LPLC Upcoming Events
Each year various presentations, workshops, seminars and events are conducted by researchers within the Centre, but also by colleagues visiting from interstate and overseas. Such events provide unique opportunities to keep abreast of current research and progress within the various fields. The Centre encourages all of its students and researchers to participate.
Research-at-work seminars
The Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures Research-at-work Seminar Series provides opportunities for: (a) academics to share what they are up to in their research projects: such as work in progress, problematisations, issues with analysis and theory building, methodological and ethical quandries; (b) post graduate students to present their latest writing to a supportive audience; and (c) visiting researchers to talk about their research work.
2008 seminars will be held from 3.30 - 5.00pm on Fridays in Room C1-60 and are planned for the following dates:
July 25th
Presenter: Chris Davis
Topic:
(Management) consultants at work
Well there’s gurus - they can make >$50,000 a day for a seminar where you’ll
probably get a collection of maybe 50 powerpoint slides from a bank of
several hundred they’ve accumulated over the years. But you’ll get a good
performance. If you like Billy Graham.
And there’s the accountants who gained so much information about organisations when they audited them that they started to provide strategy advice. But some of them are in gaol.
And there’s the strategy advisors like McKinseys who will come in and do anything you want for a large price - or you could work for them which gives you the best chance of being a CE of a Fortune 500 company - none of this working your way up the ranks!
And there’s all those smaller operators who pick up a multitude of contracts in all parts of the South Australian public sector because it’s been ‘downsized’ and everyone is so busy that they can’t do it all.
But what are all of them doing in the public sector? Because they are. Ubiquitous. So what is the work consultants are doing towards the construction of South Australian public sector managers as neoliberal managers? And what are the connections between consultants, business schools and rightwing think-tanks?
And what difference does it make?
August 15th
Presenters: Katherine Hodgetts, Janette Hancock, Pippa
Milroy
Presenters: Phil Cormack, Sue Nichols, Brenton Prosser, Pippa Milroy, Katherine Hodgetts
October 17th
Presenters: Rosie Kerin and Pat Grant
November 21st
Presenters: Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin
December 11th
John Walsh and Bronwyn Parkin (DECS)
Details of presentations have yet to be finalised.
Research-at-work 2006 seminars
(With various files available for downloading)
Research-at-work 2007 seminars
(With various PowerPoints, papers and audio files available for downloading)
Brown Bag Lunches Seminars
Doctoral Research Brown Bag Lunchtime seminars
Post-graduate students are invited to attend a series of lunchtime sessions in
which recently completed and continuing PhD students will present their work and
reflect on the process of conducting doctoral research.
Please RSVP to Laura Fuss at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies
These sessions will provide:
- A forum for showcasing the diversity of research conducted by Early Career Researchers in the Hawke Research Institute
- An opportunity for current HDR students to learn from the wisdom of recent graduates on issues including:
- Strategies for successful writing
- Maintaining motivation
- The supervision process…and more
- A space for informal discussion about the process of higher degree research
2008 seminar dates:
August 29th - Virginia Mapedzahama
September 26th - Peter Nixon
October 31st - Kirrilly Thompson
12.00 - 1.30pm in Room C1-60, Magill Campus
Anti-Racism and Pedagogy Conference
A Conference convened by the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies and Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research.
This conference reflects on the pedagogical challenges presented by ‘new forms’ of racism that are distorting our societies. The papers and the discussion will be providing new theorizations of racism and proposing pedagogical tactics as a skilful response.
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