Gothic Antipodes: An Interdisciplinary Conference

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Call for papers
Gothic Antipodes: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) Inaugural Conference
Stamford Plaza Hotel, Auckland, 22-23 January 2013

Keynote speaker: Professor Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne)

We are happy to announce the launch of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA). Please visit our website for more information on events, initiatives and our inaugural conference.

The conference will be organised in the spirit of the Association. GANZA is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together scholars, students, teachers and professionals from a number of Gothic disciplines, including literature, film, music, fashion, architecture and popular culture. It is the aim of the Association to not only place a focus on Australasian Gothic scholarship, but also to build international links with the wider Gothic community as a whole. Continue reading →

Aphrodite and the Mixed Grill: Greek Cafés in Twentieth-Century Australia

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New book announcement
Aphrodite and the Mixed Grill: Greek Cafés in Twentieth-Century Australia
Toni Risson

The Greek café is an Australian icon and a shared chapter in the histories of Greece and Australia. Bustling to the clatter of silver cutlery, the hiss of sizzling steaks, and the swoosh of soda fountains, Greek cafés, milk bars and fish shops like the Paragon Café in Katoomba and the Niagara Café in Gundagai were our great gathering places. They were open from 7am-11pm in nearly every town in Qld and NSW, and they helped generations of migrants become established in their adopted homeland. Continue reading →

Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, and Bodies

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New book announcement
Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, and Bodies (Routledge, 2012)
Tama Leaver, Curtin University

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Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of “the artificial” in contemporary popular cultural texts, with a focus on science fiction films and novels, but also addressing digital culture more broadly including analysis of Wikileaks, the Visible Human Project and the emergence of synthespians. Continue reading →

IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference

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Call for papers
Shifting Sounds: Musical Flow
IASPM-ANZ 2012 Conference
University of Tasmania, Hobart
5-7 December 2012

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2012 annual conference of IASPM-ANZ. This year, the conference will be organized by Dr Michelle Phillipov, and held at the University of Tasmania. We are pleased to stage our annual event in Hobart in keeping with the rotating conference schedule of Australia and New Zealand locations. Continue reading →

Doing Fieldwork in Nightlife Scenes and EDMCs

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Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
Doing Fieldwork in Nightlife Scenes and EDMCs
Guest editor: Luis-Manuel Garcia
http://dj.dancecult.net/

This special edition of Dancecult seeks to address the fact that, although many EDM (Electronic Dance Music) projects have a significant ethnographic component, there are few methodological resources available to ethnographers of EDM scenes/cultures. Continue reading →

Academic Panel – Costume, Cake and the Consumption of Desire – 24 March

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Panel Forum and Open Discussion
On the Wedding Feast, the Wedding Cake and the Wedding Dress
The Channon Gallery, 52 Terania St, The Channon, Saturday 24 March, 12.30 pm

This open discussion forum follows on Denise N Rall’s exhibition The Bride’s Banquet: Costume and the Consumption of Desire, held at the Channon Gallery, 25 February-1 April, an installation of costumed mannequins which explored the staging of the bride as confection. Continue reading →