2022 FAD Seminar Series
The FAD Seminar Series aims to showcase research within the Faculty of Arts and Design (FAD). Our research cohort are key members of our Faculty, and we aim to continue to build collaborations, particularly across multiple disciplines within our areas of expertise, as well as engaging with external
stakeholders. All seminars will be held on a Monday in 2022 from 12:30pm - 1:30pm (Canberra, Australia time zone) - refer below for further information.
For any questions related to the FAD Seminar Series, please contact FacultyofArts&Design-Research@canberra.edu.au or contact the relevant email under each seminar.
Upcoming seminars
2 MAY: 'Thugs', 'invaders' and 'the new menace': The weaponisation of racially coded language in the Australian news media, and how publics are responding
Event details | Date: Monday 2 May 2022 Time: 12.30pm-1.30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the Zoom link) |
Abstract | The use of racially coded, euphemistic (and sometimes metaphorical) language has long been a staple of Australian news and political discourse surrounding migration and multiculturalism. Here, we see terms such as ‘thug’, ‘invade’, ‘flood’, ‘deluge’ and ‘influx’ used to position newcomers as worthy of exclusion from the broader society, invoking deep fears about race, culture and difference among the Australian populace. In this presentation, I draw on the findings of two research projects that present a Critical Discourse Analysis of contemporary Australian news media rhetoric: one is concerned with the use of water metaphors and ‘invasion’ narratives in news depictions of people seeking asylum, while the other presents an analysis of racially-coded language in newspaper coverage of so-called ‘African gangs’. Situated within the literature on Social Exclusivism and Moral Panics, the findings of both studies highlight the inextricable links between Australia’s settler colonial history and the discursive positioning of the non-white ‘other’ as an uncontrollable threat to Australian national identity. And as my research revealed some resistance to these narratives - identified through an analysis of social media responses and interviews with news audiences - I discuss the evident implications for broader societal understanding, journalistic practice, and future research directions. |
Presenter | Dr Ashleigh Haw (Deakin University) Ashleigh Haw is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. Her research examines public, media and political constructions of people from culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse backgrounds, focusing on how mediated discourse is both reinforced and challenged in everyday communication and the implications for democracy, health, and social cohesion. Ashleigh is a co-convener of The Australian Sociological Association’s ‘Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism’ thematic group, and Communications Officer for the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Education from the University of Sydney. |
9 MAY (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 9 May 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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16 MAY (BERIG): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 16 May 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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23 MAY (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 23 May 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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6 JUNE (ALT-RES): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 6 June 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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20 JUNE (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 20 June 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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27 JUNE (N&MRC): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 27 June 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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4 JULY (BERIG): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 4 July 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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Presenter | Professor Barbara Norman |
11 JULY (ALT-RES): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 11 July 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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18 JULY (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 18 July 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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25 JULY (N&MRC): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 25 July 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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1 AUGUST (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 1 August 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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15 AUGUST (ALT-RES): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 15 August 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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22 AUGUST (N&MRC): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 22 August 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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Presenter | Dr David Nolan (News & Media Research Centre, P站视频) |
29 AUGUST (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 29 August 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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10 OCTOBER (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 10 October 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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17 OCTOBER (N&MRC): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 17 October 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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24 OCTOBER (BERIG): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 24 October 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nitya.reddy@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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Presenter | Dr Milica Muminovic |
5 SEPTEMBER (N&MRC): TBC
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Date: Monday 5 September 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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Presenter | Dr Temple Uwalaka |
12 SEPTEMBER (CCCR): TBC
