The Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will be held at the University of New South Wales from Monday 16 September to Wednesday 18 September. This is the 14th ASPC hosted by the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) centre at UNSW. The Australian Social Policy Conference is the country's leading event for the discussion and dissemination of social policy. The biennial conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across disciplines and provide an opportunity to explore research and practice.

Monday 16 September - Wednesday 18 September 2013

To visit the main conference website please click here

The Conference theme is: Contemporary Challenges for Social Policy.

We are living through a time of major economic and social change that is presenting new challenges to social policy. In Australia and internationally, governments facing fiscal pressures are increasingly cutting back on 'welfare' spending at a time when many areas of need are increasing. Demographic change, rising inequality, environmental degradation and technological change create new challenges for social policy, but also present new opportunities to learn lessons and draw on research about what works and the impact of policy. The 2013 Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will address many of the most important challenges facing Australian policy makers, practitioners and researchers at this key juncture. It will provide a forum for some of the leading national and international (including regional) researchers, along with analysts from the government and NGO sectors in Australia to present their findings and discuss and debate their implications

The theme of this year's Australian Social Policy Conference addresses these issues and invites papers that may address the following areas:

 Welfare reform

 Income distribution and social inequalities

 Identity and diversity

 Families, work and care

 Disability and mental health

 Organisation and delivery of human services

 Community and place

 Homelessness and housing

 Children, young people and families

 Retirement and ageing

 Indigenous Australians

 Chinese social policy

 Social policy in low and middle income countries

 Open strand

Call for Papers

The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers for presentation at the next Australian Social Policy Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, from 16-18 September 2013.

Closing Date: 27 May 2013

The success of the Australian Social Policy Conference is based on the presentation of high quality, original papers across the range of social policy fields. We are now inviting offers of papers from researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of social policy. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to contemporary social policy, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

We are also inviting proposals of ideas for special sessions, including groups of related papers within the contributed paper streams. Please send the proposals for special sessions to aspc@unsw.edu.au

As in previous conferences, discussion will be organised around thematic strands. The topic areas from within which the final strands will be selected, and for which we are currently seeking offers of papers, include the following.

The Conference discussion will be organised around thematic strands including:

Submit abstracts via the Conference Manager

26 performance makers

26 short solo works

1 performance lecturer : clare grant

Whatever your mood, whatever your preference, there is something that will grab you in this year’s festival. The Sydney Film Festival will screen feature films, documentaries, short films and animations across the city at the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays, Art Gallery Of New South Wales and Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Cremorne.

Nashen will also talk about his career path and will be joined by the team behind THE CROSSING, Julian Harvey (director)and Clark Carter (who is subject of the film/ producer & UNSW Alumni). THE CROSSING will screen at the festival this year. Clark and Julian will discuss the making of the film. The event will conclude with a question and answer session with Nahsen, Clark and Julian.

26 performance makers

26 short solo works

1 performance lecturer | clare grant

Abstract: When animals become audible in the city, it is often annoying, sometimes unnerving, but also now and again a kind of annunciation. Animals are an anomaly in the urban soundscape, which seems to be populated and made intelligible to itself exclusively by sounds of human origin. And yet cities have never become free of animals, which are all the time finding ways of recolonising urban space, and insinuating themselves into the syntax of its sounds. I will use this talk to listen out for and amplify the animal signatures in different urban soundscapes. Perhaps the sonic infiltrations of animals are not so much a haunting as a harbinger of a new, more convivial world-city.

Biography: Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. He is the author of books on Dickens, Beckett. Joyce, ventriloquism, skin, flies, and other topics in literary and cultural history. His most recent books are The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal (2010), Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011) and A Philosophy of Sport (2011). He writes and broadcasts frequently for radio and has a significant online library of lectures, broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress.

To register for this lecture please click here

James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses returns to the Bondi Pavilion on Sunday 16 June 2013. The day's program will include the popular breakfast event, music and readings from well known faces and fabulous actors.

Program

09:30-12:00 Bloomsday Breakfast session (Cost: $20.00 + booking fee + gst )

• Breakfast and music from band Castlecomer
• Welcome and introduction with words from NSW Premier the Hon. Barry O'Farrell, MP
• Readings and performances

12:30 - 16:00 Afternoon session (Cost: free)

• Introduction with a few words from NSW Minister for the Arts the Hon. George Souris, MP
• Readings and performances
• Group reading

To register interest for the event please email us - bloomsdayonbondi@gmail.com

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We’re interested in attracting academics, researchers, graduate students and interested undergraduates, from UNSW and universities around Sydney, to join the this network of scholars with an interest (however marginal) in broadly defined Irish Studies and cognate fields. A new initiative, the GIRN seeks to provide an informal forum for the sharing of projects and research collaborations. We will be meeting two or three times a term, for conversation, workshops and seminars.

14 May 2013 @ 17.30 - Yvonne Scott, Trinity College Dublin

'Sylvestri Hiberni': Re-presenting wilderness in Irish visual art'

Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an exceptional interest in the representation of the forest in Irish art, forming a distinct and extensive body of work by a range of significant artists. Yet Ireland is not especially known for its forests nor have they played a role in the semiotics of national identity in Ireland in the last hundred years. A/Professor Scott’s paper considers historical precedents for woodland imagery in Ireland, and the relevance of social, economic and political factors in its reappearance in contemporary art.

Yvonne Scott is Associate Professor, Head of Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and Director of TRIARC, the Irish Art Research Centre. She has published extensively and curated exhibitions in various aspects of Irish and international modern and contemporary art, including The West as Metaphor exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, the book Jack Yeats: Old and New Departures, and essays on topics including Paul Klee, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Louis le Brocquy. A recent project was the IRCHSS supported Bacon's Books: The Library of Francis Bacon, jointly with Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane. Her representations include the Boards of the Royal Irish Academy Art and Architecture of Ireland Project (Vol.V), the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the National Self-Portrait Collection, University of Limerick. Her current research project is a book on agendas in the representation of Irish landscape, supported by an IRCHSS fellowship.

What does it mean to be Greek in the diaspora?

Why is a poet like Cavafy important for our understanding of what it means to be Greek?

What does Cavafy have to say about life and living in a cosmopolitan world?

Featuring panellists:

Professor Gregory Jusdanis, Ohio State University

Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou, University of Oxford

Dr George Syrimis, Yale University

Associate Professor Karen Emmerich, University of Oregon

Dr Maria Boletsi, University of Leiden

Moderated by:

Associate Professor Nicholas Doumanis, UNSW

Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) is the world’s best known Modern Greek poet. He lived his life in the diaspora, in cosmopolitan Alexandria in Egypt, where he expressed his unique vision of the Greek world through his poetry. In recent times there has been a surge of interest in his work and life, particularly in the English-speaking world.

Academics of international standing will be brought together for this public debate to discuss C.P. Cavafy’s work and its significance.

To register for this event please click here

Proudly supported by the Foundation for Hellenic Studies

The School of Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW) invite you to attend the following research seminar:

Exploring gender equality within microcredit programs: a methodology

Prasheela Karan

School of Social Sciences, UNSW

Chaired by Associate Professor Michael Johnson

Abstract

Offering credit to poor people who are unable to access banking services, in particular women, has become a popular strategy to alleviate poverty in developing countries. Studies show, however, that the participation of women in microcredit programs is associated with varying impacts, including negative outcomes such as an increase in violence against women clients and a decrease in schooling for children of clients. This study will therefore explore how microcredit programs engage and impact on the diversity of women clients through examining the strategy of gender mainstreaming within microcredit programs. How gender mainstreaming is implemented within programs may be understood through exploring competing perspectives on the conceptualisation of gender equality. This presentation will discuss a methodology for exploring conceptualisations of gender equality within microcredit programs in India, specifically liberal feminist, radical feminist and postmodern feminist, and impacts on women clients. Recognising the importance of depth and contextual insight, it will be argued that case study research is effective for investigating this topic. In justifying the research design, feminist concerns regarding the power dynamics between participants and researchers will be addressed.

Presented by The Globalisation & Governance Network Seminar Series 

Abstract: As complex networks catalyze local incidents into international crises that appear and disappear on multiple screens at an accelerated pace, a war of spectacles displaces the spectacle of War. Phase-shifting at light speed from states to sub-states, local to global, public to private, organised to chaotic, virtual to real—and back again, war and diplomacy have become effects of the quantum event.

Professor James Der Derian is Director of the Centre for International Security Studies and the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. He is author most recently of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2009) and Critical Practices in International Theory (Routledge, 2009), and co-editor with Costas Constantinou of Sustainable Diplomacies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has produced three film documentaries with Udris Film, Virtual Y2K, After 9/11, and most recently, Human Terrain, which won the Audience Award at the 2009 Festival dei Popoli in Florence and has been an official selection at numerous international film festivals. His most recent documentary, Project Z: The Final Global (co-produced with Phillip Gara), premiered at the 2012 DOK Leipzig Film Festival

Questions of belonging are never far from the discourses of identity in settler societies. Nonhumans, both animals and plants, have been part of the discourse right from the beginning. Only recently, though, have animals (in particular) been seen as *participants* in questions of belonging. The complications animals bring to belonging become even more knotty in this time of anthropogenic extinctions. Professor Bird Rose will address these issues through a case study drawn from the multispecies ethnography that is her current research project.

Postgrads, professional historians and members of the public are particularly welcome. Wine and snacks will be served, and we will adjourn for early dinner nearby.

We have a great line-up this year, please save the dates:

14 June - Dr Wendy Michaels, Equal Rights for Mothers and Fathers

9 August - Prof. Ian Tyrrell, Roosevelt and Settler Conservation

13 September – Paul Irish, Revisiting Bennelong Point: Urban Aboriginal Settlements and the Origins of the Aborigines Protection Board

11 October – Dr Paula Hamilton, Memory and Sensory Urbanism

8 November – Professor Grace Karskens, TBA

Poster

Our next meeting:

Dr Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick), 'Aislings and Avatars: Irish Music, Ethnic Identity, and Cultural Intimacy',

5.30pm, Tuesday 16 April 2013.

Please see flyer for more details.

Time: 9:00am - 4.30pm

This master class has been designed for Masters or PhD students who are thinking about or doing research drawing upon digitized methodologies, such as web based, social media and social network analysis. The day involves a workshop and feedback session alongside a panel discussion surrounding the ethic issues within the area as a new and emerging area of research. It derives from Robert Ackland's extensive experience of working at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, and his forthcoming book with SAGE titled Web Social Science. The workshop will have a practical focus and is premised on the view that the best way to learn the craft skills of digital research is to apply classroom knowledge about different methodologies to actual data.

The opportunity is available to students enrolled in Higher Degree Research including Masters and PhD. Students must be either a TASA Post Graduate member or a UNSW FASS student enrolled in the above programs.

A maximum of 30 places are available: 15 places are dedicated to TASA Post Grads and 15 to UNSW Post Grads.

What do you need?

Selected students will be required to bring along a laptop that has Mozilla Firefox installed (we will connect to the university-provided Wi-Fi). The laptop also needs to have the (free) NodeXL social network analysis software (http://nodexl.codeplex.com) installed. Note that NodeXL requires Excel 2007/2010 running on a Windows operating system (NodeXL doesn't work with Macs).

You are also required to bring along your data collected thus far. If you do not have any data at this stage, you are required to bring along your targeted areas of data collection.

How to apply: complete the application form and return by Friday 3 May to: Dr. Karen Soldatic, School of Social Sciences, UNSW. K.soldatic@unsw.edu.au

Please note that applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application to attend by 20 May 2013.

Presented by the UNSW Music Performance Unit

The Australia Ensemble at UNSW brings the vitality of Australian composition to the Clancy stage. Delight in works from some of Australia’s most prominent composers; Ross Edwards, Peter Sculthorpe, Ian Munro and Andrew Schultz. Then pivotal to the evening, we are proud to present a collaborative project from composer John Peterson and choreographer Sue Healey working with dancer Raghav Handy; a premiere performance of their newly commissioned work.

Features

Ross Edwards - Water Spirit Song

Ross Edwards - In Exile

Peter Sculthorpe - Baltimore Songlines

Ian Munro - Divertissement sur le nom d’Erik Satie

Andrew Schultz - After Nina

John Peterson - New work

The report outlines findings and recommendations from a pilot study designed to inform Australian legal, educational, and policy responses to young people’s sexting.

It draws on focus groups conducted with young Sydney people aged 16-17 years, and consultation with adult stakeholders, including academic researchers, and representatives from government and non-government education, health care, law enforcement and youth support services.

The report will be launched by Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham, Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), Queensland University of Technology.

Young People and Sexting in Australia is a project of the ARC CCI at UNSW, undertaken by the Journalism and Media Research Centre.

Project team: Dr Kath Albury (UNSW), Associate Professor Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research New England/UNSW), Associate Professor Ben Mathews (QUT) and Mr Paul Byron (UNSW).

SHARE Australia Inc., in association with the Health, Rights and Development Group, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of New South Wales, cordially invites you to attend a seminar evening:

Program

1. Dr Swati Parashar:

The "C" word and Silence on Violence Against Women: Rethinking Solidarity Across Borders

This talk will address the uncomfortable silences within feminist scholarship and transnational activist networks around the issue of 'culture and cultural norms' that are invoked in cases of Violence Against Women. Dr. Parashar is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University in Melbourne. She is interested in understanding the nature of violence and wars in South Asia, particularly women both as perpetrators and survivors of violence. Her interest in violence is based on experiences of growing up in an India in the last two decades when public and private spaces have been marked by intense violent contestations based on caste, ethnic and religious identities. She has been a passionate advocate of rethinking solidarity beyond boders on the issue of Violence Against Women. She is a prolific social and political commentator on South Asia, violence and gender and has contributed to the public discourse in Australia on the Delhi gang rape case of Dec. 2012 with her public talks and media writings and interviews.

2. Dr Jo Spangaro:

Preventing and responding to conflict & crisis- related sexual violence: What does the evidence say?

Dr Jo Spangaro has worked in the field of gender-based violence for 27 years, firstly as a frontline counsellor in crisis sexual assault services, followed by child sex offender treatment, health professional education, policy development and since 2006, as a researcher. She has published widely in the international literature on her findings and presented at international meetings. Jo has degrees in both social work and public health. Her PhD was a mixed methods study of routine screening for intimate partner violence, involving women who have experienced violence. This evaluative study is driving policy and practice revision in Australia and has been widely cited internationally. In her current role as Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences UNSW, she is the Principal Investigator of a project on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women’s decisions to disclose intimate partner violence in antenatal clinics. This follows the recent completion of a systematic review on the evidence for interventions to reduce risk of sexual violence in conflict and other humanitarian disasters.

3. Q & A with our panel of activists and academics on Gender-based Violence

Presenters:

1) Dr Swati Parashar “The "C" word and Silence on Violence Against Women: Rethinking Solidarity Across Borders”.

This talk will address the uncomfortable silences within feminist scholarship and transnational activist networks around the issue of 'culture and cultural norms' that are invoked in cases of Violence Against Women.

2) Dr Jo Spangaro “ Preventing and responding to conflict and crisis related sexual violence: What does the evidence say?”

This talk will explore the evidence for interventions to reduce risk of sexual violence in conflict and other humanitarian disasters from the recently completed Systematic Review.

3) Ms Patricia Garcia “A humanitarian aid worker's perspective on gender based violence in armed conflicts.”

This talk will provide a real life perspective on gender-based violence from Ms Garcia’s extensive experience working in the world’s longest running conflicts including Afghanistan, Sudan, Bosnia and Burma.

Venue: Lecture Theatre 102

Ground Floor, Mathews Building, UNSW.

Date: Tuesday 16 April, 2013

Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm. Refreshments available from 6.00pm

RSVP: admin@shareaustralia.org.au (Bookings are essential)

This forum aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across the fields of sexuality, education and health, to:

• discuss and debate contemporary issues and concerns,
• build and consolidate networks, and
• develop joint projects and initiatives together.

The first meeting in Melbourne proved extremely successful so book early for the Sydney meeting as spaces are very limited.

Composition To Movement is an innovative festival bringing together emerging artists, arts professionals, students and the community to experience the work of new and established Australian composers and choreographers.

You can participate in workshops, and engage with the processes of artists working across different forms and attend performances by leading artists.

A major concert in the Clancy Auditorium with the Australia Ensemble will feature a new commission by Dr John Peterson collaborating with choreographer Sue Healey. The festival will close with a night of experimental works in the Io Myers Studio, featuring artists Alister Spence and Chris Abrahams, sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey working with choreographer Martin del Amo, student performers and more.

More information coming soon.

The Social Policy Research Centre (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW) invites you to attend a public seminar:

Abstract: Environmental values are part of our social fabric and a critical social good. They come in many forms from the nutrition provided by a cassava crop to a subsistence farmer in Indonesia to the pleasure of clean ocean water for the residents of Manly. Some can be readily measured in cash whilst others we value without putting our hands into our pockets. We know that population and economic growth has impacted the environment and that maintaining the full range of environmental values is now a major policy challenge. It involves hard choices, especially when we are unsure of the scale and intensity of future impacts. This talk explores one of these, the policy choice to tackle climate change through a reduction in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and specifically the carbon market option to achieve the goal of lower emissions. Except that a carbon market has significant social consequences that, arguably, were not fully considered when such policies were proposed. They have come to light as various international and national schemes have stumbled into effect. At the same time markets are expected to provide a social good through commerce, opportunity and the conservation of resources. Help in untangling the true effects comes from examples of what a market mechanism for carbon offsets means for three very different communities: rainforest dwelling peoples of Indonesia and PNG, and the pastoral farming communities of Australia. Construction of any policy in isolation greatly increases risk. And it may be that social consequences, especially for environmental policy, will either cause policy failure or be blamed for it.

Mark Dangerfield is an environmental scientist, ecologist, entrepreneur, and author with over 30 years experience in the evaluation of natural resource management, measurement of ecological processes, and carbon accounting in Europe, Africa and Australasia. He has held faculty positions at the University of Botswana, Macquarie University [where he received an outstanding teacher award], and was Associate Professor and Director, Centre Expertise for Environment, University of Technology Sydney. He was a founding member of the NSW Natural Resources Advisory Council (2004-2011) and in 2010 was appointed to the Australian governments Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee that oversees accreditation of carbon accounting methodologies for the Carbon Farming Initiative. Mark has published more than 70 peer-reviewed research papers, over 80 technical reports and his latest book, Missing Something, was published in December 2012.

Modern Soundscapes

Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Literature held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia.

What is a modern soundscape?

This conference aims to address this question by drawing together researchers engaged with the history and theory of sound and noise from the fields of literature, film, and media studies, as well as architecture, music and the visual arts to consider the multiple soundscapes that have shaped and continue to shape the history of modernity.

For more information please visit the conference website.

Experts from each discipline area will be available to help you make informed decision about your possible postgraduate study options and there will also be a series of presentations taking place throughout the event. These sessions are designed to keep you informed on the latest developments in our suite of postgraduate programs.

The showpiece of this event is our interactive panel session that will ensure that the evening is not only informative, but will also challenge and inspire you.

MONDAY 15 APRIL 4-7pm

EVENT PROGRAM

4.00pm – 6.15pm

Postgraduate Program Expo

Drop in at any time
.

4.15pm to 6.15pm

Arts, Business and Law Program Presentations

*Gradaute Diploma of Education/ Master of Teaching will not be covered at this event as there is no Session 2 intake
.

6.15pm – 7.00pm

Panel Session - New Careers in Changing Times

Arts & Social Science, Australian School of Business, and Law will bring together a panel of innovative and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate - New Careers in Changing Times.

Our expert panellists include:

Cheryl Kernot, in addition to a distinguished political career, Cheryl Kernot is the Director of Social Business at the Centre for Social Impact in the Australian School of Business at UNSW.

As Creative Director of The Hallway, Simon Lee, fuses his direct and mainstream advertising experience with a passion for storytelling. This passion fuelled the creation of Simon’s debut feature film – Dream Racer, a 93 minute documentary that he wrote, produced and directed. He has also created successful advertising campaigns for Westpac, The Australian Financial Review, and Qantas Frequent Flyer.

Professor Jane McAdam from UNSW Law is an expert on complementary protection and climate change-related displacement and migration and has been selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (YGL) class of 2013.

REGISTER NOW

What Does It Mean To Be Loyal? Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-1948

Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm

The Good Speculum? The Question concerning Medical Surveillance

Libel, Liberty and Security in the 1820s Cape Colony

Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm

Eleanor Roosevelt in Australia

Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm

Islam and the French Revolution

Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm

Family History Between Public Memory and Private Recollections: A Discussion of Italy and Poland

Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm

Agency and Control

Postcolonial Chrēsis: Are Agamben's Concepts Useful for Transforming Colonial Legacies?

Ghostly Subjects

Romantic Organicism and the Environment

A last resort'? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the (lack of a) right to resist

UNSWriting presents

Writer and researcher Ross Gibson

Introduced by Stephen Muecke

BOOK HERE FOR THIS FREE EVENT!

In a fresh take on Australian colonial history, Ross Gibson brilliantly speculates on the life and notebooks of astronomer William Dawes — an enigmatic colonist who was the first to make extensive records of any Aboriginal language.

Dawes was a First Fleet Marine at Sydney Cove in the years when Britain seized the country, yet he also shared ideas and language with a small group of Aboriginal people that he encountered. Dawes called his collaborators ‘the Eora’; they told him it was their word for ‘people’.

The Eora would utter skeins of sound; in response Dawes would record raveled stains in the notebooks he carried. These crucial relics were re-discovered in 1972 at the University of London.

Fragmentary and intriguing, these 26 vignettes are both imaginative and historical, to be criss-crossed or read in order, provoking new insights and debates from this paradoxical man and his encounters.

26 Views of the Starburst World captures the wonder of a new world opening up and reflects the power of language in exquisite prose.

Ross Gibson is an Australian writer and researcher who also makes films and multi-media environments, and is currently Professor of Contemporary Arts in the Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney. Ross was previously the Creative Director at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and spent several years as a Consultant Producer for the Museum of Sydney. This is the twelfth book he has authored or edited.

Purchase 26 Views of the Starburst World on the night at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

Cultivating flows of ideas and good writing

Connecting writers, publishers and students,

Offering special events, workshops and public talks

UNSWriting presents another series of engaging and thought-provoking events with a focus on indigenous writing, intimate histories and creative environmental laboratories.

In 2013 we continue as a major partner of the Sydney Writers' Festival, with festival guests on campus and with UNSW scholars participating in the festival.

Join writers Tony Birch, Ross Gibson, Debbie Bird Rose and other guests for a jam-packed year of ideas, eloquence and conversation.

Join our mailing list.

If you would like more information on previous events, visit the audio and video archive page.

Get your friends and colleagues together for a Japanese lunch to support the Save Minamisoma Project, two years on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami

Big Bento Lunch 2013:

Tuesday 19th of March, 12.00pm – 1.00pm

UNSW Library Walkway

$15 ($5 goes to the charity)

March 11 is the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. To commemorate the disaster and raise much-needed funds for the Save Minamisoma Project, Big Bento Lunch encourages people to support relief efforts while enjoying a Japanese-style lunch together.

Sponsored by だるま DARUMA Japanese Restaurant

Level 1, Prince Centre, 8 Quay St, Haymarket 

This forum aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across the fields of sexuality, education and health, to:

• discuss and debate contemporary issues and concerns,
• build and consolidate networks, and
• develop joint projects and initiatives together.

The first meeting in Melbourne proved extremely successful so book early for the Sydney meeting as spaces are very limited.

Over the last 20 years, inspired by Charles Taylor’s 1992 groundbreaking essay on the politics of recognition and especially by Axel Honneth’s influential recognition-theoretic work, a largely optimistic picture of recognition has come to occupy a central place in the contemporary philosophical and social-theoretical imaginary. Recognition is thought to be essential for individual self-realization as well as for social integration, and, in principle, in reach for all members of modern societies. This workshop looks at the ‘dark side’ of recognition. Why is it that individuals and groups so often deny or reject recognition? And are there ways in which recognition itself might not be an unproblematically positive phenomenon?

This is a sister event to the workshop ‘The Ambivalence of Recognition’ organized at the Institute for Social Research at Goethe-University Frankfurt, April 4-6. For more information please click here

Barra Boydell, who retired as Professor of Music History at the National University of Ireland Maynooth in 2010 and now lives near Sydney, is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on the history of music in Ireland. He is general editor with Harry White of the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland which will be published later in 2013, and his other books include Music and Paintings at the National Gallery of Ireland (1985), Music at Christ Church before 1800: Documents and Selected Anthems (1998), A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin (2004) and Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century, co-edited with Kerry Houston (2009). He is an Honorary Life Member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.

Reception 6.00-6.30pm, Lecture 6.30-7.30pm

The Global Irish Studies Talks (GIST) series remains a popular fixture in the GISC calendar. In the latest GIST held on 12 March 2013 Professor Barra Boydell spoke on 'An Italian Violinist in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Francesco Geminiani, Irish Music and the Emergence of Cultural Nationalism.'

Retired Professor of Music History at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and general editor of the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (UCD Press, forthcoming 2013), Professor Boydell is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on the history of music in Ireland. In a GIST full of rich scholarly detail, Prof Boydell introduced Italian violinist Francesco Geminiani, a key member of the internatinal cohort of musicians living and working in Georgian Dublin's thriving concert-hall culture. Geminiani's posthumous reputation shaped Irish debates about the relative merits of traditional Irish music (notably the harp tradition epitomised by Turlough Carolan) compared to European styles. In the conflict of 'folk' versus 'fashion', in other words, Geminiani's music was invoked as the benchmark against which to validate the cultural nationalist turn and the revival, in the nineteenth-century, of the harp, fiffle, pipes and traditional Irish song.

The video of Prof Barra Boydell's talk will be available via UNSWTV shortly.

The program includes:

* Keynote addresses from PhD candidates
* Financial Support for Postgraduate Research
* Postgraduate research courses for PhD and Masters by Research students
* Ethics clearances for Postgraduate Research

The Induction will be followed by drinks and refreshments from 4:30pm – 5:30pm to provide you with an opportunity to network with your fellow students and to meet staff from the Faculty.

To RSVP please click here

You are invited to a public forum to discuss research and equity implications of the NSW Government’s Local Schools, Local Solutions for the state-wide provision of English as a second language (ESL) services to migrant and refugee children in NSW Government schools. At present, some 130,000 students learning English as an additional language in NSW public schools receive support from 1600 teachers, consultants and community information officers, all of whom have been specially trained to provide support for migrant and refugee students and their classroom teachers. Under the government’s devolution policy, the redirection of ESL funding to support the local autonomy of individual schools may jeopardise this provision. This forum is for everyone interested in the equity and access of migrant and refugee students to quality education and support for English language development. Teachers, parents, teacher education students, academics and community members are all welcome.

Key note speaker: Professor John Smyth is an international expert in educational policy analysis and local school management. Other invited speakers on the program include executives from NSW schools, ESL teachers and teacher educators, educationalists, NSW Teachers Federation and community leaders.

directed by Rochelle Whyte
Io Myers Studio - 12 - 16 March 2013

Booking information coming soon.

Produced by: Creative Practice Lab in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW

Dr Tran will present an overview of current health and development issues in Vietnam, the achievements of the Vietnamese health system, and the challenges that remain. Vietnam is undergoing significant changes in all spheres of social and political life - implications for health and health services of some of these transitions such as the growing involvement with public-private partnerships and the growth of the private sector in health will be considered. While Vietnam has made significant progress in many spheres of health and development, these are incomplete and considerable inequalities remain.

The seminar will be informal, with a half-hour presentation from Dr Tran followed by questions and discussion.

Chair: Professor Anthony Zwi, School of Social Sciences

Date: Tuesday 19th February

Time: 10-11am

Room: Level 3, room 310, Morven Brown building

A light morning tea will be provided, and all interested staff and students are welcome to attend.

Please RSVP to jessica.mcgowan@unsw.edu.au by Thursday 14th February.

Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of nonviolent resistance, social justice, and respect for the environment is only increasing in its relevance given our current global challenges. His granddaughter Ela Gandhi has continued this legacy. Her lecture will discuss the importance of strategic interventions in education to promote positive action on nonviolence at various levels of academia by building networks of educators with a similar vision and commitment

Biography:

Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is a renowned peace activist and author, and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for her work in promoting nonviolent political change. She is a former Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology, and member of the South African parliament where she was aligned with the ANC. Ela Gandhi is currently Hon International President of the World Conference on Religions for Peace, and Vice chairperson of International Centre of Nonviolence, South Africa.

This lecture will be introduced by His Excellency Mr. Biren Nanda, High Commissioner for India

Please note that seats are strictly limited and RSVP is essential

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Ela Gandhi visits Australia courtesy of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Australia

This event is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Globalisation & Governance Research Network, and the Australian Human Rights Centre.

Communicative Action and the Responsibility to Protect: the case of Libya

This paper examines international debate between actors in the UN Security Council and key regional bodies before, during and after the NATO-led intervention in Libya in March 2011, from the perspective of Habermas’ communicative action. It makes a contribution to three inter-linked debates about moral argumentation in world politics in relation to the responsibility to protect norm: how and why a consensus was established on military action; how and why this was punctuated so soon after the bombing began; and lastly, what this tells us about the possibilities and limits of communicative action in relation to forging an agreement on coercive intervention.

TIM DUNNE is Professor of International Relations in the School of Political Science and International Studies, and Research Director at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland. In addition to IR theory, he has published on human rights, intervention, foreign policy, and internationalism. He has written and edited ten books, which include Terror in our Time co-authored with Ken Booth (Routledge, 2012). He is currently an editor of the European Journal of International Relations. He serves on the governing council of the International Studies Association, and is President of the Asia Pacific regional section. For more details see http://timjdunne.com.

KATHERINE GELBER is Professor of Public Policy, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political Science & International Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research is in human rights, with a particular emphasis on freedom of speech and the regulation of hate speech. In 2011 she was the Australian Expert Witness at a United Nations’ Asia-Pacific regional meeting discussing States’ compliance with the free speech and racial/religious hatred provisions of international law. She is the recipient of several ARC grants and has published widely in top-ranked journals including Political Studies, Review of International Studies and Contemporary Political Theory.

Outdated and Useless: R2P after Libya and Syria

The paper challenges the widespread assertion in the public and academic discourse that the military intervention in Libya was a successful first true test of the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It argues that if anything, the Libyan and Syrian crises demonstrate an urgent need to move away from R2P and call for an exploration of alternative legal and political frameworks with the potential of minimising the catastrophic humanitarian costs of intra-state conflict.

CHRISTOPHER MICHAELSEN is a Senior Lecturer at the UNSW Faculty of Law and the Director of Human Rights and Social Justice Programs. A member of the Australian Human Rights Centre, he teaches and specialises in public international law, human rights and international security. Prior to joining UNSW, he served at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw, and at the Department for Disarmament Affairs in the UN Secretariat in New York.

 Welcoming incoming Postgraduate Coursework students will be the Dean of the Faculty, Professor James Donald, a Postgraduate Coursework convenor, as well as presentations from Student Development - International and Arc at UNSW

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The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Enrolment Advising Day is your chance to seek advice, ask questions and find out about your degree options.

Please refer to the information below for specific academic advising for each program in the Faculty. 

SESSIONS

Welcome new undergraduate students! On Monday 25 February please join us at the official Faculty Welcome presentation and BBQ.

11am -12 noon Official Faculty Undergraduate Welcome, Science Theatre

A welcome to all new students studying in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences by the Dean, Professor James Donald and a Student Life intro. Students are then invited to join the staff from the Faculty for a BBQ lunch.

12 - 1pm Faculty Welcome Lunch, Physics Lawn

The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences invites all new students to join us for a BBQ
lunch following the Faculty Welcome.  It will provide an opportunity to network with your fellow students and
to meet the academic staff.

We offer new students a number of services to make the transition to
university as successful as possible including our peer mentoring program.

Other events held on O-week include:

TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY

WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY

THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY

You can participate in workshops, and engage with the processes of artists working across different forms and attend performances by leading artists.

A major concert in the Clancy Auditorium with the Australia Ensemble will feature a new commission by Dr John Peterson collaborating with choreographer Sue Healey. The festival will close with a night of experimental works in the Io Myers Studio, featuring artists Alister Spence and Chris Abrahams, sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey working with choreographer Martin del Amo, student performers and more.

Come and find out how UNSW can help you get more out of your university experience. Chat with our academics and current students, cruise the campus and grab some free lunch on the Scientia lawn. With preferences closing on 4 January 2013 we will have access to the UAC website ready for you so you can make any changes to your preferences while the information is still fresh.

Arts & Social Science Degrees
Time: 12:00pm – 12:30pm
Location: CLB 7, UNSW Campus

Degrees in the Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW are designed for the intellectually adventurous, boldly creative and socially engaged. Discover new ways of thinking about the world and prepare yourself for an exciting future.

Beyond Historicism: Resituating Samuel Beckett

The Conversation launched last year and has published nearly 9,000 articles from 4,100 authors attracting 17 million page views. In less than 18 months it has become Australia’s most visited independent website. The Conversation offers researchers impact measures for their publications.

The remit of The Conversation is to provide the public with better information to allow for richer and more reasoned public discourse. It is a democracy project, better sharing the knowledge, research and wisdom of the university sector to allow citizens to be better informed on “live” and complex current affairs and public policy issues such as climate change.

Dr Michael Flood

Dr Michael Flood is a researcher, educator and activist based at the University of Wollongong. He has made a significant contribution to both scholarship on and community understanding of violence against women and its prevention. Dr Flood will explore the debates regarding gender and domestic violence, highlighting important differences between men’s and women’s typical patterns of victimisation and perpetration.

Dr Jane Wangmann

Dr Jane Wangmann has extensive community legal practice and research experience on domestic and family violence and has contributed to law reform processes with the NSW Attorney General’s Department, NSW Royal Commission into the Police Service and the Australian Law Reform Commission. Dr Wangmann will present on gender and personal violence, drawing on her own research on cross applications for protection orders.

Registration:
There is a $15 (+$1.50 GST) registration fee for the Symposium.
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Abstract
A number of nations have embraced policies encouraging competition between schools in order to improve educational opportunities for all, and particularly for disadvantaged groups. Arguing that competition for students provides incentives for schools to adopt more effective practices, policymakers have implemented measures to grant schools greater operational autonomy, and families more latitude in choosing schools. However, a number of studies have found evidence that these policies are associated with patterns of increased social segregation. Much research has focused on demand-side explanations of parents choosing segregated schools, yet competitive incentives may also explain how schools may be responding within local education markets. Geospatial analyses of these policies in a number of metropolitan areas in the US and NZ indicate that schools often respond to competitive incentives by adopting strategies that actually limit opportunities for the most disadvantaged students.

Biography
Christopher Lubienski is an Associate Professor of education policy, and the Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education at the University of Illinois. He is also a fellow with the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity and access. His current work examines organizational responses to competitive conditions in local education markets, including geo-spatial analyses of charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, and research on innovation in education markets for the OECD. After earning a PhD in education policy and social analysis at Michigan State University, Lubienski held post-doctoral fellowships with the National Academy of Education and with the Advanced Studies Program at Brown University. He was recently named a Fulbright Senior Scholar for New Zealand, where he is studying school policies and student enrolment patterns. He has just embarked on a three-year project on intermediary organizations’ ability to influence the use of research evidence in the policymaking process (with Elizabeth DeBray and Janelle Scott).

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This event is now full and we longer can accept registrations

GERRIC has the pleasure of hosting a panel on A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students, The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. This report was written in 2004 by Professor Nicholas Colangelo, Professor Susan G. Assouline, from the Belin Blank Center at the University of Iowa, and the Director of GERRIC, Emeritus Professor Miraca Gross, all of whom will be on the panel. This groundbreaking publication has had wide reaching impacts in the United States, here in Australia and on an international level. "Decades of data come together in this report to make one resounding statement: acceleration is the most effective intervention method for high-ability students, not just academically, but emotionally and socially, and for both the short- and long-term. Researchers took into consideration many of the reasons why acceleration is not a commonly accepted alternative for intellectually gifted students, including the myth that children must be kept with their age peers, that acceleration "hurries" students out of childhood, or even that acceleration somehow conflicts with the idea of political equality. Ultimately, none of these concerns were supported by the research (Davidson Institute, 2004).

A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research. To get the report click here.

The Panel

Professor Miraca U. M. Gross is Emeritus Professor of Gifted Education in UNSW's School of Education as well as Director of GERRIC. She is recognised nationally and internationally as a leading authority on the education of gifted and talented students. Miraca holds MEd and PhD degrees in gifted education. She began her career as a teacher and has 22 years' experience as a classroom teacher and school administrator in State education systems in Scotland and Australia. For 12 years, she was a specialist teacher of gifted and talented children in several different classroom settings, including the regular classroom, cluster grouped classes, pullout programs, and full-time classes. In December 1995, Professor Gross received the University of New South Wales Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government honoured her with the inaugural Australian Award for University Teaching in Education. In 2003 the Australian College of Educators honoured her with the Sir Harold Wyndham Medal for outstanding services to Australian education. In June 2008, she was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List with Membership in the Order of Australia. In 2011, she was honoured with the title of Emeritus Professor of Gifted Education by the University of New South Wales.

Susan G. Assouline is Associate Director at the Belin-Blank Center, and Professor of School Psychology, in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations at the University of Iowa. She has a special interest in academically talented primary school students and is co-author of both editions of Developing Math Talent: A Guide for Educating Gifted and Advanced Learners in Math (2005, 2011) As well, she is co-developer of The Iowa Acceleration Scale, a tool designed to guide educators and parents through decisions about accelerating students. In 2007 and 2010, Dr Assouline was awarded the Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research for her work on twice-exceptionality.

Nicholas Colangelo(joining panel via skype) is the Myron & Jacqueline Blank Professor of Gifted Education at The University of Iowa. He is also Director of The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. He is author of numerous articles on counseling gifted students and the affective development of gifted. He has edited two texts: New Voices in Counseling the Gifted (with Ronald Zaffrann) and Handbook of Gifted Education, Editions I, II, and III (with Gary Davis). He has authored “A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students” (with Susan Assouline and Miraca Gross). He has served on the editorial boards of major journals including Counseling and Development, Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, and Roeper Review. He has presented a number of research papers at national and international conferences and has been a keynote speaker on numerous occasions. In 1991, he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Association for Gifted Children; in 1995, he received the Alumni Achievement Award presented by the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2000, he received the State of Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. In 2002, he received the President’s Award from the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Colangelo was elected President of the Iowa Academy of Education for 2005-2006. He received the Upton Sinclair Award as a Top Ten Influential Educator for 2005. In 2007, he was selected as the Association Editor for the National Association for Gifted Children (2007-2009). Dr. Colangelo received the Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service from The University of Iowa in 2008. In 2009, he chaired the national task group that published Guidelines for Developing an Academic Acceleration Policy. In 2010, Dr. Colangelo was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Dr. Colangelo received the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion for Faculty from The University of Iowa in 2012 and the Ann Isaacs Founder’s Memorial Award, presented by the National Association for Gifted Children (2012).

Jessica Bloom is a 21 year old Honours Physics Graduate from the University of Sydney, currently accepted to commence her PhD there in Astrophysics in February 2013. Jump grade skipped at school at age 6, she was then radically accelerated in Humanities subjects from age 9 in History, Geography, English, and French. She enjoyed the (now discontinued) Distinction course in Cosmology for her HSC and has continued to pursue her early love of Science. After a “year off” travelling, earning a living doing private tutoring in Physics, Maths, English, History and French, plus performing professionally in circus gigs (her other passion), she is looking forward to resuming formal studies. She published a book of poetry “Plenitude” at age 11, which appeared on the Premiers’ Reading Challenge lists in several states for several years, and still enjoys writing. She currently has a paper in Philosophy of Physics accepted for publication in a peer reviewed book. She plays the harp.

