Activities and Events 2011
November
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Please join us for a glass of champagne to celebrate Dr. Jocelyn McKinnon and Dr. Sean Lowry notable journal Embracing Failure Though Performative Pedagogy: A Report From The Margins, visit Notable Journal Publication section for more information.
WHERE General Purpose Building GP1.24
WHEN Wednesday 30 November 4:00pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Kristy.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au
November
Book Launch
MAKING FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORIES
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Edited by James Bennett and Rebecca Beirne
Please join us to celebrate the release of this book on Wednesday November 16th at the Callaghan campus and Wednesday November 23rd at Ourimbah campus click here for information
September - November
GRIT group for religious and intellectual traditions
2011 Semester 2 Seminars
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October
SEMINAR - ARC LINKAGE PROJECTS & SBE
Presented by Professor Elizabeth Kendall
WHEN Friday 21 October 2011, 10.30am to 12noon
WHERE The Treehouse
RSVP BY FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au or #15341
Click here for more information
August - October
Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application (ELDTA) Seminar Series
ELDTA will be holding a seminat series in semester 2
WHEN Tue 9 Aug, Tue 23 Aug, Mon 29 Aug, Tues 13 Sept, Tues 11 Oct, Tes 25 Oct 4-6pm
WHERE Isabella’s (upstairs)
RSVP Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au
August
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
FROM MYSTERY TO MEANING
A Public Lecture By Professor George Brooke
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George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester where he has taught Biblical Studies and Early Judaism since 1984. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s international team of editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and is currently working on a revised edition of a series of manuscripts from Qumran’s Cave 4. In 1999 he was the President of the British Association for Jewish Studies. He was a founding editor of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries (1993-2003) and amongst his publications are Exegesis at Qumran (1985; reprinted 2006), Temple Scroll Studies (editor, 1989), Septuagint, Scrolls and Cognate Writings (co-editor, 1992), Women in the Biblical Tradition (editor, 1992), New Qumran Texts and Studies (editor, 1994), Ugarit and the Bible (co-editor, 1994), The Allegro Qumran Collection (1996), The Birth of Jesus (editor, 2000), Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (editor, 2000), Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts (co-editor, 2000), Copper Scroll Studies (co-editor, 2002), Studia Semitica (co-editor, 2005), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (2005), Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography (co-editor, 2007), The Significance of Sinai (co-editor, 2008), and The Mermaid and the Partridge (co-editor, 2011). He was an area editor for the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000), edited the Society for Old Testament Study’s annual Book List (2000-2006), and since 1990 has co-edited the Journal of Semitic Studies. His popular book, The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (co-authored with Philip Davies and Phillip Callaway, 2002) has now sold over 85,000 copies in English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian and Japanese and has recently been released in a revised paperback form (2011). He completed his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School, California in 1978 under the direction of William H. Brownlee, one of the first westerners to touch the scrolls in 1948 when they were brought to the American School for Oriental Research in Jerusalem. Awarded a D.D. from Oxford University in 2009, he is President-elect (for 2012) of the British Society for Old Testament Study.
WHERE: Socail Science Building SR.LT2, Callaghan campus
WHEN: Monday 15 August 7pm - 9pm
RSVP: Linda Hutchinson 4921 7915
August
FEDUA RESEARCH INSTITUTES 2011 FORUM
All staff are invited to join us for a forum to hear from the Programme Leaders of the six funded research programmes about their achievements to date and plans for the future.
The forum will conclude with a Q&A session with the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Institute Directors and an announcement about Round 3 of funding for the Institutes’ Research Programmes.
WHERE: The Treehouse, Callaghan campus
WHEN: Tuesday 16 August 9.30am to 12.30pm
RSVP: by 31 May to Kristy Rocavert 4921 5341
July
Language Individuation:
A symposium in honour of John Burrows
Presented by the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Humanities Research Institute
WHERE: The Treehouse, Student Union Building, University of Newcastle
WHEN: 4 - 8 July 2011
| Invited Session Leaders | |
| John Burrows | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Ian Lancashire | University of Toronto |
| David Hoover | New York University |
| Barbara Johnstone | Carnegie-Mellon University |
| Willard McCarty | King's College London and University of Western Sydney |
| Tomoji Tabata | University of Osaka |
Click here to download Symposium Registration Form
For more information Please visit Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
July
HISTORIES OF SEXUALITY CONFERENCE
WHEN: 21-22nd July, 2011
WHERE: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle, Australia
Please visit Violence and Social Order Program for more information on the 'Histories of Sexuality Conference'
May
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Please join us for a glass of champagne to celebrate the acceptance of an essay by Bethwyn Evans and Bill Palmer for Oceanic Linguistics, click here for more information.
WHERE General Purpose Building GP1.24
WHEN Monday 23 May 4:00pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Friday 20 May 2011
May
‘Inspired Voices’ and the Derveni Papyrus
A one-day workshop, May 5th-9th 2011
Under the Auspices of the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) and the Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions (GRIT)
The ‘Inspired Voices’ project at the University of Newcastle is taking advantage of the visit of Apostolos Pierris, Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Patras, to organise events in Sydney, in collaboration with a sister project there, and Newcastle in early May. The papyrus, in a fourth-century BC hand and hence extremely early for a Greek papyrus, has been known for over half a century now, though no complete editions were available until this century. It is remarkable for preserving (partially) an interpretation of a theological poem ascribed to Orpheus that is allegorical throughout, seemingly interpreting it in terms of late Presocratic cosmology. The papyrus has potential implications for Greek history, religion, literature, hermeneutics, and philosophy.
