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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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
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size=5 color=navy face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Zoë Sofoulis (CCR,
UWS)</span></font></b><b><font size=5 face="Californian FB"><span
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color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Jane Mills
(Australian Film, Television and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Radio</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Date: Thursday, 17 July</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Time: 2.00pm – 4.30pm</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt'>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>
(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 </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt'>RSVP: Jacqui Kingi<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> <a href="mailto:j.kingi@uws.edu.au">j.kingi@uws.edu.au</a> </span></font>or<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>9685 9600</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Apologies: 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> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Water Users,
Practices, and Infrastructures of Consumption: Developments in the Pipelines
(North and South)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Zoë Sofoulis<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Current debates around adaptation to climate change and
water shortages reveal that Australian policy-makers have not made the paradigm
shifts needed for sustainability. They are still working on models of
‘natural resource management’ that position end-users as
‘customers’ to whom ‘price signals’ must be sent out,
and/or whose adoption of efficiency measures must be encouraged. This paper
outlines some challenges to the customer-based approach arising from cultural,
social and some systems and engineering approaches to understanding urban water
uses and users. It reports on current trends in research on urban water
in Australia and the UK, and highlights some similarities and differences in
the contents, contexts and reception of a project undertaken with Sydney Water
Corporation and related projects by Elizabeth Shove and associates with UK
Water Industry Research body (UKWIR). The conclusion aims to draw
out some points about the shifts in thinking about end-users that are urgently
needed in policies and strategies for climate change adaptation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Cinema, Cultural
Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Jane Mills</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face=Consolas><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>The
moving image plays an important role in literacy pedagogy today: within many
Australian classrooms ‘viewing’ and ‘listening’ have
been added to reading, writing and basic numeracy as part of the definition of
literacy. The notion of ‘multiliteracies’ is fast gaining
currency among teachers from K-12, and ‘cineliteracy’, the
‘reading’, ‘writing’ and comprehension of the moving image,
has an increasing number of adherents among the teaching profession.
There is, however, little unity of pedagogic theory or practice
concerning how cineliteracy can, or might, relate to a general concept of
cultural literacy. Could cineliteracy, for example, provide a more
nuanced understanding of the role that screen culture might play in introducing
and reinforcing intercultural dialogue among students, their families and
communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds? Could
transnational or intercultural cinema in the classroom usefully consolidate
knowledge of global screen culture acquired in the home and community
environments to impact positively upon traditional literacy and numeracy skills
and upon student engagement and participation in the learning and teaching
process? This paper outlines the outcomes of some of the cineliteracy
research projects that I have devised and delivered in recent years and
explores the potential directions in which the pedagogic research might
usefully go.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Dr Zoë Sofoulis</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> has an
international scholarly reputation in the areas of cultural studies, gender and
technology, and the philosophy of technology. Her recent research interests
have highlighted the cultural aspects of water usage and water research.
She was the convenor of the 2007 CCR Symposium <i><span style='font-style:italic'>In
the Pipeline: New Directions in Cultural Research on Water</span></i>. In
Autumn 2008 she was a Visiting Researcher to the engineering department at
University College London, funded by the (<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> colleagues is planning an
international conference on urban water management for 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
font-weight:bold'>Dr Jane Mills </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>was recently awarded a PhD for her
dissertation, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Hollywood and its Others:
Porous Borders and Creative Tensions in the Transnational Screenscape</span></i>,
which will be published by Allen & Unwin in March 2009. Former Head
of Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS),
she has devised and delivered cineliteracy programmes for the NSW DET for the
past eight years. Jane is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at
AFTRS, and Series Editor for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Australian
Screen Classics</span></i> co-published by Currency Press and the National Film
and Sound Archive.</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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