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Displaying from Saturday, April 06, 2019
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April 2019
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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
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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
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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 (...)
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Friday 12 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Green Schools Movement around the World: Stories of success and frustration
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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
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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 (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis
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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 (...)
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Friday 26 |
11:00 - EVENT - Linguistics Seminar Series : Debunking urban myths Language and conceptions of time in Aboriginal Australia
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Studies Seminar Series : PhD Proposal and Honours Research Project
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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 (...)
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May 2019
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Thursday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Path of Pain – Truth telling, Acknowledgement and The Bernier and Dorre Island Lock Hospitals
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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 (...)
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Friday 03 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism Theo Stapleton
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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?
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The pervasive force of academics bureaucratizatio : An analysis of the use of ‘key selection criteria’ at Australian universities
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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 (...)
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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
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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 (...)
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Friday 10 |
8:40 - CONFERENCE - Conference on Radicalisation, Counter-radicalisation and De-radicalisation
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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
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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; (...)
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Thursday 16 |
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Murujuga Petroglyphs – Rock Art Narratives
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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 (...)
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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.
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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 (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology/Sociology Seminar Series : This week’s seminar consists of an Honours’ completion presentation and an early stage PhD presentation
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Transnational Students, Gentrification and Urban Subjectivities: An ethnography of transnational Chinese student residents in Perth, Western Australia.
This paper explores urbanisation processes of gentrification as they intersect with Australia’s international education industry (...)
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Thursday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox, 1853-1905
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The merchant vessel Edwin Fox was exceptional for being unexceptional. It was old fashioned even before its keel was laid down in Thomas Reeves’s shipyards near Calcutta in 1853. It was neither large nor fast, and had none of the prestige of the great tea and opium clippers that captured the (...)
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Friday 24 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology & Sociology Seminar Series : Magali McDuffie – ‘"Jimbinkaboo Yimardoowarra Marninil" - Listening to Nyikina women's voices, from the inside to the outside: Nyikina women's agency in an inter-generational journey of cultural and environmental actions, economic, and self-determination initiatives on Nyikina Country, through film’
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Twelve years of collaboration between three Yimardoowarra Marninil, Nyikina
sisters from the Lower Fitzroy River, and French-Australian filmmaker and PhD
Scholar, Magali McDuffie, have revealed the Nyikina women’s determination to
speak and re-affirm their Nyikina worldview into existence. Their (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Growing up African in Australia : AfREC Africa Day 2019 public panel discussion and book launch
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The theme is “Growing up African in Australia” and will feature an interactive panel discussion and Q&A followed by refreshments and networking. The event also serves as the WA launch of the recently published book by Black Inc. Books Growing up African in Australia. Copies will be (...)
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