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Australian Modernities
Vernacular Performers and Consumers
International Conference
5 - 7 December 2006
The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Australian Modernities: Vernacular Performers and Consumers
is hosted by The
Australian Modernities Group in the School
of English, Media Studies & Art History.
What kinds of modernities did Australians create, perform and consume in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? We seek to explore relationships between various popular forms, practices and experiences of Australian modernity in its international contexts. These include visual cultures (arts, fashion, photography, craft and design); performance cultures and industries (live events, sport, dance, music, theatre); advertising; entertainment technologies (cinema, radio, gramophone), urban and architectural styles, and print cultures (middlebrow books, magazines, newspapers, comics).
The conference will explore issues of:
- colonial ‘belatedness’ and cosmopolitanism
- vernacular Modernity
- professionalism and the intellectual
- the impact of technologies
- wars and economic depressions
- gendered participation in styles of modernity
- mapping international cultural exchanges and circulation
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- cultural agency, commodification and consumer subjectivities
- connections between regional, national and international
identities
- spaces of modernity: work, pastimes, tourism and travel, leisure
- rethinking the Expatriate
- connections between lowbrow, middlebrow & highbrow cultures
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Co-convenors: Veronica Kelly and Robert Dixon
Following the Australian Modernities conference, the Australian
Studies Centre within the University of Queensland will hold an
international conference on Magazines
and Modernity in Australasia, 8 & 9 December.
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