2008 archive - Hawke Research Institute Professorial Lecture Series
Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, and Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies
Hawke Research Institute supports an ecologically diverse and sustainable world of tolerant and inclusive democratic societies by bringing together cross-disciplinary teams to research the humanities and social sciences. I welcome you to take part in these two stimulating lectures that represent only a fraction of what we are working on in the fields of education, work and life, social policy, equity, conflict management, psychology, sleep, visual arts and architecture.
Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Pro Vice Chancellor
Literacy, identity and culture in a Web 3.0 world
Friday 22 August (Registrations closed)
5.00 - 7.00 pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5 Alan Scott Auditorium
City West campus
What is the link between literacy, identity and culture? In this lecture, Victoria Carrington presents a range of texts demonstrating the shift towards what Henry Jenkins called a 'participatory culture'. It's a culture reflected by the out-of-school practices of many young people, using technologies like mobile phones to interact with one another through unique styles of social text. As they embrace these new forms of communication, it not only has obvious implications for the way they construct their own identity; it also sets a new context within which educators must now think about teaching literacy.
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Professor Victoria Carrington
Victoria holds a Research
SA Chair at UniSA, where she is Professor in the Hawke Research Institute's
Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and
Learning Cultures. Current research interests include new literacies and
literate practice, digital technologies, and youth and participatory
cultures. Before joining UniSA in 2007, she was an Associate Dean at the
University of Plymouth, a Unit of Assessment Coordinator for the 2008
Research Assessment Exercise and worked with universities in Queensland and
Tasmania. Victoria writes extensively, is on the editorial boards of a range
of journals and is an editor of the international journal, Discourse:
Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
Professor Victoria Carrington's
homepage
The lie of history and the poetics of human habitats
Friday 24 October
5.00 - 6.00 pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5 Hawke Building
City West campus
Innovative historical interpretation begins with ambiguities, and is sustained by its 'situated' character: by its focus on specific temporal, spatial and imaginary worlds. Such interpretations expose the pretence of many historians to understand the past unambiguously as it 'really was'. Good history's poetics not only attempt to nuance the past, however; they also attempt to inform the policy of the present. In most human habitats today life choices are circumscribed by extreme and entrenched social disadvantage. That 40 percent of the world's population lives on under $2 a day must shape the poetics of current historical practice.
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Professor Alan Mayne
Alan holds a Research
SA Chair at UniSA, where he is Professor of Social
History and Public Policy in the
Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable
Societies. He is particularly interested in the historical echoes (think of
The Imagined Slum, University of Leicester Press, 1993) and archaeological
tracings (as found in The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes, Cambridge
University Press, 2001) of urban disadvantage, and in the cultural
attachments (for example, read Hill End: an Historic Australian Goldfields
Landscape, Melbourne University Press, 2003) of people to place.
Professor
Alan Mayne's homepage