Research and Practice Seminar Series
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Series runs a seminar series which aims to bring together people from across the Faculty interested in exploring the interface between professional and creative practice, reflexivity, research theory and methodology. The series emerges from the need to link the reflexive study of everyday organizational and creative practices to the growing need for contemporary professionals (whether charged with informational-bureaucratic tasks or engaging in creative work) to confront, reflect on and learn from the pragmatic complexities that they embody and enact in their work. The series will invite researchers and creative and professional practitioners to present and discuss experiences of reflexive research/professional/creative practice.
Please be aware that the program below is a draft and some speakers and discussants are subject to confirmation as indicated.
Location: CB06.04.05 (unless indicated otherwise)
Time: 8am - 9.30am (discussion may continue until 10am if attendees wish).
Audience: All postgraduates, HSS staff and all others interested in lively debate and discussion about the changing nature of academic research and research in creative and professional fields of practice
Creativity and critique - creative practice and critical analysis (all names to be confirmed)
Date: 8 November 2007
Presenters and topics:
Jane Galbraith: Random Acts of Music: improvisation in Australian Jazz.
Michelle Lee: Zinc: A Novel and Exegesis
Discussants:
Debra Adelaide
Martin Harrison
Practicing culture and narrative practices
Date: 18 October 2007
Venue: DAB Building 6 Room 416
Presenter and topic:
Jeanine Leane: The White Man's Aborigine: what's the alternative?
Discussants:
Virginia Watson
Katrina Schlunke
Reading: Available Discourses on Aborigines (pdf, 2.1mb)
Collaboration and Recofiguration: Art and Text Online
Date: 6 September 2007
Presenters and topics:
Yueh Hsiu Giffen Chen: Online Collaborative creations
Suzana Sukovic: Electronic texts and research in the Humanities
Discussants:
Ross Gibson
Norie Neumark
Reading the text - problematising constructions of the visual
Date: 2 August 2007
Presenters and topics:
Yu-Hung Lee: Journey in a New Land: the decisive moment theory in documentary. (to be confirmed)
Verena Thomas: Visual ethnography
Discussants:
Katrina Schlunke
Stephen Muecke
Transforming research practices
Date: 14 June 2007
Presenters and topics:
Lucille Clements: Rose Tattoo as Text
Katherine Carroll: Video-ethnography and organisational practices
Discussants:
Theo van Leeuwen
Rick Iedema
Historiography and institutional practices
Date: 3 May 2007
Presenters and topics:
Simon Luckhurst: Experiences in Methodology
Heidi Norman: Making sense of Governmentality
Discussants:
Gillian Cowlishaw
Devleena Ghosh
The ethical and reflexive self in research and creative practice
Date: 5 April 2007
Presenters and topics:
Leo Podlashuc: People, Partisan Research and Picadors
Kay Donovan: Tagged: Filming with Young People
Discussants:
Catherine Robinson
Chris Ho
Introduction to the series: Interrogating knowledge production, creative, professional and academic practices
Date: 1 March 2007
Presenters and topics:
Rick Iedema with Kay Donovan
Verena Thomas
Discussants:
Jacqueline Gothe
Theo van Leeuwen
Sally McLaughlin