David Malouf is the author of short story collections The Complete Stories (winner of the Australia Asia Literary Award), Dream Stuff (‘These stories are pearls,’ - Spectator) and Every Move You Make and of acclaimed novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ and Miles Franklin Prizes) and Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). He also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney.

Professor Bill Ashcroft is a founding exponent of post-colonial theory. His co-authored book The Empire Writes Back was the first to define this field, and since then he has achieved international renown in post-colonial studies. He studied at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University, Canberra and has taught in several Universities around the world.

David Malouf will be available to sign copies of his book. Book early for this free public event.

Hosted by the University of New South Wales Journalism and Media Research Centre in association with the Australian Directors Guild, the event will be moderated by the Centre’s director, Professor Catharine Lumby.

At a time of intense change in the world of children’s television, Paul Robinson will speak about the latest trends and effects on content, delivery – and your kids.

After refreshments at 6pm, Paul Robinson will speak at 6.30pm.

When the sun goes down, mythology surfaces in the rituals and anxieties of modern life – in beautiful sunsets no less than deepening shadows of despair. At night when the sun seems to travel below the earth, sleep, too, brings its tossing and turning as we journey through strange continents of being. This talk addresses twilight, the witching hour, known to filmmakers as ‘the magic hour’ when light transforms itself and the basis of the image, such that other worlds are possible.

Over the past 30 years, the work of visionary thinker, researcher and writer Prof Michael T Taussig has spanned commodity fetishism, African slavery and gold mining, shamanism and colonialism, mimesis and alterity, the magic of the state and paramilitary violence. Author of groundbreaking publications such as ‘Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses’ (1993) and ‘My Cocaine Museum’ (2004), his most recent book, ‘What Color is the Sacred?’, is an extended meditation on the mysteries of colour.

Michael Taussig is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York. His visit to Australia is supported by Artists’ Week at the Adelaide Festival.

Respondent: Stephen Muecke, Professor of Writing at the University of New South Wales. His most recent book, ‘Joe in the Andamans and Other Fictocritical Stories’, was shortlisted for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature in the Innovation Category.

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

Descartes' Dreaming Bodies.

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

Associate Professor Stephen Fortescue Lecturing in Politics and Business and Comparative Politics: Russia presents:
'Russian FDI in Australia'

All Welcome

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

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A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

All Welcome

The Politics of Wounds: The Social and Economic Value of Body Parts

This paper forms part of a final chapter in my book The Politics of Wounds - where I draw together the past (the First World War) and the present day in the UK and US, using diaries, pension files and state archives, charity reports and fund-raising material, military medical data, media reporting and imagery, and interviews with wounded soldiers and families. This interdisciplinary paper draws on history, anthropology and disability theory in order to explore the social, economic, personal, and political values attached to physical wounds. However, it will also touch on the psychological and psychosocial aspects of physical wounds in order to highlight the problem of a body conceptualised by the state, military medicine and the prosthetics industry as a compilation of parts.

Ana Carden-Coyne teaches at the Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester. Her books include Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War (Oxford, 2009), and Cultures of the Abdomen Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World (ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Her current project explores "Men in Pain: Disability, Rehabilitation and Masculinity in War."

Medici Syndrome: the disease in the family, is it affecting the longevity?The presentation will begin with an artistic tour of Florence, followed by the medical history of the Medici Family.

George Weisz is a historian of medicine, an adjunct lecturer at University of New England, and visiting fellow in the School of History and Philosophy, UNSW. He curated the "Nazi medicine" exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum in 2009. W. R. Albury is Adjunct Professor in History at the University of New England and Emeritus Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at UNSW. He has published numerously on early Modern medicine and science, and social history as reflected in works of art. Weisz and Albury have co-authored a number of recent articles.

