Forthcoming Events for 2010
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Monday, May 3rd 2010, 5:30 - 7pm
Ethnocinema: Representation and Intercultural Collaboration
presented by: Anne Harris and Nyadol Nyuon
This seminar presents and interrogates a series of short films made collaboratively by the researcher and 16 Sudanese Australian young women from refugee backgrounds during 2008-2009, a qualitative doctoral research project entitled Cross-Marked: Sudanese Australian Young Women Talk Education. The films examine the prevailing social conditions for connectedness/ disconnectedness in the context of sometimes-hostile educational contexts. The films utilise the emerging practice of ethnocinema as an arts-based methodology, performative ethnography (Denzin, 2003) which disrupts conventional stories of the pedagogies of belonging and becoming. The films draw upon the co-creators’ social practices of self to trouble gendered, classed and racialised narratives of identity and they offer a territory of possibility for travelling along disorienting lines of flight (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987).
Anne Harris is a Lecturer in Creativity and the Arts in Victoria University’s School of Education. She is also a writer, videographer and Artistic Associate of Pumphouse Theatre (Melbourne). Nyadol Nyuon is a community development worker and activist and has been instrumental in the Lost Boys Association of Australia since arriving in Melbourne in 2005.
VENUE: The Meeting Chamber in John Scott Meeting House @ Latrobe University, Bundoora. Park in Carpark 7. Click here to download a map.
COST: FREE for AQR Members, Non-members - $20 , Non-member students - $10
RSVP & enquiries: anne.harris@vu.edu.au
Monday, August 9th, 5:30 - 7pm
Queering Methodology: An interactive seminar
Dr Mark Vicars
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University.
My research focuses on the ways in which individuals construct, and perform identities in everyday life and within the institutional framework of communities of educational practice. I am interested in how literacy is utilised in young people’s worlds; how the literacy curriculum could be modified so as to make it more relevant and reflective of young people’s textual practices and how literacy becomes inscribed in, by and through identity practices. My research has combined contemporary understandings of literacy with poststructuralist ideas of gender and sexuality and, has harnessed queer and postcolonial theories to conceptualise empowering forms of pedagogy. In my research, I utilise narrative ideas, and experiment with how storytelling to open up a dialogue between biographical sociology and the arts-based (re)presentations in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information across professional boundaries.
Seminar
This seminar draws on research that investigated the relatively unchartered terrain of the socio-sexual contexts in which literacy is embedded in adolescence. It has been suggested that the fictional or imaginary are often considered as parasitic on the real work ( Rosenblatt, 1978), however, I argue that it was in and through ludic textual practices, in queerly nuanced re/readings of texts of the 'real' that the logic of (hetero)normative practices in everyday life were able to be displaced and disrupted. Drawing on the reconstructed life histories of the informants, the seminar explores the ways in which a queering approach to methodology can be part of a critical and emancipatory agenda in educational research.
VENUE: Latrobe University, Melbourne CBD, 215 Franklin Street, Melbourne - Room FS G04. Click here to download a map.
COST: FREE for AQR Members, Non-members - $20 , Non-member students - $10
Professor Laurel Richardson
Professor Laurel Richardson (The Ohio State University, Sociology) is an internationally renowned qualitative researcher with specialties in gender, arts-based research, and contemporary theory. Her work crosses the boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities. She is well-grounded in theories of knowledge, and well-practiced in ways of sharing knowledge through alternative formats, such as poetic representation, dialogue, and essay. Her innovative work has brought her, in recent years, to Denmark, Italy, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland and Australia as well as to conferences in the United States and to honors for her books, teaching, and community outreach.
A public lecture to be held @ Latrobe University, Bundoora
Monday, October 4th
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