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Csaa2019-Programme-Booklet-Final-6 The CSAA has no tolerance for sexual harassment, transphobia or racism. If you experience such behaviour, or you would like some support, please contact Karin Sellberg at [email protected] or Paige Donaghy at [email protected]. Welcome from the Conference Convenors On behalf of the whole organising team, as convenors of the 2019 CSAA Conference, “Cultural Transformations,” we are delighted to welcome you to the University of Queensland, on Yuggera country in Brisbane. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land, the Yuggera and Turrbul people, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. Over the next three days, we will enjoy an exciting conference program that includes more than 200 papers from a geographically and disciplinarily diverse range of Cultural Studies scholars, as well as keynote lectures by Bronwyn Carlson (Macquarie), Jean Burgess (QUT) and Mel Chen (Berkeley), and spotlight appearances by Chelsea Bond (UQ), Anita Heiss (UQ), Mel Gregg (Intel) and Graeme Turner (UQ). The 2019 conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia takes as its theme the idea of “Cultural Transformations,” broadly understood. In these unsettling times, the speed and extent of the cultural transformations currently taking place around us raise urgent and imperative questions. Cultural studies researchers have an important contribution to make to contemporary public and scholarly debate by examining these questions across a broad range of fields, including gender and sexuality studies, critical race and disability studies, film and media studies, internet and digital cultural studies, affect studies and the environmental humanities. Yet significant work remains to be done. How are we to respond most effectively to such issues as the disappearance of salaried jobs and their replacement with a gig economy, to climate change and species extinction, to the rise of “populism” and the new right, as well as the ever-worsening treatment of refugee and indigenous populations, to the systemic gender-based disadvantage revealed by #metoo and the divisive SSM poll, to the emergence of AI and algorithmic logics, as well as gene-editing and other biomedical technologies? The challenges that face us are institutional and infrastructural. This conference takes us it inspiration and organising principle that we need to address these challenges collectively and co-operatively. We look forward to the important conversations to come over the next three days, and encourage all delegates to attend the CSAA AGM, which will be held from 3.45 to 4.45 on Wednesday December 4 in Sir Llew Edwards (Building 14), Room 212. Come and have your say! Alongside our rich and diverse conference program, we also have an exciting daily film program, three book launches, two receptions and a final night party and art exhibition. All information you need about these events can be found in this booklet! Elizabeth Stephens and Karin Sellberg, on behalf of the Organising Team Brisbane, December 2019 Acknowledgements We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land upon which The University of Queensland now stands and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. On behalf of UQ and the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, we pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country. We recognise their valuable contributions to Australian and global society. CSAA 2019 is hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland Conference Convenors Conference Committee cont. Elizabeth Stephens, UQ Lucy Fraser, UQ Karin Sellberg, UQ Joe Hardwick, UQ Margaret Henderson, UQ Conference Coordinators Andrew Hickey, USQ Paige Donaghy, UQ Margaret Hutchinson, ACU Michelle Pfeffer, UQ Rebecca Lush, UQ Olivia Formby, UQ Liz Mackinlay, UQ John Edmond, UQ Paolo Magagnoli, UQ Bryan Mukandi, UQ Conference Committee Simone Murray, MON Adrian Athique, UQ Amanda Niehaus, UQ Alex Bevan, UQ Rebecca Olive, UQ Lisa Bode, UQ Lucia Pozzi, UQ Nicholas Carah, UQ Holly Randell-Moon, CSU David Carter, UQ Michael Richardson, UNSW Xan Chacko, UQ Lisa Slater, UOW Susannah Chapman, UQ Mair Underwood, UQ Skye Doherty, UQ Beck Wise, UQ The CSAA2019 conference would not have been possible without the support and sponsorship of the following people and organisations, each of whom played a significant role in bringing this event into being: School of Communication and Arts, UQ; Cultural Studies Association of Australasia; Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO; Australian Academy of Humanities; Prototype; Portuguese Film Agency; Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies; and the Australian Feminist Studies Journal. Many thanks to our keynote and plenary