MACS: Being a Public Intellectual

Friday, 23 April 2010
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, Seminar Room
Level 4 Forgan Smith Tower,
The University of Queensland

Speakers: Assoc Prof Axel Bruns, Dr. Mark Ryan

We invite post-graduate students, ECR’s or anyone else interested to attend the April MACS meeting at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland on Friday 23 April between 3 - 4.30pm. The theme is “Being a Public Intellectual” and will include talks by Axel Bruns and Mark Ryan. There will be plenty of time to add you own voice to the discussion.

MACS provides a regular platform for discussing issues relating to these roles as well as an opportunity to contribute to wider debates taking place in the field. MACS is currently active at the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology, and meetings are hosted alternatively across these two institutions.

The idea for the MACS network arose from a sense that PhD students and junior staff are often at a distance from existing forms of collaboration between researchers in different universities within the one city. While much emphasis is placed on the end product of research, and there are plenty of avenues for presenting and publishing our work, the early stages of an academic career involve particular anxieties that can be ameliorated with the support of a community of peers. The MACS group is an attempt to create a space for discussing everything to do with our work aside from the end product, to share accumulated knowledge and resources to gain insight into the options available within our field of research.

Dr. Mark David Ryan
Research Associate
K Block, Room 413
Queensland University of Technology
Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove
QLD 4059

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