Upcoming Events
Conferences
Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'Revisiting the Massacre in History'
25-27 September, 2008
Presented by the Social and Cultural Conflict Research Group, in collaboration with the Institute for the Advanced Study of Humanity.
Click here for details and to register for the workshop
Critical Animals: National Creative Research Symposium
2-6 October 2008
Part of the This Is Not Art Festival and co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Science.
SWAMP e-zine launch
4 October 2008
Time: 6.00 – 8.00pm
Location: The View Factory, cnr Scott & Telford Sts Newcastle East
SWAMP is an online zine for Creative Writing Post Grads – a new publication brought to you by the Creative Writing Post Graduate Workshop of the University of Newcastle, and supported by Writing Cultures Research Group. Join us as we officially launch this new e-zine with readings from some of the best new writers featured in our first two issues of SWAMP.
To find out more about SWAMP dive in online
The SWAMP launch is presented as an event of Critical Animals at This Is Not Art festival. For more details on Critical Animals and This Is Not Art visit the This Is Not Art website
Where is Social Work Heading? Opportunities and Challenges for the Future - 4th year social work student conference
28–29 October 2008
The 4th year social work student conference is an annual event at which final year students present the results of their extensive review and analysis of available knowledge in a chosen area of practice. It provides an exciting opportunity for practitioners to be informed about the latest practice research and for students to gain experience in the art of writing an abstract and a conference paper, and presenting their paper to a live 'conference' audience.
In addition to student presentations Professor Margaret Alston and Jennifer McKinnon from Charles Sturt University will present keynote addresses.
Venue: The University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus. The Treehouse and adjacent function rooms.
Cost: Attendance at the conference is free but registration is essential.
Refreshments: Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Lunch: Lunch will not be provided but can be purchased at a range of outlets on the University campus. Food cannot be taken into the conference venue.
Enquiries: Email or phone Jennifer Boddy on 4921 6702
Registration: Email or phone Anne Walker and advise date/s and session/s of attendance (see program for session details). (02) 49215491
Click here for Conference Program
SIRG Social Work Conference: 'Where is Social Work Heading? Opportunities and Challenges for the Future’
29–30 October 2008
Shortland Union Building, Callaghan Campus
Annual conference for social work professional community in the Hunter region and the social work student body at the University. The conference will showcase final year social work student research projects and will also include keynote presentations by renowned and highly regarded social work academics and researchers.
Health, culture and religion in South Asia: Interdisciplinary and cross-national social science perspectives
12-13 November, 2008
To be held at the Australian National University. Funded by the ARC's Asia Pacific Futures Research Network. Jointly hosted by the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) and the ANU Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Please click here for draft program
Contact: Dr Assa Doron or Dr Alex Broom
Symposium: Angela Carter & The Fairy Tale
28 November 2008
Presented by the Writing Cultures Research Group.
Time: 9.30 – 5.30pm
Location: Treehouse, University of Newcastle
Call for papers currently circulating, topics may include:
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Carter’s Fairy Tales & Related Writings
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Original Tales Transformed
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The Fairy Tale & Postmodernity
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Carter & Postmodernity
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The Future of Fairy Tales
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The Debt to Carter
Other relevant proposals also welcome.
For more details, please contact Dr Caroline Webb or Dr Marguerite Johnson
Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Divine Lover & Educator
4-6 December, 2008
Research symposium presented by the Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions (GRIT).
Directions in Oceanic Research
9-11 December, 2008
A Conference presented by the Pacific Languages Research Group (PLRG).
Click here for the Call for Papers
Church and State in Old and New Worlds
December 11-13, 2008
A workshop sponsored by the Religious HIstory Society in association with the Research Group on Religious and Intellectual Traditions (GRIT) and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Humanity (IASH).
Contact: Troy Duncan
Public Lectures and Seminars
Arts Health Colloquia Series
The semester 2 timetable for the ArtsHealth Colloquia series is now available
Download timetable now (PDF, 32K)
Classics Seminar Series
The semester 1 timetable for the Classics Seminar Series is now available
Download timetable now (PDF, 29K)
Ourimbah Seminar Series - All welcome
The semester 2 timetable for the Ourimbah seminar series is now available
Download timetable now (PDF, 11KB)
History Seminar Series - All welcome
Cultural Collections Reading Room (near the Information Common)
Level 2, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus.