Hosted by the School of Humanities & Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW, and the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association 

Keynote speakers

Feona Attwood, Professor of Sex, Communication and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Dr. Kath Albury, Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW

A/Prof Susan Green, School of Social Sciences, UNSW

This conference brings together local and international researchers working in Women's and Gender Studies, and invites them to reflect on the interventionist nature of their own research, and on intervention more generally as a critical and political goal, and/ or as an object of critical inquiry. Panels include: Interventions in Pornography, Online Interventions, State Interventions in Aboriginal Lives, Feminist Activist Interventions and many others.

Reflections on a research and education partnership with the National Rugby League
 

Since 2004, the National Rugby League’s Education and Welfare program has collaborated with feminist researchers and educators to promote ethical behaviour in the area of sex and relationships. This presentation draws on interviews with past and current staff at the National Rugby League, the University of New South Wales and NSW Rape Crisis Centre to reflect on the specific understandings of gender, pedagogy and ethics that have underpinned this process of partnership and cultural change.

Dr Kath Albury designed and delivered the initial ‘Playing By the Rules’ education program in 2004/2005, and continues as a member of the NRL’s Respectful Relationships sub-committee. Kath is a senior lecturer at the Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW.

Presented by the School of Humanities, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW and the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association

This lecture is part of the 2012 Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Biennial Conference: Interventions, Critiques, Practices.

Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Literature held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia.

What is a modern soundscape?

This conference aims to address this question by drawing together researchers engaged with the history and theory of sound and noise from the fields of literature, film, and media studies, as well as architecture, music and the visual arts to consider the multiple soundscapes that have shaped and continue to shape the history of modernity.

For more information please visit the conference website.

The School of Education and the School of Social Sciences present a public lecture by 
Professor Eileen Baldry and Dr Leanne Dowse 

The presence of people with mental health disorders and cognitive disability (MHDCD) in criminal justice systems (CJS) in Australia, and internationally is not a new phenomenon but the rate of people with MHDCD and of those with co‐occurring disorders in the CJS appears to have increased. International and national evidence points to widespread over‐representation of these persons in police work, the courts and prisoner populations, both as victims and offenders. It appears that for a significant proportion of these individuals their trajectory into the criminal justice system begins early in life. Despite patterns of early contact with a plethora of intervention agencies, little headway appears to have been made in preventing the progression of such people into life long enmeshment in the CJS. Moreover, disadvantaged young people with MHDCD are also far more vulnerable to homelessness and other socially disabling experiences with early disengagement from education and unstable early life including experiences of out of home care being intimately connected with early contact with police and subsequent juvenile and adult incarceration.

This lecture presents findings from the MHDCD research project being conducted at UNSW that uses an innovative pathway building method to create administrative de‐identified life course trajectories by merging data from a large number of NSW human service and criminal justice agencies on 2,731 persons whose MHDCD diagnoses are known and who have been in prison. The characteristics and patterns of contact experienced by the cohort as young people will be discussed and their human and economic cost exemplified using individual case studies. The pathway studies show that rather than the provision of support and care, young people with complex and compounding disability and social disadvantage predominantly experience responses of surveillance and control from an early age resulting in their funneling into and lifelong enmeshment in the criminal justice system.

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THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF THE GIRL CHILD

Film screening: "It's a Girl"

Moderator: Dr Shanti Raman MBBS, FRACP, MAE

Venue: Pioneer Theatre, AGSM, UNSW (enter UNSW from Gate 11 in Botany St)

Date: Wednesday 21 November 2012

Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm. Refreshments available from 6.00pm

RSVP: jeannienewman@unsw.edu.au (RSVP essential for catering purposes)

Synopsis:

In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are “missing” globally because of this so-called “gendercide”. Girls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at the hands of their own husbands or other family members.

The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls. Shot on location in India and China, the film, It’s a Girl, reveals the issue. It asks why this is happening, and why so little is being done to save girls and women.

The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.

The film will be followed by questions and discussion facilitated by Dr Shanti Raman, Community Paediatrician and global activist, with an opportunity to explore the challenging issues raised.

Warning: This film contains images that may be confronting and distressing to some viewers

Standardised testing is not a new phenomenon in schools, however, this paper argues that there is an intensification in the impact of these testing choices on school communities. Since 2008 Australian school children in Years 3, 5, 7 (with Year 9 added in 2010) have been sitting nation-wide standardised literacy and numeracy tests known as NAPLAN. In May 2012 it was estimated that up to 1 million students sat the tests. It has also been estimated that these tests cost over $100 million dollars a year to administer. The Australian Federal Government argues that NAPLAN contributes to improving educational outcomes through promoting accountability and transparency that will lead to improved literacy and numeracy.

Critics of standardised testing in general, and NAPLAN in particular, argue it has a negative effect on schools and learning. This can include narrowing the curriculum, forcing teachers to teach to the test (Reid, 2009), lowering the wellbeing of teachers and students (Polesel, Dulfer, & Turnbull, 2012) with no discernable improvement in the literacy and numeracy skills of students, particularly for those most disadvantaged (Barret, 2009).

This lecture will report on the first phase of an ARC funded project that is investigating the effects of NAPLAN on school communities in WA and SA. This first phase consisted of a survey open to teachers in those states. Over 1,000 teachers responded to questions that asked their perception of the impact that NAPLAN has had on their levels of stress, their self-efficacy, relationships with parents and principals and on their pedagogy and curriculum choices. This is part of a broader research focus that proposes to hold those practices of “accountingization” embedded within much contemporary education policy to account through collecting accounts of the micro-political effects of macro-political educational reform agendas.

Biography

GREG THOMPSON is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Murdoch University. His work he uses postmodern theories of education to ask questions about ‘commonsense’ notions of schooling that have often been taken for granted. This has led to studies that have addressed discourses of connectedness in secondary schools and visions of the good student in secondary schools. Currently he is interested in the increasing emphasis placed on high stakes testing in the name of accountability in Australian schools. In 2011 he was awarded an ARC DECRA of $375,000 to investigate the effects of NAPLAN on school communities.

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Abstract

Pedagogy is often wedded to the developmental theories of psychologists such as Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, sometimes reflecting a particularly strong allegiance to the theories of one over those of the others. In this presentation, I will argue the case for including multiple perspectives in our approach to teaching and learning - in particular, combining and modifying the theories of Vygotsky, which prioritise the fundamentally social, interactive character of learning, with the later work of Bruner, which emphasises the importance of recognising and understanding the role of culture and socio-economic background in the learning process. I will further suggest that these essentially psychological and (in Bruner’s case) sociological understandings of teaching and learning need to be contextualised within and tempered by an understanding of the affective aspects of learning in schools and classrooms, as can be found psychoanalytical theory and the emerging discipline of psychosocial studies. By way of illustration, reference will be made to Sigmund and Anna Freud’s conceptualisations of repetition and transference as they impact on teaching and learning experiences, and on the more recent Lacanian concepts of symbolic and imaginary identification.

Biography

Having spent eighteen years as a secondary school teacher and ten years in initial teacher education, three of my main areas of interest are in the learning and experiences of beginning teachers; teachers' work; and young people's experiences of schooling. For the last eight years, I have developed more specific interests in curriculum studies - in particular, the nature and effects of cultural bias in school curricula - and education for citizenship. Methodologically, I have become increasingly interested in using psychosocial approaches to the analysis of research data.

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Abstract: Combining Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power and Goffman’s analysis of the management of spoiled identities, this lecture will consider the roots, experience, and social reverberations of territorial stigmatization: how the blemish of place affixed on neighborhoods of urban relegation at century’s turn affect the sense of self and strategies of their residents, the actions of private operators and public bureaucracies, and the policies of the state toward marginalized populations and districts in advanced society.

Biography: Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association, his research spans urban relegation, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. His books are translated in twenty languages and include the trilogy Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (2013), as well as The Two Faces of the Ghetto (2013).

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Featuring the choreographic work of Larissa McGowan and Twyla Tharp

TWYLA THARP’S SWEET FIELDS TO MAKE SYDNEY DEBUT AT UNSW 

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) honours dance company, LINK presents Diversify, consisting of two incredible contemporary dance performances, Slack and Sweet Fields at UNSW’s Io Myers Studio theatre on Monday 5 November. 

“Under artistic director Michael Whaites, the 12 dancers are impressively vibrant and display outstanding potential. The double bill pleasingly contrasts Larissa McGowan's rather menacing Slack and the celestial innocence of Twyla Tharp's Sweet Fields.” said Rita Clarke, The Australian

Slack, by Green Room and Helpmann Award-winning dancer/choreographer Larissa McGowen, asks if we are a victim of our own patterns – does the same thing keep happening to you – different people, different place, same product, same consequence?

Sweet Fields, by American dancer/choreographer Twyla Tharp, has been remounted by internationally renowned award-winning American dancer/choreographer Charlie Hodges. 

Hodges has been working with Tharp for over 10 years and has performed in her three most recent Broadway musicals as well as in her international touring repertory company. He has been the recipient of the European Critics' Choice Award for Best Male Dancer of the Year, as well as the Fred Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer on Broadway.

TICKETS Full $20 Concession $15

Reserve your tickets: cpru@unsw.edu.au | 9385 5684 |

Payment at the door. Cash only please. 

University-based writers, who have come into universities from media communications and creative practice face, and have to find their own ways around very specific challenges, of authorial and self identity, when they make the transition to publishing as writer (journalist; novelist) and scholarly researcher.

How do writers who have identities in creative media, journalism, media and communications who have taken PhDs find their own authentic ways of moving from publishing as practitioners to publishing as scholars and researchers, based in universities – yet reaching out to wider audiences in both scholarly publishing and general educated readership?

What changes does this process and search bring about in identity as authors, and selves, how does this affect writers’ writing?

In what ways is this relatively new phenomenon in Australia creating new texts, new forms of authorship and new audiences? And new ways of reading?

Ruth Skilbeck, David McKnight and Bem Le Hunte, three writers at different stages, post PhD, talk about their own individual experiences, raise questions and discuss the challenges and discoveries of publishing (as more than ‘one’ authorial voice), in their own, fluid, nuanced voices, and identities– as polyphonic author/creative artist/journalism intellectuals, in the changing scholarly and commercial global publishing landscapes.

Dr David McKnight is a Senior Research Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW. He is the author of three books on topics diverse as contemporary politics, recent Australian history and international espionage. David also contributes regularly to the opinion pages of Australian newspapers.

Dr Bem le Hunte is a lecturer in the Journalism and Media Research Centre as well as a best-selling author, currently writing her fourth novel. She has worked for over twenty-three years as a creative director and written for over 500 clients across all media – from print and film to radio and digital. She recently gained her doctorate in creative writing from the University of Sydney.

Dr Ruth Skilbeck, is a lecturer in the Journalism and Media Research Centre as well as a widely published arts writer and journalist in Ireland, the UK, and Australia – where she started up an international media business specializing in arts feature writing. Since gaining her MA in Writing and PhD in 2007, from UTS, she has published 12 research articles in peer reviewed, scholarly journals and books.

School of Economics University College Dublin

‘Because she never let them in’: Irish immigration a century ago and today’

Hosted by the Global Irish Studies Centre, UNSW

Reception from 7.00pm

Lecture 7.30pm - 8.30pm

ABSTRACT

One hundred years ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of emigration not immigra¬tion. However, in the space of a decade, Ireland has been transformed from a homogeneous community, where non-native residents were in a very small minority, to one in which one-sixth of its inhabitants are foreign-born. The lecture will compare immigration and attitudes towards immigrants in the very different Irelands of a century ago and of the present.

BIOGRAPHY

Cormac Ó Gráda is a professor in University College Dublin’s School of Economics. He has published widely on the economic history of Ireland and his most quoted works are on the Irish famine of the late 1840’s, and studies of fluctuations in the Irish population. He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Humanities in 2010.

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Presented by Prof Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Urban Inertia: cinema, the dying, and the dead.

‘Flies and a smell and nobody noticed’ (Friend, Dreams of a Life, 2011)

‘The face as the extreme precariousness of the other. Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other’ (Levinas, quoted in Sentilles, 2010: 526)

The argument of this paper derives from my viewing of a recent British film Dreams of a Life (Carol Morley, 2011). Mainly concerned with urban issues of anomie, race, domestic violence and the loneliness of death, the film led me to other films with similar intersecting themes. These include, Claire Denis’ I Cant Sleep (J’ai pas sommeil, 1994), and Alain Gomis’ Today (2011). In all three films the protagonist is seen as an outsider and – for very different reasons, - associated with death or violence, lonely but at the heart of urban bustle. In Today the protagonist is a returned migrant to Senegal, in I Can’t Sleep he is a French Guyanan sleepless in Paris (the character Camille is based on a transvestite serial killer of the 1980s), and in Dreams of a Life she is a Black British woman whose White friends see her as ‘exotic’ and whose Black friends deem her to be in need of a decent Black man in her life. Considering these films together, however, I also begun to see that the focus on death in these texts presented a surprising view of inertia, both visually and conceptually. Whether through the presence of a corpse, or other organic remains, or even the through idea of such, the affect of these stories is contingent, for me, on inert matter.

4.30 - 5.00pm
iPads in schools: Use Testing

Patrick Barrett & Lisa Nash
(Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta)

Wan Ng (University of New South Wales) & Howard Nicholas (La Trobe University)

Abstracts

iPads in schools: Use Testing

The iPad was released to the Australian market in May 2010 and this study explored its suitability as a tool for learning in schools. Eight primary and three secondary school teachers were each given two iPads and $100 iTunes credit for a school term and asked to explore six related focus areas including the learning settings best supported by the iPad, learning affordances of the iPad, student engagement, use with students with learning difficulties, the educational value of Apps and any technical or administrative issues encountered in the management of iPads in schools.

The study used a multiple-site case study approach to gather data about the sites of use. Despite some methodological challenges, the pilot found that the iPad is a significant tool to support and enhance student learning. It shows extensive affordances as a learning tool (due in part to its portability and fit-for-task suitability) especially in relation to the development of Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision-Making, Research and Information Fluency.

A Framework for Sustainable Mobile Learning in Schools

Being able to sustain the use of ICT in education eliminates wastages and offers opportunities to improve practices. While there are studies that have looked at the implementation of mobile learning in educational institutions, particularly the identification of issues encountered, few studies have explored holistically the elements that sustain mobile learning. There is currently no model of sustainability for mobile learning in the literature. We dissect the findings of a longitudinal study of a secondary school adopting a mobile learning program and propose a person-centred sustainable model for mobile learning. The model is relevant for sustaining the general use ICT in education.

About the presenters

Patrick Barrett is a teacher of 15 years experience in primary and secondary schools both in Australia and the UK. He has worked as an Education Officer and Manager with the Qld Education Department and Parramatta Catholic Education for the past 15 years in the areas of computer networking and pedagogies. Patrick is pursuing a PhD from the University of SA.

Lisa Nash is the Librarian at the Parramatta Catholic Education Office and trains teachers in use of iPads for classroom use. Lisa has extensive experience in the management and use of iPads for learning in schools.

Wan Ng is Associate Professor in Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching and Science Education in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. Dr Howard Nicholas is Senior Lecturer in Language Education in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. They have been working on various aspects of learning with mobile devices for over six years in a wide range of educational contexts. Their research has documented attempts to implement and sustain initiatives for learning with mobile devices

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Allegory and Dramaturgy in Wagner’s Ring

Tuesday 4 December

Abstract:

Aside from its musical genius, Wagner’s Ring cycle remains one of the most staggering achievements of the 19th-century stage, and has continued to stimulate innovative dramaturgy amidst the present Wagner revival. This lecture will focus on two interrelated topics: the relationship between the figure of Wotan and political fields of force; and the role of Siegfried as a way into Wagnerian theatrical psychology—the composer/dramatist’s specific ‘system’ of thinking psychological motivation.

Biography:

Fredric R. Jameson is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. One of the leading cultural critics of our time, he is the author of Postmodernism, The Political Unconscious, The Modernist Papers, and Valences of the Dialectic, among others, and was the recipient of the Holberg Prize in 2008 and the MLA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

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University-based writers, who have come into universities from media communications and creative practice face, and have to find their own ways around very specific challenges, of authorial and self identity, when they make the transition to publishing as writer (journalist; novelist) and scholarly researcher.

How do writers who have identities in creative media, journalism, media and communications who have taken PhDs find their own authentic ways of moving from publishing as practitioners to publishing as scholars and researchers, based in universities – yet reaching out to wider audiences in both scholarly publishing and general educated readership?

What changes does this process and search bring about in identity as authors, and selves, how does this affect writers’ writing?

In what ways is this relatively new phenomenon in Australia creating new texts, new forms of authorship and new audiences? And new ways of reading?

Ruth Skilbeck, David McKnight and Bem Le Hunte, three writers at different stages, post PhD, talk about their own individual experiences, raise questions and discuss the challenges and discoveries of publishing (as more than ‘one’ authorial voice), in their own, fluid, nuanced voices, and identities– as polyphonic author/creative artist/journalism intellectuals, in the changing scholarly and commercial global publishing landscapes.

Dr David McKnight is a Senior Research Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW. He is the author of three books on topics diverse as contemporary politics, recent Australian history and international espionage. David also contributes regularly to the opinion pages of Australian newspapers.

Dr Bem le Hunte is a lecturer in the Journalism and Media Research Centre as well as a best-selling author, currently writing her fourth novel. She has worked for over twenty-three years as a creative director and written for over 500 clients across all media – from print and film to radio and digital. She recently gained her doctorate in creative writing from the University of Sydney.

Dr Ruth Skilbeck, is a lecturer in the Journalism and Media Research Centre as well as a widely published arts writer and journalist in Ireland, the UK, and Australia – where she started up an international media business specializing in arts feature writing. Since gaining her MA in Writing and PhD in 2007, from UTS, she has published 12 research articles in peer reviewed, scholarly journals and books.

Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed forever.

Drusilla Modjeska's sweeping novel takes us deep into this fascinating, complex country, whose culture and people cannot escape the march of modernity that threatens to overwhelm them. It is a riveting story of love, loss, grief and betrayal.

THE MOUNTAIN IS AT ONCE A LUMINOUS WORK OF FICTION AND AN ANATOMY OF IDEAS OF LIGHT AND ENLIGHTENMENT. IN THE ENTWINEMENT OF LARGE AND SMALLER HISTORIES MODJESKA BRINGS HER HONED TALENTS TO THE CREATION OF A MULTIFARIOUS, EXTRAORDINARY AND DAZZLING NOVEL THAT FEELS NOTHING LIKE A DEBUT'. 
-- WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

You can purchase THE MOUNTAIN on the night at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

'Drusilla Modjeska’s books include the award winning Exiles At Home, Poppy, The Orchard, Stravinsky’s Lunch. Her most recent novel, The Mountain, based on her experience of Papua New Guinea over thirty years, was published in May 2012. Drusilla grew up in England, travelling to Papua New Guinea in 1968 with her anthropologist husband. She moved to Australia in 1971, and has been re-visiting PNG since 2004. She lives in Sydney.

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His acclaimed first novel, The End of Longing, appeared in 2011 and his new work That Untravelled World has just been released.

Join Prof Reid as he discusses the process of writing historical fiction with excerpts from his published works.

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Featuring a post lecture discussion led by Prof Catharine Lumby.
Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW

Abstract: Dr Summers has created a sensation in both traditional and social media by arguing that Australia's prime minister has been subjected to sex discrimination and sexual harassment, as set out under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Fair Work Act 2009,.

In her lecture Dr Summers will discuss how Julia Gillard is being subjected to far worse than mere double standards. She will show that there is an entire industry of vilification, much of it sexually crude, all of it offensive and designed to undermine Gillard's authority and thus her legitimacy in the role as Australia’s first female prime minister.

Dr Summers argues that we ordinary citizens, regardless of our political views or affiliations, should say this is not acceptable; we should say: It Stops With Me.

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***please note new venue, New South Global Theatre, Level 1 Webster Building***

Presented by Uldis Ozolins, UWS and Sandra Hale, UNSW

The continuing flows of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers throughout the world place significant pressures on translating and interpreting services, particularly in finding competent practitioners in many small minority languages. Training is seen as a necessity for many such practitioners who are without qualifications and often without a professional understanding of the field. However, the small size of many of these language communities entails that established intepreting courses can often not find the number of students, or the teachers, to cater for these languages. Many attempts have been made internationally to provide short courses - often generic, sometimes language-specific, for these languages. After surveying such training internationally, this paper describes one such short course run for women in minority languages in Sydney, Australia in 2011, with an emphasis on domestic violence, health and law. The course prepared participants for work in these fields and to sit for Australia’s accreditaiton exams. The outcomes of the course, while positive in many ways, show the difficulties of short courses in getting a very diverse participant population to acceptable standards of interpreting.

DIS/CONNECTIONS draws together post graduate students from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to celebrate and strengthen our vibrant research culture and open a forum for making intellectual and interpersonal connections between disciplines and students.

This conference asks what kinds of engagements are possible if we suspend theoretical allegiances and open up our work to a broader audience. Will we find surprising points of commonality? Productive tensions between counter-posing views? Or does the project of transdisciplinarity produce a compromised approach to knowledge?

DIS/CONNECTIONS seeks experiential answers, and your contribution is vital. Please join us for 2 days of inspiration and 2 nights of intrigue.

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Featured events

Going Public: Intellectuals, Transformations, Responsibilities

Opening Night Keynote Panel

6pm Thursday 15 November

Michael Leunig

Professor Raewyn Connell

Dr James Arvanitakis

Hosted by A/Prof Sarah Maddison

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DIS/CONNECTIONS: Fielding Interdisciplinarity

Roundtable Discussion

5pm Friday 16 November

FASS Faculty luminaries panel hosted by Dr Chris Danta

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Beyond Historicism: Resituating Samuel Beckett

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)

Professor Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney)

Call for Papers:

***Deadline extended to 31 October 2012, at 5pm***

Download revised CFP notice

See conference page for more information

Trilogy images courtesy of Neven Udovičić

Biography
Dr Susen Smith has three decades of leadership, teaching and research experience from Pre K to Tertiary, with a diverse teaching background, having worked across Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Gifted and Special Education. She has been an academic at the Universities of Newcastle and New England - where she is an adjunct Senior Lecturer - appointed at the Associate Professor level for a Hong Kong project, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Gifted & Special Education at the University of NSW, and affiliated with GERRIC. She continues to work extensively with teachers on differentiating curriculum and pedagogy for diverse student needs in multi-disciplinary contexts, both in Australia and internationally. Her special interests include Differentiated pedagogy, Creativity in Gifted education, Dual-exceptionalities, Social and cultural needs of underachievers, Academic engagement and Authentic project-based learning. She has been an invited visiting scholar at international universities, presented her work at national and international conferences and is published internationally.

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Chair Prof Chris Davison

Abstract

In the popular imagination, educating about HIV and AIDS is often equated with the provision of information, in the belief that knowing about how HIV is transmitted will protect against infection. Yet, thirty years experience suggests that knowledge alone does not protect, and that education has much more to contribute than this. Many teachers, however, remain anxious about teaching about HIV, fearing that to talk openly about sex, sexuality and drug use will lay themselves open to criticism and abuse. This presentation describes some of the different forms of education about HIV that exist including education for prevention, treatment education, and education to reduce the social impact of HIV on individuals and communities. It reviews what has been learned about the effects and effectiveness of different kinds of work, and identifies the unique role of schools and teachers in responding to sexuality, drug use and HIV.

Biography

Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education and Health within the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW. Prior to taking up his present appointment he was Head of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex in the UK. Peter has worked internationally on the educational and social aspects of HIV and sexual health for over 25 years. He has written and edited over 30 books, including Health and Schools – Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools (Routledge, 2010, edited with Ian Warwick and Catherine Dennison) and Promoting Young People’s Sexual Health – International Perspectives (Routledge, 2007, edited with Roger Ingham). He chairs the Independent Review Group on HIV which reports to the National AIDS Council in Papua New Guinea.

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The Beyond the Last Sky symposium paves the way for new insight into Palestine, revealing the capacity for art, culture and dialogue to undermine stereotypes, facilitate understanding and explore notions of identity.

WHEN: Saturday 8 September 2012

Symposium 10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Film Screening: Picasso in Palestine 6pm – 7.30pm

WHERE: IO MYERS STUDIO, UNSW KENSINGTON

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Khaled HOURANI

OTHER SPEAKERS: Amal AWAD, Hal WOOTTEN, Assad ABDI, Naser SHAKHTOUR, Sohail DAHDAL, David MCNEILL, Peter SLEZAK, Chrisoula LIONIS

COST: $35 Full Price/Standard; $25 Concession/Student

REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL. Click link for further details and registration

EXHIBITION: The Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney presents contemporary Palestinian photography and video works from 1 September to 18 November 2012.

More Info Here: http://www.photoreview.com.au/news/acp-exhibits-contemporary-palestinian-photography-video

2011 Refugee Conference

Visit the 2011 Refugee Conference website to view presentations.

Biography:

Ilan Pappé (born 1954 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli historian, currently a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984–2007) and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000–2008).

At the age of 18, he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, serving in the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978, and in 1984 obtained his PhD in history from the University of Oxford, under the guidance of Arab historian Albert Hourani and Roger Owen. His doctoral thesis became his first book, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

The riches and diversity of world cinema are extensive and difficult to map. The cultural significance of broadcast television – across its many genres - is both obvious and hard to specify in aesthetic, social and historical terms. Moreover, both institutions, cinema and television, are being re-positioned within the wide open spaces of the world-wide web. Within the Academy the study of public image-making, public debate and the shaping of a public record has, arguably, been separated out into the departmental silos of ‘journalism’, ‘media’ and ‘film studies’. While the insights and methods of ‘cultural studies’ are variably situated in relationship to all three, and the fact/fiction border is patrolled with aggressive vigour or rejected as of little consequence.

In this talk Sylvia Harvey will argue that it is the idea of public space and the concept of a common good that might allow a more productive debate to connect the silos and, more generally, to open the doors of the Academy to the concerns and fears of a wider world.

Her examples are likely be the films Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran/Iraq, 2004) and We Went to War (Michael Grigsby & Rebekah Tolley, UK, 2012) along with brief consideration of the broadcasting policy themes of ‘public service’ and ‘spectrum use’.

Sylvia Harvey is Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, Institute of Communication Studies and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. She has published widely in the fields of film and broadcasting policy and taught in British higher education for 35 years. She is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Arts, a founder member of the Board of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, a member of the Royal Television Society and of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer.

For details about the two films Professor Harvey proposes to discuss:

WE WENT TO WAR

In 1970, a young British director Michael Grigsby made one of the first films about veterans returning home from the Vietnam war - the critically acclaimed and award winning I Was a Soldier. We Went to War sees filmmakers Michael Grigsby & Rebekah Tolley return to the stories of those once young Americans, now aged and scarred by lives lived far too brutally, far too young and finds a shared sense of understanding with so many of those returning from the frontline today.

See more at: http://www.wewenttowar.uk.com/EPK.html

TURTLES CAN FLY

The first feature film from Iraq after Saddam’s downfall, Bahman Ghobadi’s TURTLES CAN FLY is a masterpiece of profound tragedy, intense joy and breathtaking cinematography. TURTLES CAN FLY is set in a village on the border between Iran and Turkey, just as the world’s news networks announce the US led invasion of Iraq. The villagers desperately seek a satellite dish antenna to keep informed of the impending attack. No adult is up to the job so it falls to a 13-year-old boy called “Satellite” and his underage army to find the treasured antenna. There are plenty of laughs from these delightfully scrappy kids as they barter with American soldiers for the best price on old landmines. Arriving suddenly from a neighbouring village is a clairvoyant boy called Henkov. The war is getting closer and closer and Henkov has a strong sense of foreboding about what is going to happen…

You can read what David and Margaret had to say about it at: http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1439037.htm They both gave it 4 stars.

Considering a career change, professional development or research?

Find out what postgrad study in Arts and Social Sciences can do for you..............

Postgraduate Research | 3.30 - 5.00 pm 

Special event for those considering a Master by Research or PhD

This event will include a series of presentations on research degree opportunities in the arts, humanities and social sciences, admission, scholarships, supervision and the research student experience. An informal time will be available afterwards to discuss your research interests with our academic staff.

Postgraduate Coursework | 5.00 - 7.45 pm

Find out more about the diverse range of postgraduate programs we offer by coursework, both part-time and full-time. Attend detailed program information lectures and discuss your study and career interests with our staff.

• 5.00 - 7.45 General Information and Admission Tables (available throughout)

 • 5.30 - 7.20 Program Information Sessions (half hour lecture for each program)

Arts and Social Sciences postgraduate research candidates have just three minutes to give a compelling presentation about their thesis topic and its significance.

This is your opportunity to hear some of our brightest research candidates pitch their research ideas with only one powerpoint slide and 180 seconds.

Join us to support our research students in the 2012 FASS 3 Minute Thesis Competition.

The theatre stage is, by definition, surrounded and cut through by networks of connecting, shifting but often immaterial borders. Whether we can see them or not, they create moments of resistance, return, illusion, revelation – and the occasional full stop.

6 works from 36 students working alone and together, from the inside to outside, centre to the edge, over to the other side and sometimes up against it.

6 randomly selected groups bring a new ‘story’ for each viewer.

This project is the most recent in a series of performance-making processes prompted by the transference of various architectural phenomena into the performance space. Previous works have drawn on the door, the floor, the window, etc.

Working this time with the idea of walls – virtual, concrete and the four ‘notional’ stage walls - as prompts for content and thematics, but also as inspiration for staging elements and dramaturgical principles, these 6 short performances reflect highly individual approaches to making, working together and presenting. They offer a bank of rich and idiosyncratically-composed performance ideas.

6 events: colliding edges is a performance work created by the students of the course ARTS3124 Performance Production 2: Collaborative Making, in collaboration with performance lecturer Clare Grant and designer Paul Matthews with the production team of the CPRU.

Collaborative Making introduces participants to aspects of contemporary research-based collaborative performance practices. Students create their own material, producing performance actions and spoken texts, which are then brought together and shaped for the final performance in a range of forms.

The symposium, supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant will see the first ever scholarly conversation focused on the work of Shirley Hazzard, featuring distinguished scholars from Australia, the US and the UK. Hazzard’s writing will be considered in many different contexts, including for instance its literary and narrative ethics, its articulation of literal place in thechanging geographies of modernity, her distinctive stylistics of citation and aphorism, her political writing on the United Nations, and her relation to a range of literary fields – Twentieth Century Literature, Australian Literature, Women’s Writing.

Keynote Speakers:

Gail Jones, University of Western Sydney

John Frow, University of Melbourne

Presenters:

Claire Bowen, Dickinson College

Nicholas Birns, Eugene Lang College, The New School

Robert Dixon, University of Sydney

Michael Gorra, Smith College

Elizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales

Edward Mendelson, Columbia University

Fiona Morrison, University of New South Wales

Sharon Ouditt, Nottingham Trent University

Brigid Rooney, University of Sydney

Martin Stannard, University of Leicester

The symposium will commence with a public writers’ panel co-hosted by the New York Society Library.

The Literary Significance of Shirley Hazzard

The New York Society Library

September 7, 2012

The literary significance of Shirley Hazzard’s life and work will be discussed and celebrated by a panel of distinguished authors – novelist and critic Gail Jones; biographer Martin Stannard; poet and critic Jay Parini – and chaired by poet and editor Jonathan Galassi.

Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard has lived in New York and Capri since 1951. Internationally, she is one of the great writers of movement, passage, transposition and transit. Her novels trace the fate of a series of young expatriate female protagonists in the geographical and emotional vistas opening up after World War II, but before the social upheavals of feminism. They take her readers into moral territory that is at once utterly sure and breached at every turn, with the certainties of romance forms tested by human vulnerability and the often brutal social and political canvas of modern life.

She has published four novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1966), The Bay of Noon (1970), The Transit of Venus (1980) and The Great Fire (2003); two collections of stories: Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963) and People in Glass Houses (1967); two monographs on the United Nations: Defeat of An Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations (1973) and Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case (1990); a memoir of her friend Graham Greene: Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000); and, most recently, a collection of her own and her late husband Francis Steegmuller’s occasional writings on Naples: The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples (2008). She has received major literary awards including the 2003 US National Book Award, the 2004 Miles Franklin Award, the 2005 William Dean Howells Medal for best American novel, the 1981 US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, the 1977 O. Henry Short Story Award; and has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the (‘Lost’) Man Booker prize. She is a Fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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David: Ancient or Modern

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Professor Quentin Skinner

Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities

Queen Mary, University of London

Perhaps the most widely accepted understanding of the idea of personal freedom is that it can be defined in negative terms as absence of interference. My lecture begins by noting that, because the concept of interference is such a complex one, this general agreement has turned out to be compatible with a great deal of disagreement about the conditions under which it may be legitimate to claim that freedom has been infringed. I am chiefly concerned, however, with those writers who have wished to challenge the core assumption that freedom is best understood as absence of interference. Some doubt whether the presence of freedom is best defined in terms of an absence at all, and instead attempt to connect freedom with specific patterns of moral behaviour But other critics -- on whom my lecture will end by focusing -- agree that the presence of freedom is best understood as the absence of something, while arguing that freedom fundamentally consists in the absence not of acts of interference but rather of broader conditions of arbitrary domination and dependence. I conclude by noting some of the implications of this view of freedom for the proper conduct of democratic government.

Biography

Quentin Skinner is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Over a distinguished career he has held many prestigious appointments, including Professor of Political Science and Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous works on political theory and intellectual history, and his ‘Foundations of Modern Political Thought’ was nominated by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books published since the second world war.

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Professor Dan Goodley - Manchester Metropolitan University

Why is disability understood as a problem that resides in the individual? What is ‘the individual’ and what kinds of individuals are valued by contemporary society? How have the social and human sciences contributed to common sense understandings of what it means to be an individual? When we think of the ‘disabled person’ what frames of reference do we draw on to judge that personhood? What dominant ‘other’ is the disabled individual expected to judge themselves against? This talk addresses these questions by considering the individual to be a problematic phenomenon, cherished and reified by capitalist societies of the Global North that must be challenged by disability studies. Special mention is made about the role of psychologisation in the making of the ‘ideal’ individual. Alternative critical psychological ideas of personhood are offered which fit more readily with a politics of disability.

Dan Goodley, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research and teaching aims to shake up dominant myths in psychology as well as contributing, in some small way, to the development of critical disability studies theories that understand and eradicate disablism. Recent publications include Disability Studies: An interdisciplinary introduction (London: Sage). He is convenor of the Critical Disability Studies research community at MMU. http://cdsmmu.posterous.com/

Professor Wan Ng is Associate Professor in Technology-Enabled Learning and Teaching (TELT) and Science Education at the University of New South Wales. Before joining UNSW, she was Associate Dean (International) and Senior Lecturer in Science & Technology Education in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. Prior to beginning an academic career in Education in 2002 at La Trobe University, Wan has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Biochemistry at Monash University and has taught for more than 10 years (spanning all of the 1990s) in secondary schools where she held various positions of responsibilities at both school and state levels. She has won several awards as a science teacher, including a Shell Science Teacher and a BHP award. Current Research in Science Education (Sept 24, 25, 27, 28 9am-4pm) will examine key issues and their implications relevant to science education through critical analysis of current research findings, theories and practices. Underpinned by discussion of historical and philosophical perspectives on science education, students will examine issues relating to:

• scientific literacy and the role of the science teacher as mediator and facilitator of students’ knowledge construction
• the influences of teachers’ beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge
• debates about science learning theories and practices and contemporary approaches to teaching and learning science
• the role of ICT in science education
• place of science in formal and informal education
• inclusive science education
• curriculum changes and trends in school science
• national and international trends in assessing scientific literacy and understanding

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THE MOUNTAIN

In conversation with Stephanie Bishop, UNSW

Io Myers Studio

Tuesday 9 October at 6pm

'A novel as intricate and powerful as the bark-cloth paintings at its heart' -- Anna Funder

In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in The Mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through generations, and Rika is immediately struck by their paintings on a cloth made of bark.

Rika and Leonard are also confronted with the new university in Moresby, where intellectual ambition and the idealism of youth are creating friction among locals such as Milton - a hot-headed young playwright - and visiting westerners, such as Martha, to whom Rika becomes close. But it is when Rika meets brothers Jacob and Aaron that all their lives are changed forever.

Drusilla Modjeska's sweeping novel takes us deep into this fascinating, complex country, whose culture and people cannot escape the march of modernity that threatens to overwhelm them. It is a riveting story of love, loss, grief and betrayal.

THE MOUNTAIN IS AT ONCE A LUMINOUS WORK OF FICTION AND AN ANATOMY OF IDEAS OF LIGHT AND ENLIGHTENMENT. IN THE ENTWINEMENT OF LARGE AND SMALLER HISTORIES MODJESKA BRINGS HER HONED TALENTS TO THE CREATION OF A MULTIFARIOUS, EXTRAORDINARY AND DAZZLING NOVEL THAT FEELS NOTHING LIKE A DEBUT'. 
-- WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

'Drusilla Modjeska’s books include the award winning Exiles At Home, Poppy, The Orchard, Stravinsky’s Lunch. Her most recent novel, The Mountain, based on her experience of Papua New Guinea over thirty years, was published in May 2012. Drusilla grew up in England, travelling to Papua New Guinea in 1968 with her anthropologist husband. She moved to Australia in 1971, and has been re-visiting PNG since 2004. She lives in Sydney.

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Purchase THE MOUNTAIN on the night at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

The next public debate has been confirmed for August 28th with Associate Professor David Evans from the University of Sydney, and Ms Jill Dean, President of the Special Education Principals' & Leaders' Association (NSW SSP Principals' Network), discussing the topic, 'Curriculum for All: Are we There Yet?'. A lively discussion involving all attendees will follow focusing on the extent to which the national curriculum reflects the needs of students with disabilities. This will be of great interest to those who are concerned with issues of equity and inclusion more broadly.

Associate Professor David Evans

Dr Evans is Associate Professor of Special Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. He is the convenor of the special and inclusive education designation in the Faculty and Director of the Bachelor of Education Honours program. His research interests include design of curriculum to meet the needs of students with special education needs, and evidence-based practices in special education.

Curriculum for all, are we there yet? by David Evans

The development of the Australian curriculum provided opportunities to address a number of equity issues in the provision of education to our children and youth. It provided a chance to address a number of barriers, and remove them or at least reduce their impact on students learning. One group of students who encounter more than their share of barriers are students with disabilities and additional learning needs. This contribution to the public debate will focus on key issues that have faced the development of a curriculum for all students – attitudes of all involved in the provision of education to our students, curriculum design in the shadow of the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and involvement of students themselves in developing a person centred educational approach. It would appear we still have some way to go in getting all key players travelling in the same direction.

Jill Dean

Jill Dean is Principal of Glendon Special School in Newcastle. Glendon School has 80 students with multiple and complex disabilities, under the age of 10 years. She is also President of the Special Education Principals' and Leaders' Association NSW and NSW Executive Council member for the Australian Special Education Principals' Association. For the past thirty years she has worked with students with multiple and complex needs both in mainstream and special education settings in NSW and England.

Curriculum for all, are we there yet? by Jill Dean

The Australian Curriculum has provided an ideal opportunity to develop a relevant framework for learning that is inclusive of all students. While ever the learning needs of all students with disabilities, including those with severe, multiple and complex needs, are not built into the original design of the curriculum, a "bolt on" afterthought mentality, runs the risk of not providing a fully inclusive curriculum.

The discussion will take place on Tuesday 28th August from 4 to 5pm at the John Goodsell Building, Rm.119, UNSW, Kensington campus. 

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TIM BURROWES, JULIAN DISNEY, CATHARINE LUMBY

 

Media convergence is a hotly debated topic and this seminar brings together leaders in this field. Tim Burrowes, Mumbrella and Encore Editor-in-chief, Professor Julian Disney is Director of the Social Justice Project, at UNSW and Chair of the Australian Press Council, and Professor Catharine Lumby is Director of the Journalism Media Research Centre at UNSW.

Don’t miss this conversation which will range across topics such as content creation and media ownership.