speakers: Chelsea Bond, Jean Burgess, Bronwyn Carlson, Mel Chen, Melissa Gregg, Anita Heiss for joining us. We would also like to thank our presenters and attendees, chairs and stream curators who form this conference. We further want to thank Phoebe Le Brocque and Here We Queer for curating our Queer Art Exhibition and Wandering Cooks for hosting the exhibition. Thank you Steven Coghill for welcoming the conference to country. Cover Image credit: Kamillea Aghtan Schedule Wednesday December 4 0730 Registration, Sir Llew Edwards Foyer 0830 Introduction and Welcome to Country, by Steven Coghill, Abel Smith 23-101 0930A Screen Studies 1: Television Genre and Nation after Netflix Sir Llew Edwards 14-212, Chair Ted Nannicelli Amanda Lotz and Ramon Lobato, Evaluating Netflix: beyond ‘quality television’ Alexa Scarlata, Producing Local Content in International Waters: The Case of Tidelands Stuart Cunningham, The Tramtracks of Cultural Criticism and Reviewing: Australian Originals on Netflix and Stan Andrew Lynch, Are SVOD Services Transforming Sci-fi Television?/ Is Sci-fi Changing SVOD? 0930B Affect and Emotions: Affect and the Law Sir Llew Edwards 14-216, Chairs Lisa Slater Astrid Lorange, Feeling the Law Kyla Allison, A Very Scary Time for Young Men: Brett Kavanaugh, Preemption and Affect Gilbert Caluya, Free Hugs, or, Intimate Security as a Structure of Feeling 0930C Medical Humanities: Aging, Patient Care and Anaesthesisation Sir Llew Edwards 14-217, Chair Karin Sellberg Lisa Vonk, Health Labour in the Digital Age: Making New ways of Caring Visible. Kazuki Yamada, The future is Older people: Sexual Ageism and the History of Medicine as Public Health Intervention Margaret Hutchison, Surviving Beyond War: Caring for Ageing WWI Veterans in Post-1945 Australia Rebecca Lush, They Didn't Feel a Thing: Chloroform and Serial Killers 0930D Comparative Cultural Studies: Narrative, Migration and Hybrid Identity Forgan Smith 01-W349, Chair Amy Hubbell Leah Jing McIntosh, The Decolonial Possibilities of Autofiction Sophia Huei Ling Chen, On Li Kotomo's Dance Alone Rachel Chung, The Faces of Racism 0930E Literary Studies 1: Rethinking Reading Forgan Smith 01-W332, Chair David Carter Tully Barnett, Digitisation as a Cultural Practice Meghan O'Neill, BookTube #Readathons: Examining Permutations of the Contemporary Reader Experience Emmett Stinson, Publishing Translations in the Digital Literary Sphere Mia Goodwin, Digitised Marginalia in the Modern World: Inclusive Access and Engagement 0930F Digital Media 1: Data, Affect and Labour Forgan Smith 01-W458, Chair Lisa Bode Nicholas Carah, The Labour of Tuning Machines Vicki Weetman, Becoming Swarm: Entropy, Affect and Autonomy in a Sociotechnical Society Sy Taffel, One or Many Frames? Computational Photography, Automated Creativity and the Datafied Gaze Thao Phan, Siri’s Gendered Labour 0930G Environmental Humanities: Domestic More-than-Human Cultures Forgan Smith 01-W431, Chair Amanda Neihaus Ruth Barcan, Back to the Future: Australian Chicken-Keeping as Cultural Pedagogy and Practice Revival Renée Mickleburgh, Representing Environmental Activism in the Garden Liam Grealy, Dissasembly: Governing Neglect in Indigenous Housing Adam Dodd, The White Man’s Fly in the Cosmopolitan City: Urban Beekeeping Projects and the Intraspecies Politics of Apis mellifera 0930H Gender & Pedagogy: Storying Gendered Experience in Education Forgan Smith 01-W426, Chair Briony Lipton Peta Hinton, Gender Trouble: A Posthumanist Performativity of the Classroom Briony Lipton and Elizabeth Mackinlay, In the University there are Gendered Doors: Storying the Material, Affective and Pedagogical Dimensions of Doorways for Female Academics Dewi Andriani, Bodies Invading Spaces: Indonesian Women Students’ Stories 0930I Post/de/anti-Colonial Science and Technology Studies: Sensing Trouble: Engagements and Methods of Everyday Militarisms Forgan Smith 01- E356, Chair Susannah Chapman Astrida Neimanis, Tess Lea, Caren Kaplan, Jennifer Terry, ‘Everyday Militarisms’ as Concept and Method Lindsay Kelley, A Taste-based Method for Ending the Colonial World Michael Richardson, Drone Culture: Militarised Perception and Affective Atmospheres Xan Chacko, Propagating the Future: Seeds, Debris, and 'Diversity' 0930 Film Screening: Prototype Program Sir Llew Edwards 14-116, Loops Continually Throughout the Day 1100 Morning Tea, Sir Llew Edwards Foyer 1130A Screen Studies 1: Australian Screen Institutions and Markets Sir Llew Edwards 14-212, Chair Ted Nannicelli Anna Potter, Retaining the Local in Global Markets: How the Australian Animated Series Bluey Jumped the National Fence Guy Healy, Reaching the Limits of Convergence: Collaborations across the Cultural Divide, and the Longform Narrative Web-Series Rachel Cole,
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