Miss Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
Casual Academic
Cultural Geography PhD, ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra - 2021-2024 (Ongoing)
Geography Honours (Arts), ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra - 2020-2021 (First Class Honours)
Geographical Sciences BSc, University of Bristol - 2025-2018 (First Class Honours)
¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra
SCIENCE - Teaching
I am a current PhD student in Cultural Geography at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra interested in how the arts can generate politically and ethically significant change in individual thinking and wider world processes.
In my current project I am developing my conceptualisations of the 'opacitic' and 'influensive' through ongoing auto-ethnigrpahic fieldwork and theorising through the philosophical projects of Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
My research is especially interested in: non-representational theories, process philosophies, feminist and postcolonial theory.Ìý
I attend the ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra Cultural Geography Weekly Reading Group and the Latrobe University 3ecologies Weekly Reading Group.
E-mail
Location
B26 R333
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media Category Winner at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra HASS HDR Conference (2021)
Jim Rose Prize for Best Paper at the Geographical Society of New South Wales Honours & Masters Conference (2020)
Best Qualitative Human Geography Dissertation Prize, University of Bristol (2018)
PUBLICATIONS
Jeyasingh, T. E. (2024) ‘Édouard Glissant and the Importance of Reading Well: Opacitic-Reading as Geographic Method. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 0,0.
Jeyasingh, T. E. (Forthcoming) Édouard Glissant, the Politics of Non-Representational Theory and Opacitic-Reading as Geographical Method. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Jeyasingh, T. E. (2023) IAG2023: Travel Grant Reports [Online]. Available from: https://www.iag.org.au/index.cfm?module=news&pagemode=indiv&page_id=2068482
Jeyasingh, T. E. & Sirois, C. (2023) Thought begins, again, anew [Exhibition Essay - Online]. CraftACT. Available from: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1347/8135/files/2023_Emerging_Contemporaries_exhibition_essay.pdf?v=1676868438
Jeyasingh, T. E. (2022) Foley and Fabulation: the Production of Screams, Sound and Subjectivity in Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio. In: N. Williams & T. Keating, eds. Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics. 2022, Palgrave Macmillan.
Jeyasingh. T. E. (2021) International Women’s Day - Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh [Online]. Available from:
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CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Institute of Australian Geographers, Perth (2023) Think-Practice Geographies. [Session organiser with Prof JD Dewsbury, Dr George Burdon & Dr Nina Williams]
Institute of Australian Geographers, Perth (2023) Glissantian Lines - Ones Less Filial and More Trembling: Towards an Opacitic Geography. [Paper]
Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference (2022) Édouard Glissant, Non-Representational Theory, & Opacitic-Reading as Geographical Method. [Paper]
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TEACHING
ÌýQualitative Methods - Joint Course Convenor, Lecturer, Tutorial Leader, Marking (7 weeks, ~60 students) [Upcoming]
ÌýUrban Geography - Lecturer, Tutorial Leader, Content Creation (3 weeks, x56 students)
ÌýTactics of Social Geography - Joint Course Convenor, Lecturer, Tutorial Leader, Field-school Leader, Marking (4 weeks, 23 students)Ìý
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EVENTS
National Museum of Australia (2023) Éduoard Glissant, Feminism Aphrodite/Venus: Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages' [Short Talk as part of Major Exhibition]
Organised workshop about ‘Assemblage Theory as Method’ for Cultural Geography department at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra (July 2022)
Organised workshop about ‘Édouard Glissant, affirmation and Relation’ for Cultural Geography department at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra (October 2021)
Category winner for paper presented in ‘Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· HASS HDR conference (October 2021)
Selected and attended Professor Rose Braidotti’s Posthuman and New Materialism summer school at Utrecht University (remotely - August 2021)