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Date: Monday 12 September 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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19 SEPTEMBER (N&MRC): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 19 September 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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26 SEPTEMBER (CCCR): TBC
Event details | Date: Monday 26 September 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Zoom (please email katie.hayne@canberra.edu.au for the link) |
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Past seminars
11 APRIL (N&MRC): Strategic Lying and the Federal Election
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Date: April 11, Monday Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm AEST (8am-9am GMT+1) Location: Zoom |
Abstract | Truth has always been a casualty of politics, but the trend to outright lying has been on full display. In the context of the high stakes 2022 federal election campaign the temptation to use ‘strategic lies’ to sway undecided voters will be hard to control. In this presentation, Professor Ivor Gaber and Assoc. Professor Caroline Fisher explain the concept of ‘strategic lying’ and its evolution as an effective spin tactic in the digital era. Drawing on examples from the US, UK election and Brexit campaigns, the seminar will highlight the potential risks and cynical benefits of using this tactic in the Australian election contest. |
Presenter | Associate Professor Caroline Fisher (News & Media Research Centre, P站视频) Caroline Fisher is Associate Professor of Journalism, and Deputy Director of the News and Media Research Centre at the P站视频. She is a former journalist and media advisor. Professor Ivor Gabor (University of Sussex, UK) Ivor Gaber is Professor of Political Journalism at University of Sussex, and Adjunct Professor of Journalism and Political Communication at the P站视频. He is a former political journalist and media advisor. |
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11 APRIL (CCCR): Shedding Light for the Matter
Event details | Date: Monday 11 April 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: 1A21 (Theatrette behind Mizzuna's Cafe) and Zoom |
Abstract | This presentation offers a critique of enlightenment notions of representation and rehearses an alternative model of mapping that is grounded in performance. Working from her own practice as a landscape painter, Bolt argues that the particular experience of the “glare” of Australian light fractures the nexus between light, form, knowledge, and subjectivity. This rupture prompts a move from shedding light ON the matter to shedding light FOR the matter and suggests an emergent rather than a representational practice. |
Presenter | Professor Barbara Bolt, University of Melbourne and Distinguished FAD Visitor Professor Barbara Bolt is a Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She is a practising artist and art theorist with special interests in new materialist theory, ethics and artistic research. Her research addresses the dialogue between theory and practice and between digital and analogue painting seen through the lens of New Materialisms. Her publications include two monographs Art Beyond Representation (2004) and Heidegger Reframed (2011) and five co-edited books, The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education (2019), Material Inventions: Applying Creative Arts Research (2014), Carnal Knowledge: Towards a “New Materialism” through the Arts (2013), Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (2007) and Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007). She has completed 29 graduate researchers engaged in Artist Research. Her artwork can be found on Instagram @barbara_bolt |
21 MARCH (N&MRC): Institutional Listening in deliberative democracy
Event details | Date: March 21, Monday Time: 12.30pm-1.30pm Location: Zoom |
Abstract | This presentation explores the role of listening in deliberative democracy by drawing on our international, cross-disciplinary project on Institutional Listening . We argue that institutional listening can play an important role in public deliberation, if and when it links the public sphere with formal institutions, and enables the transmission of ideas from former to the latter. We will focus on two recent examples of institutional listening in two different democracies: Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse 2013-17 and the United States’ Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. These cases show that institutional listening can take different forms; it can be purposefully designed or incidental, and it can contribute to the realization of deliberative democracy in various ways. Specifically, institutional listening can help enhance the credibility and visibility of minority groups and perspectives while also empowering these groups to better hold formal political institutions accountable. The presentation elaborates on the democratic functions of institutional listening and reflects on the next steps our cross-disciplinary, collaborative project. |
Presenters | Professor Kerry McCallum (News & Media Research Centre, P站视频) Kerry McCallum is Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Director of the News & Media Research Centre, P站视频. Kerry’s research specialises in the relationships between changing media and Australian social policy. She is co-author of The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia (Intellect, 2017), and lead investigator on the Australian Research Council funded project ‘Breaking Silences: Media and the Child Abuse Royal Commission’. Dr Selen A Ercan (Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, P站视频) Selen A. Ercan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, P站视频. Her works sits at the intersection of normative theory and empirical research and explores the conditions which democracies can become more inclusive, more deliberative, and more responsive to citizens’ views and lived experiences. Selen’s recent projects and publications on these topics can be found . Dr Molly Scudder (Purdue University, USA) Mary F. (Molly) Scudder is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She is also an associate of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the P站视频. Her area of research is political theory. She is the author of Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation (Oxford University Press, 2020). Molly is currently working on a book with Stephen White, entitled The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation. |
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