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1. Autumn Gem - Film ScreeningWhen: 22nd SeptemberWhen: 22nd SeptemberJoin us for a free screening of Autumn Gem, including a Q&A with filmmakers Rae Chang and Adam Tow. Light refreshments will be served following the conclusion of the Q&A session. Autumn GemMeet the 'Chinese Joan of Arc', Qiu Jin (1875 - 1907), a radical women's rights activist who defied tradition to become the leader of a revolutionary army. Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and emerged as a national heroine who redefined what it meant to be a woman in early 20th-century China. For further information about the film please visit: http://autumn-gem.com.Room 327, Robert Webster Building (G14), UNSW Kensington Campus
2. So, what? lecture with Kate Crawford, UNSWWhen: 23rd SeptemberWhen: 23rd SeptemberAlways with me: How mobile and social media are changing us The mobile phone is no longer just a personal telecommunications device, it is a portal to multiple social spaces that are constantly in flux. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are accessed throughout the day by mobile users, as they tune in to with their different networks and share updates and images. What are the social impacts of this sustained engagement and continual presence? What does it mean for friendships and relationships? This talk will share preliminary findings from the largest study of mobile media use in Australia and consider the complex terrain between humans, mobiles and social networks. Kate Crawford Kate Crawford is an Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at UNSW. She is completing a three-year ARC Discovery project on mobile media use by 18-30 year olds around Australia. Her books include Adult Themes (2006) and Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media and Power (with Chris Chesher and Anne Dunn, in press). This year, she was an invited research fellow at Microsoft Research Labs in Boston and she is currently working on a manuscript on the concept of listening and networked technologies. Download flyerTyree room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington, Sydney
3. The inaugural National Indigenous Policy and Dialogue ConferenceStarts: 18th - 19th NovemberStarts: 18th - 19th NovemberIndigenous Policy and Dialogue: New Relationships, New Possibilities Australia's colonial history has left us a challenging legacy, where contrasting worldview continue to frame struggle and contestation between Indigenous people and the state. Our philosophical and institutional frameworks are not suited to dealing with this legacy, and Indigenous policy remains problematic and contentious. As a consequence there is no process for reflection or re-examination of the relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian nation. What might we now do to create a more just and reconciled society? How might we create new opportunities to transform the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people? What are the implications for policy making in this contested space? The conference will be the first to be hosted by the recently established Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit (IPDRU) in the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. IPDRU, headed by Patrick Dodson as founding director and Professor of Indigenous Policy, is engaged in a nation building research agenda to support the work of the Australian Dialogue in developing new narratives, institutions, practices, philosophies and opportunities for a more just and inclusive Australia, where Indigenous rights and interests are at the centre of Australian nationhood and embedded in the institutional fabric of the country. Keynote speakers Professor Joe Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy in the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Professor Kiera Ladner, Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba Professor Patrick Dodson, Founding Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit at UNSW. John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington
4. Film & History Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference 2010Starts: 30th November - 3rd DecemberStarts: 30th November - 3rd DecemberCinema, Modernity and Modernism The Film and History Conference provides an opportunity for international scholars, archivists, and filmmakers to present their thoughts on recent debates and events in the fields of film history, history and film, national and transnational cinemas, film theory, film practice, and the social and cultural significance of cinema. The central theme of the 2010 conference is Cinema, Modernity and Modernism. Over the past two decades, some of the most exciting research into film and cinema history has examined how the medium and the institution helped to define and mediate the experience of modernity and modernization. This perspective has revealed the previously overlooked extent to which film informed and shaped modernist aesthetics. The topic is therefore relevant to the study of literary and artistic modernism more broadly Plenary Speakers • Michael North, UCLA• Erica Carter, University of Warwick• Richard Maltby, Flinders University• Jill Julius Matthews, Australian National University• Jane Mills, Charles Sturt University • Julian Murphet, UNSW• Barbara Creed, University of MelbourneVarious, UNSW Kensington

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