Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture

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1. Modern Soundscapes - Conference of the Australasian Association of LiteratureWhen: 10th JulyWhen: 10th July Modern Soundscapes Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Literature held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia. What is a modern soundscape? This conference aims to address this question by drawing together researchers engaged with the history and theory of sound and noise from the fields of literature, film, and media studies, as well as architecture, music and the visual arts to consider the multiple soundscapes that have shaped and continue to shape the history of modernity. For more information please visit the conference website.UNSW
2. So, what? lecture - Professor Steven ConnorWhen: 10th JulyWhen: 10th JulyRustications: Animals in the Urban MixProfessor Steven Connor Abstract: When animals become audible in the city, it is often annoying, sometimes unnerving, but also now and again a kind of annunciation. Animals are an anomaly in the urban soundscape, which seems to be populated and made intelligible to itself exclusively by sounds of human origin. And yet cities have never become free of animals, which are all the time finding ways of recolonising urban space, and insinuating themselves into the syntax of its sounds. I will use this talk to listen out for and amplify the animal signatures in different urban soundscapes. Perhaps the sonic infiltrations of animals are not so much a haunting as a harbinger of a new, more convivial world-city. Biography: Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. He is the author of books on Dickens, Beckett. Joyce, ventriloquism, skin, flies, and other topics in literary and cultural history. His most recent books are The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal (2010), Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011) and A Philosophy of Sport (2011). He writes and broadcasts frequently for radio and has a significant online library of lectures, broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress. To register for this lecture please click hereTyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW, Kensington (Map ref G19)
3. Australia’s Asian Context in the Asian Century, a one-day research workshopWhen: 12th JulyWhen: 12th JulyThe Asia Research Network in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales invites you to a one-day research workshop. Australia’s Asian Context in the Asian Century Abstract: The Australian Government recently joined the chorus championing the 21st century as the “Asian Century”. Both major political parties have also made a number of commitments in the lead-up to the 2013 election promising various forms of Asian engagement including significant commitments to education through student exchange. The study of the social, cultural and historical aspects of Australia’s Asian Context was pioneered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW in the 1980s and 1990s and remains an area of research and teaching focus. This one-day workshop will showcase some of the current work being undertaken in the field at UNSW and beyond. Keynote speaker will be Professor Henry Yu of the University of British Columbia. Featuring presentations: Professor Henry Yu (University of British Columbia) "The Cantonese Pacific, Anti-Asian Politics, and the Making and Unmaking of White Settler Nations" Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson (Deakin University) “'Scatter your White Man's pride': Chinese responses to Australian expatriate communities in Shanghai, 1920-1945” Professor Sean Brawley (UNSW) “Noggies and Charlie: Australian servicemen’s battlefield perceptions of Koreans and Chinese during the Korean War’” Dr Andrea Benvenuti (UNSW) "Dealing with Decolonisation in Malaya and Singapore: Australian responses to Britain's End of Empire in Southeast Asia" Matt Radcliffe (PhD Candidate, UNSW) "Australians as 'European' colonial occupiers in Post-War Malaya and Singapore". Dr Erik Nielsen (UNSW) “Friends and Foes: Indians and Australians on the Sporting Field, 1926-1938”. Dr John Napier (UNSW) "How can we sing our old song in a strange land: a framework for the understanding of musical identity amongst young Asians in Australia." Dr James Paull (UNSW) “The teaching and research nexus in Australia’s Asian Context”. Dr Agnieszka Sobocinska (Monash University) “Overturning the point: exploring change in Australian-Asian relations”.Room 310, Morven Brown Building
4. Australian Social Policy ConferenceWhen: 16th SeptemberWhen: 16th SeptemberWelcome The Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will be held at the University of New South Wales from Monday 16 September to Wednesday 18 September. This is the 14th ASPC hosted by the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) centre at UNSW. The Australian Social Policy Conference is the country's leading event for the discussion and dissemination of social policy. The biennial conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across disciplines and provide an opportunity to explore research and practice. Monday 16 September - Wednesday 18 September 2013 To visit the main conference website please click here The Conference theme is: Contemporary Challenges for Social Policy. We are living through a time of major economic and social change that is presenting new challenges to social policy. In Australia and internationally, governments facing fiscal pressures are increasingly cutting back on 'welfare' spending at a time when many areas of need are increasing. Demographic change, rising inequality, environmental degradation and technological change create new challenges for social policy, but also present new opportunities to learn lessons and draw on research about what works and the impact of policy. The 2013 Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will address many of the most important challenges facing Australian policy makers, practitioners and researchers at this key juncture. It will provide a forum for some of the leading national and international (including regional) researchers, along with analysts from the government and NGO sectors in Australia to present their findings and discuss and debate their implications The theme of this year's Australian Social Policy Conference addresses these issues and invites papers that may address the following areas:  Welfare reform  Income distribution and social inequalities  Identity and diversity  Families, work and care  Disability and mental health  Organisation and delivery of human services  Community and place  Homelessness and housing  Children, young people and families  Retirement and ageing  Indigenous Australians  Chinese social policy  Social policy in low and middle income countries  Open strand Call for Papers The Social Policy Research Centre invites offers of papers for presentation at the next Australian Social Policy Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, from 16-18 September 2013. Closing Date: 27 May 2013 The success of the Australian Social Policy Conference is based on the presentation of high quality, original papers across the range of social policy fields. We are now inviting offers of papers from researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of social policy. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to contemporary social policy, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate. We are also inviting proposals of ideas for special sessions, including groups of related papers within the contributed paper streams. Please send the proposals for special sessions to aspc@unsw.edu.au As in previous conferences, discussion will be organised around thematic strands. The topic areas from within which the final strands will be selected, and for which we are currently seeking offers of papers, include the following. The Conference discussion will be organised around thematic strands including: Submit abstracts via the Conference ManagerJohn Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington

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