Media Convergence – A Panel Discussion

TIM BURROWES, JULIAN DISNEY, CATHARINE LUMBY

 

Media convergence is a hotly debated topic and this seminar brings together leaders in this field. Tim Burrowes, Mumbrella and Encore Editor-in-chief, Professor Julian Disney is Director of the Social Justice Project, at UNSW and Chair of the Australian Press Council, and Professor Catharine Lumby is Director of the Journalism Media Research Centre at UNSW.

Don’t miss this conversation which will range across topics such as content creation and media ownership.

VIC ALHADEFF

South Africa's apartheid regime imposed draconian laws on the media. As chief sub-editor of The Cape Times, Vic Alhadeff was directly involved in their application. He was also involved in South Africa's Watergate - the uncovering by journalists of a scandal whereby the government used millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase media outlets around the world so that they would support the apartheid regime.

Alhadeff will also discuss his role as Editor of the Australian Jewish News, including covering meetings in the Kremlin, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the first Gulf War and the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister.

In this seminar, Vic Alhadeff, Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Board of Deputies will discuss the perils of being a journalist in Apartheid South Africa, and his experiences as Editor of the Australian Jewish News. Vic Alhadeff who lived and worked as a journalist in South Africa for many years, is now Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Board of Deputies.

South Africa's apartheid regime imposed draconian laws on the media. As chief sub-editor of The Cape Times, Vic Alhadeff was directly involved in their application. He was also involved in South Africa's Watergate - the uncovering by journalists of a scandal whereby the government used millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase media outlets around the world so that they would support the apartheid regime.

Alhadeff will also discuss his role as Editor of the Australian Jewish News, including covering meetings in the Kremlin, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the first Gulf War and the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister.

In this seminar, Vic Alhadeff, Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Board of Deputies will discuss the perils of being a journalist in Apartheid South Africa, and his experiences as Editor of the Australian Jewish News. Vic Alhadeff who lived and worked as a journalist in South Africa for many years, is now Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Board of Deputies.

HIGH SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT EVENT

The University of New South Wales in association with the Asia Education Foundation would like to invite secondary teachers and high school students to “Opening a Door into Asia” – a special half-day program designed to showcase the importance of understanding and engaging with Asia.

This half-day event is an opportunity to celebrate the work high schools has been undertaking to prepare your students for the 21st century – “the Asia century”.

A range of activities will be offered to students including:

• country specific workshops
• presentations from students and graduates

Please click here to view a video of last years event.

Date: Thursday 19th July 2012

Time: 12:15 – 1:30pm (Presentation and discussion)

1:30 – 3pm (Research and other collaborations; further discussion for those interested)

Room: Level 3, Room 310, Morven Brown building

You are invited to a seminar and discussion with Robert Nurick, Head of Teaching at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Sussex, United Kingdom. IDS is one of the best known global leaders in research and teaching around development issues.

Robert will provide a brief overview of the Development Studies field in the UK, will introduce the Institute and its areas of focus, and will discuss innovative approaches to learning and teaching in this field. The seminar will be informal, with opportunities to discuss both their teaching and learning approaches and, in the latter part of the meeting, to explore other forms of collaboration and engagement between IDS and UNSW, amongst other issues.

A light lunch will be provided and all staff and students are welcome to attend.

Please RSVP to jessica.mcgowan@unsw.edu.au by Tuesday 17th July.

Biography
Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education and Health within the National Centre in HIV Social Research at UNSW. Prior to taking up his present appointment he was Head of the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex in the UK. Peter has worked internationally on the educational and social aspects of HIV and sexual health for over 25 years. He has written and edited over 30 books, including Health and Schools – Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools (Routledge, 2010, edited with Ian Warwick and Catherine Dennison) and Promoting Young People’s Sexual Health – International Perspectives (Routledge, 2007, edited with Roger Ingham). He chairs the Independent Review Group on HIV which reports to the National AIDS Council in Papua New Guinea.

To register for the event please click here. 

Gallery 1, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington

All welcome, registration essential.

RSVP by Friday 20 July
William Balfour, FASS Events Coordinator
fassevents@unsw.edu.au
9385 8512

Roger Wilkins is a labour economist who has worked at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research since 2001. He is Deputy Director (Research) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, Australia’s only nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. Roger's research interests include the nature, causes and consequences of earnings outcomes and labour force status outcomes; labour market outcomes for immigrants, persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups; determinants and dynamics of household wealth; and issues of income inequality, poverty and welfare dependence. RSVP Here.

This paper will look at various factors that affect gender equality on a cross-national basis. Firstly it will consider education trends, their effect on economic growth and whether ability or attitudes drive educational choices made by girls and boys, and how these choices effect employment patterns. Gender differences in employment outcomes are many, and the discussion will summarise the key issues by identifying drivers of female labour supply and the main factors effecting gender pay gaps. It will also discuss policy levers as parental leave or measures to increase representation of women in senior management and on company boards.

The paper will also point to how paternal and maternal employment participation may affect child development and family poverty, but also how greater gender equality in paid and unpaid work outcomes may increase income inequality across families. The paper will conclude by looking ahead and look at how greater gender equality in economic outcomes may affect future growth patterns while also considering the challenges population ageing may pose to social-economic participation of families in the future.

Willem Adema, Willem currently leads a team of analysts of Family and Children policies and is responsible for the on-line OECD Family database and the Doing Better for Families Policy publication (April 2011). Working with colleagues across the OECD he is project manager of the OECD Gender Initiative and his other responsibilities include the OECD Social Expenditure database and a labour market and social policy review of Russia. He has written extensively on a wide range of labour market, fiscal and welfare policy issues and was editor of the first issue of Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators. Willem was project manager and editor of the OECD Babies and Bosses Reviews on the reconciliation of Work and Family Life. Willem graduated from the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, and holds a doctorate from St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

Ambassador Colin Keating

Distinguished Diplomat
Member of the UN Security Council 1993 - 1994
New Zealand 

Colin Keating is an independent adviser on international affairs. He was the founding Executive Director of Security Council Report in New York and concurrently a Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. He represented New Zealand on the Security Council in 1993 and 1994, and was Security Council President during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He led the Security Council mission to Somalia, chaired the committee for Sanctions Against Iraq, and served as co-chair of the General Assembly working group on UN Reform.

ABSTRACT

Australia is standing for election to the UN Security Council this year. It was last a member of the Security Council in 1986. Since then the world has changed dramatically. We have seen the end of the Cold War and a whole new peace and security environment. However, the Security Council has been slow to adapt to these new realities. There have been significant failures – not least the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia. The Security Council has also struggled to manage prolonged conflict in Somalia and Darfur and many other places. An important question for Australians, therefore, in the lead up to membership on the Council, is how Australia will respond to these policy challenges. What are the problems and what options may exist over the next two years?

Time: 12: 30 for 12:45 - 1:45

Venue: New South Global Theatre, Ground Floor, Webster Building, New South Global Theatre, UNSW Kensington

RSVP HERE:

The Confucius Institute at UNSW is proud to host a public lecture on Confucian Role Ethics by Professor Roger Ames, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. Professor

Catriona Mackenzie, Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University and Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, will be responding to Professor Ames’ address

Tuesday 10 July, 2012. 6pm for 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Central Lecture Block (CLB) Theatre 7, Kensington Campus (PDF) (2 Mb) (Map reference E19)

Précis of Professor Ames’ Lecture: “In the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy, we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. This holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered, a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions.”

This event is open to the public and is free. However, bookings are essential.

Please RSVP here

or contact Benedict Porter at the Confucius Institute on (02) 9385 8996

Professor Ames will also be speaking at the New South Wales Art Gallery on Saturday, 7 July at 2pm. Click here for more details.

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Professor Roger Ames: Dr Roger T. Ames joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i as an Assistant Professor in 1978. He received his doctorate from the University of London and has spent many years abroad in China and Japan studying Chinese philosophy. He has been Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Peking University, a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at various universities around the world. Professor Ames has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including the Regents' Merit and Excellence in Teaching 1990-91, and many grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Ames has authored, edited, and translated some 30 books, and has written numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals. He was the subject editor for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Currently he continues to work on interpretive studies and explicitly "philosophical" translations of the core classical texts, taking full advantage in his research of the exciting new archaeological finds.



Professor Catriona Mackenzie. Dr Catriona Mackenzie has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy (ANU, 1983) and a PhD in Philosophy (ANU, 1992). She has taught at the ANU, Monash University, Macquarie University and Utrecht University. Catriona is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics. She is a current member of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of the ARC College of Experts. Her research expertise is in moral psychology, social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy and applied ethics.

The session will be run as small group and plenary discussions, drawing upon participants’ experiences and expertise, with opportunities to share the themes and issues emerging. The discussions will be based around resources and discussion questions devised by Professor Suresh Canagarajah.

Professor Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at Penn State University. He has a joint appointment in the departments of English and Applied Linguistics. He started his teaching career in Sri Lanka. He is currently the President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. He edited the TESOL Quarterly from 2005 to 2009.

This half day workshop is a fantastic opportunity for those in the TESOL/Education sector to enhance their knowledge and interact with one of the world leaders in Applied Linguistics study. Morning tea and light refreshments are included in the $50 registration fee. 

Click here to register. 

With the influx of immigrants and migrant workers into Korea, the need for court interpreting in criminal, civil and family matters has increased in recent years. However, there is no standardized interpreter accreditation system in Korea, and formal interpreter education programs are largely focused on conference interpreter training. Although quality court interpreting should be provided for due process across the board, low remuneration and lack of professional recognition for court interpreting do not attract competent interpreters. Empirical evidence suggests variations in the quality in court interpreting and its practice. This presentation will present the results of two studies with different approaches, qualitative and quantitative. A questionnaire-based survey of 139 legal professionals and 48 interpreters canvassed aspects of the participants’ profiles such as work experience and interpreting training, and their views on the role of court interpreters and various aspects of accuracy in court interpreting. The results indicate that under the current system of court interpreting, courts fail to ensure that quality interpreting is provided, which disadvantages participants from non-Korean speaking backgrounds.

Jieun Lee, a former Lecturer at Macquarie University, is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation of Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. Earning her Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation of Hankuk University in Seoul, Korea in 1995 and received her second Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University in 2005. She has written a PhD thesis Issues and Challenges in Interpreter-Mediated Courtroom Examination: A discourse-analytic study. Her research papers have been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Linguistics, Multilingua, Interpreting, The Interpreter Translator Trainer, and International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. She has a wide range of interpreting and translation experiences in both conference settings and community settings.

Biography

Margaret Gleeson is a visiting lecturer from the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.

She began her career teaching English in secondary schools and has since taught in both the secondary and tertiary education sectors in New Zealand and overseas. She taught adult new learners of English and adults with limited literacy skills on courses integrating literacy development with work-skills content. Currently, she teaches adult literacy tutors.

She worked with subject teachers and ESOL teachers in Wellington secondary schools from 2005 to 2010 as a professional development advisor, and prior to this was Head of ESOL/International students in a large secondary school.

Nowadays, she prepares student-teachers and experienced teachers to teach linguistically diverse students, and supervises local and international postgraduate students who have an interest in aspects of language and literacy education.

Her PhD study investigated how subject teachers in New Zealand secondary schools teach academic language to support English Language Learners within their subject classes, and explored their understanding of the relationship between subject matter and language

To register for this event please click here. 

Biography
Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in the Departments of English and Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. He had his early education in the war-torn northern region of Sri Lanka where he taught English language and literature for students from mostly rural backgrounds at the University of Jaffna. Later, he joined the faculty at the City University of New York (Baruch College and the Graduate Center) where he taught multilingual urban students for a decade. His book Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (OUP, 1999) won Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best research publication on the teaching of language and literacy. His subsequent publication Geopolitics of Academic Writing (UPittsburgh Press 2002) won the Gary Olson Award for the best book in social and rhetorical theory. His study of World Englishes in Composition won the 2007 Braddock Award for the best article in the College Composition and Communication journal.

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Dr Susan Cahill, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University

Tuesday 26th June 2012 @ 4pm

Location: Room 137 Robert Webster Building

“Girlhood/Empire/Nation: Irish Girls’ Literary Cultures 1870-1920”

This paper explores the proliferation of fiction aimed at girls, written by Irish women between 1870-1920 such as L.T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland, Flora Shaw, and J.M Callwell. Despite its contemporary popularity, this is a literature that is critically neglected, due perhaps to its middle-class, young, female audience; its associations with popular culture; and its Victorian outlook, at odds with the literary project of the Irish Literary Revival. This paper explores the resonances of the Irish girl as a literary figure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thinking about the books produced for and about her. It will investigate the complex ways in which these writers construct Irish girlhood in the period, negotiating between British colonial constructions of the “wild Irish girl”, and both colonial and nationalist representations of Ireland in feminine form such as Hibernia, Mother Ireland, Cathleen Ní Houlihan and Roisin Dubh. In examining such writing, Irish girlhood is revealed to encompass multiple articulations that intersect with discourses from philanthropy to consumerism, and nationalism to colonialism.

Dr Susan Cahill is an Assistant Professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University. Her research interests include Irish children’s literature and contemporary Irish literature, particularly women’s writing. Her monograph, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years: Gender, Bodies, Memory, has just been published by Continuum. A collection of essays on Booker prize winning author, Anne Enright, co-edited with Dr Claire Bracken, was also recently published by Irish Academic Press. She has also published on historical children’s literature, gender and the body in contemporary Irish fiction, and fairytale cinema.

Tens of thousands of Western English-language ‘teachers’ are employed in public education in China, including universities. Little has previously been known, except anecdotally, about their experiences or their effects, and this lecture sheds light on this important but little understood intercultural meeting place. It is based on a four-year longitudinal study that goes beyond the classroom, addressing broader questions about China’s evolving relationship with the outside world. The main finding is the phenomenon of ‘performing foreigners’: Western teachers who are expected to behave as prototypical Westerners, as this is constructed locally, in part as a foil against which to define the Chinese Self. This results in tension between teachers’ perceived role and the performances expected of them. The participants also reflect on transnationalism in Shanghai more widely, including a discussion of intercultural gender relations and the elevated sexual appeal of Western men. This is contextualised against China’s simultaneous distrust, but also fetishisation, of the West. As China rises, this study provides a timely account of Chinese Occidentalism and what this means both for the West but also for China itself.

Biography
Dr Phiona Stanley started her TESOL career twenty years ago as a CELTA-trained, fresh-out-of uni, 'backpacker teacher' in Peru, and since then stayed in the TESOL industry and moved 'up' and 'around': she has worked in language school management and teacher training in Poland, China, the UK, Qatar and Australia, and has been a CELTA trainer, a Cambridge examiner, and an Editor of English language textbooks at Oxford University Press. Phiona is interested in sojourning teachers’ careers and professional lives and also in their transnational experiences and ‘outsider’ cultural identities. With an interdisciplinary research approach, Phiona has published work in the fields of linguistics, sociology, and gender studies as well as in education. Phiona's PhD also won the Monash University doctoral medal and the postgraduate research award of the International Education Association of Australia. Phiona's most recent work, a book entitled, ‘A Critical ethnography of Westerners teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai’ will be available from Routledge in November 2012.

To register for this event please click here. 

Prof Dan Goodley

Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies,

Manchester Metropolitan University

Developments in Critical Disability Studies: Implications for research and theory

Setting the context …………….

I have been trying recently to articulate what could be meant by a critical disability studies approach. My recent book (Disability Studies: an interdisciplinary introduction, Sage 2011) and a forthcoming paper (with Helen Meekosha, Critical disability studies: A review essay, for Critical Sociology), account for this emerging trans-disciplinary space through reference to a number of emerging insights including theorizing through materialism; bodies that matter; inter/transectionality; Global disability studies and self and Other. Many of these insights are developed further; by authors in a book I have edited with Bill Hughes and Lenny Davis (Disability and Social Theory, Palgrave McMillan, due late 2011). In this session I want to briefly dis/entangle some themes of critical disability studies and their implications for disability studies and research. While we may well start with disability I will suggest that we should never end with it as we learn from other transformative arenas including feminist, critical race and queer theories. Some questions to address during the session could be:

• Is there such a thing as critical disability studies and what, indeed, makes something critical?

• Does critical disability studies capture what Tanya Tichkosky has termed the becoming crisis in disability studies?

• Might critical disability studies be an appropriate location for Australian disability studies researchers to occupy given the hitherto dominance of Anglo-American models of disability theory and research articulated by such scholars as Helen Meekosha and Margrit Shildrick?

• Is there a danger that critical disability studies becomes a new orthodoxy: entranced by theory and devoid of connection with politics and practice?

How do we make sense of the research data we collect? What kinds of theoretical ideas do we use to make sense of data? How do our participants emerge from our analysis? To what extent is theory choice a political or human act? What are the dangers of disability discourse?

The session will focus on the story of Rosie: a young disabled person. Four analyses of Rosie will be offered in order to demonstrate some of the dangers and possibilities of particular disability discourse including:

• The autism canon: a medical model
• A Nordic relational approach
• A social model/materialist reading
• A cultural lens
• A poststructuralist account

Who is eligible?

Postgraduate research students enrolled in Masters or PhD programs in FASS undertaking disability studies related theses.

How to apply

Complete the application form and return by JULY 16 to:

Dr Leanne Dowse
School of Social Sciences
Rm G31, Morven Brown Building UNSW Sydney 2052
l.dowse@unsw.edu.au

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE ADVISED OF THE OUTCOME OF THEIR APPLICTION TO ATTEND BY JULY 30 2012 

with Professor Dan Goodley, Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

Setting the context ................

I have been trying recently to articulate what could be meant by a critical disability studies approach. My recent book (Disability Studies: an interdisciplinary introduction, Sage 2011) and a forthcoming paper (with Helen Meekosha, Critical disability studies: A review essay, for Critical Sociology), account for this emerging trans-­‐disciplinary space through reference to a number of emerging insights including theorizing through materialism; bodies that matter; inter/transectionality; Global disability studies and self and Other. Many of these insights are developed further; by authors in a book I have edited with Bill Hughes and Lenny Davis (Disability and Social Theory, Palgrave McMillan, due late 2011). In this session I want to briefly dis/entangle some themes of critical disability studies and their implications for disability studies and research. While we may well start with disability I will suggest that we should never end with it as we learn from other transformative arenas including feminist, critical race and queer theories. Some questions to address during the session could be:

• Is there such a thing as critical disability studies and what, indeed, makes something critical?
• Does critical disability studies capture what Tanya Tichkosky has termed the becoming crisis in disability studies?
• Might critical disability studies be an appropriate location for Australian disability studies researchers to occupy given the hitherto dominance of Anglo-­‐American models of disability theory and research articulated by such scholars as Helen Meekosha and Margrit Shildrick?
• Is there a danger that critical disability studies becomes a new orthodoxy: entranced by theory and devoid of connection with politics and practice?

PLACES ARE LIMITED TO RESERVE A PLACE RSVP BY AUG 6 TO: L.Dowse@unsw.edu.au

With his new book Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice just off the press, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, will be speaking about his latest ideas on “doing things with the media”.

Nick Couldry’s trip to Australia has been generously supported by The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University and The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

UNSW Open Day is your chance to see the University up close, meet the lecturers and chat to current students. Have your questions answered and find the right information to help you choose your ideal degree at UNSW. Discover what its like to be a student and a part of our vibrant student community.

Our Campus will be packed with interactive ways for you to discover what studying here will be like. Consider attending a lecture, touring our campus or enjoy live music on the lawn.

Open Day Workshop - What is Development Studies? - REGISTER HERE

Open Day Workshop - What are the Environmental Humanities? - REGISTER HERE

LECTURES

CLB Central Lecture Block Mat A/B Mathews Theatres Web 327/334 Robert Webster Building Room 327 Room 334 Web A/B Webster Theatres New South New South Global Theatre, Robert Webster Building Clancy John Clancy Auditorium (see Campus Map)

ACTIVITIES

Performing Arts Tours
Considering music, dance or theatre and performance studies?

Join us for a tour of the facilities you’ll have access to as a UNSW student. Tours will leave from the foyer of the Robert Webster Building (G14) at 9.30am, 10.30am, 1.30pm and 2.30pm.

Live Music Stage

Thinking about a music degre in 2013?

Check out some of the tlaented students from our program, and test your rhythm skills in an African drum workshop.

Stage Timetable:

Sally Horton 10:00 - 10:30

Traffic Jam 10:30 - 12:00

African Drum Workshop 12:15 - 1:00

Honours Showcase
Ever wondered what an Honours year might look like in creative and performing arts?

From media installations to screenings you can experience the creative talent of our fourth year Honours students, showcased by our Creative Practice & Research Unit in the Io Myers Studio (D9) from 10am to 3.30pm.

Workshop - What is Development Studies?
How do issues around poverty, human rights, peace, conflict, and trade affect different people in different parts of the world? In this interactive workshop we will discuss these questions, questions that are at the core of Development Studies at UNSW. We will also explore the ways images, stereotypes, and politics affect what we understand as poverty in the contemporary world.
1.15pm to 2pm - Register now

Workshop -What are the Environmental Humanities?
Environmental damage, species loss and climate change are perhaps the preeminent social and political issues of our time. Join us for an interactive workshop where we will be exploring the role that the humanities and social sciences play in understanding contemporary environmental debates. We will be looking at a range of images, film clips and contemporary artwork that are indicative of the ways we engage with and value the natural world – issues that are at the heart of the major in Environmental Humanities at UNSW.
11.15am to 12noon - Register now

BLOOMSDAY ON BONDI 2012

In partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland Sydney, Waverley Council, the Irish Echo newspaper and O'Punksky's Theatre, the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies presents Bloomsday on Bondi for 2012.

Date: Saturday 16th June 2012

Location: The Pavilion, Bondi Beach

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Ulysses comes to the iconic Bondi Pavilion for the first time ever

Since 1954, Bloomsday has been observed the world over to mark the 16th of June, 1904, the day Joyce chose for his modernist masterpiece.

Follow Stephen Dedalus along Dublin’s sandy shores, discuss astronomy with Leopold Bloom, and gossip about garters with Bloom’s frisky wife, Molly.

Joyce brought Dublin to the world through the eyes of ordinary people thinking extraordinary thoughts and changed literature forever.

Presented by UNSW (Global Irish Studies), The Consulate General of Ireland, O’Punsky’s Theatre and the Irish Echo, Bloomsday on Bondi features edited excerpts and rehearsed readings by luminaries of Australian cultural life including former federal minister Susan Ryan AO, writers Mark Dapin, Ursula Dubosarsky and Suzanne Leal, journalist Susan Wydham, poet Jamie Grant and actors Chris Haywood and Zoe Carides to name a few.

Actors from O’Punsky’s Theatre will perform moved readings from Ulysses, directed by Maeliosa Stafford (Abbey Theatre, Druid Theatre.)

Unapologetically intellectual, Ulysses is also raw, hilarious, passionate and bawdy. From morning ‘til midnight, Joyce’s Ulysses writes the sounds of the city with poetic precision. For the power of Joyce’s words, the audience is encouraged not only to read Ulysses – but to hear it!

The day’s events include two ticketed events and two free events.

10.00 - 12.00 :: Breakfast with Buck Mulligan (ticketed session, breakfast included*)

12.00 - 16.00 :: Individual and group readings from Ulysses (free session)

16.00 - 18.00 :: Film screening: Nora (2000) (18+, free session)

19.30 - 21.15 :: Readings by O’Punksky’s Theatre (ticketed event*)

Irish music played throughout the day. Bar open from 12pm. Guinness on tap.

Tickets

*** Tickets numbers are limited so book today to ensure a place ***

Bloomsday Breakfast Session $15

Bloomsday Evening Session with rehearsed readings with O'Punksky's Theatre Group $20

Book tickets here

Convenor: Dr Saliha Delmessous (University of New South Wales)
Participants include:
Daniel Richter (University of Pennsylvania)
Tamar Herzog (Stanford University)
Tracey Banivanua-Mar (La Trobe University)
Alain Beaulieu (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Saliha Belmessous (University of New South Wales)
Rober Travers (Cornell University)
Damen Ward (Victoria University of Wellington)
Arthur Weststeijn (Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome / The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome)

The Semester 2 Undergraduate Welcome for incoming students will feature an introduction to the Faculty from the Dean, Professor James Donald as well as presentations from the Careers & Employment Centre, International Exchange, UNSW Library, Arc at UNSW and a current FASS student.

RSVP Online:

Campus map & transport:

www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps

Lunch and refreshments will be provided

Welcoming incoming Postgraduate Coursework students will be the Dean of the Faculty, Professor James Donald, a Postgraduate Coursework convenor, as well as presentations from Student Development - International and Arc at UNSW

RSVP Online:

Campus map & transport:

www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps

2012 SO, WHAT? LECTURE SERIES 


What do we owe one another? New directions in thinking about community


The globalization of social (economic, cultural, environmental) relations has generated a new need for people who have little or nothing in common with others to create community with each other without giving up their differences. The traditional understanding of community was that people want to be together because they feel that they share something, if only the same portion of the world. So what does it mean that people now want or need to be in communities without having anything in common, no shared territories or identities or even values? How can a bond between people be established when there is nothing that unites them? How can radical difference make for communal forms of life? Recent continental philosophy has struggled with these kinds of paradoxes. In this lecture I shall discuss one contribution to these questions found in the work of the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. This work brings to light two dimensions of community that have so far not been taken into proper account: First, the idea that community reflects an economical relation where an infinite debt ties the members to each other through continuous gift-giving. Second, the idea that community is inscribed in the horizon of life and reaches beyond the human to all forms of life. In contrast to the communist, communitarian and communicative understandings of community, this presentation argues for what could be called a biopolitical conception of community.

Biography

Vanessa Lemm, PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, USA (2002), Master in Philosophy from King’s College University of London, England (1993), Postgraduate degree in Philosophy (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondis) (1994), Bachelor in Philosophy (Licence) (1992) and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy (D.E.U.G) (1992) from Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She is Professor in Philosophy and Head of School of the School of Humanities of the University of New South Wales. She is also a recurrent Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Institute of Humanities at the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile and taught at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Potsdam as a DAAD Guest Professor in 2010-2011.

Her research focuses on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; contemporary political thought; biopolitics; the question of the animal; philosophy of culture and cultures of memory; theories of justice and the gift. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009). This book has been translated to Spanish (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010) and is also forthcoming in German with Diaphanes Verlag (2012). She has edited volumes on Hegel and Foucault. She is currently completing two edited volumes on Nietzsche as well as a monograph on Nietzsche and contemporary political thought forthcoming in Spanish with Fondo de Cultura Económica at the end of this year.

Prof Vanessa Lemm Interview

Listen to an interview of Prof Vanessa Lemm with Wendy Harmer of Radio National's Life Matters program here

Want to find out about options for semester 2 entry?

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is hosting an Academic Advising Day on Tuesday 26 June

Video Projects introduces students to developing, researching, creating and circulating screen-based, low-budget, digital narratives. The course invites students to express themselves cinematically, exploring narrative storytelling, memory, gonzo journalism and dramatic experimentation.

This evening of screenings gives students the opportunity to present their films to an audience. The resulting projects are rewarding and altogether individual and insightful screen-based creations.

The event is free and all are welcome!

Women with disabilities have long been faced with challenges in the wider community. Bringing together academics, researchers and professionals active in the disability community, the aim of the Symposium is to critically reflect on the status of women with disabilities in an increasingly globalised world. The Symposium, a joint venture between Manchester Metropolitan University, University of New South Wales and Women With Disabilities Australia, will focus on the exchange information both national and international levels.

Women with disabilities have come along way in areas of social justice and social inclusion and while this progress can be celebrated, it is crucial that we consider the ways forward. As current issues are reflected upon, the symposium will seek to determine means of supporting the social, economic and political participation of women with disabilities in civil society and provide leadership for future leaders within the women with disabilities community. The symposium will additionally provide a safe forum where affected women’s stories may be told and will be an excellent opportunity for participants to network across a range of sectors.

Presentations

 Morning panel

• Dr. Rebecca Lawthom - Manchester Metropiltan Unvieristy
  Women, disability and feminism-thinking across Global North and Global South contexts 
• Doc. Iva Strnadová – University of New South Wales, School of Education
  ‘Older women with disabilities, they have future as well…’ Ageing women with intellectual disabilities – do they have a place in our society?
• Dr. Karen Soldatic - University of New South Wales 
• Ms. Carolyn Frohmander – Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
  Moving Forward & Gaining Ground: The Sterilisation of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Australia 

Afternoon panel 

• Ms. Annie Parkinson - Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) 
• Ms. Therese Sands – People with Disabilities Australia (PWDA)
  Women with disability:violence in institutional settings 
• Ms. Fiona Given – Australian Centre for Disability Law 
  So we now have the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has the legal and social status of women with disability really changed in Australia? 
• Ms. Gail Rankin – First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)

++ Rebecca Lawthom will focus on community partners and researchers working together. Rebecca Lawthom’s research interests centre around gender and feminism, disability and social inclusion approaches.

++ Dan Goodley will share experiences about disabled people's organisations working collaboratively with researchers. Dan Goodley’s research brings together three key areas: disability, diversity and social change; innovations in qualitative research; and deconstructing professional and institutional practices. www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile.php?surname=Goodley&name=Dan

Their visit to UNSW is supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, School of Education and the Social Policy Research Centre.

Map and directions

For more information please phone Karen Fisher 02 9385 7813

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Workshop Slides

We are launching a new music program at at UNSW and would like to invite you to find out more about your options. Infomation will include:

 - The enhancements to our Bachelor of Music including the addition of specialist music     streams
 - New pathways to study Music Education
 - Our new audition process

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Interspecies Love: Being and Becoming With a Common Ant, Ectatomma ruidum (Roger)

S. Eben Kirksey (CUNY)

18 May, 2-4pm

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S. Eben Kirksey is currently Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the CUNY Graduate Center. He completed his PhD in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz under the supervision of James Clifford. His first book, Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power, has recently been published by Duke UP (http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=19832). In addition to this work, Eben is an active participant in the emerging field of ‘multispecies ethnography’, where his work explores the production of scientific knowledge and the politics of conservation in relation to various species of ants, frogs and others (in particular in Central and South America).

Christine Kelly has an M.A. in History and Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin and is a Licentiate of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies. She is a freelance historian, author and lecturer and a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography, the BBC History Magazine and the Literary Review. Her publications include, Blessed Thomas Belson: His Life and Times 1563-1589 (Colin Smythe, 1988) and Mrs. Duberly’s War: Letters & Journal from the Crimea 1854-56 (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is a member of the executive committee of the British Irish Association.

Abstract

During the early months of the First World War a lone German cruiser, the Emden, prowled the Indian Ocean disrupting and sinking shipping and delaying vital Allied troop movements. Nicknamed ‘The Corsair’, as she outwitted the seventy-eight warships sent to destroy her, her crew became heroes to the Germans and a source of fascination to the British and Australian press until she was single-handedly attacked and run aground by HMAS Sydney at the battle of the Cocos Islands in November 1914. This was the first naval victory of the war and a significant triumph for the recently commissioned Australian navy. This talk looks at the themes underlying the dramatic tale of the battle including the exploration of private and public myths, contrasting the victory of the Sydney over the Emden with the disaster at Gallipoli in the shaping of Australian identity. The story is told through eye-witness accounts, focusing on Denis Rahilly, the young Irish/Australian Gunnery Officer who had to scramble up the mast into the Crow’s Nest to direct the firing. (The mast is now the centre of the peace memorial on Bradley Head overlooking Sydney harbour.) The family stories and economic influences that brought this young man, educated in England, to volunteer for the Australian navy rather than returning to Ireland echo the experiences of many Australians.

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Reception from 6.15pm

Panel discussion from 6.45pm

Panelists

Tony Earls is a Sydney lawyer. He is the author of Plunkett’s Legacy, a biography of John Hubert Plunkett. The book’s premise is that, as the NSW Attorney General, Plunkett’s values and methods were informed by his previous association with Daniel O’Connell and the campaign for Catholic emancipation. He is currently working on a PhD which takes a broader view of the relevance of the cultural backgrounds of Australia’s colonial lawyers.

Bruce Kercher is widely regarded as the leading historian of Australia’s colonial legal history. His works such as An Unruly Child: a History of Law in Australia (1995) and Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters: the Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales (1996), supported the view the then controversial view that from its earliest days Australian law developed its own characteristics distinct from its English origins. Since 1996 Bruce has been dedicated to unearthing unpublished decisions of colonial superior courts and making them available through an on-line database, an immense task, making available a huge resource for scholars of the period. Bruce is President of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, and a founder and former president of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society. In 2000 he delivered the inaugural Alex Castles Lecture on Legal History.

Shaunnagh Dorsett is an Associate Professor in the Law faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research is interdisciplinary, and she writes primarily at the intersections of legal history, native title and legal theory. Her publications include Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire. At the University of Wellington, Shaunnagh has been one of the driving forces behind New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project, an on-line data base inspired by Bruce Kercher’s work in Australia. Shaunnagh is Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society, the convenor of the annual Australia and New Zealand Law and History Conference to be held in Sydney this December.

Peter Moore, is the Managing Editor of Crossing Press, a publisher specialising in Australia’s multicultural history, and also its legal heritage. Peter studied Australian legal history under Alex Castles at the University of Adelaide, and Irish and Australian History at University College Dublin under Noel McLoughlin. Since 1994, he has taught Irish History at adult education centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Peter’s published works include histories of the Australian law firms, Fisher Jefferies, and Wallmans. His current project is a history of the South Australian legal profession from 1837 to 1945.

Unfortunately The Hon. Keith Mason has had to withdraw from this evening's panel.

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Event Report

In another successful GIST at the Centre, Tony Earls chaired a highly fruitful debate on the contribution of Irish lawyers to Australia’s legal system and culture. Joined by distinguished speakers and guests, from professional and academic Law, we cut much new ground in a key topic in Irish-Australian Legal History. Much has been written on the lives and times of individual Irish lawyers in nineteenth-century Australia. But, until now, few have engaged in a scholarly way with the true significance and collective contribution of Irish lawyers as a distinctive group. The chair challenged our panelists to redress the balance, to define the hitherto “indefinable” essence of Irish solicitors, barristers and judges in Australia. Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett, Peter Moore and Prof. Bruce Kercher and were well equipped for the task, using their broad expertise in colonial law and Australian legal history to offer new perspectives on the Irish question.

The panel debated the worth of ‘Irish lawyers’ as a research category, concluding that there is indeed much merit in isolating, for the purpose of academic analysis, this key group. Rigorous methodology is, of course, crucial, and the panel put forward clear systems and techniques for future research on the topic. For example, a prosopography, or collective study, of the lives and careers of a large group of lawyers, should allow us to identify common characteristics (nationality, class, education) and thus better to define and understand ‘Irishness’. The contribution of Irish lawyers in Australia must also be placed in a global perspective; worthwhile comparisons may be made, for example, between Irish-Australian legal culture, and the practice of law in other colonies, such as Canada.

The GIST taught us much about the far-reaching impact of Irish lawyers overseas, and underlined the general importance of the international-comparative approach in Irish Studies. We thank our chair, panel, and all who attended and organized this stimulating event at the GISC.

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6.15 Reception for 6.45 Lecture

Bio

Prof Margaret Kelleher is Director of An Foras Feasa, the Humanities Research Institute at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Prof Kelleher received her BA from University College Cork and PhD from Boston College. She is the author of The Feminization of Famine (1997) and co-editor with Philip O’Leary of the landmark Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006); she has also published widely in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, women’s writings and Irish literary and cultural history. Margaret is the current Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) and NUI Maynooth’s Principal Investigator for the government-funded inter-institutional Structured PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities. In October next she will take up the post of Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin.

Abstract

This talk will revisit the infamous Maamtrasna murders which took place in August 1882 near Cong (then Co Galway). The succeeding legal trial which led to the wrongful execution of Myles Joyce, first cousin of the murdered Joyce family, has been the subject of a number of recent publications and documentaries. As early as 1907 the conduct of the trial of Myles Joyce was made the subject of critique by James Joyce in his famous essay ‘Ireland at the Bar’. Based on detailed archival research, this talk will reexamine the trial from the perspective of language use, including the treatment of monolingual speakers of Irish and the significance of contemporary bilingualism. It will show how the case of Maamtrasna throws light on the dramatic language shift that took place in nineteenth-century Ireland, the consequences of which remain evident in Irish society to this day.

In partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland Sydney, Waverley Council, the Irish Echo newspaper and O'Punksky's Theatre, the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies presents Bloomsday on Bondi for 2012.

Date: Saturday 16th June 2012

Location: The Pavilion, Bondi Beach

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Ulysses comes to the iconic Bondi Pavilion for the first time ever

Since 1954, Bloomsday has been observed the world over to mark the 16th of June, 1904, the day Joyce chose for his modernist masterpiece.

Follow Stephen Dedalus along Dublin’s sandy shores, discuss astronomy with Leopold Bloom, and gossip about garters with Bloom’s frisky wife, Molly.

Joyce brought Dublin to the world through the eyes of ordinary people thinking extraordinary thoughts and changed literature forever.

Presented by UNSW (Global Irish Studies), The Consulate General of Ireland, O’Punsky’s Theatre and the Irish Echo, Bloomsday on Bondi features edited excerpts and rehearsed readings by luminaries of Australian cultural life including former federal minister Susan Ryan AO, writers Mark Dapin, Ursula Dubosarsky and Suzanne Leal, journalist Susan Wydham, poet Jamie Grant and actors Chris Haywood and Zoe Carides to name a few.

Actors from O’Punsky’s Theatre will perform moved readings from Ulysses, directed by Maeliosa Stafford (Abbey Theatre, Druid Theatre.)

Unapologetically intellectual, Ulysses is also raw, hilarious, passionate and bawdy. From morning ‘til midnight, Joyce’s Ulysses writes the sounds of the city with poetic precision. For the power of Joyce’s words, the audience is encouraged not only to read Ulysses – but to hear it!

The day’s events include two ticketed events and two free events.

10.00 - 12.00 :: Breakfast with Buck Mulligan (ticketed session, breakfast included*)

12.00 - 16.00 :: Individual and group readings from Ulysses (free session)

16.00 - 18.00 :: Film screening: Nora (2000) (18+, free session)

19.30 - 21.15 :: Readings by O’Punksky’s Theatre (ticketed event*)

Irish music played throughout the day. Bar open from 12pm. Guinness on tap.

Tickets

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Bloomsday Breakfast Session $15 - **** SOLD OUT ****

Bloomsday Evening Session with rehearsed readings with O'Punksky's Theatre Group $20 - *** online ticket sales for the evening session will be available until 5pm Friday 15th June 2012, and then on the day down at the Bondi Pavilion (upstairs)

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"Qing History a Century After Empire: A Chinese Historikerstreit?"

A century has passed since the abdication of China’s last emperor in February 1912, and still the history of the Qing dynasty remains highly political. This lecture examines the reasons why scholarly debates over aspects of Qing history have become increasingly contentious in recent years, focusing in particular on controversies surrounding the “New Qing History,” which has raised basic questions about the relationship between Manchu rule and Chinese empire. For some, to think of the Qing state as a “Manchu empire” is to challenge accepted notions of Chinese historical unity; for others, it is to force Chinese history into European frames of analysis, when in fact China has traveled its own special path. This “historian’s quarrel” has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of modern China.

Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University

Primarily a historian of the late imperial period, especially the Qing (1636-1911), Elliott is among the very few historians in the United States trained in the use of Manchu-language sources, upon which his first book, The Manchu Way (Stanford, 2001), is largely based. The Asian Wall Street Journal praised his second book, Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World (Longman, 2009), as “a slim, yet comprehensive, [and] highly readable study.” He is now at work on a new book examining the connections between the Manchu empire and modern China. Apart from Qing history and Manchu studies, Elliott’s teaching interests focus on the long relationship between the Chinese heartland and the peoples living in the the steppe frontier. In 2012 he is Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Centre for China in the World at the Australian National University.

