Seminars
Semester 1 2011
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 18th March |
Prof. Matthew Sparke University of Washington |
Entwined lives and enclaved medicine: Globalization and the targets-turned-territories of Global Health (click for abstract) |
| 24th March |
Dr Helen Jarvis University of Newcastle, UK |
Post-individualist ‘living togetherness’: international perspectives on social sustainability in collaborative housing and intentional community (click for abstract) |
| 7th April | Prof. Pauline McGuirk University of Newcastle | Governing social reproduction in masterplanned estates: urban politics and everyday life (click for abstract) |
| 12th May | Prof. Dennis Foley University of Newcastle |
The conundrum of native title & land rights in NSW |
Semester 2 2011
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 1st September | Rhyall Gordon University of Newcastle |
Food sovereignty: lineaments of non-capitalist economies |
| 15th September | Jenny Cameron University of Newcastle |
Economic diversity through economic experimentation: the case of two food-based community enterprises |
| 22nd September |
Honours Presentations |
Ryan Jones: Same tree, different risk: urban trees and the production of risk Faith Curtis: Community responses to Inverbrackie Alternative Place of Detention Frances Bulley: Correcting the 'failure of humanity' or repeating old mistakes? The 'responsibility to protect' and endemic problems of humanitarian pntervention |
| 13th October | Nancy Cushing University of Newcastle |
The tipping point: accounting for the origins of the smoke abatement movement in Newcastle |
| 27th October | Karen Fisher University of Auckland |
Identities, subjectivities and positionality in cross-cultural research |
Semester 1 2010
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 11th March |
Ass. Professor Phil McManus |
Country-mindedness |
| 25th March |
Dr Kathy Mee & Dr Lesley Instone |
Doggy encounters: performing new pet relations in the park |
| 15th April | Honours presentations |
Sarah Patterson: Changing environmental behaviour: peoples' experiences and policy makers' perceptions Roshni Sharma: Environmental concerns and consumer choice in the Lower Hunter region |
| 13th May | Dr Cameron McAuliffe University of Western Sydney |
The writing on the wall: legal graffiti in the creative city |
| 27th May | Dr Hazel Easthope University of New South Wales |
Kids in apartments: implications for the compact city (Joint Paper w/Andrew Tice) |
Semester 2 2010
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 5th August | Dr Victoria Haskins University of Newcastle |
Domestic geographies: The place of the outing matron in Tucson 1913-1935 |
| 19th August | Jeff McGee Macquarie University |
Minilateralism, democracy and the post-Copenhagen landscape for international climate policy |
| 16th September |
Prof. Katherine Gibson |
Community economies |
| 14th October | Karina Luzia University of Newcastle |
Geographies of same-sex parenting in suburban Sydney |
Semester 1 2009
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 12th March |
Dr Bonnie McBain |
Footprinting an uncertain future |
| 26th March |
Dr Rae Dufty |
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| 9th April | Honours presentations | |
| 30th April | Dr Kurt Iveson The University of Sydney |
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| 14th May | Dr Margaret Walton-Roberts Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) |
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| 28th May | Dr Peter Rogers Macquarie University |
Semester 2 2009
Date |
Author |
Title |
| 6th August | Dr Gillian Arrighi University of Newcastle |
From the traditional travelling circus to the global zoo: the persistence of ‘performing’ animal shows in the 21st century |
| 20th August |
Katharine McKinnon |
Developers in the hills: the politics of aid in northern Thailand |
| 3rd September | Louise Crabtree University of Western Sydney |
Build it like you mean it: replicating ethical innovation in physical and institutional design |
| 17th October | Kristian Ruming Macquarie University |
Facilitating faster approval: council reflections on the changing NSW planning and development assessment process |
| 15th October | Emma Power Macquarie University |
Materialities of homeyness and sustainability |
| 19th November | Kay Anderson University of Western Sydney |
Race and the matter of mind: towards a secular ethics of human being' |