Upcoming Events
Conferences
2013 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Conference
14-15 November, 2013
The 9th annual Australian Bonhoeffer Conference will be held at St Joseph's Spirituality and Education Centre, Kincumber NSW, on 14 and 15 November 2013. This year's conference will explore the theme: Hearing the Word, Acting in Faith.
Click here to download conference program
Public Lectures and Workshops
Free Archaeology lecture: All Welcome - "Petrified Voices, Petrified Feelings: Understanding graffiti in the City of Aphrodite - Professor Angelos Chaniotis, Princeton University
6pm Monday, 19 August
Public lecture sponsored by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and the discipline of Classics and the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. Professor Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, is the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens' Visiting Professor for 2013.
Aphrodisias was a Greek city developed in the 1st Century BC, 230 kilometres south of Izmir (ancient Smyrna) where the cult of Aphrodite flourished until the 4th Century AD. A marble quarry was close to the town and the city became famous for its sculptors. The town never recovered from an earthquake in the 7th Century AD, but high quality statuary has been unearthed and the ruins of many buildings are still visible. Professor Chaniotis will demonstrate how the large number of graffiti found in the ruins can give us a better understanding of life in an ancient city.
Where: Room UNH 241, University House (formerly NESCA House), Corner King and Auckland Streets, Newcastle.
When: Monday August 19, 2013. Drinks: 6.00pm. Lecture: 6.30pm
Ancient Greece After Sunset: Histories, archaeologies and perceptions of the night - A seminar by Professor Angelos Chaniotis
1-2pm - Tuesday, 20 August
Night, between sunset and sunrise, is consistent and unalterable regardless of culture and time. However, the perception of night and its economic, social, and cultural roles is subject to change. Professor Angelos Chaniotis will examine what parameters determine these changes, and what we can learn about the specific character of a culture. He will explore questions such as why people experience the night in different ways in different historical periods, and how this affected their lives and how references to nocturnal activities reveal what artists and authors wish to communicate to their audience.
Professor Angelos Chaniotis confronts questions of method in research in the ancient world and aims to show how apparently intractable material can be harnessed to provide meaningful results.
Professor Chaniotis is the Professor of Ancient History and Classics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He is the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Visiting Professor for 2013.
Where: Cultural Collections, Lower Ground Floor, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle.
When: Tuesday 20 August, 2013. 1-2pm.
Secrets of Success by Outstanding HASS Teachers - Teaching & Learning Workshop
1-2pm - Wednesday, 21 August
Every year, HASS staff win teaching awards at a Faculty, University or national level. Yet we never learn how or why they are such successful teachers. This workshop is an opportunity for our best teachers to let us in on their secrets: both the strategies that worked and those that might have failed. This workshop will launch a semester 2 pilot in peer-assisted teaching in the School.
When: 1-2pm Lunch included
Where: Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301A
RSVP to Kara Waite (for catering)
Understanding and Improving Student Care - Teaching & Learning Workshop
1-2pm - Wednesday, 18 September
Student care is an emerging field in teaching and learning scholarship. It addresses the issues that are key to retaining our students in courses and programs, including new ways of developing and improving the student experience while also fostering the independence needed for successful tertiary study. This workshop will explore the best strategies for student care in the sector, including promoting equity in course design, curricula and assessment.
When: 1-2pm Lunch included
Where: Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301A
RSVP to Kara Waite (for catering)
Seminar Series
Ancient History and Classical Languages Seminar Series
1-2pm, Friday 15 March
The Discipline of Ancient History and the Classical Languages runs a seminar series with a paper presented every two weeks throughout the teaching semester.
The first paper in the series will be presented by Dr Marguerite Johnson on Friday 15th March in the Cultural Collections of the Auchmuty Library from 1-2pm. The topic for this presentation is entitled, 'What to look for in a mayor: Newcastle Civic Precinct and Ancient Architecture'.
History Seminar Series
9:45am Friday 22 March
You are invited to join us this Friday morning from 9.45am in Cultural Collections for an official welcome to our History Research Higher Degree and Honours students for 2013.
This will be followed at 10am by a seminar presentation from PhD candidate Emma Hamilton titled 'Masculinities in American Western film, 1950-1972: A Hyper-Linear History'.
Her presentation will be followed by an informal discussion over coffee and cake.
Click here to download the Semester 1 History Seminar Series timetable
Sociology and Anthropology Seminar Series
2-3pm, Wednesday 22 May
The next SOCANTH seminar will be presented by Matt Bunn, University of Newcastle, entitled 'Structure, Improvisation and Incompleteness: The Logic of Risk in the Climbing Field'
Abstract: Alpine and high risk climbing offer a valuable opportunity to apply a Bourdieurian framework of a climber’s embodiment of the climbing field. Here, I will explore the way that climbers embody the structures of the climbing field and transform their apprehension of the vertical environment. This is an important aspect of practice, as in order to exercise agency an individual must have the world pre-reflexively framed in order to operate in an effective embodied manner. In the case of alpine climbing, deliberate thought and self-awareness are essential to pursuing the objectives of the field. This is because the field has no dispositional formula other than the exercise of reflexivity and adaptation in order to negotiate the phenomenological circumstances of a climb. Further, while the climbing field is embodied, there is no such thing as a dispositionally perfect climber. While climbers may adopt the doxa of the field, the field at times has its own ambiguities and contradictions regarding practice. Finally I shall give brief consideration to future examination of ‘disillusion’ and its meanings for reflexivity.
Date: Wednesday 22 May
Time: 2-3pm
Room: W301a, Behavioural Sciences building
All welcome. Refreshments provided.
Click here to download the SocAnth Seminar Series Semester 1 Timetable
Writing Cultures Seminar Series
3-5pm, Wednesday 17 April
The first paper in the 2013 Writing Cultures Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. Tiffany Tsao entitled
“Eco-Natives: environmental discourse and the portrayal of indigenous culture in contemporary East Kalimantan literature” and will be held the Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301a.
Click here to download the Semester 1 Writing Cultures Seminar Series timetable
RHD Symposia and Symposium Award Festival
9am-5pm & 5.30-7pm Thursday, 14 November 2013
The November Symposium includes presentations by our RHD candidates. It ends with the Symposium Awards Festival, which congratulates and farewells our graduating students.
When: 9am-5pm & 5.30-7pm
Where: Treehouse
RSVP by 15 October to Helen Moffatt (for catering)
