Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - The University of New South Wales
The Goethe Institute

The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009
Collective Creativity

Sydney 23 – 26 July 2009

The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 is part of a series of scholarly conferences sponsored by the Department of German Studies at the University of New South Wales since 1980. The symposia are international, interdisciplinary academic conferences devoted to current issues in literary and cultural studies, with a focus on - but not exclusively restricted to – contemporary German literature and culture. Recent symposia have addressed themes such as ‘Writing since The Fall of the Wall’, ‘Adventures of Identity’, ‘The Play within the Play’ or ‘W.G. Sebald and Expatriate Writing’; others were dedicated to a critical analysis of aspects of the work of Walter Benjamin, Hans Magnus Enzensberger or Heiner Müller.

The symposium is traditionally held bi-annually on the last weekend in July and organized in co-operation with the Goethe Institute Sydney which also offers the venue for the event. In 2009, the topic of he Symposium will be ‘Collective Creativity’.

Website and call for papers: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/collective_creativity09/index.html

School of English, Media and Performing Arts
Ta(l)king Pleasure in German Culture
A Day in the Dialectical Playground
20th October 2007

This symposium brings together academics, artists, writers, and performers for a day of dialogue and an evening of performance focused on the many ways in which play, playfulness, pleasure, fun and enjoyment have circulated through German culture since the Enlightenment to the present day.

Website: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/

Australian Social Policy Conference 2007
Social Policy through the Life Course: Building Community Capacity and Social Resilience
11-13th July 2007

The theme for the 2007 conference is 'Social Policy through the Life Course: Building Community Capacity and Social Resilience'. This theme encapsulates two interrelated issues in social policy. The first concerns life-course transitions, including the diverse challenges and opportunities which people experience within their age, gender, social, economic and cultural contexts. The second focuses on identifying the interconnections between social investment policies, services and programs which build both community capacity and social resilience for individuals situated within their social networks.

UNSW Cognitive Load Theory Conference
24-26 March

The School of Education (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences) and the Accelerated Learning Laboratory (Australian Graduate School of Management, Faculty of Business) at the University of New South Wales will host an International Conference on research into Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) from 24-26 March 2007.