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2010 News & Events

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:

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Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4 | Issue 5 | Issue 6 | Issue 7 | Issue 8 | Issue 9

December:

15 December - workshop: Canadian Studies Postgraduate Worskhop
14 December - workshop news: Arts hosts ‘second leg’ of cultural sustainability in Asia-Pacific region
13 & 14 December - workshop: Cultures of Sustainability; Sustainability of Cultures: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
10 December - conference news: Indonesians Overseas - historical perspectives
10 December - conference notice: Indonesians Overseas - historical perspectives
7 December - ISTR Free Public Lecture: The Humanities and the University in Australian
6-7 December - workshop: Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice
2-3 December - conference: Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture

November:

Dean's scholars dinner - view photo gallery
25-26 November - Conference: From Empire to Commonwealth: Communist Theory and Contemporary Praxis
19 November - HSC History Extension
17 November - LIC Seminar: Brilliant Careers?: Authorial Personae, Writing, and Public Life
15 November - HSC English Extension

October:

27 October - Masters student accepts the call for a UN job
26 October - LIC Seminar: From Advancement to Militancy: Aboriginal Poetry, 1964-1990
19 October - LIC Seminar: Robert Lowell and Place: Topography of the Personal
Antipodeans Abroad Film and Media placement
Ever wanted to travel to India and film your own Bollywood movie?
15-16 October - Workshop: Levels of Explanation and Causation hosted by the Philosophy Program
12 October - LIC Seminar: The poet and the ghosts are walking the streets: Hope Mirrlees’Paris
7 October - Professorial Lecture Series Seminar 3: “Visualising Human Rights: Advocacy, Affect and the ‘Afghan Girls’”
- Media story: How visual materials are used in human rights campaign

September:

National Success for UOW PASS Leaders!
14 September - Chris Kennedy, MACS230 guest speaker
14 September - LIC Seminar
Students 4 Students National Leadership Conference 2010
National Youth Summit:
The United Nations Youth Association Australia is holding its inaugural National Youth Summit from September 29th to October 2nd. Registrations are now open for the conference. For more information or to register, visit The National Youth Summit Website.
Career Information:
The Clemenger Group Graduate Program provides a great opportunity for university graduates to launch their careers with the largest marketing communications company in Australia. » Find out more about career information

August:

25 August - Attention Arts international students - Invitation to Arts Hurrah
24 August - LIC Seminar: Exit the Virgin/Gawain's Depression
Japan uses sushi to project raw power: ABC interview with Professor Matt Allen, Head of History & Politics
ALTC Award Recipients - Congratulations Karen Daly and Lidia Bilbatua
Year 12 Information Evenings
17 August - LIC Seminar: Judith Wright's Language of Flowers
17 August - Postgraduate Information Evening
10 August - Philosophy Seminar: Pluralism, Neutralism and Propositional Representation
3 August - Philosophy Seminar: Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) presents A Priori Bootstrapping
3 August - LIC Seminar: Australian Mummies and the Medieval Past in 19th Century Australian Popular Verse
Book Launch: Radical Sydney Attracts Widespread Interest

June:

27 June - Gallipoli tour to aid students in their ‘Great War’ studies
23-25 June Conference:
15 June - Book Launch: Radical Sydney, places, portraits and unruly episodes
10 June - Professorial Lecture Series, Seminar 2: Who Healed the Boy? Cultural, spiritual and medical identities in crisis in Hawaii’s ‘multicultural paradise’ | read news story »
8 & 10 June - HDR and Honours Conferences: Arts highlights its research culture
1 June - LIC Seminar: U.S. Gay Liberation Reconsidered

May:

Photo gallery of 2010 Arts Awards Night
SBS Excursion for International Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies students
26 May - Social media, political tragics and the future of journalism
25 May - LIC Seminar: "The Representation of Shanghai Men in Living in Sydney"
19 May -Want to Study in Canada? All Canada Day
14 May - Out there: ideas for the future of Australian Cinema exhibition and distribution
13 May - US guest lecturer discusses ‘Boycotting Israeli Apartheid’
11 May - LIC Seminar: Writing the Other: Writing Across Gender and Sexuality in Fiction
4 May - LIC Seminar: Self-Harm in Teen Fiction

April:

27th - 30th April : First year 'catch up' sessions
27 April - LIC Seminar : Attenborough, Colonialism and the British Tradition of Nature Documentary
21 April - Professorial Lecture Series, Seminar 1: This story does not begin on a boat: What is Australian about Asian Australian Writing?
21 April - Staff Workshop: URC Small Grant Scheme Workshop
20 April - Philosophy Seminar: "Motion, laws and plenitude: Are there objects to which the laws of nature do not apply?"
20 April - LIC Seminar: Primal Horror, Taboo Scenes: Diane Middlebrook’s Anne Sexton: A Biography
9 April - Symposium: Space, Place and Emotion in Modern Japan
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March:

Introducing Professor Vera Mackie : Professor Vera Mackie is an ARC Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. She is currently working on a research project on Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region. Find out more
30 March - LIC Seminar: The Censor Poets: Writers as Censors in Menzies’ Australia
Arts Welcomes New Study Abroad & Exchange Students
23 March - LIC Seminar: Edmund White's Promiscuous Novel: The Farewell Symphony
16 March - LIC Seminar: Narrative duality: reconciling the differing sexualities of Bret and“Bret” in Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park

February:

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Last reviewed: 19 December, 2011