Event Details:
Where: 235 Jones Street, Broadway – UTS Building 10, Level 14, Room 201
Time: 4:00pm
When: November 25th, 2010
Please R.S.V.P. to Catherine.Baird@uts.edu.au by November 19th 2010 for catering and seating purposes

Abstract: Why Denim?
In most countries of the world around half the population on any given day are wearing denim blue jeans. This lecture seeks to provide answers as to why this should be the case. It shows how the expected answers from historical and commercial perspectives are insufficient. Instead we have to look to much broader issues. As a result denim blue jeans provide surprising insights into how people today understand and respond to their contemporary world, and the relationships between explanations for local and for global phenomenon. This lecture will be used to exemplify research in the field of material culture studies, and how these connect the intensive study of particular populations, such as immigrant populations living in North London, to arguments that reach all the way up to key theoretical issues in philosophy and social science, such as why people might strive to become more, rather than less, ordinary.

Bio: Professor Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller is professor of material culture studies at the department of anthropology at UCL. He is the author and editor of many books based on ethnographic research in India, the Philippines, Trinidad and London on topics ranging from clothing and housing, the impact of mobile phones on poverty to the nature of consumption.  His work has been used across a number of disciplines from anthropology to cultural and media studies. He is internationally regarded as one of the leading figures in the study of material culture. Current projects include The Global Denim project, a forthcoming book on the social impact of Facebook, and a Philippines’ based ethnographic study of the use of new media in maintaining relationships between people separated for long periods. The first of a two volume retrospective collection of Daniel Miller’s work, Stuff, was published by Polity in 2010.

Additional Information:
Professor Daniel Miller will also be available for individual sessions on Friday 26 November. For more information or if you would like to book a time, please contact Elaine Lally at Elaine.Lally@uts.edu.au

UTS Creative Practice and Cultural Economy presents the November (mid month) Screening of:
Women Without Men
by Shirin Neshat
With a special introduction by Bridget Ikin


(Official Film Website: http://www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com/ )

Event Details:
When: Wednesday November 17th
Time: 5.30 for 6pm start
Where: Bon Marche Studio Ground floor 755 Harris Street, Ultimo
Please RSVP by November 12th for catering purposes:  Catherine Baird Catherine.Baird@uts.edu.au
There will be drinks and nibbles in the foyer afterwards
 
Event Information:
In her 2009 feature-film debut, renowned Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British- and American-backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film weaves together the stories of five individual women during those traumatic days, whose experiences are shaped by their faith and the social structures in place.

Bridget Ikin is a freelance producer. A consistent thread through her more than 20 years of producing is Bridget’s preference to collaborate with writers and directors exploring personal material in challenging and artistically distinctive stories. Her most recent production is the three part documentary series Art + Soul with Indigenous curator Hettie Perkins. Her films include Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table, Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways and My Year Without Sex and Alison Maclean’s early films (Kitchen Sink and Crush).

Official Trailer for “Women Without Men”


For further Information contact: Margot Nash: Senior Lecturer Creative Practices, Margot.Nash@uts.edu.au  ph 95141593