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

Metamorphic Figurations in Hannah Arendt's "The Jew as Pariah"

The figure of a "conscious pariah" has occupied a distinctive and salient presence in the oeuvre of Hannah Arendt. Her writing about the pariah has brought together her preoccupations with political peripheriality of the Jewish populations in modern European states and some of the key concepts of her political theory: rebellion, political action and political equality. While contemporary Arendtian scholarship has offered a thorough investigation of the historical and philosophical aspects of her pariah construct, the claim of this paper is that its rhetorical and figurative dimensions have been undeservedly neglected or downplayed. In this paper I offer a reading of Arendt's essay "The Jew as Pariah" from the perspective of its rhetorical performance, and suggest that it unfolds, rather deliberately, in a mode of allegory. More specifically, I suggest that Arendt allegorizes the conscious pariah as body-in-metamorphosis; a subject that undergoes, and potentially also brings about to the community, metamorphic transformation. At the same time, however, Arendt's pariah is a distinctively non-redemptive figure.

Magdalena Zolkos is a Research Fellow in Political Theory at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She is the author of Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kértesz (Continuum, forthcoming) and co-editor of State, Security and Subject Formation (Continuum, 2010). Her current research interest is reconciliation and political community.

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

National Parks and American Exceptionalism

A light lunch is provided.

No bookings are necessary, and all are welcome.

Australia's colonial history has left us a challenging legacy, where contrasting worldview continue to frame struggle and contestation between Indigenous people and the state. Our philosophical and institutional frameworks are not suited to dealing with this legacy, and Indigenous policy remains problematic and contentious. As a consequence there is no process for reflection or re-examination of the relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian nation.

• What might we now do to create a more just and reconciled society?
• How might we create new opportunities to transform the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people?
• What are the implications for policy making in this contested space?

The conference will be the first to be hosted by the recently established Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit (IPDRU) in the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. IPDRU, headed by Patrick Dodson as founding director and Professor of Indigenous Policy, is engaged in a nation building research agenda to support the work of the Australian Dialogue in developing new narratives, institutions, practices, philosophies and opportunities for a more just and inclusive Australia, where Indigenous rights and interests are at the centre of Australian nationhood and embedded in the institutional fabric of the country.

Keynote speakers

• Professor Joe Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy in the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
• Professor Kiera Ladner, Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba
• Professor Patrick Dodson, Founding Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit at UNSW.

The Film and History Conference provides an opportunity for international scholars, archivists, and filmmakers to present their thoughts on recent debates and events in the fields of film history, history and film, national and transnational cinemas, film theory, film practice, and the social and cultural significance of cinema.

The central theme of the 2010 conference is Cinema, Modernity and Modernism. Over the past two decades, some of the most exciting research into film and cinema history has examined how the medium and the institution helped to define and mediate the experience of modernity and modernization. This perspective has revealed the previously overlooked extent to which film informed and shaped modernist aesthetics. The topic is therefore relevant to the study of literary and artistic modernism more broadly

Plenary Speakers

• Michael North, UCLA
• Erica Carter, University of Warwick
• Richard Maltby, Flinders University
• Jill Julius Matthews, Australian National University
• Jane Mills, Charles Sturt University
• Julian Murphet, UNSW

'Blame it on the Bikies: Restriction on Freedoms as a Response to Gang Violence'

Allison Orr PhD candidate: Politics and International Relations presents:
'Blogging, Deliberation and the Public Sphere'

Postgraduate Seminar Series.

All welcome

This public forum at UNSW brings together leading figures in this debate in order to discuss questions of religion, sex and discrimination, and the role of the state in the regulation of dress.

Moderator: Helen Pringle

Speakers include:

Sally Neighbour
Award-winning investigative journalist, author and leading Australian commentator on Islamic extremism and terrorism. Sally's newest book is The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad, which tells the remarkable story of Muslim convert Rabiah Hutchinson, who grew up in Mudgee, New South Wales, and later spent twenty years on the frontline of the global Islamist struggle.

Shakira Hussein
Writer and researcher, focusing on Islam, gender and South Asia. Shakira has recently compleyed her PhD at the Australian National University, on encounters between Western and Muslim women.

Maha Krayem Abdo
President of the United Muslim Women's Association. Maha is a recipient of many awards, including the Order of Australia Medal for her exceptional service to the Muslim community in Sydney, in particular the areas of Muslim women's leadership training, social justice and inter-faith dialogue.

