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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=gray face=Corbel><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Corbel;color:gray'>Apologies for
cross-postings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=5
color=blue face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:
2.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Centre for Cultural Research</span></font></b><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
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font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:2.0pt;font-weight:bold'> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></span></font></b></st1:place><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="High Tower Text"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:2.0pt'>invites all to attend</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=5 face=Rockwell><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Rockwell;
font-weight:bold'>the CCR Seminar Series 2008</span></font></b><font size=5
face=Rockwell><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Rockwell'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><font
size=2 face="High Tower Text"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"High Tower Text"'>featuring<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Kylie Brass & Professor
David Rowe (CCR)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy'>and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Reena Dobson (CCR)</span></font></b><font
size=5 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Date: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Thursday,
17 April</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Time: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>2.00pm
– 4.00pm</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Venue: Gallery Floor, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Female</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Orphan</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> (</span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Building
EZ), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:City></st1:place>
Campus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Afternoon tea
and cakes provided <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>RSVP: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Ania
Ajiri <a href="mailto:a.ajiri@uws.edu.au">a.ajiri@uws.edu.au</a> or 9685 9600<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:
bold'>Apologies</span></font></b><font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:
Calibri'>: Kay Anderson<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> <a
href="mailto:k.anderson@uws.edu.au">k.anderson@uws.edu.au</a> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Knowledge Limited:
Public Communication, Risk and University Media Policy<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><font
size=3 color=maroon face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:maroon'>Kylie Brass and David Rowe<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:black'>In an increasingly corporate and
managerially-driven institutional environment, academics are being strongly
encouraged to engage with the media in order to showcase their research and
demonstrate their university’s knowledge assets and relevance for wider
communities. </span></font><font face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:Calibri'>Many universities have recently introduced or
updated policies and procedures for managing this academic-media contact to
maximise positive media outcomes. A new wave of ‘media policy’
documents is supplanting earlier policies governing ‘public
comment’ as a means of managing risk when academics engage in<font
color=red><span style='color:red'> </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>extra-mural</span></font><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'> </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>commentary.
These policies seek to regulate academic public interventions in various ways,
including by establishing the institutional intellectual competency that
licenses academic public speech. This paper explores some of the key policy and
institutional contexts for managing academic-media relations, and considers how
the ‘unscripted’ autonomy of comment beyond the academy
may be compromised by contemporary university brand and risk
management.</span></font></span></font><font color=navy face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Everyday <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mauritius</st1:country-region> and the Ethnic Imaginary<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=maroon face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:maroon'>Reena Dobson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Calibri'>Mauritius</span></font></st1:country-region><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'> is an Indian Ocean island whose contemporary
population is made up of long-established diasporas with historical and
cultural links stretching out to parts of Africa, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>. As a result, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mauritius</st1:country-region> can be seen as </span></font><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Calibri'>a multi-ethnic
society <i><span style='font-style:italic'>par excellence</span></i>.
This paper argues that everyday life in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mauritius</st1:country-region>
is heavily ethnicised, with </span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'>ethnic identities being constantly maintained,
performed, reified and made important. Using an adaptation of Charles
Taylor’s notion of the social imaginary, the ethnic imaginary foregrounds
the importance of these cultural differences and focuses particularly on the
nuances and ways in which people do <i><span style='font-style:italic'>and</span></i>
do not fit together and how they see themselves in relation to their fellow
citizens and islanders. The ethnic imaginary seeks to explain how
Mauritians constantly and ceaselessly reify their cultural differences, at the
deliberate expense of national unity, but only up to a point.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Dr Kylie Brass </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>is a
Research Officer at CCR </span></font><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>currently working on a project
with Professor David Rowe examining strategies adopted by universities to
manage public academic interventions. She completed her PhD, <em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Going Public: Pedagogy Beyond
the Academy</span></font></i></em>, in the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">English</st1:PlaceName>, Art History, Film and
Media at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> in 2006.
Her research interests include academic culture, public intellectualism,
pedagogy, media policy, and contemporary American literary culture. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Professor David Rowe </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>is
Director of CCR.<b><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;font-weight:bold'>
</span></font></b></span></font><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>He has published extensively in
the areas of media and popular culture, especially sport, music and journalism.
His books have been translated into Chinese, Arabic and Turkish, and include <em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Sport, Culture and the Media:
The Unruly Trinity</span></font></i></em> (2004, second edition) and <em><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Globalization and Sport: Playing
the World </span></font></i></em>(2001, co-authored).</span></font><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Reena Dobson is</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> a
Research Officer across CCR, providing Centre-wide research support. She is in
the final stages of her PhD, provisionally entitled, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>‘The <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Most</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Cosmopolitan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Island</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Under the Sun’? Ethnicity,
Tolerance and Cosmopolitanism in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mauritius</st1:country-region></span></i>.
</span></font><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Her research interests include issues of ethnicity and
identity, cosmopolitanism, islands, 'home' and autoethnography.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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