CCI Events

CIF and CCI are delighted to invite you to a seminar with John Knell, a UK leading consultant on the changing face of work and organisations on Thursday, 16 September 2010, to present the following 2 seminars

SPONSORED and SUPPORTED by:
Centre for Cultural Research, the University of Western Sydney
ARC Cultural Research Network
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

HOSTED by:
Postgraduate students from
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
This conference aims to gather postgraduate students and early career researchers from Australia, New Zealand and Asia to explore both what it means when we call ourselves cultural researchers and how people coming from different academic backgrounds see the nature and challenges of conducting cultural research in the 21st century. We encourage participants from all cultural-focused perspectives, including (but not limited to) cultural sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, film studies, media studies, museum studies, heritage studies and art history.

In many parts of the world, we are seeing the rise of “suburban nations”, where the majority of their population residing neither in inner cities or rural and regional areas, but rather in the large suburban and peri-urban agglomerations around major cities. In countries such as Australia, the United States and Canada, people largely live and work in the suburbs, and suburbanisation is a trend occurring through Europe and increasingly in Asia.

Editor
Thomas Petzold
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Call for Papers
This special issue of Cultural Science explores Internet research methods at the intersection of socio-cultural and evolutionary research. It invites contributions that combine innovative research design on the Internet with an evolutionary treatment of socio-cultural change to reconsider the dynamics of institutions, identities, and socio-cultural relations. By doing so this special issue seeks to identify and further develop discussions of specific methods as well as wider considerations of underlying propositions that deal with evolutionary approaches to culture.

Interest areas include ICT, digital media, telecoms, broadcasting, communications culture, Internet and e-commerce. It is a research-oriented forum open to all viewpoints; a co-operative effort by policy and research centres. It is also a national meeting-place for people who create, use and commission research.

You are welcome to submit a proposal or abstract to be on the platform in November. The closing date for refereed proposals is Monday 14 June 2010 or non refereed 26 July 2010. Click here to download the guidelines for submitting.

Our next CCI 2.0 Symposium with be held in Melbourne with our Swinburne University of Technology partner. The confirmed dates are 10-12 November 2010.

The first day, Wednesday 10 November and the morning of the 11 November, will be dedicated to a CCI Emerging Scholars professional development workshop, followed by an Advisory Board meeting in the afternoon of 11th and a dinner. 12 November will run as a normal symposium and stage our Chief and Partner Investigators, staff and students in keynote presentations highlighting many of our research achievements.

Please consider submitting a paper to the ITS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2011 to be held in Taipei from 26-28 June, 2011. The deadline for abstracts is Dec 31 and panels is 25 January.

http://www.its2011taiwan.com/