Archive for the ‘Perth’ Category
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Interesting links for April 8th 2008:
Why Academics Should Blog... [Confessions of an Aca/Fan] - Henry Jenkins makes a powerful argument as to why academics - and postgraduate students - should be blogging. Connections, networks, exposure and clarity are among the themes! :)
"I love a sunburnt country" [Flickr Blog] - ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Last night Emily and I enjoyed the 2008 installations for Sculpture by the Sea which is in its final few days this year. For those of you unfamiliar, this wonderful annual effort sees one of Perth's best beaches suddenly populated with all manner of installation art and sculptures for ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
For any interested Perth folk, a SF/F discussion group re-emerges: After a long hiatus, the UWA science fiction/fantasy discussion group is restarting in 2008. Meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of each month in Arts G.05, and undergraduate students, postgraduate students, staff and anyone else interested ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Last weekend was Australia's first Podcamp, right here in Perth. It was pretty good with an engaging mix of tech, talk and interesting folks. I don't have time to hunt down all the many, many blogposts and photos from Podcamp, but Simone van Hattem links to most of them ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
So, as I'm sure you remember, Australia's first Podcamp happens today in Perth. It's a free event and is held at Central TAFE in East Perth, so if you're just remembering now, please still feel free to come along! Sue Waters and I are facilitating a session on ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
The DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) conference was in Perth last week and I was lucky enough to be able to attend perthDAC in all its glory. It was the first time DAC has been held in Perth, and only the second time it's been in Australia; and at ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS - STATE OF THE ART: SCIENCE FICTION HISTORIES
Perth, Western Australia, 22nd-23rd March 2008
In his recent history of the genre, Roger Luckhurst argues that the marginalisation of Science Fiction (SF) from the literary establishment helped readers and writers to identify its conventions. Fandom blossomed from ...
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