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Love and Lust

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Semester One Seminar Series, 2008
Kath Albury (Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW)
Porn as Pedagogy?

Abstract: Porn as pedagogy? Some questions arising from The Porn Report.
This paper explore some of the questions about teaching and learning raised by the process of researching, writing and promoting The Porn Report.

Bio: Kath Albury is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW. She is a co-author (with Alan McKee and Catharine Lumby) of 'The Porn Report', Melbourne University Press, 2008. Kath's first book 'Yes Means Yes: getting explicit about heterosex' was based on the honours thesis she completed for her BA Comm at UTS in 1996.

Paolo Bartoloni (The University of Sydney)
The Casualisation of Love: Emotions, the Economy and Employment in Contemporary Italy

Abstract: It is obvious that the question of how we love and what we mean by love in post-industrial societies cannot be separated from the question of how we work and what we mean by work (Kipnis, 2003). The very transformation of workplace semantics, stressing the significance of notions such as “no long term”, and employment strategies such as those based on the value of “weak ties” (Sennett, 1998) appear to be directly transferable to the emotional sphere. If it is true that we are in the age of “impatient capital” (Sennett, 1998), meaning the desire for rapid returns, it might also be true that we are in the age of “impatient love”, meaning the demand for quickly gratifying and consuming passion.

Bio: Paolo Bartoloni teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Cultures of Exile, Translation and Writing (Purdue University Press, 2008), and Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo (Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2003). He has edited Re-Claiming Diversity: Essays on Comparative Literature (Bundoora: La Trobe University, 2006), and co-edited Intellectuals and Publics: Essays on Cultural Theory and Practice (Bundoora: La Trobe University, 1997).

Directions to Venue: Large Training Room, Level 6, Building 10, UTS.
Walking from Central Station along Broadway (heading west), turn right after the UTS Tower on to Jones Street. Building 10 is then on your left.
Entry is free and there is no need to RSVP
Date: 8 May 2008
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Audience: All Welcome
Campus: City - Broadway
Building: CB10
Large Training Room, Level 6
Organiser: UTS
Contact Details:
Name: Cameron White
Email: Cameron.White@uts.edu.au
Response: Not required