Download Semester 2 Seminar program (PDF, 15KB)
Writing Cultures Seminar Series - All welcome
An interdisciplinary working paper series incorporating work from creative writing, film, television and literary studies, law and modern languages.
Click here for more information on Semester 2 seminars
Remembering Francis de Witt Batty
30 September 2008
Presented by the Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions
The purpose of the lecture is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the departure from Newcastle of Bishop Francis de Witt Batty(1879-1961), who was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Newcastle and a figure of great significance within the Australian Anglican Church during the mid 20th Century. He was a leading campaigner for an autonomous university in Newcastle during the 1940s and 1950s, according to Dr Troy Duncan, who is currently writing Batty's biography.
The Dean of Newcastle, the Very Reverend Graeme Lawrence, will be making some introductory remarks on the occasion. The lecture will start at 6.30pm in the University Archives within Cultural Collections. Please RSVP Troy Duncan by Tuesday 23rd September if you would like to attend.
Visiting Scholars in 2008
GRIT Religious and Intellectual Traditions Research Group in collaboration with The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA), present a lecture and seminar by
Professor F. Lissarrague, 2008 AAIA Visiting Professor
Director, Louis Gernet Centre for the Comparative Study of Religion
MONDAY 11TH AUGUST
Satyrs and Centaurs
6.15pm in Social Sciences Bldg SRLT3
(all welcome: preceded by nibbles, see below)
TUESDAY 12TH AUGUST
Figuring the Gods in Ancient Greece: relations of anthropomorphism and 'aniconism'
3-5pm in Hunter Bldg HC19
(staff and students of the University welcome)
Further information & RSVP: Harold Tarrant (02) 4921 5230
Harold.Tarrant@newcastle.edu.au
For those interested, there will be an opportunity to meet with Professor Lissarrague over nibbles 5.15-6.00 pm (prior to the ‘Centaurs and Satyrs’ lecture) on 11th August in the History Tea Room, McMullin Building, Lower Ground Floor, room MCLG22, or later (at own expense) over dinner. For catering purposes, please let Harold Tarrant know if you are coming to either pre-lecture nibbles or dinner.
The History of Literary Computing, 1949-89
Professor Willard McCarty (Kings College London)
Brought to you by the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the School of Humanities and Social Science
August 22, 2008
McMullin Building, McG25C
11 am - 12.30 pm
Professor McCarty is perhaps the best-known theoretician of the digital humanities internationally. Trained in the United States as an undergraduate in physics, German and English at the University of California and at Reed College, he took his PhD in Milton studies at Toronto (Canada) and then went on to a research career in the emerging field of humanities computing, with strong interest in Ovidian studies. In 1987 he founded Humanist, now the leading list for world-wide exchange on humanities computing and an important resource for the field. He continues to moderate the list. His book Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005) theorizes the new field as a domain of intellectual inquiry rather than as a technological appendage to scholarship. In 2006 he received the Richard A Lymam Award for the application of information technology to humanistic scholarship and teaching. In the citation, James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, called Professor McCarty "a doer, a thinker, and perhaps a wizard" in humanities computing.
Handouts for the lecture are available on request from Hugh Craig (hugh.craig@newcastle.edu.au )
Professor Mayumi Kurosaki - Director, Global Communication Center
Shohoku College, Kanagawa, Japan: Aug - Oct 2008
Assoc. Professor Ma Chunlan (Linguistics) from the School of Foreign Languages of the Northwest University for Nationalities (Lanzhou, Gansu, China)
Professor Emeritus George Perkins and Barbara Perkins (American literature) from Eastern Michigan University - March
Professor Michael Allen (Sociology) - Visiting Professor from Washington State University - Jan-July
Professor Carolyn Noble , Head of Social Work at Victoria University, Melbourne.
Postgraduate Symposia
2 June & 3 November 2008
Each semester the School of Humanities and Social Science conducts a symposium for Research Higher Degree candidates.
