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2.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Centre for Cultural Research</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:2.0pt'>invites all to attend</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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size=2 face="High Tower Text"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=5 color=navy face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Elaine Lally (CCR)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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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'>Professor Garry
Whannel (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Bedfordshire</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Date:</span></font></b><font
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Thursday, 11 September</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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2.00pm – 4.30pm</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;
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The Gallery, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Female</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Orphan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>,</span></b> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:City></st1:place>
Campus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>RSVP:</span></font></b><font
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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;font-weight:
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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> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Code Complexities: Messing
Around With Cluttered Software</span></font></b><font color=maroon><span
style='color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=maroon face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Elaine Lally</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Calibri><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:navy'>Research at CCR deals in many different
ways with the complexities of contemporary life. This presentation lifts the
bonnet on the current version of the Digital Cultural Atlas to investigate the
complexities and messiness behind the deceptive simplicity of the web. The
analysis will attempt to demonstrate in practical terms how CCR can develop its
capacity for critical reflection on the digital technologies which increasingly
underpin our research. <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 style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>That Obscure Object of
Analysis: What Does it Mean to 'Analyse' the Olympic Games?</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></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'>Garry Whannel </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 color=navy face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:navy'>What are we doing when we do “cultural
analysis?” How do we choose appropriate means? How do we
recognise our object? What are our intentions? Is academic enquiry
always distinct from other discursive modes – for example, investigative
journalism or political polemic? This talk uses the Olympic Games to
exemplify the problems posed by cultural analysis, and offers some notes on
approaching these problems derived from the author’s recent research into
Olympic-related issues of cultural politics and power.<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 Elaine Lally </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>is
Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director at CCR. She researches in the
areas of art and technology as material culture, and the role of arts and
culture in regional development (especially in <st1:place w:st="on">Western
Sydney</st1:place>). She is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>At
Home with Computers</span></i>, published by Berg in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
font-weight:bold'>Garry Whannel </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>is </span></font><font size=2
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Professor
of Media Cultures and Head of CIMARC: The Centre for International Media
Analysis Research and Consultancy, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University
of Bedfordshire</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
His most recent book is <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Culture, Politics
and Sport: Blowing the Whistle Revisited</span></i> (Routledge 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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