INSECT A play by Karel Capek directed by Ben Winspear

"No matter what monsters have defiled or terrified the surface of the globe, we bear them within
us... we nourish all their types, they are only awaiting an opportunity to escape from us, to reappear,
to reconstitute themselves, to develop, and to plunge us again into terror." Maeterlinck

A grinning corpse (or is it a bloody survivor) falls head first down the rabbit hole. But this time the caterpillars are on crack, the ants are taking over the world and the maggots are hungry, really hungry. With time and bodily fluids running out our stranger needs to think fast or he could end up as a post coital snack in some dingy butterfly sex club.

In this microcosm, sex, bliss, hate, survival, suburbia and dictatorship mix into a seductive cocktail that horrifies our stranger as much as it seduces him. Confused and disempowered, struggling to understand and be part of this insect world, he can only watch, wait and hope that he survives.

Insect is a gritty, in‐your‐teeth metaphor of a world in chaos, where cannibalism is cool, and shit is gold. An explosive and slimy work told in strange pictures, puerile gags and the occasional epiphany. Director Ben Winspear has reworked the Capek play into a contemporary performance work that reflects on our anxieties and fears in a world that seems increasingly at risk.

iO MYERS STUDiO 8-13 March 2010

"Modern investigation of animal instinct... shows that if we sometimes acted as certain insects do we would possess a higher intelligence than at present." Jung

It's great to have writer/director Ben Winspear back in Io Myers Studio as our guest director for Staging the Text. Ben directed Michel de Ghelderode's Pantagleize for the School of English, Media and Performing Arts in 2008. Staging the Text gives students the experience of studio‐based work that generates a publicly‐presented production of a performance text. Students experience the production process with a professional director, and have the opportunity to reflect on that experience. Ben Winspear has worked across many different forms of theatre, was a resident director for the STC, co‐curated the Blueprints program with Nick Marchand and has worked with many directors including Barrie Kosky, Kate Champion and Nikki Heywood.

info/bookings: cpru@unsw.edu.au or 9385 5684 cost: $15 / $8
Special Preview: Monday 8 March @ 7:30pm ($5 special for EMPA students only)
Opening night: Tuesday 9 March @ 7:30pm Performances run: Monday 8 to Saturday 13 March @ 7:30pm
The performance will run for approx 1 hr without an intermission

Directed by: Ben Winspear Designed by: Paul Matthews
Performed by: Students of the school as part of Staging the Text 2010
Produced by: Creative Practice & Research Unit in the School of English, Media & Performing Arts, UNSW
BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL AS SEATING IS LIMITED

**This event is fully booked**

So, what? Public Lecture Series 2010

Adam Kahane, International expert on dialogue and social change

Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners, an international organisation dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems, and a Visiting Practitioner at the University of Oxford and an Associate Practitioner at the University of Waterloo.
Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address their most complex challenges. He is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities and Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change.

Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change

The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems - relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise - are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches - power, the desire to achieve one's purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others - are actually complementary. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." But how do you combine them?

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences would like to invite all new postgraduate research students to attend the Faculty Postgraduate Research Welcome and Induction Day.

Features of the program include (full PROGRAM download):

• Keynote addresses by 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

All new postgraduate research students enrolled in 2010 and those students who first enrolled in S2, 2009 are strongly encouraged to attend.

Postgraduate Research Supervisors and Coordinators are expected to participate and use this perfect opportunity to meet our new research students and welcome them to the Faculty research community.

All Faculty Postgraduate research students are invited to meet new students at the reception at 5 pm at the conclusion of the induction seminars.

INSECT

A
 play 
by 
Karel
 Capek, directed
 by
 Ben
 Winspear


"No 
matter
 what
 monsters 
have
 defiled
 or 
terrified 
the 
surface
 of 
the 
globe, 
we 
bear
 them
 within
 us...
 we
 nourish
 all
 their 
types, 
they
 are
 only
 awaiting 
an
 opportunity 
to
 escape 
from 
us,
 to
 reappear,
 to
 reconstitute 
themselves,
 to 
develop, and 
to 
plunge
 us 
again 
into 
terror." - 
Maeterlinck


A 
grinning
 corpse
 (or
 is
 it
 a
 bloody 
survivor) 
falls 
head 
first 
down 
the 
rabbit 
hole. 
But 
this 
time 
the 
caterpillars 
are 
on crack, 
the 
ants 
are 
taking 
over
 the 
world 
and 
the 
maggots 
are 
hungry, 
really 
hungry. 
With 
time 
and 
bodily 
fluids
 running 
out 
our 
stranger 
needs 
to 
think 
fast 
or 
he 
could 
end 
up 
as 
a
 post 
coital 
snack 
in
 some 
dingy 
butterfly 
sex
 club.



