[Bilimsel Haber] Type and Typology in Cultural Histories, 5 Nov. 2010, U of Melbourne

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*Type and Typology in Cultural Histories*

*5 November 2010*

*ICT Theatre 1, 111 Barry St, University of Melbourne, Parkville.*


**Symposium programme TBA**
Registration is from 830am at the venue; Speakers begin at 930am.


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.

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.

The /Shorter Oxford English Dictionary/ defines 'Type' as '*7.* 
/transf/. A person or thing that exhibits the characteristic qualities 
of a class; a typical example or instance'; and a 'Stereotype' as '*3.* 
/fig/. Something continued or constantly repeated without change'. Both 
are concerned with modes of reproduction.

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).

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)

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?  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?

*Speakers: *

*Dr Tony Birch, *Lecturer, Creative Writing, School of Culture and 
Communication, University of Melbourne.

*Professor Ken Gelder,* Professor of English in the School of Culture 
and Communication, University of Melbourne.

*Professor Ross Gibson, *Professor of Contemporary Arts, Sydney College 
of the Arts, University of Sydney.

*Professor Paul James, *Professor of Globalization and Cultural 
Diversity in the _Globalism Research Centre_ 
<http://www.rmit.com.au/redirect?URL=%2Fglobalism> and Director of the 
_Global Cities Institute_ 
<http://www.rmit.com.au/redirect?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.global-cities.info%2F>.

*Professor Marilyn Lake*, Professor of History, School of European and 
Historical Studies, La Trobe University.

*Professor Meaghan Morris*, Chair Professor, Department of Cultural 
Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.



Sponsored by: School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

/Convenor: Liz Conor (University of Melbourne) lconor at unimelb.edu.au 
<mailto:lconor at unimelb.edu.au>/
/Contact: David McInnis (University of Melbourne) 
mcinnisd at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:mcinnisd at unimelb.edu.au>/

	David McInnis
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Parkville. 3010
ph: 61 3 8344 5506
fax: 61 3 8344 5494
Email: mcinnisd at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:mcinnisd at unimelb.edu.au>
Visit the website at http://typeandtypology.blogspot.com/

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