Conference Theme: Relationships in Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Keynote Speaker: Professor Roger Ames, University of Hawai’i

The conference committee invites submissions of proposals for papers in all areas of Asian and Comparative Philosophy especially on the topic of relationships, although there will also be a focus on the following streams: 

• Ethics, Personhood and Relationships
• Ethics, Environment and Development
• Knowledge, Action and Fallibility
• Methodology in Comparative Philosophy
• Comparative East Asian and South Asian Philosophies

Proposals for Papers (that is, abstracts of around 100 words) should be submitted via email to A/Prof Karyn Lai (k.lai@unsw.edu.au).

Closing date for proposals: 31st May 2012.

Please view the conference website (http://philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/asacp/page23/page23.html) for more information.

Please join us for the second meeting of the Australian Studies Research network, hosted by the University of Newcastle, UNSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society.

On 1 June, Joanne Faulkner of UNSW will join us to discuss her new work on the political use of nostalgia for certain types of childhoods and families, particularly Indigenous Australians in the wake of policies of child removal.

Dr Faulkner’s work on children and the construction of Australian political identity has been widely discussed in the media. She has held two ARC research fellowships, and has beenshortlisted for the prestigious Eureka Prize for research in ethics.

Please also note the dates of our future meetings:

3 August Dr Lisa Featherstone (Newcastle) – Let’s Talk about Sex
7 Sept. Prof. David Walker (Deakin) – ‘Not Dark Yet’: A Memoir
12 Oct. Dr Ruth Balint (UNSW) – Identities Lost and Found: The Creation of the Displaced Person in the Cold War
2 Nov. Dr Ian Evans (independent scholar) – Ritual Objects

ABSTRACT - The paper will present the raw data extracted from the PhD concerning the impact training has on community interpreters. Australia is a nation where the professional status as an interpreter can be achieved by two means: passing an university degree approved by NAATI (Australian Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) or passing a 75 min test administered by the aforementioned Authority. The differences in the two ways this status can be achieved led me to research what professionalism means. Literature review shows that professional individuals should be those who receive formal and specialised training in the field of practice. This paper presents the results of a study which assessed NAATI trained and untrained professional interpreters, and explores the differences between the two groups in the four pilars that constitute professionalism: technical competence, knowledge of the field, code of ethics and knowledge of the role.

Format
This year the School of Education is holding a series of forums in which contentious issues relating to the field of education will be discussed by academics, practicing teachers and interested parties. Four times a year an expert will be invited to speak on a current issue, presenting controversial arguments that will be relevant to education professionals. Headlining the series will be Dr Scott Eacott of the University of Newscastle and Prof Colin Evers (UNSW) on the 13th  of June when the topic, "Autonomy, Liberation, Freedom and Local Decisions: Good for Business but is it Good for Public Schooling?" will be up for debate. It is with great pleasure that we announce this event and encourage all practicing teachers and educational professionals to join us in discussion.

Abstract
As our nation is being swept once again with moves toward greater level of autonomy for schools it is timely to ask questions of such a move. At its most basic, what is it we seek autonomy from? That is, while bureaucratic structures are frequently demonised, is autonomy what is really required to achieve the changes in public education that we seek, or is it yet another seductive term taken from the corporate world? Research, and experience, tells us that the closer decisions are made to coalface the greater buy-in from staff, and ultimately better outcomes for students. However history shows that it is common sense arguments that detract from some of the larger social matters overlooked in the adoption of business models of educational management. Drawing on a range of experiences in schools, research on school leadership and public discourse, in this presentation I seek to problematise the arguments for school autonomy and suggest alternate paths which would be more productive and fruitful in advancing the goals of public education in Australia.

Biographies
Dr Scott Eacott, PhD, is a senior lecturer, convenor of educational leadership programs and leader of the Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) research group at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Prior to entering higher education, he worked in the NSW public school system, most recently as an assistant principal. His school based experience includes schools ranging from small isolated communities to large regional centres and different geographic locations. Scott's research interests are theorising leadership; school leadership preparation and development; and re-conceptualising strategy in the school leadership context. His latest book 'School leadership and strategy in managerialist times' is published by Sense Publishers.

Professor Colin Evers is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales. Prior to that appointment he was Professor of Education at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include educational leadership, administration and policy, philosophy of education, and research methodology. His interest in research methodology flows from a perspective on epistemology that is naturalistic and coherentist, and he is currently co-editing a Special Issue of the journal Comparative Education devoted to an examination of the relationship between Confucian heritage cultures and methodology.

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A program of short musical works in a range of styles and genres highlighting many approaches to organising musical time.

The works will feature a range of musicians, all of whom are current music students in the School of the Arts and Media.

In an exciting collaboration, media students from the School who are studying in the course Working with Time, Space

and Experience have created a series of images inspired from these exciting works and these will also be presented

throughout the evening.

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“Neo-Gricean pragmatics: From anaphora through the Square of Opposition to relationship breakdown”

Even details:

When: Tuesday 1 May

Where: Central Lecture Block 5

Time: 3pm

Abstract

Pragmatics - the systematic study of language in use - is a rapidly developing discipline in linguistics. Since its inception, classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics has revolutionized pragmatic theorizing and has to date remained one of the foundation stones of contemporary thinking in linguistic pragmatics and the philosophy of language. In this lecture, I shall first outline a version of neo-Gricean pragmatics, which has put the classical Gricean pragmatic theory on a much more rigorous basis. I shall then assess the role this version of neo-Gricean pragmatics plays in effecting a radical simplification of the lexicon, semantics, and syntax in linguistic theory, utilizing some of my own research in these areas. Finally, I shall further demonstrate the predictive and explanatory power of the neo-Gricean pragmatic theory by showing how it can shed light on certain legal cases such as ex-President Clinton’s impeachment trial and account for the communicative aspect of relationship breakdown.

Bio

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics and Head of Department, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He received his BA in English and MA in English Linguistics at the University of Nanking, and obtained his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (College: Trinity). He also holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford (College: Christ Church). At Cambridge, he was supervised by Stephen Levinson and taught personally also by John Lyons, Peter Matthews and Nigel Vincent. At Oxford, he was influenced by Anna Morpurgo-Davies. Before moving to Auckland, he had for twenty years taught linguistics at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. His main research interests are in pragmatics, semantics and syntax, especially the pragmatics-semantics interface and the pragmatics-syntax interface including anaphora.

His books include internationally acclaimed The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (Cambridge University Press 1994, re-issued in 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Oxford University Press 2000), and Pragmatics (Oxford University Press 2007). His Pragmatics is being translated into a number of languages, and the Korean translation and the Chinese reprint have already been published. His The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Tuesday 17 April, 3-4pm | Mathews 104

The launch is a wonderful opportunity to experience a slice of the Audi Festival of German Film's cultural programme. Dr Langford will talk of her love of German cinema and the experience of editing the book, which includes input from more than forty contributors around the world. Dr Langford will be available for book signings at the conclusion of the official launch.

Complimentary refreshments will be provided.

Kênia Parsons is a Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Social Policy, United Kingdom. She is affiliated to the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (STICERD-CASE/LSE) and is a visitor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

Does geographical location influence the participation rate of the rural poor in cash transfer programmes? The case of Bolsa Família programme in Brazil.

Kenia Parsons presentation slides

Associate Professor Gerhard Fischer is renowned as a literary scholar and an historian, whose research interests include 20th century European literature and theatre, World War I, and 19th century Australian migration history and multiculturalism. The author of numerous scholarly publications, including four books and nine edited volumes, he has been the organiser of a series of conferences on the eminent literary figures including Walter Benjamin and Heiner Müller. Prof. Fischer is a recipient of the Australian Government’s Federation Medal (2001) and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

As part of the celebration, Prof Fischer will present a lecture: “The Governor-General’s Apology: Balancing Opposite Narratives Concerning Australia’s Participation in World War I.”

Please join us on Tuesday 24 April at 3pm in Central Lecture Block 5. See attached poster with abstract.

Based on existing research, this seminar aims to assess possible generalizations in respect to the wider implications of cognitive load theory research. More specifically, this seminar will look at how this research contributes to understandings of the origins, nature, characteristics, and structure of human knowledge. While some of the discussed generalizations are well empirically supported, others are still rather speculative. The presenter will draw on his own theoretical and empirical studies of the expertise reversal effect and flexible problem solving as well as results of his colleagues in this research field.

Biography

Dr Slava Kalyuga is a Professor at the School of Education, the University of New South Wales, where he received a Ph.D. and has worked since 1995. His research interests are in cognitive processes in learning, cognitive load theory, and evidence-based instructional design principles. His specific contributions include detailed experimental studies of the role of learner prior knowledge in learning (expertise reversal effect); the redundancy effect in multimedia learning; the development of rapid online diagnostic assessment methods; and studies of the effectiveness of different adaptive procedures for tailoring instruction to levels of learner expertise. He is the author of three books and more than 60 research articles and chapters.

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In the last decade cognitive load theory has been closely aligned with evolutionary biology. Two types of knowledge have been identified: Primary, which humans have evolved to learn effortlessly and without instruction (e.g. face recognition), and secondary, much newer knowledge which requires significant effort and instruction (e.g. mathematics). The purpose of this presentation is to report on two current research projects (collaborations with colleagues and graduate students) that aim to show that instinctive primary knowledge can enhance the learning of secondary knowledge. The first project focuses on problem solving. Research into expertise has identified that humans possess a number of untaught general problem solvers that they use when they have little knowledge on how to proceed. However, research has failed to show any benefit in teaching general problem solvers. Our research suggests that such general problem solvers can be effective if used at the correct stage of knowledge acquisition. The second project focuses on instructional animation and the evidence that humans have evolved to observe and copy various forms of human movement quite effortlessly. Our research suggests that animations are an effective form of instruction when learning about human motor skills because of this natural observational skills advantage. The presentation will outline some key theoretical arguments and report the main findings from a number of studies linked to these two projects.

Biography

Paul Ayres is a researcher whose main focus is on learning and instruction, and applied cognitive psychology. In particular he is a member of the group at UNSW that pioneered Cognitive Load Theory. His highly cited research has been conducted on many of the key areas of CLT such as split-attention, isolating elements, measuring cognitive load, the goal-free effect, the expertise reversal effect, and worked examples. A recent focus is on using technology and multimedia in learning, with a special interest on the role of mirror neurons in animated human movement instruction. He is currently supervising 8 PhD students researching topics such as general problem solving strategies & brainstorming, worked examples & feedback, instructional design for chronic pain learners, human movement & instructional animations, multimedia & transitory effects, motivation & cognitive load, collaborative learning, second language acquisition. He is also interested in mathematics education and effective teaching. He serves as an Associate Editor for the international journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

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If we want to have good connections between research and teaching, we need to be ‘talking the same language’. Multilingualism and multimodality are two vitally important dimensions of language learning and use, but our ways of thinking about them are unclear and characterised by tension. We need to develop new frameworks that incorporate more aspects more systematically.

Australia research and teaching that focus on ‘literacy’ on the one hand and ‘language’ and specific language development (ESL, second language acquisition, languages other than English) on the other hand are characterised by inconsistency and tension. In part the tension derives from the theoretical frameworks used in the two areas and the perceived lack of differentiation between languages in global definitions of literacy. For example, if a too-global view of literacy is used, a lack of distinction between ‘literacy’ and ‘literacy in “language X”’, makes it very difficult to explore differences between first and second language literacies or between monolingual and multilingual literacies.

The field of second language development research has begun to engage more with writing development as frameworks have emerged that permit the role of the teacher as well as other scaffolding resources to be theorised and as groups of learners such as refugees not literate in any language have become more important in both research and teaching. However, ways of talking about what is being looked at from a ‘language’ or a ‘literacy’ perspective are still not unified.

Adding to the dilemma has been the rapid development of digital technologies that have both blurred the distinction between ‘spoken’ and ‘written’ language on the one hand and added to the range of expressive tools that can be used, e.g. pictures, video clips, animations, hyperlinks. This simultaneous merging and diversifying of the object of study has created problems in being clear about what is being referred to. For example, what is the relationship between ‘reading’ and ‘viewing’ or between ‘writing’ by hand and ‘writing’ using a keyboard or ‘dictating’ into a speech recognition tool? What is the distinction between a footnote and an inserted comment or a hyperlink?

The emergence of multimodality in communication has further increased the definitional problem for work with multilingualism. For example, if a picture or graphic is used in the middle of a piece of writing, does this mean that the writer has switched ‘out of’ the original language and, if so, into which language?

As a result of these dilemmas, we need to find new ways of describing what we are doing so that we can both recognise and appropriately support the development of multilingualism in learners. In this presentation, I will present an emerging framework to systematically capture the range of relationships between multilingualism and multimodality.

Biography

Howard Nicholas is Senior Lecturer in Language Education. He is based on the Bundoora campus. He has wide research and teaching experience in child and adult second language acquisition (German and English) and in the acquisition of German as a first language. He has researched extensively in the area of mobile technologies and education.

He has worked in Germany on various research projects and has undertaken Visiting Professorships at the University of Hawaii, at Manoa, Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Western Australia.

From 1991 to 2007 he was Senior Researcher in the joint Macquarie University-La Trobe University Australian AMEP (Adult Migrant English Program) Research Centre. Howard was Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia between 2000 and 2008.

He was Director of the Centre for Regional Education within the Faculty of Education in 2008 and 2009 and Associate Dean (International) in 2011.

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In the first half of this period, roughly corresponding to the period of Labour government, inequality in market incomes rose, but a large component of this was offset by more effective redistribution through the tax and transfer systems. In the second half of the period, corresponding to the period of Coalition government, market income inequality initially rose, but then declined, but the tax and welfare systems became less effective at reducing inequality. The periods also show significantly different patterns of growth in real incomes, with real income growth being low for most households in the first half of the period, and being high in the second period. Since 2007 there has been a slight decline in income inequality, reflecting falls in inequality in investment and property income. The presentation highlights the role of employment growth on the one hand and joblessness on the other in impacting on trends in inequality, and discusses why the social security system has become less effective in reducing inequality.

Professor Peter Whiteford, Acting Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has had extensive experience in the field of social security policy and research, in a range of different national contexts and at the international level. He worked as a Adviser in the Office of the Minister for Social Security in 1995-96 and previously as a Consultant to the Social Security Review and in Government Departments in Australia, as well as in University research centres in the United Kingdom and in Australia, and for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris between 2000 and 2008. In 2008 he was appointed by the Government to the Reference Group for the Review of the Australian pension system and in 2009 he was an invited keynote speaker for the Australian Treasury Conference on reform of the Australian tax system. He is Chief Investigator (with Gerry Redmond) of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded linkage project on “Supporting Families: Equity in the Australian Tax-Transfer System”. He is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR).

Inequality and Redistribution in the Australian Welfare State, 1981-82 to 2007-08

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6:30 – 6:50pm Social Development and Development Studies

Presented by: Jeff McGee – University of Newcastle

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 1-2pm, Goodsell Building, Room LG21

This paper links the architecture of international climate governance with the issue of global distributive justice, in particular access to future emissions of greenhouse gases. We argue the 2009 Copenhagen Accord represents a significant shift in the architecture of the international climate governance from redistributive multilateralism to voluntary pledge and review. Redistributive multilateralism represents a form of global social policy by means of exemption and differential treatment for developing countries, evident in earlier agreements on trade and the law of the sea before being introduced to environmental concerns through the Rio Declaration and UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol. A pledge and review architecture favours non-binding pledges and backgrounds justice concerns based on historical responsibility for emissions. The pledge and review architecture was developed by the United States and Australia over the previous decade through a number of non-UN climate related agreements and/or institutions over the course of the last decade including the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and US Major Economies Process. The shift to pledge and review has been applauded by some commentators as an opportunity for greater bottom-up experimentation. However, this shift in architecture potentially means that poorer developing countries will bare greater risks of climate change than developed countries. It also potentially means that the right to future emissions will be dictated by power-based factors rather than principles of equity originally agreed to by all countries in the UNFCCC. The current voluntary pledge and review architecture may in the end sideline redistributive claims in international climate change governance.

Dr Jeff McGee is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Newcastle, Australia and is a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project. His main research interest is in international environmental governance particularly focussing on interaction between the UN climate change regime and non-UN climate agreements. He has published articles on international climate governance in Global Change Peace and Security, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, International Environmental Agreements, McGill Journal of International Sustainable Development Law, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, and WIRES Climate Change. Jeff also teaches environmental law, legal theory and public international law at the University of Newcastle. Jeff is visiting the School on SSP this semester.

Paul Higate – University of Bristol

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 3-4pm, Vallentine Annexe, Room 121/122

In recent years, the rapid growth of the Private and Military Security sector into a multi-billion dollar industry has stimulated interest from political scientists, IR theorists, security studies and military studies scholars. Here, debates have touched on concerns of regulation, questions of domestic sovereignty and the moral and ethical dimensions of the commodification of security. Yet, despite wider claims that the industry speaks to a (re)masculinisation of militarised violence in the contemporary moment, critical scholars of gender and race have been slow to turn their attention to the industry. Thus, much of the critique levelled against the industry and certain of its workforce has turned on their uneven impact on security where civilians have been intimidated, injured and even killed by 'cowboy' contractors. Drawing on qualitative interviews and field research in Kabul, the U.S and the UK, in this presentation I argue that one way in which to explain these instances of insecurity resides in the modes of masculinity adopted by some contractors. Framing masculinity as a form of identity work, I consider tensions between hypermasculine identity work and operational effectiveness. In sum, and as a key element of a broader book project I ask the question: What makes these identities and their allied practices possible? This question sparks a line of enquiry that tracks back through the history of masculine subjectivities in the UK and U.S contexts as one way to explain how contractors both imagine and practice security on the ground.

Paul's research has been concerned with the gendered culture of the military, in particular military masculinities. Relatedly, he has worked on issues of SEA in peacekeeping missions, the transition from military to civilian life and most recently, Private and Military Security Companies. He is editor of 'Military Masculinities: Identity and the State' and numerous articles. He is currently a Fellow of the ESRC/AHRC Global Uncertainties Programme with a project entitled: Mercenary Masculinities Imagine Security: The case of the Private Military Contractor'.

Sarah Maddison – UNSW

Wednesday 30th May 2012, 3-4pm, Goodsell Building, Room LG19

International experience demonstrates that democratic dialogue - also known as civic or participatory dialogue - has the ability to facilitate reconciliation, social integration and change. In conflict and post-conflict societies around the world, including Israel, Palestine, India, South Africa, Northern Ireland and many countries in Latin America, dialogue using various methodologies has proved to be an important element in processes designed to facilitate social change and create a more just and inclusive society, including for disadvantaged, marginalised and vulnerable groups and individuals. In the field of normative political theory there appears to be an emerging consensus that dialogue is a crucial element in struggles to achieve more just and ethical relations among cultural groups. In light of these imperatives, this paper revisits debates between deliberative and agonistic democracy theorists, seeking to locate different dialogical methodologies and reconciliation practices within these debates. Further, the paper argues for the specific characteristics necessary for democratic dialogue if it is to avoid the potentially exclusionary aspects of deliberative practice.

Sarah Maddison (BA (Hons) UTS, PhD Sydney), is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her areas of research expertise include social movements (including the women's and LGBTI movements), Indigenous political culture, Australian democracy and democratic participation, gender politics, and democratic dialogue. She has published widely in these areas, and her recent books include Activist Wisdom (with Sean Scalmer, UNSW Press 2006), Silencing Dissent (Allen & Unwin 2007, co-edited with Clive Hamilton), Black Politics (Allen & Unwin 2009), Beyond White Guilt (Allen & Unwin 2011) and Unsettling the Settler State (Federation Press 2011, co-edited with Morgan Brigg). Sarah’s fellowship project is a four country comparative study exploring processes of dialogue and reconciliation in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, and Australia.

 The presentation will begin by identifying key themes in recent policy with respect to children in care (looked after children) in the UK, including an emphasis on co-operation between all relevant agencies and professionals. Developments in service delivery will be reviewed, with some examples of innovative projects, such as the growth of independent agencies, foster care as an alternative to detention and enhanced residential care. Changing boundaries and connections between fostering and residential services will be outlined. Following a brief critical discussion of the criteria for assessing outcomes, evidence about the consequences of care experiences will be reviewed.

The discussion will explore similarities and differences in evidence and experiences between Australia and the UK.

Malcolm Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, based in the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELSIS). After working for ten years as a social worker in London, he has since taught and researched in Scotland. He has carried out a number of evaluations of fostering, residential and adoption services, as well as family support projects. He edited the journal Adoption & Fostering for several years. For a decade he was director of the Centre for the Child & Society, University of Glasgow. From 2008 to 2010 he chaired a specialist fostering panel. He wrote a review of provision in Scotland for the National Residential Child Care Initiative of 2009. His latest publication is a co-edited volume entitled Children’s Services by Pearson Education.

This seminar is an initiative of the Collaborative Research Network between SPRC and the Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University

Trends and outcomes in foster and residential care in the UK Abstract

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Extending our thinking about modernity back to the early eighteenth century, John Butt's recent study argues for Bach's Passions as representative moments in the transition from traditional to identifiably modern models of thought and belief.

For those not yet familiar with the Passions, you can listen to them through the UNSW Library’s audio-visual resource: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/

You might also be interested in this interview with Peter Sellars about his staged Matthew Passion production with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunaARWf2ms&feature=relmfu

Finally, there are excerpts from that performance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jb-W7vtvBo

Recent years have seen many analyses of the historical ‘memory’ of war, slavery, and other traumatic social experiences of the 19th and 20th centuries. Crucially at stake is the means by which we make the past visible or knowable in the present—and this negotiation finds no more potent sphere than that of commemoration. The 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine in the 1990s was widely commemorated throughout the world, including Australia. With close to one hundred permanent monuments constructed worldwide in only twenty years, the resurrection of a perceived shared ‘memory’ of the Famine is, however, the product of attempts to inscribe new socio-cultural values onto a catastrophic history whose deep imprint on Ireland and its diapora resists simple signification.

Biography

Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. Her research interests include public art, memory and monumentality, with a special focus on the visual culture of migration. Currently completing her book Remembering the Famine, her work has been supported by the Humanities Institute of Ireland, Mellon- Mays Social Science Research Council, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Irish Academy and the US-Ireland Alliance.

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2012 SO, WHAT? LECTURE SERIES 


Teaching matters: The role of universities and education systems in lifting educational quality


We all know that education matters. In Australia, as elsewhere, an individual’s educational attainment is a significant predictor of success and wellbeing throughout life. At the same time, we know through experience just how hard it is to lift educational outcomes in a sustained way, and for all students. Research tells us the teachers are the most significant in-school influence on student outcomes, but has much less to say about how to improve teaching quality in ways that directly raise student achievement. This lecture will look at the shared role of universities and education systems as we seek to make a critical difference in Australian education – one that will ensure our ongoing prosperity, as individuals and as a society.

Biography

Professor Michele Bruniges commenced her role as Director-General of Education and Communities, Managing Director of TAFE NSW on 7 September 2011.

As Director-General, Professor Bruniges is in charge of all State Public Schools, Early Childhood Education and Care, Communities, Aboriginal Affairs, Veterans’ Affairs and Sport and Recreation. She is also the Managing Director of TAFE NSW, Australia’s largest provider of vocational education and training.

Previously, Professor Bruniges held senior positions in the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). She held the position of Deputy Secretary for the Office of Early Childhood Education and Child Care until April 2009 when she moved to the position of Deputy Secretary, Schools to focus on delivering the Australian Government’s commitments for school education. Her final role in DEEWR was Associate Secretary, Schools and Youth.

Professor Bruniges has a Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Measurement, a Masters Degree in Education from the University of New South Wales, a Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies and a Diploma in Teaching from the Goulburn College of Advanced Education.

In January 2012, Professor Bruniges became a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to public administration through executive roles, and her contribution to reform in the education sector at state and national levels. She also took up the role of Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Professor Bruniges is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and the Australian Council for Educational Leaders who, in 2011, awarded her the ACEL Presidential Citation for her high level leadership of public education.

The lecture was introduced by Professor Chris Davison, Head of School, School of Education, University of New South Wales

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This half-day event is an opportunity to celebrate European cultures and will highlight the personal and professional benefits of language study. A range of activities will be offered including:

• Small group discussions
• Country specific workshops
• Presentations from students and graduates

Morning tea and lunch will be provided for students and teachers

Double Entry is a fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.

‘The rise and metamorphosis of double-entry bookkeeping is one of history’s best-kept secrets and most important untold tales ... Through its logic we have let the planet go to ruin-and through its logic we now have a chance to avert that ruin.’ The story of double entry reaches from the Crusades through the Renaissance to the factories of industrial Britain and the policymakers of the Great Depression and the Second World War. At its heart stands a Renaissance monk, mathematician and magician, and his celebrated treatise for merchants. With double entry came the wealth and cultural efflorescence that was the Renaissance, a new scientific worldview, and a new economic system: capitalism.

Discussing Jane’s work with her is one of Australia’s best known economists Professor Geoff Harcourt.

Jane will be available to sign copies of her book on the night. You will be able to purchase Double Entry and a selection of her other books at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

IN CONVERSATION

with economist PROFESSOR GEOFF HARCOURT

Wednesday 4 April @ 6:30pm

 Io Myers Studio, UNSW

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Double entry book coverUNSWriting’s public writers’ event series starts in 2012 with published author, editor and current UNSW post graduate candidate in Creative Writing, Jane Gleeson-White.

Double Entry is a fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever.

‘The rise and metamorphosis of double-entry bookkeeping is one of history’s best-kept secrets and most important untold tales ... Through its logic we have let the planet go to ruin-and through its logic we now have a chance to avert that ruin.’

The story of double entry reaches from the Crusades through the Renaissance to the factories of industrial Britain and the policymakers of the Great Depression and the Second World War. At its heart stands a Renaissance monk, mathematician and magician, and his celebrated treatise for merchants. With double entry came the wealth and cultural efflorescence that was the Renaissance, a new scientific worldview, and a new economic system: capitalism.

Discussing Jane’s novel with her is one of Australia’s best known economists Professor Geoff Harcourt.

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Jane will be available to sign copies of her book on the night. You will be able to purchase Double Entry and a selection of her other books at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

Murdoch and Power - David McKnight

“Rupert Murdoch says that the hacking scandal ‘went against everything I stand for’. But how true is this? Murdoch himself is probably the most influential Australian of all time. He sees himself as an anti-establishment rebel yet his influence in in Australia, the UK and the US makes him part of a global elite.”

Dr David McKnight, Australia’s premier journalism and media researcher, and Associate Professor at JMRC, will present this year’s first JMRC Seminar.

2012 Research Seminar #1

 Professor Simon During

‘Modernism, political anthropology, politics’

This paper asks us to think about modernism in relation to philosophical anthropology and religion. It makes the case that European modernism emerges from efforts to imagine and articulate an anti-liberal politics that is not grounded on the philosophical anthropologies that supported socialism, democracy and human rights. Bergson, T.E. Hulme, T.S. Eliot, and Georges Sorel are key to this. But the paper also turns to Conrad, and to Nostromo in particular, as a text that spells out the terms for modernism’s political refusal of philosophical anthropology.

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CO-CHAIRED BY MEG MUMFORD (UNSW) AND ULRIKE GARDE (MACQUARIE UNI)

Founded in 2000, Berlin-based theatre collective Rimini Protokoll have garnered world-wide recognition as innovators in the field of documentary performance. Through a wide range of collaborative partnerships, Rimini’s three directors – Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel – have created an extensive body of work that dares to put the spotlight on aspects of our globalized world that are not usually given centre stage.

One of Rimini’s trademark features is the replacement of professional actors with ‘experts of the everyday’, people who are specialists in a particular field of life. To date these expert protagonists have been extremely diverse, ranging from Bulgarian long-distance truck drivers and Indian call-centre employees, to airport kids and, as seen recently in the Sydney Festival, Egyptian Muezzins. In Rimini’s upcoming May production 100% Melbourne the stage will be populated solely by ‘real Melbournians’.

On Wed 4 April at the Goethe-Institut Australia, Sydney, Rimini director Helgard Haug will join Sydney-based theatre practitioners in a panel discussion on the topic of representing real people, their stories and spaces. Since graduating from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Gießen, Haug has been involved with projects that sit on the borderline between theatre, documentary, radio play and the applied arts. During the discussion Haug’s co-panelists will be: artistic director Alicia Talbot (Urban Theatre Projects); performer and producer David Williams (version 1.0); playwright Alana Valentine, and producer and youth theatre artist Claudia Chidiac (Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre).

The Walter Rodney Affair: Scholar-activism and Black Power in 1960s Jamaica

Law and the Literary Franchise: A Victorian Problem in Twentieth-Century England

Intercommunality: Social Order in the late Ottoman Empire

Writing a history of philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia

Historians and Biography: Writing the Biography of Manning Clark

The negotiations of Australian Indigenous Petitions: collaborative authorship and plurality of voices

“Modernism and Atavism”

“Towards an Economy of Painting - Manet's La lectrice”

Are you crazy for bentos?

Get your friends and colleagues together for a lunch to support UNICEF’s ongoing disaster relief efforts in Japan one year on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Pre-purchase Tickets: $15 Morven Brown Building, Room 205 

• Thursday 1 March 10am - 4pm
• Friday 2 March 10am - 4pm
• Monday 5 March 10am - 4pm
• Tuesday 6 March 10am - 4pm

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, recepient in 2011 of the most important literary prize is the Spanish speaking world, Premio Alfaguarra, will be giving a talk to students at UNSW and the general public about his works.

The event is organised by Associate Professor Diana Palaversich, and Instituto Cervantes.

The talk will be given in English.

Further information about the event can be found here.

A short clip of an interview with Juan Gabriel Vásquez can be viewed here.

Smoke without Fire? Steam in Early Nineteenth Century India

Toxic Hip Replacements

Questioning the Tree of Life: The Trials and Tribulations of Universal Phylogeny

Who Invented the Synchrotron?

Epo and the IP Bloodbath: The Cloning Race and the Patent Courts' De Facto Science Policy for Biotech in the USA

Post-ecological Science: Problems, Paradoxes and Prospects

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Literary modernism and philosophical anthropology

Professor Regenia Gagnier

‘World Literatures, Geomodernisms, and the Case of Decadence’

Regenia Gagnier is Professor of English at the University of Exeter. She is the author of four key monographs in Victorian and Modern literary studies: Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford, 1986), Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 (Oxford, 1991), The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society (Chicago, 2000), and Individualism, Decadence, and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole 1859-1920 (Palgrave, 2010). She has received numerous awards and honours, and is the President of the British Association for Victorian Studies.

Drinks will be served before the paper. Be sure to let your friends know!

Approaching an Intercultural Modernity

The Doll Machine: dolls, modernism, experience

The New: A Romantic Recovery of Modernism's Most Essential Category

Mina Loy's avant-garde poem sequence "Songs to Joannes" was first published in the April 1917 issue of Others magazine in New York. Unlike anything that had come before it, especially in its shocking depictions of sexuality, the sequence so angered Amy Lowell she swore never to submit her work to Others again. Having been unjustly neglected for most of the twentieth century, Loy's work has recently enjoyed a critical renaissance. Now is the time to (re)discover her poetry!

In this session Jan and Kelley will reflect on developments in inclusive research in the decade since they published their book on Inclusive Research (2003). They will propose that team work is a useful way to conceptualise relationships in research where academics work with people with intellectual disabilities, drawing on projects they have been involved in.

Biography

Kelley Johnson, a Professor of Disability: Policy and Practice, is the Director of the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol. She is an internationally known scholar who has undertaken research with disabled people in Australia and internationally for more than 15 years. Prior to taking up this position Kelley held a Marie Curie Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin where she co-ordinated a national programme of inclusive research with people with intellectual disabilities. She has a particular interest in deinstitutionalisation, in how disabled people can lead good lives in the community and sexuality and relationships. Her most recent books are Johnson, K. and Walmsley, J. (2010) People with intellectual disabilities: Towards a good life? (Bristol: Policy Press) and Johnson, K. and Traustadottir, R. (2005) Deinstitutionalization and people with intellectual disabilities. In and out of institutions. (London: Jessica Kingsley)

Biography

Jan Walmsley is an independent consultant, teacher and researcher with honorary chairs at The Open University, and London South Bank University, and am a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She pioneered inclusive approaches to teaching and research with people with learning difficulties and am a founder member of the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability Research group (founded in 1994). Jan published Towards a Good Life for people with intellectual disabilities in 2010 with Kelley Johnson. Her extensive list of publications include Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past Present and Futures (2003), also with Kelley Johnson.

Since becoming an independent practitioner in January 2008, Jan has specialised in work relating to widening participation in learning in health and social care; development, delivery and evaluation of leadership programmes; team and organisational development; ‘user involvement’; and brokering relationships between academic and service delivery organisations. She works a lot with self advocacy organisations in England, helping them with organisational development, research and fund raising.

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Why are we talking about inclusive research?

For too long people with intellectual disabilities have been researched on. For too long they have not had any control over what is researched and how it is done.

Who will be talking?

Professor Kelly Johnson, Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol
Professor Jan Walmsley, Open University, UK
Members of the Inclusive Research Network, Centre for Disability Studies, University of Sydney

What will they be talking about?

Kelly and Jan will talk about what inclusive research is and what it means for people with intellectual disabilities doing research.

Jan and Kelly will also talk about what they have learned about inclusive research since being in Australia.

Members of the CDS Inclusive Research Network will talk about how they are going about doing their inclusive research.

Who should come?

Everyone who is interested in people with intellectual disabilities gaining more voice, choice and control over research: People with disabilities, families, service providers, support staff, policy makers researchers and advocates

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directed by Kevin Jackson

translated by Gilbert C. Fong

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THE OTHER SHORE offers a profoundly limitless meditation on the human species, its journey through time and the unceasing tension between our identity as individuals and that of being part of a collective.

The play begins with a game, demonstrating our interdependence on and independence of each other. Then begins a journey across the river to its other shore, where, in a state of complete loss of any past knowledge, we begin a meditation on the creation of humankind and its journey of evolution. This is a distinctly Eastern contemplation that has reminded us of the Western PILGRIM'S PROGRESS or the medieval mystery play EVERYMAN.

Writer Gao Xingjian was born in China in1940 and so lived through one of the great experiments in the organisation of the human species: that of Communist China. Ultimately, the tension between his self expression and the pressure to conform to the Chinese government placed him in an intolerable position. Since 1987 Gao has lived in self-exile in France. He is one of the great writers of his society, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for his novel SOUL MOUNTAIN.

We have found THE OTHER SHORE to be staggeringly complex: a Buddhist contemplation, perhaps, attempting to explicate who we are and what our evolution is as a conscious species. We, the company, have begun an exploration of this great text. It has been and still is a humbling experience and we are sure you will be confronted and inspired by it.

Translated by Gilbert C. Fong this production of THE OTHER SHORE is a first in Sydney (Australia). Recent films, THE TREE OF LIFE, MELANCHOLIA have been mainstream examinations of who we are and what our journey through time may be. This play, similarly, proposes a provocation for us all to ask questions of ourselves and our own collective society and our roles in it.

Kevin Jackson, a graduate of the Acting Course at NIDA, has worked as an actor, director and teacher (of acting) both nationally and internationally.

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Performances run: Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 March @ 7:30pm

Directed by: Kevin Jackson Designed by: Paul Matthews Performed by: Students of Staging the Text

Produced by: Creative Practice & Research Unit in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW

Aviation, food services and accommodation providers have benefited from the significant increase in business tourism and travel, but other parts of the tourism sector, notably Indigenous, environmental and heritage tourism, experience considerable pressures. Another significant area of impact is Indigenous culture. Indigenous, environmental and heritage tourism enterprises are in many ways closely related to people and country. Since country representes Indigenous culture and identity , any impact on it is not only an impact on tourism but can mean major transformations for Indigenous people.

Critique of mining and industrial development has been raised in different contexts. Cases have been made in regards to Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, or the impact of mining and industrial development on Indigenous people and country in the Pilbara (WA). A more recent example is the town of Broome, one of WA's most popular tourist destinations, and the controversy surrounding a proposed LNG gas facility and mining projects in popular tourist sites in the area such as 'Horizontal Falls'.

'Songlines vs. Pipelines?' is a 'wicked problem' and there is a strong need for timely social and cultural policy to tackle it. In order to do so, the seminar brings together academics, goverment researchers and other experts as well as those directly affected by mining development, notably Indigenous people, to generate critical debate. Presentations include theoretically and empirically informed papers, qualitative and quantitative studies, historical approaches as well as popular accounts of past and present experiences of the impacts on Australian tourism and local culture by industrial development.

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The two subjects are closely related. The ethics of academic research as we know it is largely an ethics of biomedical research, which in turn finds its basis in an ethics of medical practice. But is that the most appropriate model for educational research? Not necessarily. One outcome is a preoccupation with issues of power and paternalism that fails to address other important aspects of educational research. What alternative is there? Can we find some ethical link between educational research and educational practice? The lecture will explore this possibility. I will argue that educational research should be considered in the context of the social and political goals of education and, in particular, its concern for equity and social justice.

Biography
Robin Small is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Auckland, having previously taught at Monash University. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Canterbury before gaining a doctorate in philosophy at The Australian National University. He has been president of the Australasian Association for Phenomenology and Social Philosophy, and has published work on such thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl and Kafka, as well as articles on ethics in specialist journals such as Bioethics and Utilitas. His authored books include Marx and Education Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), Time and Becoming in Nietzsche’s Thought (London: Continuum, 2010), and Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), and he is also editor and translator of Paul Rée, Basic Writings (Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). His current project, drawing in part on the experience of working on institutional ethics committees at several universities, is on the professional ethics of teaching and the ethics of educational research.

Abstract: The UK Labour Government, in one of its last pieces of legislation, passed the Child Poverty Act 2010, which set stretching targets to 'eradicate' child poverty by 2020. The current Coalition Government remains committed to the targets and in 2011 published the first National Strategy to cover the period to 2014. This seminar will outline the key elements of the legislation which include not only the targets, but requirements for the production of national and local strategies. The seminar will outline the Coalition's broad approach to tackling child poverty - namely through policies to increase parental employment and children's life chances, rather than income transfers, and much greater decentralisation so that local areas can decide what is needed for their local communities.

Laura Adelman is Deputy Head of the UK Government's Child Poverty Unit. She joined the Unit at its inception in 2008. This followed a period as a social researcher at the Department for Work and Pensions, and, prior to that, five years as a Research Associate at Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Social Policy.

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Biography
Kelley Johnson, a Professor of Disability: Policy and Practice, is the Director of the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol. She is an internationally known scholar who has undertaken research with disabled people in Australia and internationally for more than 15 years. Prior to taking up this position Kelley held a Marie Curie Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin where she co-ordinated a national programme of inclusive research with people with intellectual disabilities. She has a particular interest in deinstitutionalisation, in how disabled people can lead good lives in the community and sexuality and relationships. Her most recent books are Johnson, K. and Walmsley, J. (2010) People with intellectual disabilities: Towards a good life? (Bristol: Policy Press) and Johnson, K. and Traustadottir, R. (2005) Deinstitutionalization and people with intellectual disabilities. In and out of institutions. (London: Jessica Kingsley)

"If history doesn’t repeat itself, it often rhymes." (Mark Twain)

My proposition is that policy relating to intellectual disability has lurched from one gold plated solution to the next, each repudiating the past as unenlightened or just plain wrong, but that there are some things which remain constant and if we are to attain a better life for people, it’s important that we remember what they are. The lecture draws on work by the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability Group which I founded, with Dorothy Atkinson, in 1994, and which has pioneered ‘inclusive’ approaches to telling and recording the history of intellectual disability.

