Research Seminar - The Sweden of the South: Australia's Eurovision Love Affair
The Sweden of the South: Australia's Eurovision Love Affair
Presented by Dr Chris Hay
Date: Friday 10 May, 2019
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37)
Abstract:
Standing in the pouring rain, queuing to enter the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna’s Stadthalle, the people around me wanted to know only one thing: what was I, with my Australia scarf wrapped tightly around my neck, doing there? In this paper, five years later, I will provide some answers to that insistent question, by exploring the broadcast history of Eurovision in Australia, and considering the function of the Contest in developing a particular vision of Australia to be broadcast to the world. With our first national selection successfully completed, and our participation confirmed through to the 2023 Contest, this paper reflects on what Eurovision has brought to Australia, and what Australia has taken back to Eurovision.
Presenter:
Chris Hay is a Lecturer in Drama in the School of Communication & Arts. Chris is an Australian theatre historian, and his more prosaic research interests include the pre-New Wave period between 1949 and 1975, the evolution of Australian arts institutions, and the role of government subsidy in shaping national culture. His co-edited collection,Eurovision & Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in May 2019.
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
The research seminar and workshop series' occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Unless otherwise advertised, the seminars occur on a Friday afternoon from 3-4 pm in the Digital Learning Space (Room 224) in the Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).
Semester 1, 2019 Seminars & Workshops
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Friday, 26 July |
School Forum |
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| Friday, 2 August 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 16 August 3-5 pm 3:00pm-4:00pm (Panel) 4:00pm- onwards (CAPS launch event) |
CommArts Postgraduate Society Panel: “How to Write a Journal Article and Target the Right Journals” Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Angela Hannan (SCA Librarian) Dr Elena Danilova (Scholarly Publishing, Library) Dr Ted Nannicelli (Editor, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind) Associate Professor Kelly Fielding (Communication scholar) Dr Jennifer Clement (Literary Studies scholar) Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (Communications, Media and Cultural Studies scholar) |
| Friday, 23 August 3-5 pm |
All in One Quire: Emotional Communities in John Donne's Easter Sermons Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 6 September 3-4pm |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Aparna Hebbani and Mairead MacKinnon |
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Friday, 13 September |
CANCELLED AustLit and BlackWords—Platforms for Storying Research Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Kerry Kilner and The AustLit Team |
| Friday, 27 September 3-4pm |
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Hosted Roundtable: The State of Australian Arts Criticism The Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio
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Dr Stephen Carleton with panellists Miriam Cosic, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Kathryn Kelly |
| Friday, 4 October 3-4pm |
Enacting a Sense of Home Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
A/Prof Shuang Liu |
| Friday, 11 October 3-4pm |
Selfies, Affordances, and Situational Properties Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Katrin Tiidenberg, Tallinn University |
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Friday, 18 October |
Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
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| Friday, 25 October 3-4pm |
Why Paintings Matter: Filming Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), |
Dr Andrea Bubenik |