In this microcosm, sex, bliss, hate, survival, suburbia and dictatorship mix into a seductive cocktail that horrifies our stranger as much as it seduces him. Confused and disempowered, struggling to understand and be part of this insect world, he can only watch, wait and hope that he survives.

Insect is a gritty, in-your-teeth metaphor of a world in chaos, where cannibalism is cool, and shit is gold. An explosive and slimy work told in strange pictures, puerile gags and the occasional epiphany. Director Ben Winspear has reworked the Capek play into a contemporary performance work that reflects on our anxieties and fears in a world that seems increasingly at risk.

iO MYERS STUDiO 8-13 March 2010

"Modern investigation of animal instinct... shows that if we sometimes acted as certain insects do we would possess a higher intelligence than at present." -  Jung

It's great to have writer/director Ben Winspear back in Io Myers Studio as our guest director for Staging the Text. Ben directed Michel de Ghelderode's Pantagleize for the School of English, Media and Performing Arts in 2008. Staging the Text gives students the experience of studio-based work that generates a publicly-presented production of a performance text. Students experience the production process with a professional director, and have the opportunity to reflect on that experience. Ben Winspear has worked across many different forms of theatre, was a resident director for the STC, co-curated the Blueprints program with Nick Marchand and has worked with many directors including Barrie Kosky, Kate Champion and Nikki Heywood.

The performance will run for approx 1 hr without an intermission.

Directed by: Ben Winspear
Designed by: Paul Matthews
Performed by: Students of the school as part of Staging the Text 2010
Produced by: Creative Practice & Research Unit in the School of English, Media & Performing Arts, UNSW

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and directs the interdisciplinary research programme CULCOM (www.culcom.uio.no/english). His research focuses on cultural aspects of globalisation, the politics of culture and nationalism. Some of his books in English are Ethnicity and Nationalism and Small Places, Large Issues, both of which will be published in third, revised editions in 2010, Engaging Anthropology (2006) and Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007).

ETHNIC IDENTITY IN A NEOLIBERAL WORLD: FROM THE POLITICS OF CULTURE TO THE CULTURE OF COMMERCIALISM?
In many parts of the world, there has in recent decades been a perceptible shift in ethnic politics. The quest for equality (among urban migrants) and for land and water rights (among indigenous groups) has to some extent been supplanted by a politics of cultural difference where demands for cultural recognition predominate. Conversely, there has been a culturalisation of the minority discourse in majorities as well. The talk will explore and try to account for this shift seeing it, and its accompanying commercialisation of culture, as an organic part of neoliberal ideology.

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: Thursday 25 February 2010
Time: 6.00-7.30pm
Venue: Sir John Clancy Auditorium Foyer (C24)

Download the Postgraduate Welcome Reception Invitation

PLEASE REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE HERE

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Keynote Speakers

• John H. McDowell, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh
• Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University
• Candace Vogler, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago

Discounted conference fees apply for those who register before the 31 March 2010.

Don't miss out! Ensure you register before 31 March 2010.

Early bird registration and submission of papers to open late January 2010.

For further information please visit www.aap-conferences.org.au

 
Download the conference poster click here

Find out about the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' 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
• myStart
• Arc O Week activities

O Week with FASS

On Monday 22nd February please join us at the Official Faculty welcome presentation and lunch.

11 - 12pm Official Faculty Undergraduate Welcome
Sir John Clancy Auditorium
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 afterwards.

12 - 1pm Faculty Welcome Lunch
Morven Brown Courtyard
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.

View our full schedule of program specific presentations during O Week.

Find your way around campus on O Week with this map

If you have any queries regarding your course, please contact:
Faculty Student Centre 
t: +61 2 9385 2289
e: arts@unsw.edu.au

The Seminar is sponsored by the United States Studies Centre.