Biography
Jan Walmsley is an independent consultant, teacher and researcher with honorary chairs at The Open University, and London South Bank University, and am a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She pioneered inclusive approaches to teaching and research with people with learning difficulties and am a founder member of the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability Research group (founded in 1994). Jan published Towards a Good Life for people with intellectual disabilities in 2010 with Kelley Johnson. Her extensive list of publications include Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past Present and Futures (2003), also with Kelley Johnson. Since becoming an independent practitioner in January 2008, Jan has specialised in work relating to widening participation in learning in health and social care; development, delivery and evaluation of leadership programmes; team and organisational development; ‘user involvement’; and brokering relationships between academic and service delivery organisations. She works a lot with self advocacy organisations in England, helping them with organisational development, research and fund raising.

THE OTHER SHORE offers a profoundly limitless meditation on the human species, its journey through time and the unceasing tension between our identity as individuals and that of being part of a collective.

The play begins with a game, demonstrating our interdependence on and independence of each other. Then begins a journey across the river to its other shore, where, in a state of complete loss of any past knowledge, we begin a meditation on the creation of humankind and its journey of evolution. This is a distinctly Eastern contemplation that has reminded us of the Western PILGRIM'S PROGRESS or the medieval mystery play EVERYMAN.

Writer Gao Xingjian was born in China in1940 and so lived through one of the great experiments in the organisation of the human species: that of Communist China. Ultimately, the tension between his self expression and the pressure to conform to the Chinese government placed him in an intolerable position. Since 1987 Gao has lived in self-exile in France. He is one of the great writers of his society, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for his novel SOUL MOUNTAIN.

We have found THE OTHER SHORE to be staggeringly complex: a Buddhist contemplation, perhaps, attempting to explicate who we are and what our evolution is as a conscious species. We, the company, have begun an exploration of this great text. It has been and still is a humbling experience and we are sure you will be confronted and inspired by it.

Translated by Gilbert C. Fong this production of THE OTHER SHORE is a first in Sydney (Australia). Recent films, THE TREE OF LIFE, MELANCHOLIA have been mainstream examinations of who we are and what our journey through time may be. This play, similarly, proposes a provocation for us all to ask questions of ourselves and our own collective society and our roles in it.

Kevin Jackson, a graduate of the Acting Course at NIDA, has worked as an actor, director and teacher (of acting) both nationally and internationally.

In conversation with Tony Jones (ABC TV)

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle.

David McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, to his attacks on Barack Obama and the Rudd and Gillard governments. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its sponsorship of think tanks and its recurring editorial campaigns around the world. Its success is reflected in the fact that the campaigns are familiar to us all: small government and market deregulation, skepticism on climate change, support for neo-conservative adventures such as Iraq and criticism of all things 'liberal'.

While the phone hacking crisis has tarnished his reputation, Rupert Murdoch's influence is far from finished.

Abstract

In the Danish upper secondary school it has - for the past three years - been mandatory to teach “the methods and identity” of a given subject. In the science-subjects this has led to a rather unfortunate situation, since most teachers have never heard about NOS, and have received no training in philosophy of science. As a result, some teachers simply leave NOS out of their teaching, claiming that laboratory exercises in themselves will demonstrate what the methods and identity of science is. Other teachers draw on outdated knowledge and teach specifically about “the scientific method” and the interaction between experiment and theory as the driver of science. A third group adds a new level of theory and teach about inductivism, deductivism, positivism, falsification, paradigms and normal/revolutionary science etc.

I will report about a recent development project in which 20 upper secondary science teachers were given the challenge of dealing with teaching “methods and identity” in science in such a way that this new topic could be integrated in the existing science teaching, not adding a new layer of complexity to their teaching, but strengthening their teaching “from within”.

Biography

Keld Nielsen is associate professor in history of science and science education studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. For many years he has been engaged in teaching and in museum work. For five years he was head of a department which included science studies, science education studies and a science museum. He now teaches history of science and works with pre-service and in-service teacher training.

Fiona Williams is part-time Professor in the Social Policy Research Centre and Emeritus Professor in the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE) at the University of Leeds. She is also Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University.

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Come along to hear more about how health policy is made in Vietnam, to learn more about the Institute, and to discuss these key challenges and issues.

The presentation is open to staff, students & the public; please see details below and RSVP as spaces are limited.

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Overview

For Australia, the rise of China and India combines vast economic gain with challenges in security and values. The Asian giants have become principal markets for Australia's resources, major sources of human capital, and critical strategic players in the region. China brings Australia greater economic benefits than India, but its growing military power, combined with differences over values, poses security anxieties. Thus, Canberra has tried to intensify diplomatic engagement and economic enmeshment with both powers, yet is also seeking to hegde against Chinese power. This involves strengthening Australia's defence posture, enhancing the U.S alliance and forging new kinds of strategic ties with Asian partners, including India. In the wake of President Obama's 2011 visit, Labor's policy shift on uranium exports to India, and a challenging phase in China's regional diplomacy, this lecture will raise questions about the nature and viability of an Australian strategy to sustain good relations with the giants of the Asian century.

Biography

Rory Medcalf is Senior Research Fellow in Indian Strategic Affairs, School of Social Sciences, University of NSW. He is concurrently Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute. His professional background spans diplomacy, journalism and intelligence analysis. He has worked as a senior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments in Canberra. His experience as a diplomat included a posting to New Delhi, a secondment to Japan’s foreign ministry and truce monitoring on Bougainville. His earlier work as a journalist was commended in the Walkley awards. He has also contributed to three landmark reports on nuclear arms control, including the Canberra Commission. He is a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of International Affairs and an Honorary Fellow at the Australia-India Institute. He is founding convenor of the Australia-India Roundtable, the leading informal dialogue between the two countries.

The lecture will be introduced by Professor Alan Dupont, Director, Institute for International Security and Development, UNSW

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The Politics of Immunity in Nietzsche and Esposito

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: A Tale of Theodore Roosevelt and Environmental Alarmism in the Progressive Era

An Ocean of Leisure: Early Cruise Tours of the Pacific in an Age of Global Empire

Geographies of Memory: Oral History and Contested Rivers in Australia

Dr Arto Laitnen, Deparment of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

On the politics of esteem and the social bases of self-esteem

The Exotic Animal Trade in 19th Century England

Rianne Mahon holds a CIGI chair in comparative social policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo. She has produced numerous articles and chapters on the politics of childcare as part of a broader, gendered, process of redesigning welfare regimes. Her current work focuses on the role of international organizations in disseminating child care/early childhood development policy discourses and the (contested) translation of such travelling ideas in Argentina, Canada and Mexico at the national and subnational scales.

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Nietzsche's Image of Eternity

Self-Knowledge and the Phenomenological Transparency of Belief

Kant and the Transcendental Object=x

What is the Topic of Ethical Philosophy?  An Argument for Ethical Deflationism and Some of Its Consequences

Voluntarism About Practical Reason

Kierkegaard Is Standing By Himself – Through Hegel's Help.  The Notion of Sacrifice in Kierkegaard's Works of Love

Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice

Suspicion and Love: Foucault, Christianity, Critique

The postgraduate coursework welcome will provide the opportunity to network with other postgraduate students and meet staff from your program.

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Abstract
There is a body of research, providing both rhetoric and discussion about the use of ICT (audience response systems, CDROMs, simulations, dataloggers, Emails, Internet, modelling, virtual worlds and whiteboards) in science education for learning and assessment purposes. The research has alluded to benefits in terms of learner control, pro-active learning, increased student motivation, and increased student engagement. In this seminar the findings from several small scale studies will be presented in order to illustrate both the potential and the challenges of technology based assessment in science education. For if technology based assessment encourages inattentional blindness or selective amnesia, then using technology to assess student learning is unlikely to generate a better insight into their understanding or provide an accurate record of their capability.

Biography
Susan Rodrigues is currently Professor in Education at the University of Northumbria, England. Her previous academic experiences have been with the University of Dundee, Scotland; University of Stirling, Scotland, University of Durham, England and the University of Melbourne, Australia. She conducts research into the teaching and learning of science where her work is making a contribution both to innovative practice and to theory. Her research explores issues such as the language of science, teacher professional development, and how ICT can be used to transform teaching, learning and assessment in science.

Professor Susan Rodrigues is known internationally for her science education research and has been invited to present at international events including in Australia, Brunei, Germany, Poland and Cyprus. She was a guest editor for the Science Education International journal and is referee for several international science education and technology education journals. She is currently working on projects funded by Astrazeneca Science Teaching Trust and is working in partnership with the European Union F7 programme.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Student Research Welcome and Induction Day

The program includes:

• Keynote addresses from PhD candidates
• Financial Support for Postgraduate Research
• Postgraduate research courses for PhD and Masters by Research students
• Ethics clearances for Postgraduate Research
• The Review Process – How to prepare for the first progress review

Time: 12:30pm - 4:30pm Induction event, 4:30pm - 5:30pm drinks and refreshments

Program - PG Research Welcome and Induction Event 2012

The Induction will be followed by drinks and refreshments from 4:30pm – 5:30pm to provide you with an opportunity to network with your fellow students and to meet staff from the Faculty.

Welcome new Undergraduate students!

Find out about the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences' 2012 O-Week activities here!

We offer new students a number of services to make the transition to university as successful as possible.

Peer mentoring program

On Monday 20 February please join us at the official Faculty Welcome presentation and BBQ.

11am -12 noon Official Faculty Undergraduate Welcome

Sir John Clancy Auditorium (map ref C24)

A welcome to all new students studying in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences by the Acting Dean, Professor Eileen Baldry and a Student Life intro. Students are then invited to join the staff from the Faculty for a BBQ lunch.

12 - 1pm Faculty Welcome Lunch

Morven Brown Courtyard (map ref C20)

The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences invites all new students to join us for a BBQ lunch following the Faculty Welcome. It will provide an opportunity to network with your fellow students and to meet the academic staff.

View the full schedule of Faculty of Ars & Social Sciences program specific presentations during O Week

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23 January - Monday

Adjunct Professor Gavan McDonell (School of History & Philosophy, UNSW)

The Quest for Paradise: The history and design of the Classical Chinese garden

and

 A/Professor Liu Jie (School of Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Ancient timber arch bridges

24 January - Tuesday

Dr Ping Wang (Chinese Studies - School of Languages & Linguistics, UNSW)

Shanshui (Landscape), travellers and classical Chinese poetry

and

Mr Fang Zihong (Dept of Chinese Painting – School of Fine Art, Shanghai University)

Understanding calligraphic elements in Modern Chinese characters

25 January - Wednesday

Professor Xing Ruan (Architecture Program – Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW)

The Chinese garden as a Public Sphere: a historical lesson

and

 A/Professor Liu Jie (School of Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Ancient Chinese architecture

27 January - Friday

Professor Karyn Lai (School of History & Philosophy, UNSW)

The Yijing (Book of Changes) and Chinese philosophy

and

A/Professor Liu Jie (School of Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Aesthetics in ancient Chinese architecture

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Conveners: Dr Carsten Wergin, SPRC / UNSW and MLU (Germany); Professor Stephen Muecke, EMPA / UNSW

The mining boom in remote Australia sees leisure tourism competing against a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workforce for limited accommodation and flights. Industrial development seems not simply to increase visitor numbers in affected regions but to replace one type of visitor with another, namely leisure tourists with business tourists and travelers.

Aviation, food services and accommodation providers have benefited from the significant increase in business tourism and travel, but other parts of the tourism sector, notably Indigenous, environmental and heritage tourism, experience considerable pressures. Another significant area of impact is Indigenous culture. Indigenous, environmental and heritage tourism enterprises are in many ways closely related to people and country. Since country represents Indigenous culture and identity, any impact on it is not only an impact on tourism but can mean major transformations for Indigenous people.

Critique of mining and industrial development has been raised in different contexts. Cases have been made in regards to Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, or the impact of mining and industrial development on Indigenous people and country in the Pilbara (WA). A more recent example is the town of Broome, one of WA’s most popular tourist destinations, and the controversy surrounding a proposed LNG gas facility and mining projects in popular tourist sites in the area such as ‘Horizontal Falls’

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Songlines vs Pipelines Program

Launch by Honourable Justice Ian G. Harrison

The School of Languages and Linguistics, with the support of AUSIT (the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Inc.) NSW Branch, invites you to the launch of Professor Sandra Hale's report: "Interpreter Policies, Practices and Protocols in Australian Courts and Tribunals - A National Survey," by the Hon. Justice Ian Harrison, NSW Supreme Court. There will be a talk by Professor Hale and a Q&A session after the launch. 

For information about the launch, please see here.

Please RSVP to Erin Ralston by Monday, 5 December 2011 (languages@unsw.edu.au)

Michael Tawa is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney and author of Agencies of the Frame. Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture (2010) and Theorising the Project. A Thematic Approach to Architectural Design (2011), both with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The books will be launched by artist Janet Laurence at Tusculum, 3 Manning Sat Potts Point on Tuesday 6 December at 6.30pm.

 TAWA Book Launch

Overview

Just two generations ago, before multiculturalism became the norm, non-indigenous Australia was polarised between

Protestants and Catholics. Religion was code for identity, with tensions fuelled by colonial grievances. ‘Catholic’ was perceived as ‘Irish’, and to an English Protestant Establishment, that meant trouble. When couples married across the religious divide, it often caused bitter family conflict. Australia’s recent sectarian past and its primary victims, the Irish Catholic underclass, are misrepresented by the increasing use of the ‘Anglo-Celtic Australia’ moniker to describe pre-multicultural Australia. Through moving personal histories, this multi-media lecture challenges the use of this misleading term and reclaims a neglected part of Irish-Australian history.

Biography

Dublin-born Siobhán McHugh is an award-winning writer, oral historian and broadcaster. Her books include The Snowy – The People Behind the Power (New South Wales Premier’s prize for non-fiction) and Minefields and Miniskirts, about Australian women’s involvement in the Vietnam war (adapted for stage). She has produced material for the ABC, SBS and The Irish Echo.

Siobhán lectures in Journalism at the University of Wollongong.

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Abstract
In this lecture, I report on the findings of a study which explores issues in the teaching and learning of English for migrant health professionals in Australia. I focus in particular on cross-cultural communication issues in a multicultural country such as Australia and explore the effects of the Occupational English Test (OET), which for the purpose of registration overseas-trained health professionals must pass if they do not take the IELTS. The data for the study include interviews with teachers and students on an English course preparing migrant health professionals for the OET and with Australian doctors-in-training, who gave the perspective of local health professionals. Other sources of data include information pertaining to the OET and English language teaching materials for health professionals. I compare the language and communication needs as perceived by the different groups of informants and discuss the ways in which various goals and constraints have influenced the teaching and learning of the language and communication skills needed by migrant health professionals who plan to practise in Australia.

Biography
Dr Clarice S. C. Chan is Adjunct Associate Lecturer at the School of Education. She has recently completed her Australia Endeavour Research Fellowship at the School. Her main research interests include language education, curriculum development, sociocultural theory, EAP/ESP, discourse analysis and materials evaluation and development. Her recent publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, TESOL Classroom Practice Series, Modern English Teacher and The Teacher Trainer. In 2007, she won the IATEFL BESIG Award for the Development of Business English Teaching Materials and the TESOL Professional Development Scholarship.

Outside in



Fresh off the back of a European tour, LINK Dance Company embark on their latest season, Outside In, which hits the Io Myers Studio at the University of New South Wales on 3 and 4 December. This fantastic and thought provoking contemporary dance season features two programs containing three new works by established choreographers.

Program 1 - Saturday 3 December at 8pm

Featuring new works by Michael Whaites, Frances Rings and Paul Selwyn Norton.

Program 2 – Sunday 4 December at 3pm

Featuring new works by Michael Whaites, Frances Rings and Ross McCormack.

Frances Rings has created a beautiful, organic new work pulsating with life for LINK titled Hybrid. Inspired by her indigenous background and a connection to the natural world, this work explores the imaginings of human/plant relationships through botanical mythology and is set to an evocative soundscape from musicians Zoe Keating and David Page. This new work from one of Australia’s leading indigenous choreographers is not to be missed.

Paul Selwyn Norton has created a work especially for the eight dancers of LINK Moon/Hammer Cycle. Set in a field of 9helium balloon’s and to an eclectic mix of music from rock to world to classical, the work explores groupings of people and their various dynamics, celebrations, ritual, anarchy and individual’s influence over the group. The work reflects Norton’s interest in contrapuntal organization and delivers a forceful impact that is both impressive and moving.

Michael Whaites Artistic Director of LINK has created Poem for an Ailing World. Prompted by Whaites’ concern for the environment and the body within it, the work draws on reactions to built and natural spaces and explores how the body is affected by its environment. Collaborating for the first time with Whaites is Perth based visual artist Benjamin Forsterwho is a 2011 Jump mentorship fellow and most recently was selected to participate in the 2011 SPLENDID Arts Lab in Lismore and its environs.

New Zealand dancer/choreographer and Helpmann Award-winner, Ross McCormack, choreographed, I Said Ha Ha, especially for the LINK dancers. I said Ha Ha Is a collage of actions, results, inspired by the expressions and reckless movements that make up or form the state of childlike behavior. The objective being to avoid acting like a child, rather take on the actions that perhaps inhibit, restrict or drive the desire. A chance to revisit to our very own glorious place of constant spontaneity and beautiful failings. Inspired by bringing the outside inside, this season of contemporary dance will excite the spirit and nourish the soul.

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Abstract

Research has described how pre-service teachers pass through stages of development in terms of their epistemological and pedagogical beliefs (Furlong & Maynard, 1995; Perry, 1968; Schomer, 1990). In the early stages, student teachers are focused on their own performance and on survival in the classroom, rather than on students’ learning. They also tend to see ‘knowledge’ as being either ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ and believe that authority figures know the answers, rather than recognizing multiple possibilities for knowledge and personal interpretations (Schomer, 1990, p.175). This paper is part of a larger, mixed method study of the development of pre-service teachers’ in an undergraduate secondary education degree. Data derived from a longitudinal survey highlighted the evolving perceptions of the pre-service teachers as they progressed from the egocentric stage to a more student centric stage in the latter years of their course. For the participants in this study, developmental changes occurred in three distinct areas: a shift in focus from ‘my’ performance as a pre-service teacher, to ‘our’ (students as well as teacher) performance in the classroom; from a focus on techniques or strategies for transmitting information, to a more sophisticated thinking involving ethical and personal responsibility of the teacher; and from simply engaging students in subject content to motivating students in deeper, purposeful notions of learning and teaching.

Biography

Lynn Sheridan is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Lynn will complete her PhD this year. Her research interests are in pre-service teacher professional formation and perceptions. She has extensive teacher education experience and has worked in teacher education since 2000 in a range of Universities, including the University of Canberra, UTS, the University of Notre Dame and UNSW. Lynn also has also has extensive experience as a secondary teacher, community educator, and as a project manager.

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We welcome several colleagues from outside the Centre as speakers at the symposium: Eileen Baldry, UNSW; Fiona Martin, University of Sydney; Patrik Wikstrom, Jönköping International Business School; Tony Bennett, UWS; Brian McNair, QUT; David McKnight, UNSW; Hallvard Moe, University of Bergen; and Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney.

Special features of this symposium include:

• a roundtable on ‘Convergence. Once more, with feeling’, the centrepiece of a cocktail event hosted by Gilbert & Tobin
• a symposium dinner at Coogee Beach
• an evaluation session on the impact of the centre so far
• social activities at and around Coogee Beach.

For the full Symposium program please visit www.cci.edu.au. For more information email infocci@qut.edu.au.

Respondent: Professor Ilan Katz (Director – Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW)

In a time when we have seen the rise of ‘policy as numbers’ and a lot of political talk about the need for so-called ‘evidence-based policy’, and when public policy also seeks to calibrate research quality and impact, and to establish research priorities, there is a pressing need to reconsider the relationships, both actual and desired, between educational research and education policy. The paper documents the disjunctive cultures of academic research and policy-making in education, and demonstrates that research affects policy in multiple, yet often mediated ways and in varying timeframes. The more academic research usually has its effects in the longer term, impacting the assumptive worlds of policy-makers, who are often unaware of this situation. This paper considers the capacities of policy-makers and educational systems to be receptive to research and learn from it.

Biography
Professor Bob Lingard is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education. His research interests are in education policy in relation to globalization, social justice, gender, and school reform. His most recent books include: Educating Boys: beyond structural reform (London, Palgrave, 2009), Globalizing Education Policy (London, Routledge, 2010) and the edited collection Research by Association (Amsterdam, Sense, 2009).

Hosted by ‘Politics and policy in education’ research area – School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Amita Baviskar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth at the University of Delhi. She is highly regarded internationally, for her research on environmental movements in India and her study of urban transformation and the Indian middle classes. Frequently cited publications are In the Belly of the River. Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Between Violence and Desire. Space, Power and Identity in the Margin of Metropolitan Delhi (International Social Science Journal, 2003, Vol. 55, Issue 175). Recently she co-edited with Raka Ray Elite and Everyman. The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (Routledge, 2011).



UNSWriting’s public seminar series continues with guest Anna Funder speaking about her new novel ALL THAT I AM.

''When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon . . . "

Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past – and a part of history that has been all but forgotten.

Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life.

 When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them – those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested – and in some cases found wanting – in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history.

Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. Anna Funder confirms her place as one of our finest writers with this gripping, compassionate, inspiring first novel.

Anna Funder will be available to sign copies of her book on the night. You will be able to purchase ALL THAT I AM at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

Abstract
After the end of the disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the government in mainland China adopted reforming and opening-up policies. The speedy and steady economic growth in mainland China during the recent three decades has been unprecedented. From a historical perspective, China’s four-stage cycle, “Turbulent times – Concessions, constraints, and reforms of the new regime – Recovery of social productive forces – Prosperity of economy and associated aspects” (TCRP) can also be identified in the golden age of the West Han and Tang Dynasties. Whereas the catalytic functioning of a series of policy changes and initiatives made by the current Chinese government is widely acknowledged, the relatively emancipated Chinese social productive forces should be regarded as one of the crucial factors of recent remarkable economic growth in China. During the rapidly changing period, Chinese workers’ positive motivational states, such as hope, resiliency, and realistic optimism, provide an invaluable psychological capital to act as a buffer zone for coping with work stress and to attain desired progress continuously. Although China faces a number of problems associated with the recent global economic crisis, Chinese workers’ positive psychological capital will play a constructive role in various types of enterprises that are structured and operated in line with the reforming and opening-up measures.

References:

Chen, P., & Jin, P. (1991). Managing human resources in China. In J. M. Putti (Ed.), Management: Asian context (pp. 198-221). New York and Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Jin, P. (1992). Cultural influences and the dynamics of human resource management in China. Asian Profile, 20, 109-114.

Jin, P. (1993). Work motivation and productivity in voluntarily formed work teams: A field study in China. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 54, 133-155.

Jin, P. (2010). Worker motivation during changing periods: The role of psychological capital in China’s economic reform. In Y. Wang & P. Ramburuth (Eds.), Thirty Years of China’s Economic Reform: Institutions, Management Organisations and Foreign Investment (pp. 97-114). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science.

Biography
Putai Jin, a Registered Psychologist in Australia since 1993 as well as an International Affiliate of American Psychological Association since 1995, earned his Master degree of Education and PhD in Psychology. He considers himself extremely fortunate to have the opportunities to directly learn cognitive psychology from Herbert A. Simon (a 1978 Nobel Prize laureate) and factor analysis from Chen Li (the founder of the two-factor theory of intelligence Charles Spearman’s last PhD candidate). He has teaching and research experience in high-ranked universities. His main research interests include applied educational psychology in learning, stress management, organisational diagnosis, and quantitative methods. During his service at UNSW, he has graduated 13 research students (10 with PhD, 2 with EdD, and 1 with Master by Research) and published in high-impact journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition, he has co-authored three books and a number of book chapters. He was Visiting Fellow at National University of Singapore, Anthony Mason Fellow to Peking University, and a recipient of grants from Australian Research Council and overseas funding bodies and the Distinguished Professional Contribution Award by China’s Mental Hygiene Society.

Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin

Responding to Patrick O'Farrell's spirited attempt to turn Anglo-Irish history inside out in Ireland's English Question, this lecture will seek cultural and political explanations for the prevalence of various myths about the Irish in Australia. It will re-examine some of O'Farrell's themes, particularly his emphasis on the Australian imprints of Irish Catholicism and Irish radical and egalitarian tendencies. It will argue that the increasing identification of Irishness with Catholicism was in large part a calculated deception by Australian church leaders. While pointing out distinctive features of Irish immigration, it will question the extent to which the behaviour and experience of Irish settlers and their descendants differed from those of their British contemporaries. While noting significant differences in the political and social development of nineteenth century Ireland, Britian and Australia, it will draw attention to neglected similarities tending to subvert the romantic belief that Ireland represented an archaic, endemically poor, yet spiritually superior alternative to British and Australian materialism. It will conclude that beliefs about Ireland and the Irish, though often misconceived and sometimes disingenuous, have left an enduring imprint on Australian politics and culture.

David Fitzpatrick is Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin, where he has taught since 1979. He is a graduate of the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a recidivist holder in the distant past of fellowships in Australian universities. His works include Politics and Irish Life: Provincial experience of war and revolution, 1913-1921 (1977); Irish Emigration, 1801-1921 (1984); Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (1995); The Two Irelands, 1912-1939 (1998); Harry Boland's Irish Revolution (2003); and Solitary and Wild: Frederick MacNeice and the Salvation of Ireland  (November 2011). With Eric Richards and Richard Reid in 1989, he initiated the Visible Immigrants series of six seminars and books on neglected sources and issues relating to Australian migration. He also convoked the Trinity History Workshop in 1986, and recently edited its fifth volume of essays Terror in Ireland, 1916-1923 (spring 2012). He is writing a history of the Orange Order in Ireland.

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Speakers include:

• ICC President, JudgeSang-Hyun Song,
• ICC Registrar, Silvana Arbia
• ICC Deputy Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda
• Christian Wenaweser, President, ASP

To coincide with the conference, American playwright and women's rights activist, Eve Ensler, will deliver the Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture at the Sydney Theatre Company on 12 February.

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Dr Liam Weeks is a lecturer in politics at the Department of Government, University College Cork. He is currently a Visiting Academic Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he is on a CARA IRCHSS postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the European Commission.

The discreet charm of the Single Transferable Vote: What electoral reformers can learn from the Australian and Irish experience

The Single Transferable Vote might seem of interest only to political scientists and the anorak community, but is an increasingly important issue in real-world politics. While many aspects of Australia and Ireland’s shared heritage have been studied, one less-examined experience is their unusual fondness for preferential electoral systems, a predilection shared only by Malta. Electoral systems are important because some of their alleged consequences include corruption, weak governments, ‘parish-pump’ politics, and even the collapse of democratic regimes. This talk assesses the consequences of preferential voting in Ireland and Australia. Did the electoral system contribute to the Irish recession? Has it played a role in Australia escaping a similar fate? What changes, if any, would electoral reform engineer?

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Christine Kelly has an M.A. in History and Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin and is a Licentiate of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies. She is a freelance historian, author and lecturer and a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography, the BBC History Magazine and the Literary Review. Her publications include, Blessed Thomas Belson: His Life and Times 1563-1589 (Colin Smythe, 1988) and Mrs. Duberly’s War: Letters & Journal from the Crimea 1854-56 (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is a member of the executive committee of the British Irish Association.

Family stories and national myths - The sinking of the German battleship Emden November 1914

During the early months of the First World War a lone German cruiser, the Emden, prowled the Indian Ocean disrupting and sinking shipping and delaying vital Allied troop movements. Nicknamed ‘The Corsair’, as she outwitted the seventy-eight warships sent to destroy her, her crew became heroes to the Germans and a source of fascination to the British and Australian press until she was single-handedly attacked and run aground by HMAS Sydney at the battle of the Cocos Islands in November 1914. This was the first naval victory of the war and a significant triumph for the recently commissioned Australian navy. This talk looks at the themes underlying the dramatic tale of the battle including the exploration of private and public myths, contrasting the victory of the Sydney over the Emden with the disaster at Gallipoli in the shaping of Australian identity. The story is told through eye-witness accounts, focusing on Denis Rahilly, the young Irish/Australian Gunnery Officer who had to scramble up the mast into the Crow’s Nest to direct the firing. (The mast is now the centre of the peace memorial on Bradley Head overlooking Sydney harbour.) The family stories and economic influences that brought this young man, educated in England, to volunteer for the Australian navy rather than returning to Ireland echo the experiences of many Australians.

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Inheriting a philosophy of life: W.B. Yeats's debt to his father

Professor John Kelly
Emeritus Research Fellow in English, St John's College, Oxford

John Kelly is the general editor of the multi-volume Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats for Oxford University Press. He is also the author of A W. B. Yeats Chronology (2003), co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (2006), and the author of many articles on Yeats and Irish literature.

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The gardener and the stable boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the problem of Orangeism

Professor David Fitzpatrick
Trinity College, Dublin

David Fitzpatrick is Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. His works include Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (1995); The Two Irelands, 1912–1939 (1998); Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution (2003); and ‘Solitary and Wild’: Frederick MacNeice and the Salvation of Ireland (2011).

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User-generated content on social networking sites, internet forums and mash-up or fan-fiction sites is becoming such a large source of news and documentation of popular culture, that the line between publishers and consumers has all but faded. At the same time, online censorship laws have grown wider and more easily enforced. The Australian government is proposing legislation to compel all Australian ISPs to block offshore-hosted content that has been classified as RC and added to a central blacklist of URLs. While it has not yet been implemented, three large ISPs have voluntarily implemented filters. Locally-hosted content, while not compulsorily filtered, is subject to take-down, service-cessation or links-deletion notices from ACMA, if it has been classified as 'prohibited content'. Safe harbour provisions in Australia are uncertain and often difficult to claim. Further, a recent major copyright action, while clarifying the amount of knowledge required to be liable for authorisation of copyright infringement, may have made avoidance of liability more difficult for intermediaries.

My research considers the effects of intermediary liability on freedom of online expression in Australia. It is a normative study that examines the impacts of such liability on online content-facilitating businesses, such as hosting providers and website operators, and on individual end users. This presentation will provide a summary of the report, as well as my suggestions for policy and law reform.

Lauren Loz is the Australian research fellow for Google's Asia-Pacific Policy Fellowship 2011. Loz holds a Juris Doctor from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelors in Commerce and Arts from the University of Auckland.

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Tuesday 25 October - Professor Adrian Franklin ( School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania) present a seminar entitled 'Social isolation and loneliness' .

An Honours degree means studying at a higher level than in undergraduate coursework, and it can be very stimulating and rewarding.  An important aspect of Honours is that research training can enhance your future study and work prospects. Most employers, such as the NSW Department of Education and Training, equate the honours year to an additional year of employment when calculating salary increments.

If you are thinking about enrolling in Honours in future, please register for the information session here.

For a list of School of Education academic staff and their research interests please go to http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/postgraduate-research/academic-staff-research-interests/.

Abstract
Over the last two decades, formative teacher-based assessment has come to be seen as a strategic complement of educational reform aimed at improving the effectiveness of teaching in an era of increased educational accountability. Research on Assessment for Learning and teacher assessment judgement and moderation has established the pedagogic value of such approaches, including in the area of language teaching, but is still attempting to theorize the teacher-led, value-laden nature of formative assessment in ways that move beyond traditional psychometric test-based notions of validity and reliability.

This presentation seeks to extend this research by examining the nature and dynamics of teacher thinking during and after assessing student writing. Using teacher think-aloud and interview data from Hong Kong and Australian secondary schools, the paper shows how dialectic interaction between contradictory modes of assessment thinking actually enhances teacher awareness and reflexivity, leading to greater trustworthiness in formative assessment. The paper draws on Vygotsky’s dialectic, meditated, “theory of mind.. that recognizes the central role that social relationships and culturally constructed artifacts play in uniquely human forms of thinking” (Lantolf, 2004, pp. 30-31). This microgenetic study of complex moment-by-moment psychological phenomena therefore proposes a dialectic understanding of the situated, tool-mediated nature of teacher cognition in assessment activity.

Biography
Michael Michell completed his doctorate at the University of Technology Sydney on promoting academic engagement and agency in culturally diverse classrooms, and also holds a Master of Education (TESOL), University of Technology Sydney, a Graduate Diploma of TESOL, University of Technology Sydney, 1988, a Diploma of Education, Sydney Teachers College in English and ESL, and a Bachelor of Arts, Sydney University. In 2009 Michael took up a position as a Lecturer the School of Education at UNSW after nearly 20 years as a Senior Education Officer with ESL and Multicultural Education Policy Support K-12, Multicultural Programs Unit, DET NSW. Before that he was a teacher and consultant in a range of schools in NSW, including Chatswood and Cabramatta. His research interests include: sociocultural theory, educational policy, language and literacy education and multicultural education.

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This talk reports on an investigation into the written component of practice-based doctorate in the visual and performing arts, a genre that is still in the process of development. A key feature of these doctorates is that they comprise two components: a visual or performance component, and a written text which accompanies it which in some ways is similar to, but in others, is quite different from a traditional doctoral thesis. In our presentation, we will focus on the overall organizational, or macro-structures of the written texts that students submit as part of the examination in these areas of study, and how these patterns of organization are related to those found in more established examples of the doctoral thesis genre in other areas of study. Our study suggests that there is a range of organizational possibilities for the written text that is part of a doctoral submission in the visual and performing arts and we discuss these with reference to notions of genre change and how contextual factors may shape genre.

Biographies
Sue Starfield is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of The Learning Centre. Her previous research and publications cover tertiary academic literacies; advanced academic writing, postgraduate pedagogy, academic discourse socialisation, identity in academic writing and access and equity in higher education. Her current research focuses on Writing in the academy: The practice-based thesis as an evolving genre (ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010) and A cross-national study of the relative impact of an oral component on PhD examination quality, language and practice (ARC Discovery Grant 2011-2013).

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His most recent publications are Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (with Sue Starfield), Teaching Academic Writing (with colleagues at the University of Sydney), Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (edited with Aek Phakiti), Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis (edited with Ken Hyland) and New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research (edited with Ann Johns and Diane Belcher). His main research interests are academic writing, genre analysis and critical discourse studies.

Louise Ravelli is Associate Professor and Media Program Convenor in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at UNSW. She is interested in the relationship of communication to its social context, especially in the domains of museum communication and academic writing. She is the author of Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks (Routledge 2006) and co-Editor, with Robert A. Ellis, of Analysing Academic Writing: Contextualized Frameworks (Continuum 2004).

Time: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 3:30 - 5:00 PM

Professor Sandra Hale will be giving a presentation in the upcoming School of Languages and Linguistics Seminar. The presentation, entitled "Interpreting Accent: The Effect of Interpreter Accent on Juror Perception of Non-English Speaking Witnesses", will examine the effect of interpreters' foreign accent on the evaluation of witnesses' testimony.

The abstract of the presentation can be found here.

Poster with details of the event can be found here.

Which came first, the building or the egg?

The mind makes stories of chance events. Five randomly selected groups bring you 35 banks of performance images to create your own set of causal relations, a new ‘story’ for each viewer.

5 works from 35 students working from the corners of their eyes.

This project follows a series of performances prompted by the bringing of various architectural phenomena onto the performance stage.

Working this time with the idea of corners, as prompts for content and thematics, but also inspiration for staging elements and dramaturgical principles, these 5 short performances reflect 5 different approaches to making, working together and presenting, a bank of rich and individually created performance ideas.

In Performance Production 2: Collaborative Making students work in groups under the guidance of performance maker and lecturer Clare Grant to create short group-devised ensemble pieces. Beginning with just bodies in a space and an idea, a series of truly original works develop over the semester.

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Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. Anna Funder confirms her place as one of our finest writers with this gripping, compassionate, inspiring first novel.

Anna Funder will be available to sign copies of her book on the night. You will be able to purchase All That I Am at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

METTE JAKOBSEN

UNSW Graduate and author of The Vanishing Act

in conversation with author Margo Lanagan (“Tender Morsels”, “Yellowcake”)

Tuesday 11 October @ 6:30pm

Io Myers Studio, UNSW

BOOK EARLY FOR THIS FREE PUBLIC EVENT.

UNSWriting’s public seminar series continues with our guest Mette Jakobsen, recently graduated with a doctorate in Creative Writing from UNSW. The Vanishing Act, published by Text, is a magical and sorrowful tale of love and loss set on an imagined island so tiny it can’t be found on any maps.

“You might not believe my story. You might read it as a fairytale, a fable straight out of my imagination. But all of it is true.” So speaks Minou the 12 year old narrator of the book. Minou is searching for her mother who one night walked out into the rain with a black umbrella and vanished.

Mette Jakobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1964 and now lives Sydney. She is an established playwright and several of her plays have been broadcast on ABC national radio. The Vanishing Act is her first novel, and it is gathering considerable international attention.

Discussing Mette’s novel is acclaimed and award winning novelist and short story writer Margo Lanagan. Margo has published four collections of short stories—White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes and her latest, Yellowcake—and a novel, Tender Morsels. She is a four-time World Fantasy Award winner (for best collection, short story, novel and novella); two of her books are Printz Honor Books, Black Juice won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and Red Spikes was CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers.

Both Mette and Margo will be available to sign copies of their books on the night. You will be able to purchase The Vanishing Act and a selection of Margo’s books at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop.

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology and a host of other disciplines to analyse the Western notion of “woman” and to postulate on the power of sexuality. Sixty years after its initial publication, The Second Sex is still as eye-opening and pertinent as ever.

This new translation pays particular attention to the existentialist terms and French nuances that may have been misconstrued in the first English edition, and reinstates significant portions of the “Myths” and “History” chapters, including accounts of more than seventy historical female figures. A ground breaking exploration of woman as “other”, The Second Sex continues to provoke and inspire, continually and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about themselves.

The Second Sex: A 21st Century dialogue with translators Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany Chevallier

The School of Languages and Linguistics and the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at UNSW, bring you two seminars exploring The Second Sex. The first will explore the complexities of the new translation, the second discusses Simone de Beauvoir's construction of non-violent relationships.

1. Revisiting Simone de Beauvior in the 21st Century: Translating The Second Sex
   2.30pm - 4pm
2. Marriage kills love: de Beauvoir on modern relationships
   5.00pm - 6.30pm

A reception to meet and speak with the translators will be held from 4pm - 5pm.

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Aim of the forum is to disseminate information on recent research findings, effective strategies and promising practice in Indigenous and non-Indigenous kinship care. A key feature of the day’s events will be the launch of the final report on grandparent kinship carers and a new assessment tool for Indigenous kinship carers.

1. The report is from an Australian Research Council (ARC) national project with grandparent carers, undertaken by Deb Brennan & Bettina Cass, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. ‘Grandparents Raising their Grandchildren’, examines issues around the experiences and supports provided to formal and informal Indigenous and non-Indigenous kinship carers.

2. Marianne Berry, the Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, South Australia is to launch the new WINANGAY Assessment Tool for Indigenous Kinship Carers. Aunty Susie Blacklock, Gill Bonser and Paula Hayden, are members of WINANGAY.

Presenters on the day include:

Bettina Cass, Christiania Purcal, kylie valentine, Bridget Jenkins; Saul Flaxman, Trish Hill - SPRC Research Team. Paula Hayden, Gill Bonser, Aunty Susie Blacklock – WINANGAY.

Argiri Alisandratos - Home Based Care, Department of Human Services, Victoria.

Meredith Kiraly & Cathy Humphries - University of Melbourne.

Child Protection Development Queensland, Department of Communities. (TBC)

Cheryl Purchase & Jackie Dettmann (NSW, Department of Families and Community Services)

The Program for the day will be provided on registration

PLEASE NOTE - we have reached capacity for attendance at this event, and registrations are now closed.

Abstract: This study evaluated the implementation of an intervention project in 8 counties in China between 2006-2010. It has three major research questions: 1) What is the status of early childhood education in the 8 sites? 2) What is the impact of project implementation? 3) What issues should be included in future research? Through children test, focus group interviewing and field study, we found the implementation of the project had a positive effect on decision making of local governments and improving educational views and knowledge of parenting. Other findings suggested the focus of further work should be laid on improving teachers’ general educational abilities and conditions for running childcare centres.

