Tara Brabazon podcast

We need - right now - a complex and intricate theorization of power and the state.  Louis Althusser provides scholars and citizens with that theorization.  Steve and Tara, in this sixth podcast in Theoretical Times, discuss Louis Althusser and why he is returning to intellectual fashion.

How do we align and enhance conventional scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledges?  Nicholas Ruddell has taken on this challenge for his PhD.  His goal is to help students and teachers align and combine world views to create an intellectual environment of excitement, motivation, knowledge and social justice.

What role should early childhood educators hold in play?  Tara talks with Kelly Tribolet about how to increase the movement, confidence and skill of children as they move their bodies through space.  

Anne has entered the analogue and digital archive to follow the traces of Terence Johnson.  Most famous for his book Professions and Power ,  Anne is exploring with Tara and Steve how much of this sociologist's career has survived in the present.

Anne talks with Tara and Steve about her professionalism research in early childhood education. This has been a crucial week.  Anne has captured the key argument of her main theorist.  She knows him so well, she can tweet her thesis statement.

Dr  Kristina Gottschall, from Charles Sturt University's School of Indigenous Australian Studies, explores the role, purpose and trajectory of 'the black kid' in Australian cinema.  

Elly Singer is an Associate Professor at the University of Utrecht Department of Developmental Psychology and University of Amsterdam Department of Education.  She delivered a seminar for the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University exploring play and the building of relationships between children and teachers.

What are the most effective media platforms for university academics? Steve Redhead and Tara explore which social media platforms are best for academics at each stage of their career.

Tara talks with Daniel Purnell and Graham Daniel about Daniel's successful completion of his education degree.  Coming from Lithgow and participating in an international mobility programme, Daniel talks about the successes and challenges of his degree and the hopes for the future.

When do doctoral students have enough theory in their research?  Can it be too much?  Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon talk with Anne McLeod about how to balance theoretical perspectives in her PhD.

Now is the moment.  Steve and Tara conduct Mick Winter's 'mock':  a practice run for his confirmation of doctoral candidature.    

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about how to be successful in the first year at university.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the importance of reading and note taking for first year university students.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the first year experience in universities and why attendance is crucial to academic success.    

Tara Brabazon talks with Linda  Hampstead to address the key challenges that confront students when they arrive on a university campus.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the transition from school to university, work to university and family commitments to study.  What are the challenges and opportunities when moving to higher education.

Tamara Cumming presents her soon-to-be completed doctoral research in the School of Teacher Education Seminar Series.  Deploying the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, she explores how early childhood educators manage complexity in their workplace and practice.

What do technology, speed, war, bunkers and architecture have in common?  All are interests of Paul Virilio. Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Virilio, understanding his specific place in these theoretical times. Two references were logged in this podcast.  Steve's article on Virilio and Parent (http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/view/460/12278) and the film Beyond the Bunker...

Being a PhD student is complicated.  What is more important:  finishing the doctorate in the minimum time, or publishing some articles on the way?   Steve and Tara explore the difficult balance between the PhD and publishing refereed scholarship during the candidature.

What is the role of creativity in a PhD programme?  Tara and Steve probe the troubling terrain of the creative doctorate.  Investigating the DCA (the Doctor of Creative Arts) and the PhD composed of an artefact and exegesis, they explore the challenges of standards, standardization and quality.

The great survivor of French philosophy, Alain Badiou offers evocative and provocative theorizations of subjectivity, ethics and modernity.  Tara and Steve review his career, stature and value in these 'Theoretical Times.'

Slavoj Zizek is much more than a Slovenian Marxist philosopher.  Steve and Tara talk about why his theorizations of culture and politics have been so powerful and so popular.

How do we choose the correct pathway for our PhD?  Tara and Steve talk with Mick about the formulation of his PhD proposal.  They discuss how to create a focus and trajectory for the remainder of a research project.

Tara and Steve Redhead enter the vexed terrain of doctoral examination.   They assist doctoral students and supervisors to manage the emotion of the process and create a concrete outcome:  a successful doctoral graduation.

Anne McLeod talks with Steve and Tara about how to manage deadlines in her doctorate.  How can deadlines be productive, rather than debilitating?