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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contagion
Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">International
Symposium</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">22
October
– 12 November, 2020</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hosted
by
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a
href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Organizers:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gay
Hawkins and Ned
Rossiter</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Summary</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">How
is
contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data
configure
contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and
debate, this event
explores the current conjuncture through these vectors to
address issues of
rising unemployment, restricted movement, increasing governance
of populations
through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits.
Design logics
underscore both biological contagion and political technologies.
Contagion is
redesigning how labour and migration are differentially
governed, experienced
and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and
protection from
contagion and become a resource for managing biological and
social life. Data
turns contagion into models that make a virus actionable and
calculable. But
can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and
control the
contingencies of a virus? The aim of this event is to explore
these issues and
their implications for cultural, social and political research.
If contagion
never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a
constitutive force
in the production of social life, how might we redesign the
viral as the friend
we love to hate?</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This
event
organised by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western
Sydney University
includes speakers from the ICS together with national and
international
colleagues.</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please
note:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
there are 4 events
held over a 4-week period. The details of each event are
included below,
including the links to register. You may register for all or
some of the events.
Please register separately for each event you would like to
attend.</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Full
pdf of
the symposium program can be downloaded from the url above.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Migration
and Labour</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">22
October,
<span style="background:white">11:30am – 1pm</span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register
on
Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyyhns6s"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/yyyhns6s</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair:
Brett
Neilson</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ritajyoti
Bandyopadhyay, ‘Economic Informality and Democracy in India at
the Time of
Covid-19’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Joyce
Liu,
‘What Comes After the Lockdown? A New Wave of Nationalisation
and the Local
Divide’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Anne
McNevin,
‘Temporal Contagion as an Antidote to Renationalization’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contagious
Mutualities</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:
white">29 October, 4–5.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Register on Eventbrite:</span></b><span
style="color:black"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y6x2brga"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y6x2brga</span></b></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Chair: Katherine Gibson</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:#201F1E">Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch, ‘Contagious
Mutuality: Spreading
Postcapitalist Possibilities’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Peter North, ‘Building Back Better in the UK or
Back to Work?’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black">Teppo Eskelinen, ‘Redefining Community in Nordic
Countries After
the Pandemic’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Habits
of
Contagion</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">4
November,
4–5.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register
on
Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4yto3jo"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y4yto3jo</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair:
Tony
Bennett</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Franck
Cochoy,
‘On the Art of Burying One's Face in a Band: How the Sanitary
Mask Encounters
the Habits of Laypersons and Experts’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ben
Dibley,
‘Demophobia and the Infrastructures of Infection’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gay
Hawkins,
‘Social Distance: Security, Suggestion, Insecurity’</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Data
Contagion</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">12
November, 11am – 12.30pm</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Register
on
Eventbrite:</span></b><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5ed2lb6"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/y5ed2lb6</span></b></a></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chair:
Ned
Rossiter</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mark
Andrejevic, ‘Biometrics “at-a-distance”: Touchlessness and the
Securitization
of Circulation’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Rolien
Hoyng,
‘Datafication and Contingency in Circular Economies’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Orit
Halpern,
‘Resilient Natures: Algorithmic Finance, Radical Events and
Ecological Models’</span></p>
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EN-GB">Ned Rossiter | Director of Research<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and
Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia</span></p>
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