Cultural Studies research projects
The History of Asian Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics
Dr Audrey Yue, with Dr Olivia Khoo (Curtin University of Technology) and Dr Belinda Smaill (Monash University)
An ARC-funded Discovery Project DP0987349 (2009-2011) on the development of Asian Australian Cinema.
Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis and Dr Audrey Yue, with Prof Sean Cubitt, Assoc Prof Scott McQuire and Prof Ross Gibson (University of Technology, Sydney).
An ARC-funded Linkage Project LP0989302 (2009-2013) with Art Center Nabi (South Korea), Federation Square (Melbourne) and the Australian Council for the Arts.
Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis, with Prof Sean Cubitt and Assoc Prof Scott McQuire, Media and Communications
An ARC-funded critical analysis of the impact of large electronic screens on contemporary forms of social agency in public space (2007-2009). The project proposes an interdisciplinary methodology combining cross-cultural fieldwork with theoretical analysis of artistic interventions into urban culture. These different strands of investigation will culminate in a grounded evaluation of new forms of public engagement. This has strategic relevance to understanding the impact of new media in civic spaces.
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Cultural Research Network: Cultural Literacies, technologies, identities and Histories
Assoc Prof Chris Healy, Dr Fran Martin and Dr Audrey Yue
An ARC-funded collaborative research network on cultural, media and communication studies.
Backward Glances: Chinese Popular Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
A monograph arising from a three-year ARC Discovery research project (2003-05). Currently under review.
The Invasion Complex and Art in the Age of Siege
Current book projects examining the cultural response to the politics of fear that has been generated after the Tampa crisis and 9/11.
Technologies of Distance
A forthcoming monograph examining the relationships between teletechnologies (technologies of distance), place and community, and the ways that this trio of concerns are constructed, conceived of and debated in academic as well as wider discourse and social understanding. Developed from his PhD at The University of Melbourne which won the John Grice Research Prize in Architecture.
Technologies in the Home: A Longitudinal Study
Dr Rowan Wilken, with Dr Mike Arnold (History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne)
An ARC Discovery project application which combines detailed ethnographic research and in-depth textual analysis over a 5 year period the manner in which changes in domestic technologies materialise the lived meaning of home, its meaning in the wider culture, and the meanings of these technologies.
Negotiating Cultural Insecurity
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis and Dr Audrey Yue, with Prof Ghassan Hage, Assoc Prof Ramaswami Harindranath and Dr John Cash.
An ARC Linkage Project currently in development on the impact of arts policy on multiculturalism, in collaboration with the City of Whittlesea (Melbourne), Casula Powerhouse (Liverpool City Council, Sydney), Arts Victoria, Victorian Multicultural Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Queer Asian Migrations in Australia
Current book project on contemporary queer Asian migration practices in Australia.
AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities
Dr Fran Martin and Dr Audrey Yue, with Dr Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong) and Dr Peter Jackson (Australian National University)
A co-edited collection arising from the 1st Queer Asian Studies Conference in Bangkok, Thailand 2005. Illinois University Press, 2008.
Assembling Culture
Assoc Prof Chris Healy, with Prof Tony Bennett, The Open University
This research initiative is concerned with re-conceptualising culture and as assemblage of expertise, people and things in distinctive and dynamic formations.
Australian television and popular memory: new approaches to the cultural history of the media in the project of nation-building
An ARC-funded Discovery Project with John Hartley, Allan McKee and Sue Turnbull and Graeme Turner.
This project will develop a series of collaborative histories that focus upon the popular experience of television and in particular its role in forming national culture.
A comparative analysis of lifestyle television in Australia and Taiwan: A pilot study
Dr Fran Martin, with Dr Tania Lewis, Monash University
A comparative study on lifestyle television across different national contexts.
Japanese Transnational fandoms
Dr Fran Martin, with Dr Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong
A study on the trans-national flow of Japanese manga in Asia and their consumption by women readers.
South Pacific Museums
Assoc Prof Chris Healy, with Assoc Prof Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University
This ARC funded Discovery Project resulted in South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture, Monash University e-Press, 2006.Reformulating museological narrative using three models of cinematic interactivity
An ARC-funded analysis of interactive narrative in a museum context in collaboration with the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales (2004-5)
240 x 360 Degree Digital Video Camera for Interactive Immersive Visualization Research Applications
An ARC-funded grant for the production of a prototype 360 degree camera, in collaboration with the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales (2004)
Social Memory and Historical Justice
Assoc Prof Chris Healy, with Klaus Neumann, Historical Studies
This comparative project is concerned with how the victimisation of minorities is collectively remembered in a number of national contexts, in collaboration with Klaus Neumann and others.
The Spatial Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary Art and New Art Institutions
Prof Nikos Papastergiadis, with Assoc Prof Scott McQuire, Media and Communications
An ARC-funded study of the impact of digital technology on the production and display of contemporary art, (2004-6)
More research projects
Further information on the variety of projects in which staff and research fellows are involved is available on their profile pages, which can be accessed from the following pages: