Activities and Events held in 2012
March 2012
Religion and Politics:How Powerful Is the Christian Right?
Presented by Professor Marion Maddox from the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University.
Seminar Abstract:
A number of recent articles have argued that the Australian Christian right's political influence has been overstated, pointing to the failure of signature reforms and lack of electoral pulling-power. I respond that such analyses misconstrue the kind of pressure group politics in which Australia's Christian right engages and the purpose for which it raises iconic issues. I then draw a comparison with the way in which similar arguments have been made about the US Christian right, usually when it appeared to have reached a low ebb and often predicting its imminent demise, only to herald a resurgence. Where Australia's Christian right is often treated as a recent phenomenon, it, like its US counterpart, rewards a long-view analysis. Click here to view flyer.
WHEN Tuesday, 13 March, 3.30pm - 5pm
WHERE Auchmuty Library Cultural Collections
RSVP to Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au by Monday 12 March
March 2012
The Faculty of Education and Arts Research Institute and
School of Drama Fine Art and Music would like to invite you to a Guest Seminar:
Ars Electronica: Where Art, Science Technology, Culture and Society Intersect
Presented by Horst Hörtner, Director of the Future Lab, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Horst Hörtner directs the Future Lab at the prestigious research centre Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. He is a media artist, researcher and expert in Human Computer Interaction design, holding many patents in this field. Since 1979, Ars Electronica seeks intersections and congruities, causes and effects between diverse fields of knowledge.
Click here to download Flyer
WHEN: Wednesday 28 March, 1:00pm-2:30pm
WHERE: Isabella's, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au by Friday 23 March
March - May 2012
The Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions (GRIT) would like to invite you to the first seminar of this series entitled:
Visit the GRIT web page to view upcoming events for Seminar 1 Series 2012
"Prof. Paul Oslington “Religion and Economics: Adam Smith as Theologian”
Tuesday 17 April 3.30-5pm
Dr. Craig Dalton “Gross National Happiness in Bhutan” - Piloting Contemplative Practice in Australian Public Health
Tuesday 15 May 3.30-5pm
Morpeth Lecture 2012, Dr. Timothy Stanley "What Can a Theology Do?", Tuesday, 29 May
April 2012
ClassicsSeminar:
“Poet, Audience, and Text: Some ANU reflections on mode and medium in Homer and Vergil”
Presented by Prof Elizabeth Minchin, ANU
Professor Minchin’s research focuses on the Homeric epics as oral poetry: the composition of the Homeric epics; Homer and memory; Homer's narrative; the speech Homer attributes to his characters. As a member of the ARC-funded ANU-University of Melbourne 2010 Gallipoli Project she developed a strong research interest in social memory and the landscape of the Dardanelles region, which she is now directing to a new project on myth and memory in the same region. Click here to view flyer.
When: 20 April
Where: McMullin Building, Room MC102, Callaghan Campus
RSVP: by 18 April to Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au
May 2012
Humanities Research Institute Public Lecture
DICKENS ON FILM
To mark the 200th anniversary of the novelist’s birth
Presented by Michael Eaton
An inventive new documentary exploring the contribution that Charles Dickens has made to the history of film and television. Using footage from 1898 to the present day, the film investigates how the literary genius may have influenced the very creation of cinematic language.
When: Thursday 10 May 6:30-8:30pm
Where: The Theatrette, Newcastle Museum Workshop Way, Honeysuckle
RSVP: 4 May to Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au
June 2012
Humanities Research Institute are proud to announce the inauguration of the new Australian Studies Research Network seminar series sponsored by the University of Newcastle and the University of New South Wales. The Network aims to bring together scholars working in a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary contexts both within and outside of tertiary institutions.
Meeting will be held monthly during semester on Friday evenings in the auditorium of History House (133 Macquarie Street, Sydney).
'Turtle Power: Captain Cook's Environmental Crisis in the Great Barrier Reef'
Presented by Professor Iain McCalman, University of Sydney
When: 1 June 2012 5-7pm
Where: the auditorium of History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Further information, RSVP to: Nancy Cushing nancy.cushing@newcastle.edu.au or Lisa Ford l.ford@unsw.edu.au
Click here to view flyer
July 2012
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Please join us to celebrate the acceptance of an essay by Barry Morris, Borderwork in Indigenous South-Eastern Australia, Oceania 82, 2012
WHERE General Purpose Building GP1.24
WHEN Tuesday 31 July 2012,4:00pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Kristy.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au
July 2012
GRIT & Humanities Research Institute Public Lecture at Ourimbah
The Humanities Research Institute and the Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions are proud to host a public lecture at the University of Newcastle's Ourimbah Campus in July 2012.
"The American Religious Landscape Today"
Presented by Professor Barry Kosmin
Prof. Kosmin is Research Professor in the Public Policy & Law Program and Director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture at Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut. He is an authority on religion and secularism in America.