We welcome scholars from fields including history, politics, social work and social policy. Papers cover a range of subjects including Australasian welfare's intersections with the histories of gender, war, race, childhood, medicine, religion, volunteering, labour and philanthropy.

Special plenary session with
Professor Stephen Garton
Professor Jill Roe
Professor Brian Dickey

Please note:

• The conference time mentioned above (9.00am -1.00pm) is incorrect. For the correct conference times please view the program below.
• Credit card payments for registration can no longer be accepted. Payment can be made by cheque or money order. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Registration form . Program.

The full Program and Registration Form for the Centre for Refugee Research Summer School 2010 are now available.

The Program offers a number of one and two day courses that can be tailored to your interests and needs.

Please note that Registrations received by 8 January receive a 5% discount.  

Instructions for payment are included on the Registration Form.

We require one registration form for each person.

Info Day is on Tuesday 5 January 2010 from 9am - 4pm.

UNSW Info Day is your opportunity to get your remaining questions answered.

UAC preferences close January 6 2010, so if you're looking for advice about changing your preferences Info Day is your opportunity to get some answers.

Come along and speak with staff and students about undergraduate programs and life as a UNSW student. Start at the Advisory Centre in The John Niland Scientia Building and attend a lectures you're interested in at the Central Lecture Block (CLB). Then you can relax and enjoy the free sausage sizzle!

For more information click here.

 
LINK Dance Company and the Creative Practice and Research Unit in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts are pleased to present Ripple Effect.

LINK is the graduate dance company of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. This year we are proud to note that Sydney Smith, a recent graduate from the UNSW Dance Program will be part of the show, returning to Sydney after gaining a highly sought after and competitive place within LINK.

Ripple Effect, with excerpts and works by choreographers Craig Bary, Michael Whaites, Rhys Martin and Olivia Millard will be performed by LINK Dance Company for two performances only on Saturday 5th December 8pm and Sunday 6th at 3pm at Io Myers Studio.

Rhys Martin, who is currently Professor of Dance and Musical Staging at the University of the Arts in Berlin, has remounted his work, Anna, inspired by Carl Jung's idea of the shadow. Performed in silence, Anna is a humorous, playful piece that gradually builds from a simple duet to an ensemble piece.

Martin, who was a founding member of Sydney's One Extra Dance Company under Kai Tai Chan, moved to Germany in 1981 to become a member of Reinhild Hoffmann's dance theatre ensemble. Since then, he has worked both in Australia and overseas as a freelance dancer, director, choreographer and teacher. His most recent project involves collaborating with the education wing of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to devise a version of Schumann's Paradise and the Peri for inmates of Berlin's state prisons.

Melbourne-based choreographer Olivia Millard has created If every time was the first time. Inspired through a process of improvisation, Millard describes her piece as noticing the present in every movement while allowing past physical history to exist in the body. "Every hop, every slip, every sway is allowed to exist now, as though the body has never been there before..."

Also on the program will be an excerpt from New Zealander Craig Bary who created a longer work on the company earlier in the year. Bary has worked extensively with highly-respected Australian and New Zealand choreographers including Gary Stewart of Australian Dance Theatre.

Lastly LINK will present an excerpt of Artistic Director Michael Whaites' latest work ‘Things That Remain'. The work was partially developed in July when LINK was in residence at the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France as part of their overseas tour.

"The work is a snapshot of the things that get left behind, from the personal to the universal, from saying goodbye to a dear friend, to the reverence and joy of remembering the past," says Whaites. "It also looks at identity and crowds, individuality and anonymity."

Ripple Effect promises its audiences cutting-edge contemporary dance pieces which will provoke, inspire and entertain.

