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and Typology in Cultural Histories<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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November 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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style=""><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICT
Theatre 1, 111 Barry St, University of Melbourne, Parkville.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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style=""><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">*Symposium
programme TBA*<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Registration
is from 830am at the venue; Speakers begin at 930am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Barbarian. The Noble Savage. The Wildman. The Native Belle. The
Flaneur. The Dandy. The Bohemian. The Fallen Woman. The Bushman. The
Cowboy. The Gibson Girl. The New Woman. The Digger. The Combo. The
Business Girl. The Spinster. The Flapper. The Screen-Struck Girl. The
Idiot Savant. The Beatnik. The Sharpie. The Emo. The Bogan. The
Metrosexual. The Jock. The Chardonnay Socialist. The Lipstick Lesbian.
The Yummy Mummy. The Tree-Hugger, The Flat-Earther. The Happy-Clapper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since
the Greek Physician Galen assigned four human types by amounts of body
fluids - sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic - types have
discriminated group membership and articulated shared social reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The <i
style="">Shorter Oxford English Dictionary</i> defines ‘Type’ as ‘<b
style="">7.</b> <i style="">transf</i>.
A person or thing that exhibits the characteristic qualities of a
class; a typical example or instance’; and a ’Stereotype’ as ‘<b
style="">3.</b> <i style="">fig</i>. Something continued or
constantly repeated without change’. Both are concerned with modes of
reproduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For
cognitive psychologists 'perception is essentially a process of
classification'. (Hinton, 2000:31). And classification and taxonomies
were key to the establishment of modern science, from the work of
criminologist Lombroso who characterized criminal types by facial
features, to the sociologist Simmel who write ‘social types’ such as
the stranger and his ‘specific character of mobility’ (Simmel, 1908).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Within
critical theory Benjamin situated the Flaneur within the emerging
literary genre of urban physiologies in mid nineteenth-century France.
Modern types were symptomatic of historical self-consciousness and a
taxonomy by which to negotiate anonymity in urban perceptual relations.
Homi K. Bhaha writes of the colonial stereotype that it is ‘a complex,
ambivalent, contradictory mode of representation, as anxious as it
assertive, and demands not only that we extend our critical and
political objectives but that we change the object of analysis itself’,
and advocated reading the racial stereotype in terms of fetishism.
(Bhabha, 1992) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Types
recur in scholarly research yet no field of analysis has yet made an
attempt to understand their occurrence, their linguistic function,
their political effects, or their implications for methodologies across
the disciplines. This one day symposium proposes to commence the study
of typology. It brings together key thinkers across the humanities to
reflect on how types have appeared in their work, what linguistic and
socio-political function they perform and what implications they have
for their respective methodologies. Discussion will be guided by the
questions: Are types a subject position or an identity-effect? Do they
embody the complex interface between representation and identity? How
do we make the distinction between consensual typing (e.g. Feminist)
and imposed typing (e.g. Femocrat). Are types inherent to the
performance – and creativity – of identity?<span style=""> </span>Is
it dangerous to think about such diverse demagoguery, from ‘Half-Caste’
to ‘Mod’, as performing a comparable linguistic function when they have
such incomparable political effects? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Speakers: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Dr Tony Birch,
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US">Lecturer, Creative Writing, School of Culture and
Communication, University of Melbourne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor Ken Gelder,</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Professor of English in
the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor Ross Gibson, </span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor of Contemporary
Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor Paul James, </span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Professor of
Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the </span><span
style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.rmit.com.au/redirect?URL=%2Fglobalism"><u style=""><span
style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">Globalism
Research Centre</span></u></a></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> and Director
of the </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US"><a
href="http://www.rmit.com.au/redirect?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.global-cities.info%2F"><u
style=""><span
style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none;">Global
Cities Institute</span></u></a></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor Marilyn Lake</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, Professor of History,
School of European and Historical Studies, La Trobe University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Professor Meaghan Morris</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, Chair Professor,
Department of Cultural Studies,</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> Lingnan University,
Hong Kong.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Sponsored
by: School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span
style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Convenor: Liz
Conor (University of Melbourne) <a href="mailto:lconor@unimelb.edu.au">lconor@unimelb.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Contact:
David McInnis (University of Melbourne) <a
href="mailto:mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au">mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></i></td>
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David McInnis
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School of Culture and Communication
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University of Melbourne
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Email: <a href="mailto:mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au">mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
Visit the website at <a href="http://typeandtypology.blogspot.com/">http://typeandtypology.blogspot.com/</a></td>
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