When: July (TBC)
Where: Ourimbah Campus
Further details contact: Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au +61(0)2492.17915
August 2012
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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC,
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Centre for History of Violence Studies Conference
WHEN: 21-23 August 2012
WHERE: Crowne Plaza Newcastle
For more information visit the Centre for History of Violence
September 2012
7 September - Australian Studies Research Network Seminar
Prof. David Walker (Deakin) ‘Not Dark Yet’: A Memoir, Auditorium of History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney (HRI)
SEPTEMBER
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Narrativies of Resentment. Notes toward a Literary History of European Anti-Americanism
Author Jesper Gulddal
Journal NewLiterary History
Please join us to celebrate the acceptance of an of an article by Jesper Gulddal by New Literary History
WHERE General Purpose Building GP1.24
WHEN Thursday 13 September 4pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au
Abstract
This essay investigates the history and internal functioning of a specifically literary form of anti-Americanism that for more than two hundred years has played a key role in the propagation of negative images of the United States. Literary anti-Americanism, as I propose to call this tradition in European literature in particular, is important both in terms of literary history and the history of anti-American discourse in general. Not only is antagonism towards American civilization a significant thematic strain in literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day; literature also articulates this antagonism in a distinctive and highly effective manner based on its capacity for narrative and figurative representation. The essay draws out three distinctive strands of this trend in European literature with the aim of demonstrating how literary anti-Americanism, while retaining a basic set of medium-specific properties, is inflected by shifting narrative strategies and ideological biases. Ultimately, I argue, these instances of resentment-driven writing tell us less about the reality of the United States than about the construction of Europe as a common cultural space through the negative representation of its American “other”.
19 September - RIPL Seminar Series
The Secular Contract: Sovereignty and Law in Australia, Dr Holly Randell-Moon, University of Macquarie. click here for more infomation
OCTOBER 2012
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Please join us to celebrate the acceptance of an essay by Næss Åshild, Structural parallels between Vaeakau-Taumako and the Vanuatu Outliers: Capell revisited, Oceanic Linguistics 51(2), December 2012
WHERE: General Purpose Building GP1.24, Callaghan Campus
WHEN Wednesday 3 October 2012, 4:00pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Monday 1 October Kristy.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au
5-6 October RiPl Symposium
Religion and Radicalism Symposium for more information visit click here
18 October 2012 BIG BOOK CLUB
WHEN: 18th October 2012 from 6.30pm - 8.30pm
WHERE: Longworth House,129 Scott Street, Newcastle
COST: $25.00 per person. Proceeds go to Variety: The Children’s Charity, to support local initiatives in children’s literacy
RSVP: 11 October 2012. Book individually or a table (of 8)
via Humanities-Research@newcastle.edu.au or T 02 4921 7915
OCTOBER 2012
FEDUA RESEARCH INSTITUTES 2012 FORUM
All staff are invited to join us for a forum to hear from the Programme Leaders of the current and past funded research programmes about their achievements to date and the 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 the new Strategic Networks and Capacity Building scheme in lieu of a Round 4 of funding for the Institutes Research Programmes.
For more information click here to view flyer
WHERE The Treehouse, Callaghan campus
WHEN Tuesday 30 October 10:30am to 1pm
RSVP by 26 October to Kristy.Rocavert@newcastle.edu.au
24 October RIPL Seminar Series
"Islam and Islamism within Western Hegemonies" Emer. Prof. Terry Lovat, University of Newcastle. click here for more infomation
24 October HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE Free Public Lecture
You Have to Let Out the Scream
presented by Professor Peter Read, University of Sydney
WHERE: Crowne Plaza Newcastle, Cnr Merewether Street & Wharf Road.
WHEN: 24th October 2012 from 6.00pm - 7.30pm
RSVP: 17 October 2012, T: 02 4921 7915 or
E: Humanities-research@newcastle.edu.au
November 2012
2 November - Australian Studies Research Network Seminar, Dr Ian Evans (independent scholar) Ritual Objects, Auditorium of History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney
NOVEMBER 2012
Celebration of Notable Journal Publication
Please join us to celebrate the acceptance of an essay by Gillian Arrighi, Circus and Sumo: Tradition, Innovation and Opportunism at the Australian Circus, Theatre Research International V 37 No 3, October 2012
WHERE: General Purpose Building GP1.24, Callaghan Campus
WHEN Wednesday 7 November, 4:00pm – 5.00pm
RSVP Monday 5 November Kristy.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au
November 2012
Radical Newcastle Symposium
WHERE University house
WHEN 16 Nov 8:45am-1:30pm
RSVP Humanities-research@newcastle.edu.au
November 2012
The Neisou Gem: Alexander as Zeus?
Presented by A/Professor Ken Sheedy
WHERE Newcastle Museum, Theatrette, Workshop Way, Newcastle
WHEN 30 November 6:00pm – 7.30pm
RSVP Wednesday 28 November Humanities-research@newcastle.edu.au
December 2012
3-4 December click here for more information.