Download Invitation

Ripple Effect
Saturday 5th December at 8pm & Sunday 6th December at 3pm
Io Myers Studio UNSW Gate 2 High Street Kensington.
Tickets are $20 full/$15 concession. Tickets at the door

All welcome

2-5pm, Friday 4 Dec
Rm 211, Morven Brown Building
University of New South Wales

Organised by Rosalyn Diprose, School of History & Philosophy, UNSW

The last decade has been marked by significant developments in scientific knowledge, biomedical technologies and research methods. We have seen improvements in the treatment of HIV, STIs and hepatitis C and, as a result, improvements in quality of life and life expectancy. But less is known about the ways in which these developments may have shifted understandings around risk and prevention, or what effects they might have on living with a chronic illness or on drug use. How is evolving and sometimes conflicting knowledge put into practice by affected communities and by the sectors working with these communities? What risk reduction practices and treatment strategies are currently recommended or should/can be recommended to communities and why?

Speakers are invited to explore how affected communities make sense of and negotiate evolving knowledges and biomedical technologies and their potential impacts on everyday sexual, drug use and health management practices. We also invite discussion of how researchers, educators, policy makers, health workers and the legal system respond to these scientific developments. We particularly encourage cross-disciplinary discussions of knowledge and practice in different cultural and sexual contexts.

For more information please contact Anne Ke E: h.ke@unsw.edu.au at the Korea-Australasia Research Centre.

Click here for Conference programme

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In Australia and internationally millions of dollars are spent every year on teacher professional learning and development, yet the outcomes are often disappointing. Teachers feel that what is offered does not meet their needs. Professional development providers feel frustrated that the teachers are not putting their great ideas into practice. In response, between 2004 and 2009 Professor Timperley led a group of researchers at the University of Auckland in synthesising the evidence from as many countries as possible to identify what kinds of professional learning and development make the most difference to student outcomes valued by the communities from which the students came.

This presentation will provide an overview of the methodology employed and present some key findings - some of which were predictable, others not so predictable. For example, considerable time is needed to engage in the depth of learning required to make a difference for students, but it did not seem to matter whether the teachers had volunteered or were required to attend. What mattered was that they engaged at some point. School leadership played an important part. Parallels will be drawn between what we know works for students in relation to formative assessment and what we know words for teachers using the same principles and the implications this has for school leaders.

Helen Timperley is Professor of Education at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her early career involved teaching in early childhood, primary and secondary education sectors which formed the basis of a research career focused on making a difference to those student outcomes valued by the communities in which they live. A particular research emphasis has been on promoting leadership, organizational and professional learning in ways that improve the educational experience of students currently under-achieving in our education systems.

She has published widely in international academic journals such as Review of Educational Research, Journal of Educational Change, Leadership and Policy in Schools and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. She has written four books focusing on the professional practice implications of her research in her specialty areas and is currently writing one on school reform.

Addendum: Due to the popularity of this workshop, enrollment to this workshop has been closed. If you would like to reserve a slot should this workshop be repeated in the future, please contact Dr Margaret Varady via email.

The event will give you an opportunity to meet the staff at the OEL and find out about new programs and courses for 2010. The event will feature the following keynote speakers:
- Prof Helen Timperley (The University of Auckland)
- Prof Colin Evers (The University of New South Wales)
- Jim McAlpine (President, Secondary Schools Principals Association)
- Patrick Lee (Manager, NSW Institute of Teachers)

For questions and comments, please contact Dr Margaret Varady (02 9385 1951, m.varady@unsw.edu.au)

As this is a catered event, we would appreciate a confirmation of your attendance. To RSVP for the event, please email the Education Events office at education.events@unsw.edu.au - please indicate your name, school, phone number, and any dietary concerns you might have.

"Improving Schools: What the Research Tells Us!"

Speakers:

Prof. Colin Evers: "Effective Leadership"

Dr. Kerry Barnett: "Effective Teams"

Prof. Chris Davison: "Effective Assessment"

Dr Margaret Varady: The Office of Educational Leadership

This is a free event. However, for catering purposes, we would request that participants send their RSVPs.

This Symposium brings together academics, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how, and the extent to which, the ‘capability approach' and the human development paradigm can engage governmental and non-governmental institutions in their policy decision-making processes. The Symposium sets the stage for a cross-disciplinary dialogue among academics, policymakers and practitioners in the Pacific region from a variety of fields, including development, design and architecture, anthropology, sociology, law, political economy.

Presenters will explore the ‘capability approach' and its application in national and international policy contexts, prompting discussion on the role and relevance of human freedoms, well-being, and rights in the pursuit of ‘human development'.

