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Displaying from Wednesday, April 03, 2019
 April 2019
Thursday 04
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : BHP Minerals Australia Heritage Strategy – Case Studies from WA Iron Ore More Information
BHP first presented on its Sustainable Heritage Strategy at Toowoomba AAA 2011. This presentation outlined how BHP was applying Bunting’s “Sustainability Model” as an important, viable, and value-adding framework for heritage practice in its Iron Ore operations. Eight years later this model (...)

17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMSS Public Lecture : Domestic Violence and Islam More Information
Domestic violence is a global issue considered to be a heritage of the patriarchal system. While domestic violence is not a new problem, it has only started attracting attention comparatively recently. Even with women being more powerful than ever, the modern world is still faces this issue. In (...)
Friday 05
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Revisiting the language-culture nexus: Difference and repetition in language shift to a creole More Information
It has become commonplace to state that language and culture are intimately interwoven, and that therefore losing one’s language – as it happens in situations of colonization for instance – implies losing one’s culture. However, few scientific studies have tackled the consequences of (...)

11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Looking Back to the Future: Some Reflections on Researching and Writing an Urban Social History of Singapore More Information
James F. Warren is the author of two critically acclaimed social histories of the city: Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940 (1986) and Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940 (1992). In this seminar, Warren considers the two books’ reception in (...)
Thursday 11
11:00 - SEMINAR - Moving public service motivation research two steps forward and on step back : A review of past research, current issues and future strategies for explaining individual behavior in public institutions More Information
Public service motivation refers to the motivation of individuals to contribute to society. Since its inception almost 30 years ago, a lot of research has been done. In fact, it has proven to be one of the most studied topics in public administration and management research. However, despite its (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Fire and Fauna: Holocene Aboriginal land management in the northern Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia More Information
The Holocene was a time of substantial environmental and cultural change across Australia, due to the combined effects of post-glacial sea level rise and climatic shifts. However, not all observed environmental changes can be explained by climatic variation. Ethnographic and historical records (...)
Friday 12
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Green Schools Movement around the World: Stories of success and frustration More Information
The green school movement under various names (Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) began as a response to needs identified at the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development, or even longer ago if the schools that (...)

11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Maintenance of Identity in an Adopted Language: Development and Use of Aboriginal English More Information
The phenomenon of the maintenance of Aboriginal English despite significant counter-pressures in the wider society, shows an unwillingness, on the part of its speakers, to allow themselves to be linguistically identified with Australian English.

This presentation explores elements in (...)
Thursday 18
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis More Information
To communities heavily impacted by natural and man-made hazard induced events, cultural heritage provides a sense of identity and continuity in the aftermath of a disaster. Often a source of revenue and livelihood for communities, cultural heritage and its associated industries are vulnerable to (...)
Friday 26
11:00 - EVENT - Linguistics Seminar Series : Debunking urban myths Language and conceptions of time in Aboriginal Australia More Information
The idea that ‘for Aboriginal people in Australia, time is cyclic’ has been floating around for a long time, mostly as a folk commonplace, but also occasionally in scholarly contributions. Reference is regularly made in these contexts to the concept of ‘Dreamtime’, which is supposed to (...)
Tuesday 30
15:00 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Studies Seminar Series : PhD Proposal and Honours Research Project More Information
In this seminar Juliana La Pegna will be presenting on her PhD Proposal (abstract below) and Nina Savic will also be outlining her Honours research project.

Juliana’s presentation:

Title: Beyond ‘Dullsville’: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Culture and Arts based (...)

 May 2019
Thursday 02
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Path of Pain – Truth telling, Acknowledgement and The Bernier and Dorre Island Lock Hospitals More Information
Let us tell you about one of the stories that has been swept under the Australian carpet for far too long……. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were removed from their homelands and interned in medical and government facilities (...)
Friday 03
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism Theo Stapleton More Information
The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism

This dissertation explores the concept of religious entrepreneurship in the context of the Humanistic Buddhist movement. Religious entrepreneurship as a theoretical framework facilitates a focus on the production of religious capital (...)

14:30 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : What is policy assemblage? More Information
Assemblage thinking has exploded in policy research, especially among scholars working in the policy mobilities field who are seeking to harness the potential of an assemblage approach to understand how policies move, mutate and manifest in increasingly transnational contexts. The ubiquity of (...)
Tuesday 07
13:00 - SEMINAR - The pervasive force of academics bureaucratizatio : An analysis of the use of ‘key selection criteria’ at Australian universities More Information
Over recent decades, tensions in the ways universities are organized and operate have become increasingly apparent. On the one hand, universities have ostensibly endeavoured to move away from traditional bureaucratic modes of governance, aiming to reduce ‘red tape’ in the process. Yet over the (...)
Thursday 09
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Was Music the Language of The Missing Link? The role of Musicality as an evolved component of human culture More Information
Over the last forty years or so, speculation about the origins and purpose of music within the disciplines devoted to human evolution has moved from being almost systematically ignored to centre stage. This paper sets out some of the historical influences on this change in the value placed on Music (...)
Friday 10
8:40 - CONFERENCE - Conference on Radicalisation, Counter-radicalisation and De-radicalisation Website | More Information
Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation



For nearly two decades since 9/11, policymakers and the academia alike have paid much attention to radicalisation and terrorism involving jihadist groups and Muslim actors. Despite costly military interventions and (...)

11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Yours, mine and ours? Trirelational kin terms in a language under pressure More Information
Trirelational kin terms are lexemes that identify a family member (the referent) via triangulation, by simultaneously specifying their relationship to two other parties: the speaker and propositus (person from whose perspective the relationship is calculated—often the addressee) (Laughren, 1982; (...)
Thursday 16
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Murujuga Petroglyphs – Rock Art Narratives More Information
Murujuga, Burrup Peninsula, comprises one of the world’s greatest petroglyphs assemblages. Spanning many tens of thousands of years, displaying a myriad of styles and subjects; this rock art provides many stories. Correspondingly, the discipline of rock art research has a number of paradigms and (...)
Friday 17
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Semiar Series : Understanding academic cheating in senior secondary schools in Indonesia and its possible relation to the country’s corruption problem. More Information
The lively public discourse on academic cheating in Indonesia is focused on the National Examination, which is a standardized test organised for Year-9 and Year-12 students. However, since the focus is too narrow, other behaviours that may actually have developed into a pervasive cheating problem (...)


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