03 PM | 14 Apr

#Australian #Anthropological Society 2018 Conference #AAS2018 [#geekgirl]

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Life in an Age of Death

During the first decades of the twenty-first century, the proliferation of life as a generative possibility has become marked by the spectre of #death, closure, denial and ends. Ours is an era of precarity, extinction, militarised inequality, a seemingly boundless war on terror, the waning legitimacy of human rights, a rising consciousness of animal cruelty and consumer complicity in killing and suffering, and the global closure of decolonial and socialist windows of emancipation. Artificial intelligence and post-human technology-flesh interventions have become sources of existential threat to be secured against, rather than means of freeing, or otherwise expanding life. Mbembe (2003) first developed the notion of necropolitics in relation to ‘assemblages of death’, zones where technology, economy and social structures bind together to reproduce patterns of extreme violence. Following Foucault, he envisaged a distribution of the world into life zones and death zones. While we can readily identify zones of life and death on these terms, the imaginaries of death have increasingly colonised life zones.

This conference seeks to embrace this moment in history in all its roiling complexity, challenge, and specificity. It asks what accounts for this current interest in the spectre of Death in the anthropological imagination? What sorts of life—social, cultural, technological, creative—emerge in spaces pregnant with death and other life-ending spectres? What new horizons of fear, hope and possibility emerge? What kinds of new social formations, subjectivities and cultural imaginaries? What social and cultural forms might an affirmative biopolitics, where the power of life is regained from the spectre of death, take? What new strategies of engagement, activism and refusal?

This year, the AAS encourages the submission of proposals for three types of formats. The Call for Panels and roundtables is now open and will close at 23:59 AEST (GMT/UTC + 10:00) on 7 May. The Call for Labs and the Call for Papers will open on 21 May.

Source: AAS2018

4-7 December, 2018 James Cook University, Cairns

 

03 PM | 30 Mar

Send #Lawyers, #Guns and #Money [#geekgirl]

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Send Lawyers, Guns and Money[1]: Is Organised Crime (Yakuza) the Reason Japan Is the Safest Country in the World?

Speaker: Kent Anderson, Professor of Law and Japanese Studies, The University of Western Australia

Japan is the safest country in the world (when measured by violent crime rates) and has the greatest success with managing crime (when measured by rates of recidivism). How has it achieved this?

This discussion will rely on the four paradigms of Japanese law (ie, Culturalism, Structuralism, Managerialism, and Rationalism) to try to resolve the question, paying particular attention to the role of Japanese organised crime (yakuza) within the seeming enigma of Japanese criminal justice. I conclude with the normative questions of whether the negative associations of organised crimes can be justify by associated positives, and whether the #yakuza is a culturally unique structure that leaves no lessons for how other countries might seek to regulate organised crime and reproduce the safe society of Japan.

April 13\

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04 PM | 26 Feb

Launch #FAKE Science Gallery Dublin @SciGalleryDub [#geekgirl]

FAKE-FAUX

From fake meat to fake emotions, if faking it gets the job done, who cares? In both the natural world and human society, faking, mimicking and copying can be a reliable strategy for success. When the focus is on how things appear, a fake may be just as valuable as the real thing. But what about replicating taste, emotions, chemical signatures, facts and trademarks? Have patents, politics, and art given copying a bad name?

From biomimicry to forged documents, from scandals to substitutes, FAKE: THE REAL DEAL?, the new free exhibition at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, asks when authenticity is essential, when copying is cool, and what the boundary is between a fakery faux-pas and a really fantastic FAKE.

Join them for a real look at everything faux at our FAKE launch party. Nialler9 will be playing a savvy setlist of covers, our mediators will be on hand to guide you through the exhibits and you can indulge in some food fakery from our café.

SCIENCE GALLERY DUBLIN IS PART OF THE GLOBAL SCIENCE GALLERY NETWORK PIONEERED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

 

12 PM | 31 Mar

Shit #Gardens II #Melbourne [#geekgirl]

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In celebration of the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show 2017, the team behind ShitGardens will be presenting a pop-up bar, featuring a selection of original works as well as curation of works submitted by their instagram followers.

Building on the success of the last exhibition, the boys will be working alongside Lulu in bringing the bar to ‘life’ with a ShitGardens themed make-over and a selection of kitsch, garden-esque tapas.

As noted, the exhibition will feature both original and submitted content (at an affordable price), with proceeds going to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC).

The opening / pop-up bar will begin on Friday 31/3 at 6pm, with the exhibition closing on Sunday 2/4, when Lulu’s doors shut.

506 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3051

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