Since the ‘official’ edition in 2006, Apostolos Pierris was instrumental in ensuring that multi-spectral imaging was employed to bring to light previously obscure letters on the carbonised papyrus, and is able to demonstrate the advantages of the techniques, as well as to discuss a range of background issues, such as the authorship, cosmology, and hermeneutics of the document. He has either authored or edited a number of books on Greek thought, including Mystery and Philosophy (= The Emergence of Reason from the Spirit of Mystery vol. II), Patras 2007, in which he explores helpful ideas on the Derveni Papyrus.
The Newcastle event will be a one-day workshop Myth, Religion, Inspired Authors, and Allegorical Interpretation at the University of Newcastle Union, Lambert Lounge, on Monday May 9th, 10.00-4.00 approx., with participation from Apostolos Pierris, Rick Benitez, Marguerite Johnson, and Harold Tarrant and others. All interested persons are welcome to participate. The following topics are proposed:
1. Interpreting myth or interpreting authors?
2. The search for scientific religious practice and belief.
3. Who were the ‘Orphic’ priests and priestesses?
4. Bird sacrifice, bird-myths, migration, and afterlife.
5. Allegorical interpretation and the interpretation of myth in Plato.
6. Orphism, the "Mixed" Way and Logos in Presocratic Philosophy [Pierris]
In recognition of the annoying term-time scheduling of the event, if local academics have a special desire to participate in the discussion of any particular topic, then could they please contact me to see if it can be scheduled at a comparatively convenient time.
Harold Tarrant (Harold.Tarrant@newcastle.edu.au)
APRIL - MAY
Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application (ELDTA) Seminar Series
The first ELDTA seminar was held on Tuesday 22 March, guest speaker Henrik Bergqvist, School of Culture, History and Language ANU. Upcoming ELDTA seminars will be held on;
WHEN 5 Apr, 19 Apr, 3 May, 17 May and 31 May 5-6pm
WHERE Isabella’s (upstairs)
RSVP Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au
THE SCREENING OF ‘SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES’ BY JOSEPH HENDERER
WHERE: Isabella's Upstairs (light refreshments will be served)
WHEN: 31 May 5:00pm
RSVP: 27 May, Kristy.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au
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March - November
Faculty of Education and Arts Workshops
RESEARCH STRENGTHENING:
A Development Program for ECRS & MCRS
WHEN: 5 x Thursdays from March to September , 12.30-2.00pm
WHERE: Shortland Building (Treehouse or Nelson Room)
RSVP BY: FRIDAY 18 March to Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au
For more information visit Faculty Research Workshops
Writing ARC Discovery Projects: A 5 Workshop Series
WHERE Isabella’s (upstairs)
WHEN 5 x Fridays June to November, 3 - 5pm
RSVP: Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au
For more information visit Faculty Research Workshops
March
The School of Humanities and Social Science present in association with the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing and the Humanities Research Institute
Research in difficult areas:
Masculinities and Violence in Indonesia
Drs Argyo Demartoto & Mr Agung Wibowo
(Universitas Sebelas Maret, Solo, Indonesia)
Date: Thursday 3 March 2011
Time: 12.30pm
Place: W301A Behavioural Sciences Building Callaghan Campus
Please RSVP
Michelle.M.Mansfield@newcastle.edu.au
For more information download Invitation here
FEBRUARY - MAY
The Marxism and Religion Reading Group
Is religion merely an 'opium of the people', as Marx famously put it? Or is it also a revolutionary force, as the once devout Engels argued throughout his life? The Marxism and Religion reading group, sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute, sets out to read carefully the main texts - both well known and less well known - of Marx and Engels on religion. These include early and late texts, covering topics such as alienation, fetishism, church and state, anti-Semitism (and thereby Islamophobia), freedom, revolution and reaction, religion and radicalism. After working our way through Marx and Engels, we will read other material, such as Badiou and Agamben and Žižek and Toscano and others in contemporary debate.
WHEN: 15 Feb, 1 Mar, 15 Mar, 29 Mar, 12 Apr, 3 May, 17 May from 12 - 2pm
WHERE: General Purpose Building GP 1.24
If you would like to join the group, please contact Roland Boer at Roland.Boer@newcastle.edu.au.
FEBRUARY
WOMEN AND RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL DEBATE
Date: 4-6 February 2011.
Place: Copacabana Beach, central coast.
The Topic: Contemporary issues in Religion and Gender
Papers will explore a contemporary political issue that raises questions about the status of religion and gender in current global forms.
Scholars work ranges across various disciplines and fields including politics, theology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies and around various issues: women in Islam, Bangladeshi Muslims, South east Asian politics, the politics of sexual difference, the politics of birthing practices, questions of nation and gender, contested notions of religion.
For further information click here