Knowledge / Culture / Economy International Conference

Knowledge / Culture / Economy International Conference

KNOWLEDGE / CULTURE / ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 3-5 November, 2014 Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney Conference Organising Committee: Distinguished Professor Ien Ang Professor Tony Bennett Professor Katherine Gibson Professor Donald McNeill Professor Brett Neilson Dr Shanthi Robertson Professor Ned Rossiter Associate Professor Emma Waterton 1 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME.............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Welcome from the Director ............................................................................................................................... 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................................................................................ 7 Acknowledgement of Country ........................................................................................................................... 7 CONFERENCE VENUE ........................................................................................................................................... 7 KNOWLEDGE / CULTURE / ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ....................................................... 8 Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, 3-5 November .............................................. 8 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ............................................................................................................................... 10 Organising Committee ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Conference Secretariat..................................................................................................................................... 10 Ien Ang ............................................................................................................................................................. 10 Tony Bennett .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Katherine Gibson .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Donald McNeill ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Brett Neilson .................................................................................................................................................... 11 Shanthi Robertson ............................................................................................................................................ 12 Ned Rossiter ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Emma Waterton ............................................................................................................................................... 12 Program Overview............................................................................................................................................ 13 PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ........................................................................................................................ 14 Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley.................................................................................................. 14 Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University ............................................................................................................ 15 Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong ........................................................................................................... 16 Katherine Gibson, University of Western Sydney ............................................................................................ 17 PLENARY PANEL ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Cultural Infrastructure for Dynamic Regions .................................................................................................... 18 David Borger, Western Sydney Director, Sydney Business Chamber ............................................................... 19 Chris Gibson, Professor of Human Geography, and Director of the Global Challenges Program, University of Wollongong ...................................................................................................................................................... 19 Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Coordinator, Parramatta Artists’ Studios .................................................................... 19 Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ......................................... 20 CONCURRENT SESSION 100 | MONDAY 12PM ................................................................................................. 21 101 Panel - Australian Cultural Fields 1: National, Transnational, Global ........................................................ 21 102 Panel - Avatar Interfaces and Digital Bodies: Envisioning Affects, Economies, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Digital Culture .......................................................................................................................... 23 103 Panel - Rethinking Economies and Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World ........................................... 26 3 104 Session - Politics and Power ...................................................................................................................... 29 105 Session - Cultures of Consumption and Extraction ................................................................................... 31 106 Session - Scattered Investment, Informality, Piracy .................................................................................. 33 107 Session - Life Stories .................................................................................................................................. 35 CONCURRENT SESSION 200 | MONDAY 2.30PM .............................................................................................. 36 201 Panel - New Directions in Digital Economies ............................................................................................. 36 202 Panel - The Value of Everything (and the Price of Nothingness): Cultural Dynamics of Contemporary Capitalism ......................................................................................................................................................... 39 203 Panel - Humane Housing ........................................................................................................................... 42 204 Session - Cultural Value, Public Sphere ..................................................................................................... 44 205 Session - Theatre/Sport/Dance ................................................................................................................. 46 206 Session - Diverse Economies ..................................................................................................................... 48 CONCURRENT SESSION 300 | TUESDAY 11.30AM........................................................................................... 50 301 Panel - Anthropocene/Aftermath ............................................................................................................. 50 302 Panel - Visual Culture and Global Processes in Australia: An Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Change in the Global Age ........................................................................................................................................................ 53 303 Panel - Migration Futures: Emerging Migration Cultures in Dynamic Economies .................................... 55 304 Session - Digital Methods .......................................................................................................................... 58 305 Session - Governing Resource Economies ................................................................................................. 60 306 Session - Artist as Agent ............................................................................................................................ 62 CONCURRENT SESSION 400 | TUESDAY 2PM .................................................................................................. 64 401 Panel - Asia-Australia Circuits of Knowledge, Culture and Capital: Governance, Mobilities and Subjectivities .................................................................................................................................................... 64 402 Panel - Australian Cultural Fields 2: Rethinking Cultural Fields in the Australian Context ........................ 67 403 Session - Nation and Cultural Policy .......................................................................................................... 69 404 Session - Race, Borders, and Multiculturalism .......................................................................................... 71 405 Session - Knowledge Institutions ............................................................................................................... 74

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