Upcoming Events
Conferences
NewMac 2013 - The Macquarie and Newcastle Universities' Humanities Postgraduate Symposium
2 March 2013
The NewMac Annual Conference is returning in 2013. With the guidance of a staff member, the conference is run by Humanities postgraduate students, for Humanities postgraduate students, from the Universities of Newcastle and Macquarie in conjunction.
The conference is hosted by The University of Newcastle. In 2013, the conference will again be held at our University here in Newcastle, on Saturday 2nd March, 2013.
Registration deadline extended until Monday 18 February: Cost is $15 and includes morning tea and lunch - download registration form here and forward to Helen.Moffatt@newcastle.com.au
Please see the NewMac flyer and Call for Abstracts to see how to contact us or submit an abstract, and read about what NewMac offers and why it is so important to students.
Click here to visit the 2013 NewMac website for more information
Public Lectures and Workshops
Newcastle Writers Festival
Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April
The inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival will be held from April 5 to 7, 2013, at a number of inner-city venues. More than 50 writers are attending and sessions will cover a range of topics and genres, including true crime, history, romance, poetry, sport and memoir.
Click here to download Festival Program
Click here to visit the Festival website
Academic Forum
10:30-12:30 - Wednesday, 10 April
With the changing RHD supervision environment, the forum is designed to provide a space to discuss any relevant issues. Possible topics include: FEDUA and HASS responses to the various initiatives concerning RHD supervision plus more practical issues such as co-supervision, overcoming a supervision impasse, etc. It is anticipated that senior, mid-career and early-career staff attend - including staff currently not involved in supervision - in order to share ideas and advice.
When: 10.30-12.30pm Morning Tea included
Where: Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301A
RSVP by 5 April to Helen Moffatt (for catering)
Co-publishing - Supervisor and Honours Student
12.15-1.30pm - Friday, 12 April
Dr Lisa Featherstone (History) will discuss co-publishing with 2012 Honours student, Ms Hayley Ward. Their chapter, 'Pleasure, Pain, Power and Politics: Australian Feminist Responses to Pornography, 1970-89' will appear in Acts of Love and Lust: Histories of Sexuality in Australia, 1945-2010, eds. L. Featherstone, R. Jennings and R. Reynolds (Cambridge Scholars Press).
When: 12.15-1.30pm Lunch included
Where: Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301A
RSVP by 5 April to >Helen Moffatt (for catering)
Co-publishing - Supervisor and RHD Candidate
12.30-2.30pm - Friday, 3 May
Associate Professor Alistair Rolls, Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Ms Clara Sitbon will discuss their joint publications. Alistair and Clara have published ''Traduit de l'américain' from Poe to the Série Noire: Baudelaire's Greatest Hoax?' in Modern and Contemporary France (2013). Marie-Laure, Alistair and Clara are currently working on 'Boris Vian, the paratext and the pseudonym' for submission to an A/A*-ranked journal.
When: 12.30-12.30pm Lunch included
Where: Behavioural Sciences Building, Room W301A
RSVP by 19 April to Helen Moffatt (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 27 March
The next SOCANTH seminar will be presented by Debbi Long, entitled "The Case of the Undiagnosed Pregnancy: Contestations of Embodiment, Knowledges and Control
Abstract: Within a biomedical environment, moral value is placed on wanting to know, and upon acting upon knowledge once knowing has occurred. Although not common, and generally not well-known about outside of clinical maternity environments, “undiagnosed” pregnancies occur with high enough frequency to have a label and a variety of clinical discourses attached to them. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a maternity unit, this paper presents a case study of an “Undiagnosed Pregnancy”; explores clinician (midwives and obstetricians) reactions; and examines what insights this may offer into understanding the Biomedical Imperative to Know.
Date: Wednesday 27 March
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 2013
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 Wednesday, 12 June
The June Symposium includes presentations by our RHD candidates and the 3-minute thesis competition. 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 May to Helen Moffatt (for catering)
