Research Seminar Series

The Department of Gender and Cultural Studies hosts a lively departmental research seminar series. Participants include staff, associates and postgraduate students from the department, as well as presenters from other University of Sydney departments and from outside, both nationally and internationally.

Seminars are held fortnightly in the Refectory of the Main Quadrangle during semester times, on a Friday afternoon, 2pm-4pm. Seminars are followed by drinks in the Manning Bar.

Anyone is welcome to attend

Seminar Series convenor: Dr Guy Redden:

1 August
The Nature of Culture
Prof. Stephen Muecke (UTS)

15 August
MP3: The Emergence of Perceptual Coding
Assoc. Prof Jonathan Sterne (McGill)

Kitty Genovese: Crime, Violence against Women and Cities
Dr Carrie Rentschler (McGill)

22 August
The ‘Aboriginal Turn’: New/Old Ways of Thinking in Australian History
Vicki Grieves (Sydney)

12 Sept
AsiaPacifiQueer
Dr Fran Martin (Melbourne)
Dr Mark McLelland (Wollongong)

26 Sept
Diasporic Asian Cultural Studies
Dr Olivia Khoo (Curtin)
Dr Tseen Khoo (Monash)
Dr Jane Park (Sydney)

10 Oct
Nature Cultures
Prof Gay Hawkins (UNSW)
Dr Emily Potter (Melbourne)
Zoe Soufolis (UWS)

24 Oct
Makeover Culture
Dr Meredith Jones (UTS)
Dr Tania Lewis (La Trobe)
Dr Guy Redden (Sydney)

7 Nov
Grizzling about Facebook
Meaghan Morris (Lingnan/UWS)