2009 News & Events

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

• Research Events Calendar
• CAPSTRANS Conferences and Workshops
• CAPSTRANS Seminar Schedule
• Literature, Identity & Culture Research Group Workshops
• Innovations in Cultural Research (ICR) Workshops
• Philosophy Research Seminars

Research Newsletters

• Research  Newsletters | Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 |  Issue 4

December:

• Geoffrey Robertson, QC, presents special public lecture
• 12 & 13 December - CAPSTRANS
  Trade Liberalisation, Economic Reform and Displacement: Comparative Research from the Asia Pacific »
• 10 & 11 December - CAPSTRANS
  Gender and occupations and interventions in the Asia Pacific, 1945-2009 »
• 10-11 December - Workshop
  Embodied Cognition, Enactivism and the Extended Mind
• High flying Arts students
• POL340 public lectures:
  Politics, the Community and the Common Good »

November:

• 30 November - Sir Richard Kirby Public Lecture
  The Hon Jason Clare, Parliamentary Secretary for Employment to present the 2009 Kirby Lecture on behalf of the Hon Julia Gillard Deputy Prime Minister.
• 30 November & 1 December - Workshop
  Internet Regulation and Filtering in Australia and the Asia-Pacific 
• 23 & 24 November - Workshop
  The Big Island: Promoting Contemporary Pacific Art and Craft in Australia: A Development Workshop (closed workshop)
  Workshop Program
• Arts hosts English and History Extension Seminars

October:

• ARC Discovery Grant Success!
• 22 October: Literature, Identity & Culture (LIC) Seminar
  Dr Margaretta Jolly : University of Sussex, "Letter Writing and Political Relationship"
• 20 October: "Week of the Italian Language in the World", Contact Livio Loi for further information
• 20 October: Dr. Jacqui Poltera UWS: "Autonomy, Ambivalence, and Repression"
• 14 October: 1st Year Question and Answer Session
• 13 October:  LIC Masterclass in Interview
• 6 October: Philosophy Research Seminar Cartesian ‘Ideas’ and the First (C17th) Cognitive Revolution »
• 1-2 October: Literature, Identity and Culture Research Group
  Dissenting Voices Symposium »
  Program »
• 1-2 October: CRN/CAPSTRANS/ICR Obsolescence: Media History, Policy and Aesthetics Workshop »
• Publication: "Occupying the "Other": Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq”
• Publication: Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past: Anatolii Fomenko and the Rise of Alternative History in Post-Communist Russia By Dr Konstantin Sheiko in collaboration with Dr Stephen Brown
• Publication:  "Power of Ideas: Essays on Australian Politics and History" by Gregory Melleuish
• Publication: "The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia: Inheritance of Loss" by Susan Engel

September:

• 25 September : Centre for Australian New Zealand Studies Workshop
• 25 September : CAPSTRANS/ICR Workshop, Expertise, Skill and Pedagogy
• 24 September : 12:30 in 19:1003, Literature, Identity & Culture Seminar, Jam Tarts for the Mind
• 22 September : 12:30 in 19:1003, "Publish your Research" A workshop for Postgraduates
• National Success for UOW PASS Leaders!
• Languages Cineforum - Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman"
• Faculty of Arts Early Entry
• 8 September : Language Centre - Learning to Communicate with the World

August:

• Honours Information Session
• BA Honours in Philosophy Information Session
• Two lectures held by Prof. Alfredo Luzi (Università di Macerata, Italia) on literature and sociology
• Languages CineForum documentary "The Abduction of Megumi Yokota"
• How many Australia historians does it take to change a light bulb? Students find out at study abroad lunch

July:

• Language Centre’s community outreach
• Capitol in Crisis: Implications for Labour and Society

June:

• Publication: Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience
• Gallipoli-bound students meet Turkish Vice-Consul

May:

• Faculty of Arts Information Session Read more »
• Faculty of Arts Prize Evening Photos

March:

• CAPSTRANS celebrates a triple book launch
• CAPSTRANS Triple Book Launch
• French film night - Welcome to the Sticks Bienvenue chez les CH'TIS

February:

• Public Lecture, "World War I and its Place in Australian History" 
• Faculty Book Launch
• Publication: "Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms"by Ruchira Ganguly- by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase
• Media exposure widens for great Australian painter
• Publication: "Literary History and Indian English Fiction” by Paul Sharrad, School of English Literatures, Philosophy & Languages
• Arts Orientation Photos