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• What languages are offered by the School of Languages & Linguistics?
• Learn about the language options available for all UNSW degrees
• Talk to current language students
• Learn about international exchange possibilities
• Enjoy an international food performance

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Abstract
Cognitive Load Theory uses the concepts of biologically primary and secondary knowledge (Sweller, 2008; Geary, 2008). In this presentation I will try to answer a simple question: is the primary - secondary knowledge framework refutable? I think it is possible to answer yes, for example by varying guidance in learning tasks. Indeed, guidance should interfere with learning based on primary knowledge, or at least, unnecessary increases cognitive load, that is normally low for this type of knowledge. Instead, guidance would facilitate secondary knowledge learning. This type of learning involving a greater cognitive load, guidance would lead to decrease this load and promote learning, particularly for novices. The aim of this study is to test this general hypothesis. I will present four experiments that concern the same knowledge and the same task, learning to categorize living species, witch can be primary knowledge (categorization is based on attributes sharing) or secondary knowledge (categorization is based on the evolution of species).

References
Geary, D. C. (2008). An evolutionarily informed education science. Educational Psychologist, 43, 279-295.

Sweller, J. (2008). Instructional Implications of David C. Geary’s Evolutionary Educational Psychology. Educational Psychologist, 43, pp. 214-216.

Biography
André Tricot is professor of psychology at the University of Toulouse, France. He teaches at the School for Teachers’ Education, mainly on learning, its difficulties and disabilities. His research focuses on learning and information seeking with electronic documents, cognitive load theory, and human computer interactions. He heads a research group of twenty people studying learning, motivation and metacognition. He wrote five books (unfortunately in French), nearly 45 articles and chapters, and coordinated ten special issues or conference proceedings.

iOU premieres six new dance solos from some of Sydney’s finest dance artists and performers in the Io Myers Studio.

Martin Del Amo | Anton | Craig Bary | Narelle Benjamin | Kristina Chan | Timothy Ohl

Professor Ann McGrath’s research interests are gender, colonialism, film and the history of Indigenous relations in Australia and North America. She is interested in presenting scholarly history in a range of genres. Exhibitions curated include one on Women and Childbirth during the Federation era and one on International Outlaws as national heroes. She has produced the film ‘A Frontier Conversation’ (Wonderland Productions, Ronin distributors, 2006) and has worked as an advisor on various television and film projects. Her consultancy and outreach work has included co-ordinating the history project of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, working as an expert witness in the Gunner & Cubillo case and in various Northern Territory land claims. She been been accepted as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to history, especially Indigenous history. Her work has also been recognized by the award of the Inaugural W.K. Hancock prize, the Human Rights Award for non-fiction, the John Barrett Prize, and the Archibald Hannah Junior Fellowship at the Beinecke Library, Yale.

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Many Irish Australians seek to return to Ireland to find their family roots. Equally, and for various reasons, Aboriginal people of Irish descent are also making reverse journeys to Ireland. This Lecture will consider the history of Irish immigrants to Australia in relation to Aboriginal Australians. It will pose the question as to whether historian Patrick O’Farrell’s assertions that the Irish were more likely to marry Aboriginal women can be sustained. It will also consider the belief that Irish Australians were ‘good’ colonizers - or at least more benevolent in their attitude and actions towards Aboriginal people. We know that Irish men and women formed unions and started families with Aboriginal men and women, but research into this topic is at an early stage. We should not ignore the fact that many children of Irish descent ended up as ‘stolen children’, removed from both father and mother, with all the associated trauma and suffering that this entailed.

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Much has been written about the youths of today as digital natives (Prensky, 2001), the net generation and millennials (e.g. Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005). These are people born in/after 1980 who embrace digital technology in their everyday lives and using it as a central plank of their relationship building. They have been described as better handlers of digital technologies, particularly mobile phones and games consoles, and are generally digitally literate technically with these devices. This paper investigates how students in an undergraduate course perceived their own level of digital literacy and whether these students could be taught to further enhance their digital literacy. The implications of the results for the ‘digital native’ concept and for educators will also be presented. The underlying framework of digital literacy with its cognitive, technical and social-emotional dimensions will be discussed.

References

Oblinger, D. G., and J. L. Oblinger, eds. 2005. Educating the Net Generation.Washington, D.C.: EDUCAUSE

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6.

Biography

Wan Ng is Associate Professor in Technology-enabled Learning & Teaching and Science Education at UNSW. Prior to UNSW, she was Associate Dean (International) and senior lecturer in Science & Technology Education at La Trobe University. Wan’s research is located within science education, gifted education and teachers' work. Underpinning the research in these areas is the use of ICT, including online and mobile technologies, for learning and teaching. Since 2002, when she started her academic career in Education, she has attracted numerous federal, state and university grants and consultancy work for projects in these areas. Her current research interest lies in understanding science learning through multimodality and in ubiquitous learning, particularly the informal aspects through the use of mobile technologies. Her recent publications include an edited book called Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning: Research and Pedagogy, and she has just completed a sole authored book (in press) titled Empowering Scientific Literacy through Digital Literacy and Multiliteracies.

The National Centre in HIV Social Research invites you to the 12th Social Research Conference on HIV, hepatitis C and related diseases to be held 12-13 April 2012 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

The theme of the conference is silence&articulation. Delegates will be asked to consider: What can and can’t be said about HIV, hepatitis C, drug use and sexual practices? What is seen as acceptable and unacceptable? What do such silences and articulations achieve and why?

Keynote speakers include:

John Della Bosca - Former NSW Special Minister of State, 1999–2006 and current National Campaign Director, National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Professor Jane Ussher – Director PsyHealth: Gender, Culture and Health Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney.

Associate Professor Alison Ritter – Director, Drug Policy Modelling Program, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales.

John Godwin - HIV, law and development consultant, Member Legal Working Group, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood-borne Viruses and STIs.

Conference dates: 12-13 April 2012.

Registration and abstract submission opens on 7 September 2011.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 25 November 2011.

Abstract: Pierre Bourdieu's former student and colleague Loic Wacquant passionately argues for a more critical and reflexive approach that provides 'a chance to think the world, rather than being thought by it'. Taking this as a starting point, I draw on my experience at the Brotherhood of St Laurence to consider how Bourdieu's conceptual toolkit can be used to understand the processes that shape inequality in Australia.

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Abstract
Parents and teachers are often concerned with how to maintain their children's motivation for playing a musical instrument, and there is some evidence that children themselves are, too. The difficulty is in sustaining the many hours of difficult, lonely, and boring practice necessary for a level of competence that eventually becomes rewarding. In this presentation I will present some perspectives on short, medium, and long term motivation for playing a musical instrument, including why some children do not enjoy it, why some do, and why some eventually cease involvement.

Biography
Paul Evans is a lecturer in the School of Education. His research interests include motivation, cognitive strategy use, emotion, and social factors in learning music. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in music education, music psychology, creativity, and motivation.

FASS staff are invited to attend the annual Faculty Assessment Forum.

Keynote speaker, Professor Chris Davison, School of Education, UNSW, will present on `"Marking”: Making it Manageable yet Meaningful’.

Associate Dean (Education), Sean Brawley, will give an update on developments in the sector of relevance to FASS.

Participants will join in a roundtable discussion, which will share practice and ideas on how to tackle the challenges associated with one of the following:

1. Assessing group work
2. Assessing class participation
3. E-Assessment
4. Oral forms of assessment
5. Assessment Portfolios
6. The role of course coordinators in assessing in large courses with a constrained budget.

A light lunch and afternoon tea are included in the complimentary registration.

Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Journalism and Media Research at the University of NSW. She was the Foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney. She is the author of seven books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Professor Lumby is a well-known public commentator who has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Bulletin magazine. She sits on the Education and Welfare Committee and the Research Committee of the National Rugby League, advising them on gender issues. She is also a member of the Advertising Standards Board. She has been awarded five Australian Research Council grants and is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Her latest book is The Porn Report (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008) co-authored with Alan McKee and Kath Albury.

Abstract
Most educational research involves gathering, interpreting, analysing, and drawing inferences from data. More generally, the collection of data is often seen as vital for the development or improvement of theories in education. Granted these claims, there is still considerable scope for the development and improvement of theories in education that draws on strategies and techniques that don’t involve data collection. The aim of this talk is to describe and demonstrate the workings of a number of non-empirical methods of justification in educational research. These methods involve the use of a broader notion of inference, one that includes deduction, “inference to the best explanation”, theory comparison, and certain super-empirical virtues of theories such as consistency, simplicity, coherence, and explanatory unity.

Biography
Colin Evers is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of New South Wales. Previously, he was Professor of Education at The University of Hong Kong and is now an Honorary Professor there, and is Guest Professor at the Research Institute of Educational Economics and Administration, Shenyang Normal University, China. He studied mathematics, philosophy and education before taking his PhD in philosophy of education at the University of Sydney. His teaching and research interests are in educational administration, philosophy of education, and research methodology. He has co-edited and co-authored six books on educational administration and many papers in his areas of research interest. He serves on numerous editorial boards and has also been co-editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration, the official journal of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management. His keynote conference presentations include an Opening Address at a meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, and an Invited Divisional Address to Division A (Administration) of the American Educational Research Association. His main ongoing research projects are to do with educational leadership and administrative theory. Concerning research methodology, he has recently completed work on a Special Issue of the journal Comparative Education that explores issues around conducting educational research in Confucian heritage cultures.

A festival of original works by practice-based Honours students

Io Myers Studio and Studio One

Tuesday 30 August to Thursday 1 September

Booking page now live! Click here to book tickets to the evening performances. (All daytime performances are free.)

Daytime exhibitions

Tuesday to Thursday 2pm to 6:30pm. FREE!

Film installation and interactive gaming work featuring
Natalie Abdullah in Io Myers Studio and Michael Chu in Studio One Dressing Room

Dusk

Tuesday to Thursday from sunset. FREE!

Ongoing installation outside Io Myers from sunset Mark Starmach

Evening events

Tuesday to Thursday 7pm to 9pm. BOOK NOW!

Film screening James Thomas.
Live performance works featuring Maria White, Bernice Ong, Khat Reid, and Nalina Wait

Saturday installations and screenings 10am to 3pm as part of UNSW Open Day. FREE!

Natalie Abdullah, James Thomas and Bernice Ong’s installation.

TICKETS $12/8 for the evening events. Info 9385 5684 | Bookings essential, numbers are limited.

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The Creative Practice and Research Unit presents a festival of original works from our practice-based Honours students. The eight students are studying across the disciplines of Media, Film Studies, Dance Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies. In this array of challenging, surprising and experiential short works, the students are engaging in their own particular research projects. The projects form part of their submission for the Honours degree in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts.

Inside and outside the theatres, on park benches and in dressing rooms, our audience will be moving between spaces and experiences. You can attend the entire festival, or just come to the free daytime exhibitions or the ticketed evening events.

Students’ works are self-generated, presenting their arguments in creative form. They are supported by rigorous research questions that have risen from their own emerging practice. They engage with both theoretical material and the work of other practitioners in that field. This is an opportunity to see the work of these emerging artists in a research environment. It is also an opportunity for the students to test their ideas and approach on an audience.

Honours Projects 2011 will be a lively few days of contemporary art and performance and an opportunity to view and support the work of a group of adventurous and creative emerging artists.

Honours Projects 2011 will feature…

Natalie Abdullah: Film Studies: You Will See.

See all the beauty that the eye is untrained to see.

An immersive video installation. By venturing through the three stages of this immersive video installation, the audience will experience different modes and visions of seeing, portraying that the poetry of cinema lies within the field of the visual.

Michael Chu: Media Studies: Xeno Slayer

An experiment with action/adventure games.

‘Xeno Slayer’ is an action adventure game that aims to make gameplay more immersive by adding choice to Quick Time Events.

Bernice Ong: Theatre and Performance Studies: The Ideal Condition

Within these walls there are things we know. On this ground some things might grow. We’re under way!

A performance installation, precarious, and teetering within some nice edges. This research investigates the inhabitation of transitory spaces.

Khat Reid: Theatre and Performance Studies: Memory Nest

Small actions accumulate. Feelings grow. Stuff gathers.

It is the place where we establish our identity, informed by those with whom we share space and store the souvenirs of our experiences. In acknowledging the ineffability of where home lies, we begin to embrace the relationships and identities, which shape our identity.

Mark Starmach: Media Studies: When Body Meets Bench

Stillness in the Streetscape

This interactive public installation invites you to sit down and re-imagine the streetscape in new and exciting ways.

James Thomas: Film Studies: Ontoillogical

Referencing an Uncertain Moment in Cinema History

“Ontoillogical” is a creative exploration of cinema’s ontological strangeness, through an unreliable narrative of displaced conversations and encounters - as a young man and woman drift together and apart, trying to find their way through a trail of living discontinuities.

Nalina Wait: Dance Studies: The Empty Centre

An improvised solo dance performance concerned with the act of dissolving binary opposites, such as body/mind, passive/active, dancing/not dancing, good/bad, self/other and known/unknown, in order to investigate a third space. With sound composed and improvised live by sound artist James Brown.

Maria White: Theatre and Performance Studies: Mouth Piece

Enter an illogical landscape where apples are blue, tongues are long and unmanageable, and silences are performed.

A performance led by image and sound that struggles against the impossibility of being understood and the failure of language.

This is a unique opportunity for students to meet with recent graduates, current students and business people who have undertaken Asian cultural, business or language studies, and to hear about their personal experiences and professional achievements.

This half-day event is an opportunity to celebrate and prepare students for the 21st century – “the Asia century”. A range of activities will be offered including:

• small group discussions
• country specific workshops
• presentations from students, graduates and business people

You will also have the opportunity to share your own experiences of Asia, its cultures and its peoples, and to discuss how Asia literacy is being explored in your own schools.

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Full Seminar Program 2011

Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Journalism and Media Research at the University of NSW. She was the Foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney. She is the author of seven books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Professor Lumby is a well-known public commentator who has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Bulletin magazine. She sits on the Education and Welfare Committee and the Research Committee of the National Rugby League, advising them on gender issues. She is also a member of the Advertising Standards Board. She has been awarded five Australian Research Council grants and is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Her latest book is The Porn Report (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008) co-authored with Alan McKee and Kath Albury.

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Abstract
Through a discussion of reforms revolving around the veil, obscenity, education and widow remarriage in colonial north India, this paper will demonstrate how disorder crept into the moral order of reform, which in turn served to destabilise patriarchies and create unintended consequences. The talk argues that while the reforms signalled the ideological reworking of the ideal woman, women too were negotiating their space within them, calling into question claims of marginalisation of women's popular culture.

Biography

Charu Gupta is Associate Professor of History at Delhi University. She graduated from Miranda House, University of Delhi, and received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She joined the Department of History at Delhi University in 2009, after many years of teaching at a college at Delhi University. In addition to spending a semester as the Rama Watamull Distinguished Indian Visiting Scholar at UHM, she has been Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and Visiting Faculty at the University of Washington. She has held fellowships at several prestigious institutions including the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in Delhi, the Social Science Research Council in New York, and the Wellcome Institute in London. Her publications include the books Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (co-published by Permanent Black, Delhi & Palgrave, New York, 2002) and Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia (Routledge, Delhi and London, 2008), and several articles on gender, masculinity, sexuality, fundamentalism and nationalism in various national and international journals. She is currently working on a new project, “Dalit Masculinities and Femininities.”

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Organised jointly by the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies and the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia at UNSW, this conference uses the occasion of Flann O'Brien's  centenary to reanalyse his major works in response to these developments.

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Abstract

Evelyn Conlon will read from her works on how we miss places. The ‘meaning of missing’ suggests missing out in many senses. Often when we discuss the ‘diaspora’ we do so as if it is all about regret and loss. But often departure involves relieved escape. Mixing reading and discussion, this talk will concentrate on Evelyn’s writings on distant places, distant from Ireland that is, and will also discuss where fiction adds to history, fiction being a corridor of truth. In looking at how and why she wrote ‘A Glassful of Letters’, this talk will consider the epistolary form as communication from faraway places and, in particular, the role of men in diasporic letter writing.

The talk will be introduced by Dr Pamela O'Neill, Honorary Fellow, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies

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In this paper, a new framework for conceptualizing leadership and management of learning and teaching is described. Its value as a tool to identify the leadership and management challenges faced by those with responsibility for developing institutional capacity and capability for e.learning, and its capacity to guide strategy development, implementation and review, is also examined. Developed from extensive interviews with innovators, leaders, and managers of learning and teaching within Australian universities, the framework describes six critical roles for leaders and managers of learning and teaching, in four broad domains of practice, and in four distinct contexts.

Biography

Stephen joined UNSW in November 2008 as Professor in the School of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of Learning and Teaching @ UNSW. His research interests focus on higher education and include academic leadership, professional and staff development, policy implementation and change, educational innovation, program evaluation, and university governance. His current research projects focus on: the nature of academic leadership; the development of academic leaders and managers; and curriculum innovation and change in higher education institutions.

Stephen Marshall has been a professional educator for 29 years. Having completed his Masters Degree in Educational Management from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1988, his thesis focusing on strategies used to support the professional learning of teachers in Catholic Secondary schools in South Australia, he was invited to complete his doctorate in Educational Administration at the University of Alberta Canada.

Upon his return to Australia, Stephen was employed with the Hawthorn Institute of Education and then the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, before accepting the position of Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management Development at the Centre for Higher Education & Professional Development at Macquarie University in 1997; he was subsequently appointed as Acting Director in 1998 and then Director for the newly created Centre for Professional Development.

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The ubiquitous use of new technologies, along with changing curriculum and student study habits has resulted in universities needing to rethink teaching and learning environments. Based on ongoing research at one university in Hong Kong, this presentation explores the changing needs for learning spaces and the resultant designs to maximize opportunities for student learning. With reference to a new publication which examines multiple case studies of innovative pedagogical practices from over 25 countries, this presentation outlines these needs and the institution’s evolving plans for new physical spaces to support both flexible and interactive learning environments and to complement an increasing role of online learning spaces to support student work in universities.

Reference: Law, N., Yuen, H.K., & Fox, R. (2011). Educational Innovations Beyond Technology: nurturing leadership and establishing learning organizations. New York: Springer.

Biography
Bob Fox has over 30 years experience in teaching and research in South East Asia, Australia and Great Britain. His research interests focus on teacher professional development; blended learning; change and leadership in technology supported educational innovation; and the impact of technology in new teaching and learning environments. He is Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education and Assistant Dean Learning Environments, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.

These two works were written as part of the prestigous Australia Council Fellowship awarded to Andrew in 2010. The works will be performed by, Susan Collins on violin, Sue-Ellen Paulsen on cello with Tamara Anna Cislowska on piano. The warm sounds of the Brahms, Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Opus 101 will finish the concert.

Program:

Andrew Schultz – Sonata for Violin and Piano (2010)

Andrew Schultz – Indigo Invention for Violin and Cello (2010)

Brahms - Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Opus 101

The Confucius Institute at UNSW and UNSWriting host crime-fiction writer Qiu Xiaolong in conversation with Australian Financial Review journalist Colleen Ryan.

Qiu Xiaolong, author of the highly acclaimed crime-fiction series, has created a vivid portrait of Shanghai and life in this fast-developing metropolis through his protagonist Inspector Chen Cao, a rising star in the Shanghai Municipal Police. Colleen Ryan, based in Shanghai for 6 years, has followed closely China’s rapid growth and helped Australians understand the business and economic dimensions of China’s rise.

In this interview Qiu and Ryan will explore the transformation of China over the past three decades, and how through fiction writing, a broader audience can gain insights into contemporary China.

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Building on a string of recent work on both Faulkner scholarship and Modernism studies, this signature international conference is set to explore the sometimes open, sometimes hidden, relationship between the verbal art of perhaps America’s greatest novelist, and the mechanical and electronic media that increasingly defined the communications of his time.

The Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia and the School of English, Media and Performing Arts is proud to host the “Faulkner in the Media Ecology” conference, where established and emergent scholars from three continents will explore this urgent theme over three days in late November.

The School of English, Media and Performing Arts' Annual Postgraduate Symposium will be held again on Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th September 2011 in the Robert Webster Building, Kensington Campus, at the University of New South Wales. This years' theme is 'Contact: Borders, Limits and Thresholds' and has attracted an exciting and diverse range of both critical and creative proposals from Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers from a range of disciplines and institutions. This year, keynote addresses will be delivered by writer, poet and musician Dr. Kate Fagan (UWS) and Director of the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, Professor Julian Murphet (UNSW).

This conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers across multiple fields and disciplines. We hope to encourage a dialogue and dissemination of ideas between individuals, schools, and areas of research. As such, we would like this conference to be one in which contact and transcending boundaries is not only theorised, but actualized through open and multidisciplinary engagement.

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Registration for the two day symposium is now available.

Registration for the event is free, and should be confirmed by returning completed registration forms to the convenors, Chris Oakey, Amy Parish and Naomi Riddle at unsw.symposium@gmail.com. All welcome.

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Biography
Dr Miraca U. M. Gross is Professor of Gifted Education in UNSW's School of Education as well as Director of GERRIC. She is recognised nationally and internationally as a leading authority on the education of gifted and talented students. Miraca holds MEd and PhD degrees in gifted education. She began her career as a teacher and has 22 years' experience as a classroom teacher and school administrator in State education systems in Scotland and Australia. For 12 years, she was a specialist teacher of gifted and talented children in several different classroom settings, including the regular classroom, cluster grouped classes, pullout programs, and full-time classes. In December 1995, Miraca received the University of New South Wales Vice - Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997 the Australian Federal Government honoured her with the inaugural Australian Award for University Teaching in Education. In 2003 the Australian College of Educators honoured her with the Sir Harold Wyndham Medal for outstanding services to Australian education. In June 2008, she was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List with Membership in the Order of Australia.

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Participants in a 30-year longitudinal study of young Australians of IQ 160+ were surveyed on what they wished for their own children in terms of the children’s education. Young people who had experienced academic acceleration in one or more forms believe that, if their children develop as academically gifted and socially mature, they will seek some form of acceleration for them. Young people who spent all of their time in the mixed-ability classroom hold this belief even more strongly.

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The Hong Kong Education Bureau (EdB) is strongly encouraging a shift from assessment of learning to assessment for learning (AfL), where assessment tasks, activities and criteria are linked to learning and teaching and where students are active participants in the assessment process. At the same time the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) has transformed its examination system from norm-referenced to standards-referenced, including the incorporation of a substantial school-based summative oral assessment component (SBA) into senior secondary English Language which is explicitly grounded in an AfL philosophy. Drawing on interviews, classroom observations, questionnaire data and retrospective accounts as part of a much wider series of studies undertaken by the author, this paper will report on progress towards meeting these goals through an analysis of the changes in assessment attitudes, processes and practices of a range of representative Form 4 (Year 9-equivalent) English teachers, specifically focusing on their understandings and uses of formative assessment. It will argued that there has been significant changes in teachers’ assessment literacy over the first five years of assessment reform, although still insufficient attention to the more informal whole class contingent formative assessment strategies and to the role of the learner in taking up assessment information to improve learning. Some of the remaining conceptual confusion is partly due to the deeply institutionalized psychometric paradigm in Hong Kong in particular and in language assessment more generally, and the pervasive effects of many of its outdated dichotomies, in particular the formative/summative distinction.

Biography
Professor Chris Davison, a specialist in language education and school-based assessment, is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education. She was previously Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at Hong Kong University, where she remains an Honorary Professor. Before going to Hong Kong in 1999, she worked in teacher education at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University for fifteen years and before that, as an ESL teacher and consultant in the adult migrant Ednglish program, TAFE, secondary schools and child English language centres in Melbourne. Chris has researched and published extensively on the interface between English as a mother tongue and ESL development, integrating language and content curriculum, and English language assessment. With colleagues at the University of Hong Kong, she has recently completed the research and development of a range of oral school-based assessment initiatives for the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, and has also been working with the Ministries of Education in Singapore and in Brunei on integrating assessment for learning into their new curricula. With Michael Michell she has just completed cross-sector parallel projects in NSW and Victoria on the design options for an assessment framework for ESL learners in schools.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Welcome

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 4.30pm - 6.00pm

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Several counterintuitive phenomena have been observed while comparing performance of experts and novices in different domains. Studies of medical expertise demonstrated that less experienced medical students may outperform seasoned medical practitioners on recall of specific cases. Studies of complex skill acquisition in technical domains demonstrated that more experienced trainees learned less than expected from instructions that were very effective for novices. Finally, research in the execution of movements in sports showed that while novice players performed better under skill-focused and accuracy conditions, experts’ performance was inhibited by such conditions. In each case, successful expert performance was disrupted while performance of less experienced individuals was enhanced. These similarities may reflect common mechanisms that bring about these effects. The nature of those mechanisms, their moderating factors and instructional implications will be discussed.

Biography  
Slava Kalyuga is Associate Professor at the School of Education, where he received a Ph.D. and has worked since 1995. His research interests are in cognitive processes in learning, cognitive load theory, and evidence-based instructional design principles. His specific contributions include detailed experimental studies of the role of learner prior knowledge in learning (expertise reversal effect); the redundancy effect in multimedia learning; the development of rapid online diagnostic assessment methods; and studies of the effectiveness of different adaptive procedures for tailoring instruction to levels of learner expertise. He is the author of three books and many research papers in top international journals.

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Courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) play an important part in higher education in Australia, which has a large international student population. While researchers have investigated the needs and perceptions of students taking EAP courses at Australian universities, they rarely take account of the perspectives of stakeholders at all levels. In this lecture, I present the preliminary findings from a study investigating an EAP curriculum redevelopment project undertaken by an Australian university. The study involves a range of data sources, including interviews with members of the management, faculty members, course writers, teachers and students, together with various types of documentation and curriculum artifacts. Using concepts from activity theory, it will be shown that curriculum development in an institutional setting is a complex and dynamic activity which needs to respond to a number of economic, political, technological and pedagogical considerations. I discuss also some implications of these findings for EAP research and pedagogy.

Biography
Dr Clarice Chan is a Visiting Fellow from the University of Hong Kong. She holds a 2011 Australia Endeavour Award from the Australian Government and is currently undertaking postdoctoral research at the School of Education. Her main research interests include language education, curriculum development, sociocultural theory, EAP/ESP, discourse analysis and materials evaluation and development. Her recent publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, TESOL Classroom Practice Series, Modern English Teacher and The Teacher Trainer. In 2007, she won the IATEFL BESIG Award for the Development of Business English Teaching Materials and the TESOL Professional Development Scholarship.

On Wednesday 13 July please join us at the official Faculty Welcome presentation and Lunch.

12 -12.30pm

Official Faculty Undergraduate Welcome

Central Lecture Block, Lecture room 5 (map ref E19)

A welcome to all new students studying in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences by the Dean, Professor James Donald and a Student Life intro. Students are then invited to join the staff from the Faculty for lunch.

12.30 - 1.30pm

Faculty Welcome Lunch

Central Lecture Block Foyer (map ref E19)

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences invites all new students to join us for lunch following the Faculty Welcome. It will provide an opportunity to network with your fellow students and to meet the academic staff.

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Disabling justice: Social justice, human rights and mental and cognitive disability in the criminal justice system

Across the western world, since the latter part of the twentieth century, people with mental and cognitive disabilities have been funneled into criminal justice systems, remanded, sentenced and imprisoned in larger numbers than previously and in far higher proportions than their presence in the general population. Australian criminal justice systems are no exception. The use of societal punishment and control systems in this manner is a deeply disturbing turn. People with these disabilities who become enmeshed with the police, courts and prisons are largely from the most disadvantaged backgrounds and communities, with Indigenous Australians significantly over-represented amongst them. As criminal justice processes are primarily to assess guilt and administer punishment, they tend to intensify experiences of disability; prison is not a therapeutic place. So why are there so many people with mental and cognitive disability incarcerated? Evidence from recent studies and cases suggest that at heart, this is a matter of how Australian society supports, enacts social justice for and affords human rights to the most vulnerable people.

Biography

Eileen Baldry PhD is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, UNSW where she has taught in the social policy, social and community development and criminology programs and has been Associate Dean (Education). She has researched with prisoners and people transitioning from prison and post-prison, homelessness and Indigenous justice as well as with criminal justice and human service government and NGO agencies and has numerous publications relating to these areas of work. She has been an advocate for social justice in criminal justice for over 25 years and is a founding member of the Beyond Bars Alliance, the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign, the Women in Prison Advocacy Network, the Coalition for Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System and the Crime and Justice Reform Committee. For work in these areas she was awarded the NSW Justice Medal in 2009. Recent and current research projects, in which she is a chief investigator include The Australian Prisons Project; People with Mental Health and Cognitive Disability in the Criminal Justice System; its follow up project Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorders and Cognitive Disability in the Criminal Justice System; Working from the ground up: community development with public housing communities; Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional Well-being of Aboriginal Mothers in Prison; and Aboriginal Women with dependent Children leaving Prison. She is the current President of the NSW Council of Social Services.

The lecture will be introduced by Mr Alan Kirkland, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Aid NSW

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Professor David Buckingham, Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, Director Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, London University

Children, consumption and media: from public debate to public policy

Over the past few years, UK governments have commissioned a series of official reports concerned with the relationship between children and media/consumer culture. These reports have addressed issues such as childhood obesity, internet safety, commercialisation and ‘sexualisation’ that have also been on the agenda in Australia. In this presentation, David Buckingham (who led one of these reports himself) will offer some reflections on how these kinds of issues are typically framed within public debate, and the limitations on this process. He will consider the broader moral and political tensions that are at stake; the roles of different stakeholders, including regulatory bodies, businesses and campaigners; how evidence relates (or does not relate) to the making of public policy; and the potential of ‘media literacy’ as an alternative to regulation.

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His research focuses on children’s and young people’s interactions with electronic media, and on media education. He is currently directing a project on learning progression in media education; and has recently completed projects on childhood, ‘sexualisation’ and consumer culture, and on young people, the internet and civic participation. He is the author, co-author or editor of 26 books, including most recently Beyond Technology (2007), Youth, Identity and Digital Media (2008), Video Cultures: Media Technology and Amateur Creativity (2009) and Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life (2010).

 

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Health workforce shortages are commonly described in media and policy discourse as an increasing problem for many ‘advanced liberal’ nations, including Australia. While the structural and economic explanations for this have become the subject of considerable debate and resourcing, less attention is paid to the social meanings ascribed to particular areas of health care work and to how these might also shape career and employment trajectories. This lecture will consider what a more constructivist approach to understanding the ‘problem’ of workforce shortages might contribute. In particular, I will introduce the first national study of the HIV general practice workforce and explore some of the changing clinical, professional and political meanings of HIV medicine for the general practitioners who provide care to people living with HIV around the country.

Biography

Dr Christy Newman is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research where she has contributed to a wide range of research projects in HIV and blood borne viruses, general practice and primary health care, Aboriginal health and health in the media, since completing her PhD in 2004. She has a disciplinary background in communication and cultural studies, and her strengths lie in applying qualitative social research tools to the fields of public health and health services, with a particular focus on conceptual framing, cultural politics, representation and discourse. Her current research is mostly focused on the experiences and aspirations of the Australian health care workforce and the patients with whom they work. She is particularly interested in the changing meanings of work and profession in general practice and primary health care, especially for those clinicians and allied health workers who are engaged with diverse populations, often marginalised or affected by social stigma in different ways, such as people living with HIV, gay men, illicit drug users and indigenous Australians.

Dr Newman is the recipient of the 2010 Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, an award established in memory of a past Academy President, Professor Paul Francis Bourke (1938-1999).

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Dr Terry Cumming is a Lecturer and coordinator of the MEd program for the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. She completed her PhD at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she was a Lecturer and project facilitator for the special education alternative route to licensure program. Her research interests include: students with emotional and behavioural disorders, inclusive practices, social skills training, positive behavioural interventions, and the use of technology in the classroom. She has published several journal articles and presented her work at national and international conferences. Prior to her university and research work, Dr. Cumming has many years experience as a special educator and behaviour mentor in the United States.

Abstract
The iPad is rapidly becoming an ubiquitous device. Its popularity is can be attributed to its availability, low cost, portability, and ease of use. Special education professionals are only just beginning to explore the iPad’s potential as an assistive technology device. Although the iPad appears to have great potential pedagogically, there exists little evidence of its efficacy for this purpose. Many pilot projects designed to provide an evidence base for using the iPad as a learning tool for individuals with disabilities are still in their early phases of implementation. The popular media contains many stories detailing the success of using iPads to assist students with disabilities, and more schools are adopting the devices. Is this just a fad, or is the iPad a useful pedagogical tool? The necessity of an evidence base for the use of iPads as assistive technology is clear.

This presentation describes the capability of tablet computer devices and their associated applications to assist individuals with disabilities in school, at home, and in the community. The capabilities and educational possibilities of the tablet computer, specifically the iPad, as assistive technology and/or a pedagogical tool will be demonstrated. The importance of developing an evidence-base for this technology will be discussed, as will some studies that are currently being undertaken to contribute to this development.

Biography
Professor Martin Nakata is the Director of Nura Gili at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He also holds the title of Chair of Australian Indigenous Education. Prof N M Nakata (B.Ed.Hons.PhD) is the first Torres Strait Islander to receive a PhD in Australia. His mother is an Indigenous person from the Torres Strait Islands, and his dad was born in Kushimoto-cho, Japan. His current research work focuses on higher education curriculum areas, the academic preparation of Indigenous students, and Indigenous knowledge and library services. He has presented eighteen plenary and keynote addresses at national as well as international conferences in ten countries, and published various pieces on Indigenous Australians and education in various academic journals and books in Australia and abroad. His book, Disciplining the Savages-Savaging the Disciplines, was published in 2007 by Aboriginal Studies Press.

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As Australian universities across the country adjust to the Federal Government’s forward vision of a socially inclusive society, widening participation strategy, low SES initiative and the closing the gap agenda, much can be learned from the decades of federal government priorities for Indigenous access, participation and outcome in higher education studies. In this Open Lecture, Prof Nakata will sketch out the gains made in the transition of Indigenous students to higher education studies, the complex dimensions of supporting learning pathways of students without the necessary ATAR scores, and the need to rethink the formal learning situation in which these learners now participate in higher education studies.

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In the field of education, there has been a documented decline in randomized experiments and intervention research in general. Hsieh et al. (2006) examined five empirical journals (American Educational Research Journal, Cognition & Instruction, Contemporary Educational Psychology, the Journal of Educational Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Education) in 1983, 1995, and 2004 and found that the percentage of intervention research articles decreased over the 22-year period (from 52% in 1983 to 45% in 1995 to 33% in 2004). Paradoxically, at the same time that intervention research has decreased, it appears that researchers are becoming more comfortable making prescriptive statements based on nonintervention research. Robinson et al. (2007) examined 274 articles that appeared in 1994 and 2004 in the same five journals that were inspected by Hsieh et al (2006). The percentage of nonintervention research articles containing prescriptives increased from 30% in 1994 to 43% in 2004. I will discuss recent findings of additional studies that have examined prescriptive statements in textbooks, repeated prescriptive statements in journals, and prescriptive statements in observational studies that involve statistical modeling.

Biography:
Dan Robinson is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1993 from the University of Nebraska where he majored in both learning/cognition and statistics/research. He taught at Mississippi State University for four years (1993-1997) and the Universities of South Dakota (1997-1998) and Louisville (1998-1999) before coming to the University of Texas in 1999. Dr. Robinson currently serves as the editor of Educational Psychology Review. His research interests include educational technology innovations that may facilitate learning, team-based approaches to learning, and examining trends concerning authoring, reviewing, and editing articles published in various educational journals and societies.

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Dr Jae Yup (Jared) Jung

BCom Sydney, BABEd (Honours Class 1 and University Medal) UNSW, PhD UNSW, CA

Dr Jae Yup Jared Jung currently works in the School of Education at UNSW as a Lecturer and Co-ordinator (Years 1 and 2) for the BABEd. His research predominantly focuses on gifted education; vocational decision-making; motivation; culture; research methodology and educational psychology.

Abstract

In this study, a number of cultural orientation, socio-demographic, academic achievement, and personal/personal experience variables were investigated to establish whether they predict attitudes toward the provision of special programs for gifted students. A survey completed by 103 Australian pre-service teachers was analysed using confirmatory factor analyses and multiple regression analyses. The findings suggest that: (a) self-perceptions of giftedness and high academic achievement in high school predict support for special gifted programs, and (b) low power distance orientation, self-perceptions of giftedness, low perceived knowledge of giftedness, and contact with gifted persons predict the perception that special gifted programs are elitist.

As part of the 2011 UNSW School of Social Sciences and International Studies Seminar Series, Gail Dines will discuss her new book Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked Our Sexuality.

Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Boston’s Wheelock College. Her writing focuses on the hypersexualisation of culture and the ways porn images filter into mainstream pop culture. Gail’s work on media and pornography has appeared in academic journals, magazines, newspaper, radio and TV across the globe.

Gail Dines is a guest of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Light refreshments will be available.

Director of the 2011 Sydney Film Festival, Clare Stewart, who will be discussing career paths and film festivals.

Abstract

Jacqui's presentation will be based on a paper which is a first attempt at outlining a conceptualisation of critical thinking and reflection that foregrounds the role of emotion and feelings. Building on a relational and interdependent perspective (as opposed to the traditional technical-rational view), it will be argued that greater awareness of emotions and feelings and the information they are conveying to us (emotional literacy) enhances the process and impact of critical reflection. It will also be shown how this perspective contributes to the significant advancement of the conceptualisation of critical reflection which is currently relatively unclear as the term is used variably in different contexts.

This paper was recently presented at the Annual Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capability conference (12-14 April 2011).

Biography

Dr Jacqueline McManus

BCom MTax PhD UNSW CA

Jacqui is currently working in the Learning & Teaching Unit at UNSW. Her research predominantly focuses on learning for and at work, and specifically around developing capacity in workers, both in the context of higher education and the workplace more generally. Her interest in organisational and professional development resulted from her former position, Associate Head of School at the Australian School of Taxation (Atax), Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. At Atax Jacqui taught across a wide range of tax law and tax policy courses and led its learning and professional development operations, drawing on her extensive professional experience as a tax consultant and chartered accountant.

Long Kesh/Maze prison site in Northern Ireland is most famously associated with the Hunger Strikes of 1981, during which over the course of a summer 10 men - including Bobby Sands MP - died through a systematic campaign of selfstarvation. The media images of stark concrete buildings, aerial perspectives of grey H’s, carefree photographs of doomed, young men and the civil unrest that greeted each death, have long dominated representations of the site. However, Long Kesh/Maze was a much more complicated place - both physically and psychologically - with a prolonged history that intimately reflected and indeed influenced the course of ‘the Troubles’ (c1968-c.1998). Exploring the site from its inception as an internment centre in 1971, post-closure in 2001 to present day, this paper will argue that an understanding of how the prison was conceived and experienced by ‘political’ prisoners throughout the course of its life is central to defining its place in a post-conflict state. This study will reveal the hidden realities of confinement, the relationship between imprisonment and conflict and also help to uncover broader truths about human resilience, humour and survival.

Biography

Laura McAtackney is currently a visiting scholar at the John Hume Institute for Global Studies at UNSW. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at University College Dublin exploring issues of memory and identity in Irish landscape through an interdisciplinary methodology based in archaeology. This research intends to explore memory and identity through a number of diverse case-studies - from local perceptions of the Hill of Tara to the creation of peace lines in Belfast - as a means of understanding how people relate to their environment in the island of Ireland and in doing so explore different conceptions of ‘Irishness’ through time and space.

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Play comes naturally to children, and valuable insights are gained from its observation. Gutierrez and colleagues have shown how when the discourses of school and play come together, productive learning spaces are created; Gregory and colleagues have shown how siblings at home spontaneously play school, to their mutual benefit, and how they syncretise discourses from different cultural contexts.

Researcher initiated role play builds on children’s natural instincts to play and make sense of their worlds. In the role plays children switch from acting out to negotiating the script. They may act in ways previously hidden from researcher observation. This allows researchers to see not only what learners have internalised about their learning experiences, but also to gain insights into how they evaluate these experiences.