Keynote Speakers:

 
TIM COSTELLO
CEO World Vision Australia

PROF. MOZAFFAR QIZILBASH
University of York
Vice-president of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA)

FIU MATAESE ELISARA
CEO - O Le Siosiomaga Society, Samoa

Sessions:

SOCIAL EXCLUSION, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES
DEVELOPMENT AND INDIGENOUS WELL-BEING
CAPABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
DEVELOPMENT, FREEDOMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ROUNDTABLE ON DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Please view full event programme

It is with great regret that we announce the rescheduling of the Confucius Institute's Annual Lecture, due to Prof. Tu Weiming's illness.

UNSW Confucius Institute Annual Lecture

About Professor Tu Weiming

Professor Tu is Chair Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies at Harvard University and Senior Professor of Philosophy at Peking University. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on Confucianism. Professor Tu's lecture will be titled: "Cultural China and Confucian Humanism".

About The Confucius Institute

The UNSW Confucius Institute is based on an academic partnership between the UNSW and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is a university-wide initiative located within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, overseen by the Deputy Vice- Chancellor (Academic), Prof. Richard Henry. The Acting Director is Dr. Niv Horesh. This lecture will be convened by A/Prof. Dr Jon Eugene von Kowallis.

UNSW Confucius Institute Team
School of Languages and Linguistics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales,
Sydney NSW 2052, Phone 61 2 9385 8996, Fax 61 2 9385 1400
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Charlie McCreevy, former Irish Finance Minister and now EU Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, joins a list of eminent Irish statesman to have delivered this Oration - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern in 2000 and former Irish Prime Minister, Garrett FitzGerald in 2004.

His Oration will cover a broad spectrum of European and Irish themes.

Commissioner McCreevy Biography
Mr. McCreevy had a distinguished political career in Ireland before joining the European Commission. He served as a member of the Dail from 1977 to 2004 including roles as Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Tourism and Trade. In his final role, as Minister of Finance between 1997 and 2004 he presided over Ireland's entry to the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and later, to the changeover to the Euro.

In 2004 Mr. McCreevy became the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services where he is responsible for the functioning of the internal market of 480 million people across 27 Member States.

with Andy Herries, History & Philosophy and Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, UNSW

with Nicole Matthews, Macquarie University

This talk will explore the contested representation of "disabled children" within an arts project which aimed to promote inclusive children's media. The "Stories" project formed part of a larger British BigLottery funded project, "In the Picture" run by disability charity Scope, from 2005 to 2007. Both the larger project and the "Stories" project within it aimed to demonstrate to the book world of publishers, writers and illustrators the need for more inclusive children's literature and media, and the possibility of making picture books more inclusive. In this paper I want to explore tensions emerged as the project unfolded over the way children should be talked about, imaged and narrated. In particular, differences surfaced between the project's management and the participants in the arts project, between adults and children engaging with its aims and between those involved in the project as editors, advisors and participants. I'll argue that this contestation over the representation of "disabled children" points towards the complex way that the social model has been taken up by organisations like Scope in response to criticism from the disability movement. Finally, I will unpick the way that that ableism appeared within the project through the management of which representations were understood as appropriate to appear on public display on the project's website.

with Sara Maddison, Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW and acting Deputy Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit in SPRC

In Australia and internationally millions of dollars are spent every year on teacher professional learning and development, yet the outcomes are often disappointing. Teachers feel that what is offered does not meet their needs. Professional development providers feel frustrated that the teachers are not putting their great ideas into practice. In response, between 2004 and 2009 Professor Timperley led a group of researchers at the University of Auckland in synthesising the evidence from as many countries as possible to identify what kinds of professional learning and development make the most difference to student outcomes valued by the communities from which the students came.

This presentation will provide an overview of the methodology employed and present some key findings - some of which were predictable, others not so predictable. For example, considerable time is needed to engage in the depth of learning required to make a difference for students, but it did not seem to matter whether the teachers had volunteered or were required to attend. What mattered was that they engaged at some point. School leadership played an important part. Parallels will be drawn between what we know works for students in relation to formative assessment and what we know words for teachers using the same principles and the implications this has for school leaders.

