Next semester's loading:

• PhD, on-going (scholarship expires as at 31st of July, 2007)
• OUA, CMM17 Introduction to Screen Analysis, 111 students
• OUA, CMM31 Media Audiences, 38 students
• On-campus teaching at the Gold Coast, 1011AMC Great Ideas, 3 tutes of between 60-108 students (20-36 p/t)
• Social Theory and Philosophy Colloquium, co-convener and ( Read more... )

CPCI Public Lecture on EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY
Queensland College of Art
Griffith Graduate Centre Lecture Theatre (S07 Bldg, Room 1.23)
South Bank Campus
Tuesday 5 June
5.00 Drinks for 5.30 - 7.00 pm Lecture
RSVP: By 29 May to j.jones@griffith.edu.au or (07) 373 57338

• Frederick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University
• Jane ( Read more... )

From Jacques-Alain Miller: Lacan, in truth, had only one style of teaching: his Seminar. Probably the existence during thirty years of Lacan’s Seminar, contributed to making this concept part of the French language. In the classic Latin, seminarium is a kitchen garden. Seminare comes from semen. The modern use of the work Seminar has its origins in ( Read more... )

From New Scientist: Anthropologists and psychologists have long been interested in superstitions. One of the key categories of superstitious thinking is the "law of contagion", which says that when an object has been in contact with someone, it somehow acquires their "essence". Psychologist Paul Rozin and colleagues at the University of ( Read more... )

If you've read this lj at all you've probably picked up on two things:

• My PhD deals in the blackmarket economy of intellectual labour
• And, I spend a lot of time dealing with the work of intellectuals from the EGS

As it turns out, the EGS have now set up a shiny new YouTube channel where you can get all the contemporary theory you can handle in a 9 to ( Read more... )

Did anyone else notice the ripple caused by the London Times?

The Fictions of Foucault's Scholarship

~Niv

So, there are a few possible activities on offer here. You can access the journals for free, you can toy with the free trial if you're not in a university, or you can stalk the media rep, Debbie Cock, because she's given all her contact details at the end of the email.
FREE ONLINE ACCESS to SAGE journals including newly digitized deep ( Read more... )

I just ran into an old friend from primary school, Chelsea. Chelsea and I have seen a little bit of each other around Griffith since I started my PhD, but it was kind of unexpected to run into her at the library while the first semester is still yet to begin. Something about a law society meeting she had to go to, yada yada ( Read more... )

Oh no, I'm listening to Amon Tobin (Chaos Theory) before 10am... Somebody's got static on the brain ( Read more... )