As the world enters the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, progress is finally noted in the fight against this global pandemic. Access to effective treatment has in particular increased, with beneficial effects on the health and life expectancy of people living with HIV. At the same time, in Australia and other resource rich countries, new HIV infections continue to occur at high rates and have been rising throughout the last decade. Treatment can play a role in reducing the transmission of HIV, but treatment alone is not enough and cost effective behavioural prevention approaches are available that in recent years have recieved much less priority. HIV prevention may in the future benefit from new biomedical approaches, including those that capitalise on the use of treatment. To date, however, evidence of the success of biomedical HIV prevention in real-life conditions is limited and many of those approaches will continue to rely on the behaviours of individuals and communities. These behaviours are shaped by a myriad of social factors and HIV prevention responses that reflect appropriate  understanding of the complexity of human behaviour remain critical in achieving sustained success. This presentation will highlight the exciting new contributions contemporary theorising of social behaviour is making to HIV prevention.

Biography

John de Wit is Professor and Director of the National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales. John's work encompasses both applied and more basic social sciences research and is primarily concerned with contributing to a theory-based understanding of sexual and risk practices that can inform effective programs and policies. John has published widely in peer reviewed journals in disciplines as diverse as epidemiology, public health, health psychology, social psychology, sexuality and HIV/ AIDS. He also has contributed to several books and has co-edited two books. A major focus of his current work is on strategies to effectively self-regulate implicit processes that shape health behaviour.

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Epistemology Workshop

Philosophy Discipline

School of History and Philosophy, UNSW

Epistemology enlarged: Perspectives on knowing-how

Are human actions guided by knowledge, when these actions are what Gilbert Ryle would have called intelligent ones? The idea that they are so guided is what Ryle named intellectualism. It is also what, famously, he discarded. Knowing-that and knowing-how, he concluded, are metaphysically distinct because intellectualism is false. People know truths quite differently to how they know how to do things.

Well, that was Ryle’s view. But was he right? Is intellectualism false? Do we have such different ways of knowing? There are so many related questions with which epistemologists, philosophers of mind, and philosophers of agency are currently engaging. The nature and significance of knowledge-how, in particular, is attracting much philosophical attention at present.

This workshop will be an opportunity to experience some of that current surge of philosophical focus upon knowledge-how — its conceptual complications and neighbours, within Western (and also some Chinese) philosophy.

Tuesday 12th July 2011

Room 211, Morven Brown Building,

University of New South Wales

Speakers

John Bengson, Australian National University and University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wylie Breckenridge, Charles Sturt University

Stephen Hetherington, University of New South Wales

Karyn Lai, University of New South Wales

Michaelis Michael, University of New South Wales

Abstract

This workshop will be a 'hands-on' introduction to the theory and working methods of 'Conversation Analysis' (CA). Over the last four decades, CA has established itself as a powerful and insightful approach to the study of talk and interaction in a wide variety of social settings, including classrooms, counselling meetings, telephone services, doctors' surgeries, courtrooms, TV studios, and innumerable other institutional, as well as 'everyday' (casual) settings. The goal of CA is to reveal and explicate the detailed ways in which humans structure and give meaning to their social conduct. It is deeply empirical in orientation, relying on audio/video-recordings of naturalisticencounters. CA has been adopted by scholars of education, sociology, linguistics, ethnography, communication studies and cognitive science. The workshop is open to anyone (staff and students) who may be interested.

Biography

Dr Alan Firth is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK, where he teaches applied linguistics. His research interests include conversation analysis, second language acquisition, English as a lingua franca, and talk and social interaction in telephone helplines and in mediation. Publications include the edited collections The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace (1995, Pergamon Press) and Calling for Help: Language and Social Interaction in Telephone Helplines (2005, Benjamins - with Carolyn Baker and Michael Emmison. His work (with Johannes Wagner) on the reconceptualization of SLA has been the centrepiece of two ‘special issues’ of Modern Language Journal (1997 and 2007). He has also published in World Englishes, Journal of Pragmatics, and the International Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society and American Journal of Sociology, amongst others.

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For enquiries please contact education.events@unsw.edu.au or call Tom Pyke on  +61 2 9385 8004  .

Abstract

Problems with the use of the Social Sciences Citations Index (SSCI) for measuring the impact of journal articles in education and other fields in the social sciences are well known. This talk will review the problems and then consider the potential of Google Scholar as an alternative or complement to SSCI, drawing from a case study of three areas of education: science education, English language teaching, and educational technology. The analysis focuses on the advantages of publishing in SSCI journals, the nature of the citations retrieved by Google Scholar, and the growth rate of Google Scholar citations, and compares the results with those from the SSCI and Scopus. I also comment on issues as the amount of pre-processing of the data required. The results indicate that Google Scholar is a promising tool for citation analyses, particularly in areas that are not well-served by other indexes. Also see Educational Researcher, 39, 387-400 (2010).

Biography

Dr Jan van Aalst received his Ph D in science education in 1999 from the University of Toronto, and is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong. His research focuses on knowledge building, an educational approach emphasizing inquiry in a community and the use of a web-based inquiry environment (Knowledge Forum®), particularly issues surrounding the uptake of knowledge building in school, such as pedagogy, cultural and systemic factors, and assessment. Recent work has examined the theoretical underpinnings of knowledge-building discourse and the development of methods and tools for analyzing it. Dr van Aalst teaches graduate courses on research methodology, computer-supported collaborative learning, and teaching and learning science, and was the director of the Educational Doctoral Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He also has published on assessing the impact of research output in education.



A night of highly contrasting genres and instrumentation, all unified by compositions from the most distinguished and timeless French composers.

This recital explores the imaginative and atmospheric music from the 19th and 20th centuries - including Saint-Saens, Delibes, Fauré, Chaminade, Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud and Trenet. The works will feature pianists, vocalists, woodwind and string players from music students at UNSW.

In an exciting collaboration, the music students of EMPA and the CPRU come together for the first time to present this recital of musical works. The gorgeous polished floors of Io Myers Studio complement this delectable music program perfectly.

From the studio to the beach and the city landscape, the 3rd Year Dance Shorts invites you to an evening of live works and dancefilm. Under the guidance of renowned choreographer Sue Healey, 3rd Year Dance Students will present choreographed works that have been a culmination of research into dance on film and choreography across numerous bodies.

Using the mediums of technology, sound and physical movement, Dance Shorts will showcase works that capture the human figure within the frame in new and innovative ways. Please join us in celebrating the energy and dedication of our 3rd Year Dance Students.

CREATIVE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH UNIT

presents

An Evening Of French Flavours

A recital showcasing UNSW music students

Wed 20 April @ 8pm

Experience an evening of performance exploring the imaginative and atmospheric music of French composers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

An Evening of French Flavours will be a night of highly contrasting genres and instrumentation, unified by compositions from distinguished composers, including Saint-Saens, Delibes, Fauré, Chaminade, Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud and Trenet.

The works will feature pianists, vocalists, woodwind and string players all of whom are current music students in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts.

In an exciting collaboration, media students from the School who are studying in the course Working with Time, Space and Experience have created a series of images inspired from these timeless works and these will also be presented throughout the evening.

Tickets: $5 to be paid at the door. Cash Only Please.

Abstract
While tasks are used in many areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), research into the use of tasks in ESP contexts is limited. In this lecture, I show that viewing task-based learning in ESP contexts from the perspective of third generation activity theory can help understand learners’ perceptions and the way that these perceptions influence task processes and outcomes. By examining how a group of business majors at a university performed a series of tasks in the form of business meeting role-plays, I illustrate how the process and outcome of a task are shaped by the conflicting motives of the learners and their multiple identities brought by the task. I also show that the pedagogical and professional aspects of ESP tasks can give rise to various goals and influence learners’ task orientation. While most task-based research conducted within the cognitive tradition aims to show clear-cut and consistent effects of task design features on linguistic outcomes, I argue that the relationship between task features and task outcomes is not straightforward. Instead, the outcomes of a task are determined by the interplay between the learner and the sociocultural contexts pertinent to the learning situation, which, in the study reported in this lecture, encompasses the activity system of the classroom and that of the business world in the minds of the learners. The implications of the findings from the study for third generation activity theory, task-based research and ESP pedagogy are also discussed.

Biography
Dr Clarice Chan is a Visiting Fellow from the University of Hong Kong. She holds a 2011 Australia Endeavour Award from the Australian Government and is currently undertaking postdoctoral research at the School of Education. Her main research interests include language education, curriculum development, sociocultural theory, EAP/ESP, discourse analysis and materials evaluation and development. Her recent publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, TESOL Classroom Practice Series, Modern English Teacher and The Teacher Trainer. In 2007, she won the IATEFL BESIG Award for the Development of Business English Teaching Materials and the TESOL Professional Development Scholarship.

In December 2010, the Government announced the Convergence Review, a comprehensive examination of Australia's approach to the rules of the new environment of media and communications.

This report takes up the challenge and provides foundations for the national debate on Convergence - a debate we have to have.

This will be a unique opportunity to discuss the way forward for Australia's new media and communications environment with leading experts from government, Australian industry and the tertiary sector.

Invitation to launch of independent report into convergent media.

Modernism, Now and Then

Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature, and Director of the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, at the University of New South Wales. Educated at the Universities of Sydney, Cambridge, and Oxford, he has published monographs including Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge UP) and Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge UP), and many scholarly articles and book chapters on topics such as Modernism, postmodernism, race, geography, film, and literary theory. He is currently at work on an ARC Discovery Project on the work of William Faulkner.

Abstract

The academic thesis of 'postmodernism' is some thirty years old, but in the three decades since it was declared dead, Modernism has shown distinct signs of life, if not 'undeath'. On the one hand, a new academic industry has emerged, under the banner of the 'New Modernism Studies', resurrecting and reframing countless acts of cultural Modernism; on the other, the work of key contemporary artists such as J. M. Coetzee, Michael Haneke and Gerhard Richter can scarcely be accounted for outside of a broadly Modernist framework. Postmodernism, as a distinct style of cultural reaction, today seems deader than Modernism. In this lecture, I take stock of the current situation in terms of the uneven development of geographical cultural domains, and of media technologies, within an overarching economic drive toward 'convergence culture' and digitization. Rather than see Modernism as an exhausted phase of cultural development, I argue that it is more appropriate to understand it as an ongoing possibility within the coordinates of the present—a possibility beset by drawbacks as much as it is saturated with prestige value.

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Abstract
This paper examines the tensions between a politics of recognition and a politics of redistribution (Fraser, 1995) in the neoliberal era through the lens of identity research. These tensions are relevant to debates surrounding Australian multiculturalism, as well as to schooling policy in Australia, for example in relation to the extent to which the latter support or undermine diverse cultural identities and reproduce or challenge educational and social inequalities (Gewirtz & Cribb, 2008). The paper explores some of the conceptual paradoxes, tensions, and dilemmas inherent in the notion of identity and considers their philosophical and methodological implications of for educational research. The paper goes on to discuss these issues in relation to recent government policy, as well as in the context of a new research project into novice teachers’ productive engagement with difference and diversity. The paper argues that managing the tensions between recognition/identity and redistribution/equality, at both a professional practice and a policy level, will remain one of the major challenges facing education in Australia in the twenty first century.

References
Fraser, N. (1995). From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age. New left review(212), 68-93.

Gewirtz, S., & Cribb, A. (2008). Taking identity seriously: Dilemmas for education policy and practice. European Educational Research Journal, 7(1), 39-49.

Biography
Matthew Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His research interests include teacher formation and teacher identity, as well as critical policy studies. He has published in a range of international journals, including TESOL Quarterly, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, the International Journal of Education Development. His 2008 book, Language teacher identities: Co-constructing discourse and community, was published by Multilingual Matters.

Is there ever a case for pornography, or should it be totally off-limits in an ethical society? Feminist anti-pornography activist Gail Dines, memoirist of her life as a prostitute where porn was used to arouse clients Kate Holden, and academic and gender politics advisor Catharine Lumby stand off. Moderator: Leslie Cannold. More information at Sydney Writers' Festival



CREATIVE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH UNIT

UNSWriting presents

Chip Rolley

in conversation with Phillipa McGuinness

Wed 13 April @ 6pm

Io Myers Studio, UNSW

UNSWriting’s public seminar series continue with our guest, Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Chip Rolley.

The Sydney Writers’ Festival hosts 300 writers and 80,000 visitors. It is the third largest stand-alone writers’ festival in the world. What is the festival worth to the city and its people? It has major sponsors, including the City of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales is a partner, but what effect is it having on the culture of reading?

Phillipa McGuinness will probe Chip Rolley on his motivation and vision, the business of running an international festival and the highlights of this year’s festival in May.

Chip Rolley is the Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His background is in editing and writing, and he has a special interest in literature and Chinese politics and culture. His writing has appeared in Griffith Review, The Wall Street Journal (Asia), The SydneyMorning Herald,

The Australian, The Bulletin, Vogue (Australia), Rolling Stone (Australia), and others. He is a former Vice president of Sydney PEN. Born in El Paso, Texas, he has lived in Australia since 1993.

Phillipa McGuinness is Publishing Director atNewSouth Publishing, the publisher formerly known as UNSW Press.

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Abstract

This presentation will show some of the key findings from the now completed ESRC project ‘Opening Closed Doors’ (Alan Firth, Liz Trinder and Chris Jenks), which used Conversation Analytic (CA) methodology to explicate how CAFCAS-appointed mediators interact with parents in dispute over their children’s visitation arrangements. In this presentation, I show how mediators adeptly and adroitly deploy a variety of discursive devices and talk-based resources in attempts to ‘manage’ the parents’ latent (though often visible) emotionality during mediation meetings, in ways that promote mutually agreeable and workable conflict-resolution. This talk will be of interest to anyone interested in talk-in-interaction, ‘professional’ competence, institutional forms of interaction, mediation, and conflict resolution. It will also demonstrate how Conversation Analysts undertake the work of uncovering systematic minutiae underpinning social conduct.

Biography

Alan Firth is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK, where he teaches applied linguistics. His research interests include conversation analysis, second language acquisition, English as a lingua franca, and talk and social interaction in telephone helplines and in mediation. Publications include the edited collections The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace (1995, Pergamon Press) and Calling for Help: Language and Social Interaction in Telephone Helplines (2005, Benjamins - with Carolyn Baker and Michael Emmison. His work (with Johannes Wagner) on the reconceptualization of SLA has been the centrepiece of two ‘special issues’ of Modern Language Journal (1997 and 2007). He has also published in World Englishes, Journal of Pragmatics, and the International Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society and American Journal of Sociology, amongst others.

TIME: 4.30pm

DURATION: 90 mins

DATE: 6 April 2011

ADDRESS: John Goodsell Building, Level 1 Room 119

Admission to this event is free however we kindly ask that you RSVP to the following email address: education.events@unsw.edu.au

Abstract

Not only in a very advanced civilization, in painting, photography, film and literature, colours are important symbols. Colloquial communication can no more do without them than can our imagination. Also in advertising, commercials and political language colours are of crucial importance.

The literary treatment of the colour blue is marked by a double movement, as I intend to analyze focussing on texts of Stefan Hermlin, Jorge Semprun, Marcel Proust and other authors. For one thing colour is linked with cultural recollection and with images being handed down to us. In this case texts and images have conventional meanings. The colour blue proves to be a cultural symbol expressing worldly experiences both intuitively and directly. Another function of colour is found when this traditional meaning is altered and psychologized. But finally the various functions of the colour blue show that this visual symbol is often used to portray the genesis of literary imagination. To the same extent that painting reflects on the material quality of the medium colour, literature reflects on the symbolic character of the reality it depicts. This correspondence is typical of modernism. Literature and painting emphasize not only the special nature of their medium, but make that the aesthetic production is not bound to the portrayal of reality, to mimesis. The colour blue in modernism becomes the symbol of an aesthetic imagination that requires neither a direct reference to reality nor to the continuity of literary tradition.

Biography

Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Renner is Professor for Modern German Literature and Director of the Frankreich-Zentrum at the University of Freiburg/Germany. He is also professeur invité at the IHEE Strasbourg/France and an Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He has held several visiting professorships in Europe, the USA, South America and Australia. His main teaching and research interests are: 20th century literature, literary and media theory. He is the author of books on Georg Lukács (1976), Thomas Mann (1985, 1987), Peter Handke (1985), Postmodernism (1988), Edward Hopper (1990, translated into 15 languages), Proust (1992), and has published about 80 articles in academic books and journals. He is also editor of four volumes on the history of European thought (1991-92), an encyclopedia of works in literary theory (1994), an anthology of texts on contemporary literary theory (1995), and an anthology of German novels in the 20th century (2004).

Prof. Renner is presenting an additional seminar:

“Film as Media of Postmodernism”

When: Wednesday 13 April

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Location: Webster 327

This seminar is co-sponsored by The School of Languages and Linguistics and The School of English, Media and Performing Arts

John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies

Brian Nolan is Professor of Public Policy at University College Dublin. He previously worked in ESRI and the Central Bank of Ireland. His main research areas are poverty, income inequality and health.

This talk outlines the distinctive features of the Irish crisis, and then focuses on its distributional implications – how are the costs being shared, is the crisis increasing poverty and inequality? It will investigate how the response by the Irish State to the crisis has allocated the burden so far.

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10 August 2011
Evelyn Conlon, Irish novelist and short story writer
The meaning of missing

8 September 2011
Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University
For better or for worse: The Irish, the Aborigines and Australian Colonisation

18 October 2011
Dr Liam Weeks, University College Cork, Ireland
The discreet charm of the Single Transferable Vote: What electoral reformers can learn from the Australian and Irish Experience

3 November 2011
Christine Kelly, Trinity College, Dublin
Family stories and national myths - The sinking of the German battleship Emden November 1914

Inaugural Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture
9 November 2011
Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin
Australia's Irish Question

Abstract
Australia has experienced a skills shortage in professional financial and accounting areas. A large proportion of students enrolled in accounting programs are from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). Despite being technically proficient, however, many NESB accountants struggle to secure employment in the accountancy profession because of perceived weaknesses in their communication skills. Professional accreditation bodies and employers increasingly point to core professional communication competencies as essential prerequisites for employment.

This presentation reports on research that explores accountant-client interactions as professional communication. Spoken interactions, based on interaction related to the completion of taxation forms were recorded and transcribed. Data were collected from trainee accountants enrolled in an undergraduate program as well as professional accountants in order to compare and contrast the communication strategies used by each group. The analysis utilised a heuristic interactional model of context (Seedhouse & Richards, 2007) to clarify the features of interaction at the macro- (or sub-varietal) and micro- levels of context and to identify any differences between practising and trainee NESB accountants. Differences were located in the contextual orientations taken be novice and professional. Consequently there were substantial differences in the effectiveness of the communicative strategies. In the presentation the pedagogical implications for language for specific purposes (LSP) programs aiming to develop the communication skills of NESB accountants are explored.

Biography
Anne Burns is Professor of TESOL in the School of Education, specialising in action and qualitative research, language teacher education, discourse analysis for teaching speaking and second language curriculum development. She has published 11 books and over one hundred peer reviewed articles and book chapters. Her latest book is Doing Action Research in English language Teaching (Routledge, 2010). From 209-2011, she was the Chair of TESOL International's Standing Committee for Research, and is currently Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and Member-at-Large of the Executive Board of the International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA). She was recently appointed Series Advisor for Applied Linguistics by Oxford University Press (2011-2015).

6-8 July, 2011

The Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) is the country's leading event for the discussion and dissemination of social policy. The biennial conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across disciplines and provide an opportunity to explore research and practice. The conference program features the 2nd Chinese Social Policy Workshop. The 2011 Conference will also include, for the first time, a Higher Degree Research Workshop.

For more information visit the conference website

"The Only News I Have Is Bad" - from a Ross Dunkley email more than two weeks before his arrest in Yangon.

After 10 years of running a newspaper business in Myanmar (Burma), Ross Dunkley, the founder of The Myanmar Times, was arrested in February and thrown into Yangon's Insein Prison, charged with assaulting a woman and thus breaking his visa conditions.

His arrest followed months of negotiations, involving the government and a business partner, over control of the media company; a police search of Dunkley's home; refusal to renew his visa; the dropping of the assault complaint; mixed signals from the government about the place of the newspaper in the "New Myanmar"; and outspoken comments about the role of the press.

David Armstrong, one of Dunkley's business partners, will discuss the reasons for his arrest and its timing. Is it business-as-usual in the New Mynamar, or a final fling by the Old Guard?

David Armstrong is Chairman of Post Media Ltd in Phnom Penh, an associated company of Mynamar Consolidated Media and a Conjoint Professor with UNSW's Journalism and Media Research Centre. He is a former chief executive of Post Publishing in Bangkok, a former editor-in-chief of The Australian and of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and a former editor of The Bulletin and of the Canberra Times. His first reporting work was for Tharunka.

GLOBAL IRISH STUDIES TALKS (GIST) 2011 Series

John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies

Professor Justin O'Brien, Faculty of Law, UNSW

The interlinked corporate regulatory and political failures in Ireland has produced a seismic shift in the political landscape. The new Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Enda Kenny, noted in his inaugural speech that “for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn. Together and for our country let us believe in our future. For Ireland and for each other, let us lift up our heads, turn our faces to the sun and hang out our brightest colours. This is the first day of a journey to a better future.” The challenges facing the new coalition government are profound. The new program of government is strong on rhetoric and weak on detail. The government’s room for manoeuvre is limited as Ireland embarks on an age of austerity and the banking crisis continues to dominate discussions over the future of the European Union. What options does Ireland have and can it save itself without destroying the Euro?

Speaker

Professor O’Brien is a specialist in the dynamics of financial regulation, with particular reference to capital market governance. He has written extensively on the intersection between regulatory form and ethical considerations, and holds major grants from the ARC and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. He is the author of Wall Street on Trial (2003), Redesigning Financial Regulation (2007) and Engineering a Financial Bloodbath (2009), has edited collections on corporate governance, including Governing the Corporation (2005); Private Equity, Corporate Governance and the Dynamics of Capital Market Governance and Corporate Business Responsibilities (2009), and is is co-editor (with Iain MacNeil, University of Glasgow) of a major volume on the implications of the Global Financial Crisis, The Future of Financial Regulation (2010). Professor O’Brien has held appointments at Queen’s University, Belfast, Charles Sturt University and Queensland University of Technology, has been affiliated to the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Glasgow, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University division of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Prior to his career in academia Professor O’Brien was an investigative journalist and writes regularly for the Irish Times and the Australian Financial Review.

Lecture Podcasts

• Lecture

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include The End of Organized Capitalism, Economies of Signs and Space, Reflexive Modernization, Global Culture Industry and Intensive Culture (2010). His books have been translated in sixteen languages. Professor Lash has directed a series of large-scale research projects on technological media from 1996 to present. He is currently running a project on the Chinese city. This research will be published under the title Local State Capitalism: Urban China.  Professor Lash is also a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme.

Abstract

Urban Justice and the Crisis of Neo-liberalism

Three decades of neo-liberal privatization has meant the systemic destruction of the public sphere. The global economic crisis presents new possibilities for fundamental mutations of public/urban space, driven by 'emerging' cities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Lagos. If the global city was topographical, these mega-cities are topological, spaces of infolded atmospheres. In Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' justice was a violence that nullified the commodity and law. Benjamin's was a temporal, messianic critique. We must ask what kind of spatial violence can create a contemporary justice of new publics in both the emerging world and the West.

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John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, UNSW

Siobhán McHugh, University of Wollongong

Just two generations ago, before multiculturalism became the norm, non-indigenous Australia was polarised between Protestants and Catholics. Religion was code for identity, with tensions fuelled by colonial grievances. ‘Catholic’ was perceived as ‘Irish’, and to an English Protestant establishment, that meant trouble. When couples married across the religious divide, it often caused bitter family conflict. Australia’s recent sectarian past and its primary victims, the Irish Catholic underclass, are misrepresented by the increasing use of the ‘Anglo-Celtic Australia’ moniker to describe pre-multicultural Australia. Through moving personal histories, this multi-media lecture challenges the use of this misleading term and reclaims a neglected part of Irish-Australian history. Extracts from Siobhán McHugh’s award-winning 2009 ABC radio documentary Marrying Out will be included in the talk.

Speaker:

Dublin-born Siobhán McHugh is an award-winning writer, oral historian and broadcaster. Her books include The Snowy – The People Behind the Power (New South Wales Premier’s prize for non-fiction) and Minefields and Miniskirts, about Australian women’s involvement in the Vietnam war, which was adapted for the stage. She produced The Irish In Australia Past and Present (ABC Radio 1986), co-scripted the television history series Echo of a Distant Drum (ABC 1988) and The Irish Empire (SBS 1999) and wrote a column for The Irish Echo (2000-1). Siobhán lectures in Journalism at the University of Wollongong. www.mchugh.org

Lecture Podcasts

• Introducation and Lecture
• Q&A

The first lecture of the year will be conducted by Dr Alan Firth entitled The public and private lives of additional language competence:  Implications for a reconceptualized SLA.

Abstract

In this presentation I attempt to show that conceptualizing additional language (AL) competence in terms of gradations between 'public' and 'private' can enhance our conceptual and empirical understanding of AL learning as a situated, contingent and interactionally-achieved accomplishment. By examining various types of orientations and non-orientations to AL competence as observed in a range of social settings - including language learning classrooms, internet chatrooms, radio phone-ins, doctor-patient consultations, and in business encounters conducted in English as a 'lingua franca' – I show how contextual phenomena of various kinds (e.g., social identities, activity types, communicative modalities, interactional goals and episodes) are instantiated and made more or less situationally relevant, and how this has an important bearing on how AL competence is managed, thematized, contested, disavowed, and masked. I examine cases where AL users, in a variety of ways, 'do being learners', where the nature of AL 'learnership' is explicitly as well as implicitly negotiated, and consider cases where AL users do not being AL learners. I argue that in all cases, 'learning', of numerous kinds, is ineluctacly occurring. The implications of the analyses are considered in terms of our understanding of what AL learning entails, and in light of recent debates on the current status and future of SLA, most particularly the debate covered in Modern Language Journal's (2007, 91/5) 'Special Focus Issue' entitled 'Reconceptualizing SLA? The impact of Firth & Wagner (1997)'.

Biography

Alan Firth is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK, where he teaches applied linguistics. His research interests include conversation analysis, second language acquisition, English as a lingua franca, and talk and social interaction in telephone helplines and in mediation. Publications include the edited collections The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace (1995, Pergamon Press) and Calling for Help: Language and Social Interaction in Telephone Helplines (2005, Benjamins - with Carolyn Baker and Michael Emmison. His work (with Johannes Wagner) on the reconceptualization of SLA has been the centrepiece of two ‘special issues’ of Modern Language Journal (1997 and 2007). He has also published in World Englishes, Journal of Pragmatics, and the International Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society and American Journal of Sociology, amongst others.

TIME: 4.30pm
DURATION: 90mins
DATE: 2 March 2011
ADDRESS: Room 119, John Goodsell Building, UNSW, 2052

Admission to this event is free however we kindly ask that you RSVP to the following email address:

education.events@unsw.edu.au

Abstract
In this paper, I will explore the relationship between identity, globalization and the micro-processes of choice that provide education policy and curriculum options, and which have denationalized prior ideas of public and private education. Specifically, I will focus on tracing the establishment of ‘identity schools’ in many countries, including the US, Australia and Canada. These public and private schools have been primarily initiated along singular identity lines pertaining to, for example, ethnicity and religion, and are often hard-fought for responses to the manifest failure of public schooling to address the educational needs of certain groups. These schools provide significant social, political and educational benefits for students who have been historically marginalized, and play important roles as part of community control and the insertion of cultural legitimacy in schooling. However, as these schools are also enabled through marketised educational policies, this has led some scholars to argue that education and economic policies that promote ‘identity schools’ are a new force in conservative politics that simultaneously promote school choice and school competition, while also complicating progressive and conservative education. I will conclude by briefly touching on the paradoxes of consuming as solidarity, consumers (students and parents) as part of social movements, and choice as progressive politics.

Biography
Kalervo Gulson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. His current research explores the interplay of education policy, globalisation, transnational migration and identity. He is interested in spatial approaches to policy analysis, with a focus on race/ racism and ethnicity. His most recent work is a monograph entitled Education policy, space and the city: markets and the (in)visibility of race (Routledge, 2011).

The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse (ADFVC) is the national organisation for reviewing, collating and disseminating evidence-based research into the causes, effects and ongoing impact of domestic violence.

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Abstract
When technology is used to present information to learners, the modality and format of the presentation is frequently changed. For example, written information may be substituted by spoken information and the static graphics associated with hard copy may be replaced by animations. While instructional designers are usually highly cognizant of these changes, there is another, concomitant but less obvious change that occurs. Relatively transient forms of information such as speech or animations replace a relatively permanent form of information such as written text or visual graphics. Frequently, this change is treated as being incidental and is ignored. Cognitive load theory suggests that it may be critical. Limited human working memory results in transient, technology-based information having considerable instructional consequences, many of them negative. Theory and data associated with a new cognitive load effect, the transient information effect, will be discussed in relation to forms of instructional presentation.

Biography
John Sweller is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of New South Wales. His research is associated with cognitive load theory. The theory is a contributor to both research and debate on issues associated with human cognition, its links to evolution by natural selection, and the instructional design consequences that follow.

Professor Jane Ireland, The University of Lancashire and Mersey Care NHS

This seminar describes the need for aggression therapy to focus on core theory both in its development and application, arguing further for research into effective methods of delivery. It will commence with an introduction into the core principles underlying our understanding of aggression, before moving onto illustrating how we would apply this to therapy. To illustrate innovation the seminar will outline the Life Minus Violence-Enhanced®™ programme, a long term seven module therapy programme for habitual aggressors based primarily on information processing theory. It reflects recent advances in theory. This includes implicit processing, resilience theory, thought suppression, the importance of including emotional reactivity and acceptance as opposed to focusing solely on regulation, the importance of looking beyond the use of role play alone as a victim empathy technique, and also increasing application of the General Aggression Model to therapy. The seminar will outline the importance of regularly updating both the content and process of therapy to ensure that it remains current. It will include some initial results from the research evaluation as applied to high secure male psychiatric patients, and outline directions for further research and practice in this important area of intervention.

Biography

Professor Jane L. Ireland P.hD. is a Chartered Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist whose Chair is in the area of forensic aggression research. Professor Ireland is the violence treatment lead within Mersey Care NHS Trust (High Secure), Director for the Assessment for Courts and Community Treatment Service (ACCTS) at the University of Central Lancashire, and a Docent (Associate Professor) at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Professor Ireland is both a practitioner and an academic and has to date published 3 books, 80 papers, 18 book chapters and managed 15 grants since 1999. Professor Ireland was the former Chair of the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Division of Forensic Psychology, and is now Chair of the BPS Expert Witness Advisory group and the BPS representative on the Royal Courts of Justice Family Division. Her interests cover perpetrated aggression towards others, self-injurious behaviour, clinical psychopathy and personality disorder, measure development and the quality of legal evidence.

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Great Troy lies dead: fire is her monument…Goddess what have you done?

To prostrate Greece and Troy in slaughter at your feet.

Euripides, Helen, 412 BC

A city is burning. The last of its men murdered in a savage night. The women await their fate, trophies from a bloody battle that raged for ten years across their land. This is the aftermath of war in all its brutality and despair.

Euripides’ play is set in the days that follow the destruction of Troy by the Greek armies. The end of a bitter war waged by one man’s determined to punish the wife who shamed him and the people who kept her away.

It is an epic drama of moral struggles of faith, doubt and reason. Through the voices of the women we hear a clear indictment of the futility of war and our human potential for cruelty. The gods are not immune to Euripides’ acute eye. Their capricious whims highlight the struggles and vulnerabilities of the humans whose fates they control, reminding us that there are greater forces afoot, mysterious and incalculable.

This new adaptation of Women of Troy by director Jeremy James offers a rare opportunity to see a full tragic chorus on stage. Twenty-two performers re-enact this powerful text with music, song, puppetry and performance, boldly bringing to life a timeless Troy with its mythological gods and tragic heroes.

The company invite you to ‘enter a world whose mysteries are infinite because they are the simple ones of common human experience.’ Philip Vellacott

Abstract

The presentation reports on the use of grounded theory in qualitative research about the quality of life of adult women with intellectual disabilities. Research data was gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews with fifty-five women aged 40 years and above from Sydney, Australia, and Prague, Czech Republic. The participating women were recruited via NGOs, parental organizations and other agencies. The core phenomenon identified throughout the interviews was the lack of control participants perceived they had over their lives. Participating women developed and employed various strategies to gain at least some degree of control over their lives which will be discussed in the presentation. The interesting result for the cross-cultural research on quality of life is that there were no major differences found between the two groups (28 women from Sydney, Australia, and 27 women from Prague, Czech Republic). The research results highlight the importance of acknowledging the ability of women with intellectual disabilities to take control over their lives.

In this presentation Dr. Iva Strnadová describes the application of grounded theory in the analysis of data and its suitability for the presented research. She will describe the issues in collecting data, research ethics, and confirming quality and transparency in intellectual disability research.

Biography

Iva Strnadová is a Senior Lecturer in Special Education at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Australia.  Iva Strnadová has a strong history in securing national and international research grants. Since 2005, she has participated in more than fifteen different research projects on a national and international level. She has published two professional books in the field of special education, co-authored eight other books and co-edited one book. Iva Strnadová has published ten peer-refereed journal articles and eleven papers in peer-refereed conference proceedings. Her research interests include ageing with intellectual disabilities, women with intellectual disabilities, across the life span experiences of families caring for a child with a disability and inclusive education.

TIME: 4.30pm

DURATION: 90mins

DATE: 23 March 2011

ADDRESS: Room 119, John Goodsell Building, UNSW, 2052

Admission to this eventis free however we kindly ask that you RSVP to the following email address:
education.events@unsw.edu.au

The 'Unity of the Occult Sciences': A View from late Seventeenth-century Britain

Anti-Colonial Climates: physiology, ecology and the politics of world population, 1920s-1960s

That early twentieth century tropical medicine was part of the modern colonial enterprise is a claim that hardly needs restating. This is so not just because of several decades of excellent scholarship, but also because scientists, clinicians, administrators of the period said so, repeatedly. Indeed they could not have been more explicit about what was going on: can white man live, physiologically-speaking, in the tropics? Given this history and historiography, I am intrigued by the occasional anti-colonial deployment of tropical medicine and physiology, seemingly of the most determinist kind. Just strategic reverse essentialism? I argue not. My case is the fascinating Indian anti-colonial nationalist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968), who wrote often about Australia in the region. I suggest that his ideas alert us to the place of ecology in repackaging old ideas on human racial difference and environment, one potential effect of which was to re-naturalize humans into their apparently appropriate part of the globe.

Alison Bashford is an historian of science and ARC Future Fellow at University of Sydney. Her current projects include a book on the geopolitics of the world population problem, 1919-1954 (Columbia University Press); the 2 volume new Cambridge History of Australia, co-edited with Stuart Macintyre; and a planned special issue, “Airs, Waters, Places in the Modern World.” In 2009/10 she was Harvard Chair of Australian Studies, with Department of History of Science.

Toleration as a Political Practice

Wartime Refugees in Austria-Hungary and the International Community, 1914-23

Liberalism & Empire

Some themes in post-colonial Indigenous political thought

Science in early Colonial Australia

Fighting on the "wrong side" in World War 1: ordinary writings from the Trentino and the question of National Identity from Below

A Tale of Two Conferences: the Martyrs Conference in Paradise and the Karachi Congress, 1931

Welcome new Postgraduate Coursework students!

Please join us at the postgraduate welcome reception

Celebrate the start of semester, network with other postgraduate students and meet staff from your program at the Faculty wine and cheese reception.

Date:    Tuesday 22 February, 2011

Time:    5.30pm - 7.30pm

Venue: Mathews Pavilion (map ref E24)

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Please register your attendance here

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Professor Fiona Williams, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW

Fiona Williams international expert on gender, race and care policy will speak on her recent research relating to Who cares? Migrant workers in the transnational care economy.

Fiona Williams OBE is Professor in the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She has written widely on gender and 'race' in social policy, and is concerned with how to develop a political ethic of care. Publications include The Making and Claiming of Care Policies: the Recognition and Redistribution of Care (UNRISD, 2010) and Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe with Ruth Lister et al (2007). Fiona is co-editor of Social Politics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and a member of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.

Abstract

Who cares? Migrant workers in the transnational care economy

Increasingly the richer world has become dependent on migrant women workers from the poorer regions to do their care and domestic work. As developed countries face a ‘care crunch’ with an ageing population, more women in paid employment and a squeeze on public expenditure, they are turning, by design or by default, to this as a solution. What are the dynamics behind these international ‘care chains’ and ‘care drains’? Drawing from her research Fiona Williams will explain personal and political consequences of this phenomenon. She will argue that it poses a major challenge for global justice.

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Creative Practice & Research Unit

School of English, Media & Performing Arts

 present

 OVER AND OUT

 Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and their graduate dance company LINK are heading to Io Myers Studio with their latest showcase Over and Out.

Over and Out will be an exciting and thought provoking evening of contemporary dance created by French choreographer Fabien Prioville and Australian choreographers

Anthony Hamilton and Cass Mortimer Eipper.

Everyone is welcome!

 Tickets are $22 full/$15 concession

Over & Out

At Io Myers Studio, December 4 and 5.

Choreography by Cass Mortimer Eipper, Fabien Prioville, Antony Hamilton.

Putting It Back Together and Getting It on the Road: Australian Theatre in the 21st Century

With John McCallum

Upstairs Theatre at Belvoir, Surry Hills.

Sunday 28 November - 2pm

Australian theatre now has all the tools in place to move on but it is stuck in the last century. Many of the old restrictions and divisions have been broken down, the talent and new techniques are in place, but its not on the road yet. Is part of the problem the audience?

Sydney theatre reviewer for The Australian, lecturer in theatre at the University of New South Wales and author of Belonging, a critical history of Australian playwriting in the 20th century, John McCallum interrogates the past, present and future outlook of the Australian theatre landscape.

Following the lecture will be the announcement of the 2010 recipient of the 2010 Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award. An outstanding writer under 35 years of age will receive a writer's commission supported by Belvoir.

This year's finalists are:

Candy Bowers

Jeffrey Jay Fowler

Claudia O'Doherty

post (Zoe Coombs Marr, Mish Gregor & Natalie Rose)

Rick Viede

Matthew Whittet

Proudly supported by Belvoir, Arts NSW and Currency House.

The UNSW Centre for Refugee Research, together with key refugee advocates and practitioners is convening a Conference to mark this anniversary. The Conference will provide a timely opportunity to reflect on the strengths and achievements of the Refugee Convention and refugee protection system, and to consider what further action is needed to secure the rights of refugees during flight, in countries of asylum and in resettlement.

For more information visit the conference website

Qiu Xiaolong, author of the highly acclaimed Inspector Chen crime-fiction series, is in Sydney for the first time to talk about Shanghai and contemporary China through the character Chen, a poet and rising star in the Shanghai Municipal Police Department. Inspector Chen’s investigations lead the reader through the streets and corridors of power in Shanghai to reveal a vivid portrait of life in this fast developing metropolis.

Nicholas Jose and Qiu Xiaolong have known each other for over 20 years, having first met when Jose was was teaching and 'writer in residence' at East China Normal University and Qiu translated some of his short stories. Though seeing each other over the years at various writer’s festivals and events, this is the first time the two distinguished writers are on stage to explore Shanghai and the developments that have taken place since China’s opening-up policy.

Location: State Library of New South Wales, Metcalfe Auditorium
Date:        2 December 2010
Time:        6:00pm lecture followed by refreshments and book signing

Tickets: Adult $25 Student/Pensioner $15 (Tickets will not be available for purchase at the State Library)

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The UNSW Confucius Institute
UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
UNSWriting

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Making mayhem and other riotous acts is a program of short dance works showcasing the talents f students in the dance program at UNSW. The choreography reflects the range of styles taught in the program. There is something for everyone as the dancers taken on the challenge of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and ballet.

