<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div align="center"><br> <div align="left"><img alt="" height="35" width="455" src="cid:part1.03050100.00050907@uts.edu.au"><br> </div> </div> <br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><br></font></div><div>The <b>T</b><b>ransforming Cultures Annual Public Lecture</b> this year will be presented by Prof. Christopher Pinney (Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London, currently Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University, USA).</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>His research interests cover the art and visual culture of South Asia with a particular focus on the history of photography and chromolithography in India.</div><div><br></div><div>Prof. <b>Christopher Pinney's</b> TfC Annual Public Lecture is entitled:</div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Photography and the Transformation of Culture</b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><i><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><i>Abstract</i>:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Was photography in India simply a a void, waiting to be filled by pre-exisiting cultural and historical practice? Or was it disruptive, throwing up new opportunities, prophesying new social formations, and focusing anxieties about the new visibility of formerly secluded spaces and events? And what does the study of a global technical practice such as photography tell us about how we might conceptualise 'culture'?</div></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Date</i>: Wednesday, <b>17th September</b>, <b>6:00 </b>(for drinks), 6:30pm start</div><div><i>Venue:</i> UTS Building 2, Lecture Room 4.11 g.b</div><div><br></div><div>Information about this event can be seen here:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/news_events/Christopher_Pinney.html">http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/news_events/Christopher_Pinney.html</a></div></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>ALL WELCOME. Please RSVP.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you there.</div><div><br></div><div>Lindi </div><div><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font> </font> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><big><font face="Garamond">--
Lindi Renier Todd
Research & Publications Officer
Transforming Cultures
University of Technology, Sydney
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Lindi.Todd@uts.edu.au">Lindi.Todd@uts.edu.au</a>
+ 61 2 9514 2757</font></big></pre> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>