Helen Timperley is Professor of Education at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her early career involved teaching in early childhood, primary and secondary education sectors which formed the basis of a research career focused on making a difference to those student outcomes valued by the communities in which they live. A particular research emphasis has been on promoting leadership, organizational and professional learning in ways that improve the educational experience of students currently under-achieving in our education systems.

She has published widely in international academic journals such as Review of Educational Research, Journal of Educational Change, Leadership and Policy in Schools and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. She has written four books focusing on the professional practice implications of her research in her specialty areas and is currently writing one on school reform.

Enjoy FREE drinks and nibbles

Nicole Matthews
Macquarie University

This talk will explore the contested representation of "disabled children" within an arts project which aimed to promote inclusive children's media. The "Stories" project formed part of a larger British BigLottery funded project, "In the Picture" run by disability charity Scope, from 2005 to 2007. Both the larger project and the "Stories" project within it aimed to demonstrate to the book world of publishers, writers and illustrators the need for more inclusive children's literature and media, and the possibility of making picture books more inclusive. In this paper I want to explore tensions emerged as the project unfolded over the way children should be talked about, imaged and narrated. In particular, differences surfaced between the project's management and the participants in the arts project, between adults and children engaging with its aims and between those involved in the project as editors, advisors and participants. I'll argue that this contestation over the representation of "disabled children" points towards the complex way that the social model has been taken up by organisations like Scope in response to criticism from the disability movement. Finally, I will unpick the way that that ableism appeared within the project through the management of which representations were understood as appropriate to appear on public display on the project's website.

Please RSVP to Duncan Aldridge by 28 October, email dsrc@unsw.edu.au or (02) 9385-9908.

The heritage of Aboriginal Sydney: placing lost histories
with Dr Grace Karskens, School of Hisotry and Philosophy, UNSW

Dr Grace Karskens teaches Australian history in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. She writes about convicts, early colonial history and archaeology, urban history and environmental history, and her books include Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood and the awardwinning The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney. Her new book, The Colony: A History of early Sydney was launched by Allen & Unwin earlier this year. Grace is a Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales.

Abstract: Aboriginal people made, claimed and reclaimed places for themselves in Sydney from the earliest years of white settlement. Using places, maps, paintings and artefacts, this paper reorients the townscape of early Sydney to recover Aboriginal histories and places, which were originally familiar, widely known and accepted, but which were eclipsed and forgotten in the succeeding waves of city-making. These lost histories throw new light on the cultural significance of some of Sydney's most treasured and revered heritage sites. They also reveal that the emergence of dynamic Aboriginal urban cultures is not a recent phenomenon, but one with a history as old as Sydney itself.

The Institute will run from 18-25 January 2010, and will be held in Mathews Building, UNSW. This year, the following courses will be offered:

For more information about the Summer Institute, including enrollment information, please click here to download our Information Booklet. If you would like to spread the word, please feel free to download our flier and pass it on to your colleagues.

Marking the increasing engagement of Australia with Asia, the conference this year will be preceded on 7 July by a one-day workshop on Chinese Social Policy.

Key Dates

Refereed paper submission: Closed.

Abstract proposal: Closed.

Early bird registration: 1 June 2009.

Telephone enquiries about papers or the conference in general should be directed to (02) 9385 7802. Registration details will be made available shortly.

The overarching aim of the conference will be to bring together, for the first time, people from the disability studies academia, students and members of the disability community to discuss in the context of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities developments towards a national disability studies agenda.

The two-day symposium will feature a plenary panel on the critical tensions between theory and praxis. The panel will feature special guests from the range of disciplines studied within the school.

The two-day symposium will feature a plenary panel on the critical tensions between theory and praxis. The panel will feature special guests from the range of disciplines studied within the school.

Marking the increasing engagement of Australia with Asia, the conference this year will be preceded on 7 July by a one-day workshop on Chinese Social Policy.

Key Dates

Refereed paper submission: Closed.

Abstract proposal: Closed.

Early bird registration: 1 June 2009.

Telephone enquiries about papers or the conference in general should be directed to (02) 9385 7802. Registration details will be made available shortly.