The show is a celebration of the work of our students and their mentors. It marks the end of a year and for our fourth years, the end of their degree. Although there is always sadness in leaving things behind, there is also the excitement and thrill of fresh opportunities and the possibility of new adventure and experiences on the horizon.

Making mayhem and other riotous acts is that - and more!

In this year's program we have works by guest choreographers Emma Saunders, Sol Ulbrich and Nalina Wait, together with teaching facility Veronica Beattie, John Mullins, Gilli O'Connell and Adrian van Wilkelhof. Alongside these works third year students show us their ongoing development from student to choreographer, filmmaker and teacher.

Tickets: $15 / $8

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

School of English, Media & Performing Arts

presents

 Making mayhem and other riotous acts

UNSW End or Year Dance Show 2010

 
An evening of short dance works from UNSW dance students

Making mayhem and other riotous acts is a program of short dance works showcasing the talents of students in the dance program at UNSW. The choreography reflects the range of styles taught in the program. There is something for everyone as the dancers take on the challenge of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and ballet.

The show is a celebration of the work of our students and their mentors. It marks the end of a year and for our fourth years, the end of their degree. Although there is always sadness in leaving things behind there is also the excitement and thrill of fresh opportunities and the possibility of new adventure and experiences on the horizon.

Making mayhem and other riotous acts is that - and more!

In this year’s program we have works by guest choreographers Emma Saunders, Sol Ulbrich and Nalina Wait, together with semester 2 teaching faculty Veronica Beattie, John Mullins, Gilli O’Connell and Adrian van Winkelhof. Alongside these works third year student show us their ongoing development from student to choreographer, film maker and teacher.

Making mayhem and other riotous acts will be presented at Io Myers Studio

University Of New South Wales

Gate 2 High St, Kensington

UNSW Writing: In Conversation With Fiona McGregor

Author of award winning novels Strange Museums and Indelible Ink

In conversation with Charlotte Farrell

Introduction by Professor Stephen Muecke

Io Myers Studio

Wednesday 27 Oct @ 6pm

ALL WELCOME!

Australian author and performance artist, Fiona McGregor is one of the most distinctive writers of her generation. Her most recent novels Strange Museums and Indelible Ink are exceptionally evocative explorations of place, time and metamorphosing corporeality. This UNSWriting event will explore these aspects of McGregor’s work in relationship to her embodied practice, examining how she writes performance, through to the performative modes of her writing itself. From menopausal mothers in Mosman, to her own endurance based performances in Poland, McGregor’s process of writing diverse bodies and geographies anticipates scintillating and provocative discussion.

Fiona McGregor will be available to sign copies of her book. Book early for this free public event.

You can purchase both Indelible Ink and Strange Museums at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop

RSVP ESSENTIAL: unswriting@unsw.edu.au

Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland by Fiona McGregor

The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead.

When Fiona McGregor travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it was her first visit to Eastern Europe. She found a culture in change, where people are struggling to live well enough under capitalism and where old ideas are expressed in the extraordinary cluster of public museums she found.

This is a travelogue of Poland from street level.

Indelible Ink

Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney’s affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo — an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Written with Fiona McGregor’s customary savage wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large. In its piercing examination of the way we live now, it is truly a novel for our times.

Fiona McGregor is the author of four works of fiction: Au Pair, shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Award; Suck My Toes, winner of the Steele Rudd Award; Chemical Palace, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for fiction; and, most recently, Indelible Ink. Fiona has also written a travel memoir, Strange Museums. She was voted one of the inaugural Best Young Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald in 1997. Fiona is also known as a performance artist. She has performed live across Australia and Europe, and her video works have been seen internationally.

Charlotte Farrell is a UNSW PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance studies at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts. She has a background in performance practice, and comprises one-half of What Makes Men Blush, with whom she has performed extensively. She has studied Shakespearean Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and co-convened the EMPA postgraduate symposium ‘Metamorphoses: Transformations, Transgressions’ in 2010. Charlotte is a regular contributor to The Spit Press, Sydney’s creative magazine and Das 500, an online platform for new critical arts writing.

Stephen Muecke is Professor of Writing in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS).

Special Work-In-Progress presentation

“Nothing But the Same Old Story: The Role of the Media in Constructing the Economically Rational in Capital Market Regulation.“

Professor Justin O'Brien, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

For more info: k.albury@unsw.edu.au

Department of Government and International Relations

University of Sydney

“GetUp revisited: online political mobilisation in 2010”

Abstract:

Current debates focus on how Internet-based organisations challenge traditional spaces for political participation, and offer new strategic repertoires in the creation of political change. A clear-cut distinction between social movement and interest group approaches to mobilisation is problematised when the Internet is used to challenge established power relationships between citizens and their parliamentary representatives. This paper places the Australian online advocacy organisation GetUp within this analysis by building on my earlier research on its emergence and development (2005-2007). By the 2010 federal election GetUp is now, arguably, our most important civil society actor: winning cases in the High Court and bringing Obama-style mass mobilisation to the general community. Using Andrew Chadwick’s (2007) work that identifies novel ‘organisation hybridity’ and ‘repertoire switching’ in Internet mobilisations we look at how this has happened and what it means for future forms of citizen politics.

 For more info: k.albury@unsw.edu.au

UNSW Writing: In Conversation With Fiona McGregor

 Author of award winning novels Strange Museums and Indelible Ink

 In conversation with Charlotte Farrell

 Introduction by Professor Stephen Muecke

Australian author and performance artist, Fiona McGregor is one of the most distinctive writers of her generation. Her most recent novels Strange Museums and Indelible Ink are exceptionally evocative explorations of place, time and metamorphosing corporeality. This UNSWriting event will explore these aspects of McGregor’s work in relationship to her embodied practice, examining how she writes performance, through to the performative modes of her writing itself. From menopausal mothers in Mosman, to her own endurance based performances in Poland, McGregor’s process of writing diverse bodies and geographies anticipates scintillating and provocative discussion.

Fiona McGregor will be available to sign copies of her book. Book early for this free public event.

You can purchase both Indelible Ink and Strange Museums at 10% off the RRP, courtesy of the UNSW bookshop

RSVP ESSENTIAL: unswriting@unsw.edu.au



Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland by Fiona McGregor

The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead.

When Fiona McGregor travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it was her first visit to Eastern Europe. She found a culture in change, where people are struggling to live well enough under capitalism and where old ideas are expressed in the extraordinary cluster of public museums she found.

This is a travelogue of Poland from street level.

Indelible Ink

Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney’s affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo — an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Written with Fiona McGregor’s customary savage wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large. In its piercing examination of the way we live now, it is truly a novel for our times.

Fiona McGregor is the author of four works of fiction: Au Pair, shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Award; Suck My Toes, winner of the Steele Rudd Award; Chemical Palace, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for fiction; and, most recently, Indelible Ink. Fiona has also written a travel memoir, Strange Museums. She was voted one of the inaugural Best Young Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald in 1997. Fiona is also known as a performance artist. She has performed live across Australia and Europe, and her video works have been seen internationally.

Charlotte Farrell is a UNSW PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance studies at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts. She has a background in performance practice, and comprises one-half of What Makes Men Blush, with whom she has performed extensively. She has studied Shakespearean Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and co-convened the EMPA postgraduate symposium ‘Metamorphoses: Transformations, Transgressions’ in 2010. Charlotte is a regular contributor to The Spit Press, Sydney’s creative magazine and Das 500, an online platform for new critical arts writing.

Stephen Muecke is Professor of Writing in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS).

In this talk Oreskes will outline the ideas developed in the book ‘Merchants of Doubt’ written with Erik Conway. Building upon her earlier research highlighting the disconnect between the state of scientific debate and the way it was being presented in the mass media, and perceived by the American people, she suggests that confusion regarding climate science has been purposely sown by people trying to confuse us.

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Naomi Oreskes is one of the world’s leading historians of science. Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, her research focuses on consensus and dissent in science. She has won numerous prizes for her work, and has lectured widely in diverse venues ranging from the Madison, Wisconsin, Civics Club to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,” cited by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth, led to Op-Ed pieces in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and to Congressional testimony in the U.S Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Oreskes’s research highlighted the disconnect between the state of scientific debate and the way it was being presented in the mass media and perceived by the American people.

Robyn Williams AM is a science journalist and broadcaster, for the ABC presenting Radio National’s Science Show, Ockham’s Razor and In Conversation. He was appointed AM in the 1988 Australian Bicentenary honours list and in the same year received Honorary Doctorates in Science from the University of Sydney and Macquarie and Deakin Universities. The ANU awarded him a Doctorate of Law, and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of NSW and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.

Greg Leaney is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. His research interest areas include educational philosophy; professional ethics; ethics and curricula; environmental ethics; collaborative learning; critical thinking; and teacher pre-service and in-service professional development.

Greg is the NSW Representative on the National Council of the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations, and an instructor with the Philosophy in Schools Association (NSW). He is involved in teaching philosophy and thinking skills to students and staff in primary and secondary schools across the Sydney and provincial regions, through the Philosophy in Schools program and Service-Learning programs.

Anne Brewster and Stephen Muecke (UNSW Writing area of EMPA) invite cultural theorist Meaghan Morris and archeologist Denis Byrne to discuss the premise that writing (in professional and academic contexts) must necessarily evolve in relation to its contingencies. ‘Fictocriticism’ names an intellectually rigorous yet inclusive mode of argumentation and narration, as deployed in Meaghan Morris’ Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, London: Sage, 2006, and Denis Byrne’s Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia, AltaMira Press 2007.

This open plenary session (which concludes a day-long workshop for postgraduates) will variously cover issues of storytelling and argumentation in the context of archive, authority and field, and their aesthetic mediation. It will raise questions about how forms of knowledge are made in relation to what lies outside or beyond them, and how writing can be used to ‘re-world’ intellectual, academic and professional spaces.

It aims to generate discussion about what critical writing currently does and might come to do.

Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her books include Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006); Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. with Siu-leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, 2005); “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-ed. with Brett de Bary, 2001); and Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998).

Denis Byrne manages the Research Section of the Cultural Heritage Division in the Department of Environment and Conservation. Denis' interests include the contemporary religious/spiritual context of heritage sites in Asia and Australia (the subject of his recent fellowship at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles), the history and heritage of racial segregation in Australia, and the push towards greater acknowlegement of the social value of heritage places. He is the author of Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia, AltaMira Press 2007.

Biography:
Anna Baltzer is a Columbia University graduate, former Fulbright scholar and author of 'Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories' (Paradigm Publishers 2007).

She is an award-winning lecturer and activist for Palestinian rights who is the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees. She has been a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank and supported Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Among many public appearances she has featured most recently on the Jon Stewart Daily Show alongside Palestinian presidential candidate and nonviolence leader Dr. Mustafa Barghouti.

Baltzer has lectured at hundreds of universities, schools, policy institutes, churches, mosques, and synagogues around the world with her acclaimed presentations.

In 2009, Baltzer received the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee's prestigious Annual Rachel Corrie Peace & Justice Award and a Certificate of Commendation from the Governor of Wisconsin for her commitment to justice in the Holy Land. Baltzer is co-founder of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and a contributor to four upcoming books about the conflict. She serves on the Middle East committee of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the Board of Directors of The Research Journalism Institute, Grassroots Jerusalem, Council for the National Interest, and NewPolicy.org.

The lecture will be part of the official launch of the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies.

6.00pm   Welcome reception

6.30pm   Official Launch

7.00pm   Lecture by Professor Rónán McDonald

8.00pm   Celebratory cocktail reception

Professor McDonald's lecture is entitled: Beyond Ireland: cultures of encounter and exchange

Abstract
What does it mean to be of a place rather than in a place? In an age of accelerated globalisation, when communication technologies and affordable travel appear to collapse the distance between the national and the international, between home and away, how do cultural identities fare? What kinds of work do they do in different locations and what kind of transformations do they undergo in encounter with others? The Irish experience affords a valuable double perspective on these questions of belonging. Though a small country, Ireland has a vast diaspora. It was colonized, yet also an agent of empire. Often marketed as a rural idyll, with all the comforts of tradition, it has also been modeled as the crucible of high literary modernism and, more recently, the high-tech gateway to Europe. Through consideration of the anomalous branding of ‘Ireland’, this lecture examines the shifting and travelling meanings of Irishness in a global era.

Professor McDonald is a leading Samuel Beckett scholar, literary critic and historian of Irish modernism, and was appointed as the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish Studies at UNSW and Director of the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at UNSW earlier this year. He was most recently Director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading in the UK and has extensive teaching experience in the field of Irish literature. Professor McDonald is a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, and author of Death of the Critic.

The John Hume Institute in Global Irish Studies is the result of the first Australian partnership with University College Dublin, which established the original John Hume Institute in 2007.

“A selection of choreographic works and films by the 3rd Year UNSW Dance Education program”

Studio One

Wed 6 - Fri 8

October @ 7.30pm

3rd Year Dance Shorts is a selection of works by the third year dance studentsin the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at UNSW. Working in class with choreographer and Dance film maker, Sue Healey students take part in Analysis and composition to develop their choreographic skills while also discovering hidden talents within Film and technology.

The works featured in 3rd Year Dance Shorts are just some examples of the talent within the dance program as students showcase their strengths in choreography, performance and dance film making.

Please come along and support these inspiring students before they enter their final year of university and head into the “real” world.

Presented by Dr Shaun Wilson and Dr Ben Spies

We analyse longer term shifts in class voting in Australia and consider how other dimensions of social tratification, especially gender, have interacted with class to produce a realignment in the Australian electorate. Although our main purpose is to provide a political-sociological account of electoral realignment, we briefly explore how this realignment is altering the political opportunity structure open to major Australian political parties and, in turn, party strategies.

Further information is available on the symposium website >>

The minor fall, the major lift: music, power and the composer's black art

What is it about those rare and fleeting moments of musical beauty that fully captivate a listener’s attention? Does a composer calculate such junctures or are they happy accidents? How could a composer shape and guide the listener’s experience to create these events? Does detailed analysis of the notes tell us all we need to know to explain them? From Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, Opus 109 to Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah, as in many other works before and since, there are precise moments where a listener may experience a superb glimpse of ‘musical truth’. Understanding how and why they happen calls for an awareness of the psychoacoustic and social contexts for the musical experience and has unavoidable aesthetic implications for the way a composer thinks about music.

Andrew Schultz is currently Professor of Music and Head of the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. His music covers a broad range and has been performed, recorded and broadcast by leading groups and musicians internationally. Schultz has held posts and residencies including as Head of Composition and Music Studies at the Guildhall School of Music (London), Professor of Composition and Dean of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong (Australia), a visiting lecturer at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo) and Osaka School of Music (Japan), Artist in Residence – Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and Visiting Fellow – Institute for Advanced Musical Studies, University of London. He has also served as Chair of the Arts NSW Music Committee, Chair of the Australian Music Centre Board and Editor of the Biographical Directory of Australian Composers. 

Professor Andrew Schultz will be introduced by Kate Lidbetter (Chief Executive Officer, Symphony Services International).

Kate Lidbetter has worked for a variety of arts organisations over the past 20 years. Roles have included General Manager of the Sydney Children’s Choir, Artistic Administrator of the Australian Youth Orchestra and Artist Development Manager of Symphony Australia. From 2005 to 2008 Kate was Director of the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, the federal government’s arts funding and advisory body. She returned to Symphony Australia in the role of CEO in late 2008. Kate has sat on a number of arts panels, committees and boards and is the Company Secretary of Symphony Services International.

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We Are Skating On Very Thin Ice

 Directed by Clare Grant

 A performance work created by students of the course Collaborative Making 2010

 We Are Skating on Very Thin Ice is a performance work created by the students in collaboration with performance lecturer Clare Grant and designer Paul Matthews with the production team of the CPRU.

Collaborative Making introduced participants to aspects of contemporary research-based collaborative performance practices. Students create their own material, producing performance actions and spoken texts, which are then brought together and shaped for the performance in a range of forms.

 We Are Skating On Very Thin Ice will be presented at Io Myers Studio, UNSW (entrance Gate 2, High St)

 Season: Wednesday 29 September to Saturday 2 October at 7:30pm

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An open seminar presented by Dr Leanne Dowse (SSIS) and Dr Shannon McDermott (SPARC)

The Australian population is ageing and so too are people with a lifelong disability. For this emerging group, complexities arise across a range of dimensions including changing care and support needs for individuals, policy disjuncture’s, and barriers to effective systemic advocacy. This paper aims to extend current understandings of the organisational and advocacy issues associated with ageing and disability, develop a more nuanced picture of the experiences of a range of service users, and identify some the challenges facing service providers and advocacy organisations in understanding and meeting the support needs of their clients as they age.

Please RSVP by the 10th September to Mary Despinis

Creative Practice and Research Unit

presents

We Are Skating On Very Thin Ice

Directed by Clare Grant

A performance work created by students of the course Collaborative Making 2010

Io Myers Studio - Wednesday 29 September at 7:30pm



Enter an empty space. Step through fluctuating gaps between displaced bodies, overlapping voices and objects that emerge from nothing.

We play cricket in limbo and juggle soccer balls by ourselves.

We are fragments of narrow passageways, the breath of red wine seeps through the lights of our eyes.

We are precariously jumping from world to underworld.

We are surrendering to the heat of the edge.

We are expert chess players. We’ve forgotten all the rules.

It’s bright here.

We Are Skating on Very Thin Ice is a performance work created by the students in collaboration with performance lecturer Clare Grant and designer Paul Matthews with the production team of the CPRU.

Collaborative Making introduced participants to aspects of contemporary research-based collaborative performance practices. Students create their own material, producing performance actions and spoken texts, which are then brought together and shaped for the performance in a range of forms.

We Are Skating On Very Thin Ice will be presented at Io Myers Studio, UNSW (entrance Gate 2, High St)

Season: Wednesday 29 September to Saturday 2 October at 7:30pm

Autumn Gem
Meet the 'Chinese Joan of Arc', Qiu Jin (1875 - 1907), a radical women's rights activist who defied tradition to become the leader of a revolutionary army. Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and emerged as a national heroine who redefined what it meant to be a woman in early 20th-century China.

For further information about the film please visit: http://autumn-gem.com.

School of English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW

creative practice and research unit

presents

Honours Projects 2010

Three original works from practice-based Honours students.

An evening of performance, live art and sound.

iO MYERS STUDiO and STUDiO ONE

Tuesday 31 August to Thursday 2 September at 7pm

 Three new works will be presented from students engaging in their own particular research projects through creative practice. These projects form part of the submission for the Honours degree in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts.

Through these creative projects the students catch their first real glimpse of what research-based practice is all about. It enables them to proceed to either further postgraduate academic work or to an investigative professional practice as a maker of original creative works. Students’ works are self-generated, presenting their arguments in creative form. They are supported by rigorous research questions that have risen from their own emerging practice and it engages both theoretical material and the work of other practitioners in that field.

Honours Projects 2010 promises to be a dynamic evening of contemporary performance, presenting the new work of three very exciting and adventurous emerging artists.

 Honours Projects 2010 will feature…

Noni Cowan: Coca Cola Post Festum

A culture of the consumer or a culture that consumes?

Coca Cola Post Festum considers the susceptibility of the human subject in the consumer culture. It explores the tension between the marketed, fetishised image of Coca Cola and the materiality of Coca Cola (as an object) to question the impact of consumption on the human subject. Is consumption an expressive, transformative act or does commodity fetish consume us?

Nick Atkins: Digital Doppelganger

An interactive performance experiment seeking out the familiar within the unfamiliar.

Digital Doppelganger is a hybrid performance that brings together new media arts and performance to investigate a trope, metaphor, figure, monster and Sci-Fi villain that has emerged over the past sixty years in pop culture, political discourse and academia.

 Emma Maye Gibson: Stupid Bitch

A Confessional Memoir, Feminist Performance, Vaudevillian Spectacle. She's Gagging For It.

Stupid Bitch is an exercise in trying to find a non-essentialist dramaturgical language for examining gendered violence. Taking inspiration from the likes of Matthew Johns and Kyle and Jackie O, Stupid Bitch is a confessional memoir, which harnesses the “feminisms” and voices of both perpetrators and victims of gendered violence in a contemporary Australian context.

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creative practice and research unit

presents

Honours Projects 2010

Three original works from practice-based Honours students.

An evening of performance, live art and sound.

iO MYERS STUDiO and STUDiO ONE

Tuesday 31 August to Thursday 2 September at 7pm

Three new works will be presented from students engaging in their own particular research projects through creative practice. These projects form part of the submission for the Honours degree in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts.

Through these creative projects the students catch their first real glimpse of what research-based practice is all about. It enables them to proceed to either further postgraduate academic work or to an investigative professional practice as a maker of original creative works. Students’ works are self-generated, presenting their arguments in creative form. They are supported by rigorous research questions that have risen from their own emerging practice and it engages both theoretical material and the work of other practitioners in that field.

Honours Projects 2010 promises to be a dynamic evening of contemporary performance, presenting the new work of three very exciting and adventurous emerging artists.

Honours Projects 2010 will feature…

Noni Cowan: Coca Cola Post Festum

A culture of the consumer or a culture that consumes?

Coca Cola Post Festum considers the susceptibility of the human subject in the consumer culture. It explores the tension between the marketed, fetishised image of Coca Cola and the materiality of Coca Cola (as an object) to question the impact of consumption on the human subject. Is consumption an expressive, transformative act or does commodity fetish consume us?

Nick Atkins: Digital Doppelganger

An interactive performance experiment seeking out the familiar within the unfamiliar.

Digital Doppelganger is a hybrid performance that brings together new media arts and performance to investigate a trope, metaphor, figure, monster and Sci-Fi villain that has emerged over the past sixty years in pop culture, political discourse and academia.

Emma Maye Gibson: Stupid Bitch

A Confessional Memoir, Feminist Performance, Vaudevillian Spectacle. She's Gagging For It.

Stupid Bitch is an exercise in trying to find a non-essentialist dramaturgical language for examining gendered violence. Taking inspiration from the likes of Matthew Johns and Kyle and Jackie O, Stupid Bitch is a confessional memoir, which harnesses the “feminisms” and voices of both perpetrators and victims of gendered violence in a contemporary Australian context.

The politics of engagement: An indigenous perspective

Traversing western and indigenous organizational forms poses complex communicative challenges for those charged with public engagement. In this paper I will theorise the interplay of power and knowledge embedded in the indigenous engagement efforts of New Zealand science organizations and map the discursive roles of Maori scientists who act as organizational emissaries and cultural intermediaries drawing upon a Foucauldian framework.

Judy Motion is Professor of Communication in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts and an Associate of the Journalism and Media Research Centre. Professor Motion’s research areas include public relations, promotional communication and discourse, public policy and social innovation. She has co-lead a Foundation for Research, Science and Technology funded research program to investigate socially and culturally sustainable biotechnology in New Zealand and is currently a member of a New Zealand based research program investigating sustainable productivity in small to medium businesses.

A light lunch will be provided.

All are welcome, and no reservation is required.

The Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (Bulgaria): A Preliminary Report

A light lunch will be provided.

All are welcome, and no reservation is required.

The mobile phone is no longer just a personal telecommunications device, it is a portal to multiple social spaces that are constantly in flux. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are accessed throughout the day by mobile users, as they tune in to with their different networks and share updates and images. What are the social impacts of this sustained engagement and continual presence? What does it mean for friendships and relationships? This talk will share preliminary findings from the largest study of mobile media use in Australia and consider the complex terrain between humans, mobiles and social networks.

Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford is an Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at UNSW. She is completing a three-year ARC Discovery project on mobile media use by 18-30 year olds around Australia. Her books include Adult Themes (2006) and Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media and Power (with Chris Chesher and Anne Dunn, in press). This year, she was an invited research fellow at Microsoft Research Labs in Boston and she is currently working on a manuscript on the concept of listening and networked technologies.

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We invite you to an open seminar to be held on Thursday 5th August

 
This seminar will include 2 presentations as follows:

3pm - Professor Robyn Munford, Massey University, New Zealand:
Building Inclusive Communities for Families and Children  

3.45pm - Dr Deborah Ghate, Director, The Centre for Effective Studies, Northern Ireland:
Supporting Parents in The Poorest Communities: Practice Challenges and Policy Solutions

The seminar will be followed by discussion and refreshments

All Welcome

 







 Considering a career change, professional development or research?

 Join us for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Expo 2010!

 * Explore your postgraduate options for 2011

* Come to a special event for Higher Degree Research (Master by Research / PhD) students

* Attend individual information sessions for our postgraduate coursework programs (Master/GradDiploma/GradCertificate)

 Date: Monday 27 September 2010

Higher Degree Research Expo 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Presentations on:

 * Degree options, Research in Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW
* Scholarships and Admission
* Research Supervision and the Student Experience

 Postgraduate Coursework Expo 5:00 - 7:45 pm

* 5:00 - 7:45 General Information and Admission
* 5:30 - 7:20 Specialised Program Information Sessions

 Location: AGSM Building, Kensington Campus

Registration is essential

Register Here

From the opening scenes of Nurse Jackie, audiences are tempted by the easy pleasures of judging from the outside, of playing God. In episode after episode Jackie offers us abundant opportunities to be thinking ‘Oh, she’s really gone too far this time!’ She forges organ donation documents, euthanizes a gravely ill friend, self-medicates with the help of the hospital pharmacist, with whom she is having a suspiciously expedient extra-marital relationship. But in the very moments that we might fall for the seductions of certainty, those moments when we are sure Jackie has irredeemably crossed a moral line, the show questions such pretenses to moral purity. Taking up the invitation to further explore this dynamic, this paper considers the possibilities of a phenomenal ethics, an ethics grounded, not in illusions of moral purity but, rather, in the relational contexts of lived experience. Drawing on the work of Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, it will suggest that his emphasis on relationality and openness to the other offers a significant resource in thinking about the nature of the ethical in everyday life.

Sal Renshaw is an Associate Professor at Nipissing University, Canada, and is Chair of the Department of Gender Equality and Social Justice, cross-appointed in the Department of Religions and Cultures. She is the author of The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine (Manchester University Press, 2009), and her research interests range from the philosophy of love to representations of sexuality and ethics in contemporary media.

Dr. Anne Galloway recently relocated from Canada (a.k.a. The Great White North) to take up a position as Senior Lecturer in Design Research at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Drawing on a background in sociology and anthropology, her research focusses on emergent technologies in their visual, discursive, material and practical manifestations. Anne really likes animals and technology, and you can learn more about her and the world’s best catTM on the web at plsj.org or on twitter @annegalloway

This Seminar is now full.

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Is remix a defining characteristic of digital culture as many scholars have asserted?

This paper critiques the contemporary rhetoric of ‘remix’ with a particular emphasis on the work of legal scholar and copyright reform activist Lawrence Lessig. Drawing on qualitative research on music cultures undertaken as a part of my doctoral thesis on the status of copies in creativity, communication and the production of knowledge, I argue that the conceptualization of remix as any media made from pre-existing media is problematic.

First, because the rhetoric seems to be founded upon a misunderstanding of remix as a technical production process as well as the historic origins of remix in multi-track audio production and music culture.

Secondly, it fails to adequately acknowledge the analogue origins of remix as a compositional technique in dance music and by doing so obscures its significant aesthetic, cultural and social contributions since the 1970s. As well, it overlooks the often blurry borders between commerce and culture as well as amateurs and professionals.

Finally, it denies agency to the many individuals who took a supposedly closed fixed system—analogue records and tapes—and liberated them through use and reuse.

For more information, please contact Kath Albury k.albury@unsw.edu.au

Indiscipline and Interdiscipline: some exotic sources of modern knowledge orders

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

The Hon Jenny Macklin MP Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs ‘Australia Fair – Driving Labor’s social policy reform agenda’

2pm-2.45pm followed by afternoon tea

In its first term, the Australian Government has put social policy back on the national agenda. The Government has stated its commitment to drive a social policy agenda to build a fair and inclusive Australia through big reforms to prepare the nation for the future. In its first term, the Government has strengthened the retirement incomes system including historic pension increases and superannuation reform, delivered Australia’s first Paid Parental Leave scheme to support families and drive workforce participation, made unprecedented investment in social housing and homelessness and is driving a national effort to close the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians.

Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin will explain why Labor values like fairness, equality and participation will always be at the heart of the Government’s reform agenda.

The Minister will be introduced by UNSW Scientia Professor and ASPA President Peter Saunders.

The Australian Social Policy Association (ASPA) is a non-profit organisation and professional association of social policy researchers, educators, practitioners and policy-makers. It promotes debate about and increases understanding of social policy in Australia. ASPA enables productive collaborations between social policy researchers, NGO and government service providers and policy-makers and creates a forum for the exchange of information and ideas about social policy in national and international contexts.

Professor John Berry (University of Edinburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Queens' Univeristy, Canada.  He recieved Honorary Doctorates from the University of Athens, and Universite de Geneve (2001).

He has published over 30 books in the areas of cross-cultural, social and cognitive psychology with various colleagues.

About the topic

There is probably no more serious challenge to social stability and development in the contemporary world than the management of intercultural relations within complex, culturally plural societies.  Successful management of these relationships depends on a reserach-based understanding of a number of factors, including political, economic, religious and psychological features for the groups that are in contact.

To reserve a place please contact Mary Despinis m.despinis@unsw.edu.au by the 16th of July.

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Isobelle Barrett-Meyering - Clearinghouse (UNSW), completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 2009 with majors in History and Political Economy.

Isobelle joined the Australian Domestic and Family Clearinghouse as a Research Assistant in April 2009.

About the Topic

This paper will report on the findings of a one year project examining barriers and avenues to financial security for women affected by domestic violence, pre and post separation.  The study was especially concerned with identifying practical strategies that will build women's financial capacity.

To reserve a space at this seminar, please email Mary Despinis m.despinis@unsw.edu.au

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Harvard - UNSW International Conference

Citizenship in a Globalised World - Perspectives from the Immigrant Democracies

14th-15th July 2010

A forum exploring what may be learned from the collective experience of major immigrant democracies about the directions and possibilities of citizenship in a globalised world.

Key themes:

Immigration and justice across borders
The rise of temporary
Migration and the rights of resident non-citizens
The politics of Immigration
Rethinking the relationship between sending and receiving countries

Speakers Include:

Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard)
Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard)
Christian Joppke (American U. Paris)
Senator Chris Evans (Minister for Immigration and Citizenship)|
Peter Spiro (Temple U.)
Katharine Betts (Swinburne U.)
Stephen Castles (U. Sydney)
|Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Stanford & The White House)
Paul James (RMIT)
Ayelet Shachar (U. Toronto)
Matthew Gibney (U. Oxford)
Noah Pickus (Duke)
Richard Brown (U. Qld)
Christopher Wellman (Washington U. St. Louis)
Duncan Ivison (U. Sydney)
Catherine Dauvergne (U. British Columbia)
Kim Rubenstein (ANU)
Geoffrey Brahm Levey (UNSW)

Conference Program and Bionotes

Resident in New York since 1979, Kate Jennings has maintained a close relationship with Australian letters. In the wake of the acclaimed publication of Trouble:Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010 (2010) Jennings returns to Sydney to engage directly with the Australian reading and writing public.

The lecture Who are You? considers the present and future of writing, and asks: What is the function of the writer in a new world order where talent has been democratised, everyone¹s a critic, and no one wants to pay for content?¹

Jennings is a fitting choice to present this significant public lecture, which was conceived in 1987 to honour Barry Andrews, an influential and much-loved figure in the Australia literary community and a co-founder of ASAL. Barry Andrews was based at University College Canberra (now UNSW ADFA), who established and sponsored the award in his memory. In 2008 ASAL assumed responsibility and the lecture is now a key event at ASAL¹s annual conference bringing together readers from the academic and general public spheres.

The lecture will be preceded by the announcement of several important Australian literary awards including the ALS Gold Medal for literature (Australia¹s oldest literary award), the Magarey Medal for Biography, the Mary Gilmore Award for Poetry, and the A. D. Hope postgraduate essay award.

The Barry Andrews lecture will be followed by refreshments.

Doing time: BBV health research, practice and possibilities for improved outcomes for people in the NSW prison population

This workshop is supported by SESIAHS and will be held in the Galleries of the John Niland Scientia building at The University of New South Wales.

To find out more, please follow the link http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/nchsr-consortium-2010/

Or Click here to download the invitation

2010 Australasian Association for Literature (AAL) Conference

Literature and Science

This is the 4th annual conference of the AAL. Held over two days, the conference is designed to give professional academics and postgraduate students the opportunity to present on and discuss a broad thematic topic in the area of literary studies. This year there will be 85 presentations on the topic of literature and science, with papers ranging from Aeschylus and astronomy to Darwin and neuroscience.

Conference Dates: July 5-6, 2010

Venue: Robert Webster Building, Kensington Campus, University of New South Wales

Keynote Speakers:

Prof Brian Boyd (University of Auckland)

Prof Claire Colebrook (Penn State University)

Prof Paul Giles (University of Sydney)

Registration Fees:

 Full: $250

Concession: $140

To register online or for further information about the conference program visit http://www.aal.asn.au/conference/2010/

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Keynote by recent PhD graduate Dr Stuart Upton.

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Download a copy of the Conference programme here

School of English Media and Performing Arts, UNSW

Creative Practice and Research Unit

present

MOVE 10

Mid-year dance education classwork performances

Io Myers Studio

Thu 3 - 5 June @ 7.30pm

 This selection of classwork presentations provides an overview of the studies undertaken by UNSW students in the dance education program. The evening will be in the form of short presentations from each year of the course. Students will join the audience in the space so they can watch each other perform in an informal atmosphere.

 Move 10 promises to be a fast and furious night of ballet, jazz and modern (contemporary) work.

 Move 10 is a great opportunity for teachers, potential students, parents and friends to see what the dance education program at UNSW offers. Please join us in celebrating the energy and dedication of our dance students at the end of Session One 2010.

 Tickets are $15 adult/$8 concession

Bookings essential: 9385 5684 / cpru@unsw.edu.au

Hope to see you there!

Welcome Presentation

Official welcome by the Dean of the Faculty and an introduction to student life.
Time: 12pm-12.30pm
Venue: Theatrette 327, 3rd Floor, Robert Webster Building (G14)

Welcome Lunch

Meet fellow students and staff and take advantage of the information tables during lunch.

Time: 12.30pm-1.30pm 
Venue: Room 335, 3rd Floor, Robert Webster Building (G14)

The politics of Shame

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

Relational Organicism and the Mediation of Individualism and Holism.

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

ReelDance Installations #04

EXHIBITION :: JUNE 15–19

10am–5pm Daily

Gesture :: Performance | Film | Dance is a screen exhibition running across various sites on UNSW’s Kensington Campus and the National Institute of Dramatic Art. The program features the work of four Australian and one Spanish/UK video artist, which explores physical performance between dance and other modes such as the everyday and dramatic body.

A walking tour connects the main sites of the exhibition; Io Myers Studio, Robert Webster Building and the Australian School of Business West Foyer. 30 other working screens are involved which will be interrupted by Kate Murphy’s Assembly.

Also associated with the exhibition is a one-day research workshop on June 16, Thinking Gesture, bringing together academics with the artists involved in the exhibition.

A screen-based creative initiative from

the School of English, Media and Performing Arts

Creative Practice Research Unit

ReelDance

and supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (UNSW).

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School of English Media and Performing Arts, UNSW

creative practice and research unit

WHACK THE MOON!

MDCM 3002 ADVANCED MEDIA PRODUCTION EXHIBTION

Io Myers Studio and surrounds...

WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE 4 – 8 PM

Official welcome and launch 6pm

At 7:30 EST on Friday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deliberately crashed two orbiting probes into Cabeus, a large crater near the south pole of the moon. NASA scientists wanted to 'kick up the dust' of the lunar surface in order to analyse material blasted into the lunar atmosphere. "We are going to whack the moon in a controlled experiment to try to really understand what's in the lunar soil." James Garvin, former NASA's chief scientist.

Third-year Advanced Media Production students were asked to respond to this ‘Whacking of the Moon!’ to create a small, well developed video, animation, sound or web production. The outcome: one hundred and twenty-two unique media works in an exhibition celebrating the skills and insight developed over the last three years.

These works will take over the cultural precinct around Gate 2, High Street Kensington. Io Myers will be filled with video and web-based works, Studio One with animations and the nooks and shelves of our props, costume and furniture store rooms will reveal unique sound works . . . not to forget an installation in our driveways where motor vehicle, projection and sound combine for a personalised ‘drive in’ moon whacking experience!

ALL WELCOME!

“The bar will be open and you may come and go during the evening.”

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School of English Media and Performing Arts, UNSW

Creative Practice and Research Unit

present

Performance Making 2010

20 short solo works . 20 emerging performance makers.

Io Myers Studio

Tues 1 June @ 7pm

Words that decompose, food that outperforms bodies, culture clashes / gender mashes / hyper-trashes, difficult truths and re-mediated voices – and that’s just for starters.

Each year, in Performance Making, level three Theatre and Performance Studies students undertake a critical and investigative solo performance making process.

They draw inspiration from both the historical and contemporary theatrical avant-garde. They experiment, they take risks, they surprise each other and challenge themselves.

There’s nothing ever quite like the end result.

ALL WELCOME!

”The bar will be open and you may come and go during the evening”.

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Creative Practice and Research Unit

would like to invite you to

Alistair Sung, Cello

performing with Josephine Allan, Piano

Honours Music Recital 2010

Webster Studio 334, Wed 2 June @ 7pm

Honours music student Alistair Sung presents a program of three larger-than-life works by three of the most significant composers of the Western classical music tradition. Beginning with Bach’s grand and joyous sixth suite for solo cello, and continuing with Beethoven’s complex and beautiful 4th sonata for cello and piano, the recital will conclude with the dramatic and extroverted second sonata in F Major by Brahms.

• BACH: Suite No. 6 in D Major for solo cello - Prelude . Allemande . Courante
• BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 4 in C Major Op. 102
• BRAHMS: Sonata No. 2 in F Major Op. 99

ALL WELCOME!

 Move 10 promises to be a fast and furious night of ballet, jazz and modern (contemporary) work.

Move 10 is a great opportunity for teachers, potential students, parents and friends to see what the dance education program at UNSW offers. Please join us in celebrating the energy and dedication of our dance students at the end of Session One 2010.

The performances will take place at Io Myers Studio, Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 June, at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $15/$8

Presented by the CPRU, the EMPA students of Advanced Media Production Exhibition (MDCM3002) will take over the Io Myers Studio and its surrounds to bring you...

Whack The Moon

WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE

4 – 8 PM

Official welcome and launch 6pm



At 7:30 EST on Friday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deliberately crashed two orbiting probes into Cabeus, a large crater near the south pole of the moon. NASA scientists wanted to 'kick up the dust' of the lunar surface in order to analyse material blasted into the lunar atmosphere. "We are going to whack the moon in a controlled experiment to try to really understand what's in the lunar soil." James Garvin, former NASA's chief scientist.

Third-year Advanced Media Production students were asked to respond to this ‘Whacking of the Moon!’ to create a small, well developed video, animation, sound or web production. The outcome: one hundred and twenty-two unique media works in an exhibition celebrating the skills and insight developed over the last three years.

These works will take over the cultural precinct around Gate 2, High Street Kensington. Io Myers will be filled with video and web-based works, Studio One with animations and the nooks and shelves of our props, costume and furniture store rooms will reveal unique sound works . . . not to forget an installation in our driveways where motor vehicle, projection and sound combine for a personalised ‘drive in’ moon whacking experience!

ALL WELCOME!

You are invited to celebrate the release of

A HISTORY OF GREECE

by Dr Nicholas Doumanis

To be launched by Mr David Hill

Author and Chair of the International Association

for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures

Date: Sunday May 23rd 2010

Time: 4.00pm

Venue: Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay Sydney

(Barnet Long Room)