:PersonName w:st="on">ted</st1:PersonName> two miles north of the
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">World</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Trade</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
site in lower <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After September 11, 2001, these two
spaces became gathering places for mourning and commemoration—but in
dramatically different ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each
site is publicly owned and managed by a hybrid form of public-private
partnership; each claims to serve the public but interprets that mission in ways
that advance the private interests of specific stakeholders and a neoliberal
ideology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet differences between
USQ and the WTC site suggest a spectrum extending from “benevolent” to
“authoritarian” privatization of public space, with benevolence expressed in
uses of space for political dissent and marketplace transactions and
authoritarianism expressed in restrictions on use and nationalistic
rhetoric.<SPAN class=900204306-25062007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">SPEAKER:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
Sharon Zukin,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
the Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Brooklyn</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Graduate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of the City University of New York,
is one of the world’s foremost observers and theorists of the contemporary city.
Professor Zukin is the author of several books, including <I>Loft Living</I>
(1982), <I>Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World</I>
(1991), <SPAN class=885305306-25062007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><FONT face=Calibri color=#000000 size=3><EM>The Culture of
Cities</EM>(1995)</FONT> </FONT></SPAN>and <I>Point of Purchase: How
Shopping Changed American Culture</I> (2004). 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; and the transformation of urban life and form under
globalisation. Professor Zukin recently won the Lynd Award for career
achievement in urban sociology.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt">On:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"> Thursday, 19 July 2007<SPAN
class=395164906-17072007> </SPAN></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"><SPAN
class=395164906-17072007>T</SPAN>ime:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"> 3.00pm<SPAN
class=395164906-17072007> </SPAN></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt">Venue:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"> UWS <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:place></st1:City> Campus,
Building EA Lecture Room G-19<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt">RSVP:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; LETTER-SPACING: 1pt"> Essential to Ania
Ajiri, <A title=mailto:a.ajiri@uws.edu.au
href="mailto:a.ajiri@uws.edu.au">a.ajiri@uws.edu.au</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr George Morgan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Senior Lecturer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>School of Humanities/ Centre for
Cultural Research</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of Western
Sydney</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Locked Bag 1797</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Penrith South DC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>NSW 1797</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>p 9772 6529</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>f 9772 6688</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>e <A
href="mailto:george.morgan@uws.edu.au">george.morgan@uws.edu.au</A></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/ccrpeople/morgan#4">http://www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/ccrpeople/morgan#4</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Recent Publications</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and
Urbanisation in New South Wales (Wakefield Press, 2006) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/books/unsettledplaces.html">http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/books/unsettledplaces.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia
(ACYS Press, 2007) - co-edited with Scott Poynting</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.acys.info/publications/acyspublishing">http://www.acys.info/publications/acyspublishing</A></FONT></DIV>
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<P>I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's
brain than in the near-certainty that people of equal talent have died in cotton
fields and sweat shops.</P>
<P>Stephen Jay Gould</P></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au
[mailto:csaa-forum-bounces@lists.cdu.edu.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Barbara
Baird<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> [csaa-forum] cfp - Aust Critical
Race & Whiteness Assoc 2007conference<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><PRE wrap=""><B class=moz-txt-star><SPAN class=moz-txt-tag>*</SPAN>Apologies for cross postings<SPAN class=moz-txt-tag>*</SPAN></B>
The Conference Committee of the 2007 Australian Critical Race and
Whiteness Studies Association conference is pleased to announce its second
call for papers. Information is included below and also on the attached
pdf document. Please feel free to circulate this information to colleagues
and we look forward to seeing you at the conference. The conference
website listed below now includes full registration details and
registration is now open.
Sincerely,
The Conference Committee.
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Australian Critical Race And Whiteness Studies Association 2007 Conference:
Transforming Bodies, Nations & Knowledges
Adelaide, South Australia, 10 -12 December, 2007
Since 1999 there have been a series of yearly conferences held in
Australia, united by their critique of race privilege and their attention
to matters of Indigenous sovereignty. Early conferences were integral to
the formation of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
Association in 2004. These conferences have encouraged and supported the
development of a rapidly growing body of Indigenous voices and knowledges
within the Australian academy as well as an increased focus on issues of
race and whiteness.
This year's conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, and will
encourage continued reflection upon issues of racial power and privilege
in local and global contexts where Indigenous sovereignties continue to be
denied, and in which whiteness maintains hegemony. It continues an
explicit focus on issues of sovereignty and the importance of ensuring
spaces for open, supportive dialogue.
The 2007 ACRAWSA conference, Transforming Bodies, Nations & Knowledges,
draws on the aforementioned history of interventions into the cultural
politics of race and whiteness both in Australia and internationally. The
notion of 'transforming' signifies a commitment not only to examining and
critiquing existing practices of dominance and discrimination, but also to
the ways in which these have been challenged and transformed and continue
to be so in the present and into the future. The conference seeks to
address ways in which processes of transformation mutually implicate
bodies, nations and knowledges. Possible questions include: What kind of
bodies are produced by the powers of racism and colonialism? How do those
bodies transform themselves into something else to resist or avoid
relations of dominance? How do knowledges create and change bodies and
nations? How can we challenge existing disciplines and knowledges to
recognise spaces for Indigenous sovereignty and to oppose racism? How are
nations being changed in contemporary global scenarios? How do nations
demand and produce embodied responses to their practices of inclusion and
exclusion?
Specific areas of concern may include:
· Indigenous sovereignties
· citizenship;
· borders;
· the law;
· bodies, affect and subjectivity;
· gender, sexuality and reproduction
· religion;
· power and knowledge production;
· writing and other creative arts;
· families;
· professional knowledges and practices in education, health and welfare
Such themes are central to a conference that seeks practical and
politically orientated outcomes. The conference will appeal to people
working in the areas of Indigenous studies, whiteness and critical race
studies, gender/women's studies and sexuality studies, education, law,
history, psychology and social sciences, social work, cultural studies,
media studies, literary studies, philosophy, art and design theory as well
as those who are intellectually engaged in community and activist
settings.
An invitation is extended to those wishing to present on issues such as
those outlined above to submit an abstract of no more than 200 words,
along with a short biographical statement, by the 31/07/2007 to the
following email address: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:abstracts2007@acrawsa.org.au">abstracts2007@acrawsa.org.au</A>
Conference organisers welcome expressions of interest for the following
presentation formats:
· 'traditional' 20 min papers
· three-paper symposia
· round table discussions
· artistic performances/installations and other forms of information
dissemination that operate outside of the standard 20 minute presentation
style.
More information on submission guidelines, conference details, and
conference publications are available at:
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.conference2007.acrawsa.org.au">http://www.conference2007.acrawsa.org.au</A>
Confirmed keynotes for the conference include Dr. Sara Ahmed on the topic
of 'The Politics of Good Feeling', Dr. Irene Watson, Dr. Jackie Huggins
and Dr. Tony Birch.</PRE><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
Associate Professor Barbara Baird
Head, Department of Women's Studies
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide
South Australia 5001
Telephone (+61 8) 8201 2331
Fax (61 8) 8201 3350
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au">barbara.baird@flinders.edu.au</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/wmst">www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/wmst</A></PRE></BODY></HTML>