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Displaying from Thursday, August 08, 2019
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August 2019
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Thursday 08 |
12:00 - EVENT - Asian Studies Semiar Series : Towards a framework for (re)thinking the ethics and politics of international student mobility
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In recent years, scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) has proliferated across various social science disciplines. Of late, an interest in the ethics and politics of ISM seems to be emerging, as more scholars begin to consider critically questions about rights, responsibility, justice (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Baler shell knives in northern Australia : A comparative study of archaeological, experimental and ethnographic data
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This paper explores the archaeological evidence for the making of baler shell (Melo spp.) knives found in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene deposits in Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, northwest Western Australia. While such knives have been reported in surface midden contexts the archaeological (...)
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Friday 09 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Linguistics Seminar Series : Linguistics in High School: Building the curriculum
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This talk investigates the process of creating a 24-lesson syllabus for a secondary school linguistics course. Doing this has required a fine balance between student needs, student interest, availability of existing materials, teacher skillset, and the requirements of the language curriculum. < (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : Rich universities, poor education and the growing precarious academic class
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This paper deals with causes and impacts of casual teaching staff exploitation at Australian Universities, with a case study from UWA. Casualisation of employment relations is a measure of improving economic efficiency and profitability of businesses. The number of unstable jobs has been increasing (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations Seminar Series 2019 : Changing approaches to development aid in Africa
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This presentation will consider some of the emerging challenges for official development assistance (ODA) in Africa. After a brief overview of three bilateral donor programs (Australia, Denmark and UK), the new frameworks for supporting economic development will be presented. These frameworks (...)
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Thursday 15 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Muslim States and Societies Seminar Series 2019 : India's Gamble in Kashmir: Implications for Stability and Militancy
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On 5 August 2019, in a highly controversial decision, the Indian government revoked the special status given to the Indian-administered, Muslim-majority Kashmir. This move brought an end to the internal autonomy given to this disputed region under the Indian Constitution, sparking fears of (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : The future of archaeology and heritage politics in an era of Belt and Road
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Incorporating two thirds of the world's population and more than 70 countries, the Belt and Road Initiative has been described as the most significant and far-reaching initiative that China has ever put forward.
Framed as a 'revival' of the Silk Roads for the 21st century, Belt and Road rests on a (...)
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Friday 16 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Construction and Infrastructure in the Philippines at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
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Infrastructure and construction are the two physical aspects of village life discussed in this seminar. Roads and trails, where they existed, were located near or within towns since the lack of wheeled vehicles and the availability of waterways for easy travel by boat made these unsuited and (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
12:50 - SEMINAR - Political Science and International Relations : PhD Seminar Series 2019
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Presentation 1:
Title: Assembling, Deploying, and Contesting Social Impact Bonds in Australia
Speaker: Jacob Broom
Research Proposal Presentation)
Presentation 2:
Title: The Political Economy of Post-Crisis Financial Stability Governance: A case study of (...)
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Thursday 22 |
Family violence and violence against women remain a major issue globally and in Australia. This affects migrant communities, including Muslim families, in Australia. In this presentation, Rachel Mathewson will outline the Home Affairs provisions and support provided for visa-holders affected by (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Past sea-level changes, environments and coastal demography. Is archaeology missing some critical factors? And if so, why?
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Abstract:
This talk has three main sections:
1. An outline of the main sedimentary processes controlling coastal and marine archaeological sites, with a focus on Australia's NW shelf. This is relevant because it is a critical control upon much archaeological work in NW Australia, but it is poorly (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Linguistics Seminar : The challenges of community- led language and country maintenance
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What are the realities and challenges of community-led, on-country language-revitalisation/maintenance of Martu languages in the Western Desert today?
After graduating from the ANU in 2015 with Honours in Language Studies, Duke (Garry Earl-Spurr) moved to the East Pilbara in mid-2016 (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : PhD Proposals
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Presentation 1:
In the wake of choice: Perth’s autonomous women’s engagement with the discourse of choice via post-abortion narratives presented by Dorinda ’t Hart.
Pro-abortion discourse generally presents abortion as an unproblematic event in the course of a woman’s (...)
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Monday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Anthropology and Sociology Public Lecture
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All across social sciences and humanities, “home” has
emerged as a unique research topic, despite its inherent
ambiguity, as it bridges a variety of divides - public vs
private, material vs immaterial, descriptive vs prescriptive,
“us” vs “them”. However, under conditions of (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
1:00 - EVENT - Conducting a comprehensive literature search (Humanities and Social Sciences focus)
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Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough. Learn how to:
Develop a search strategy;
identify relevant, scholarly information sources and;
use tools and techniques to track the literature related to your research.
This session has a Humanities and Social (...)
10:00 - SEMINAR - Should we say sorry? An examination of the treatment of people of Chinese cultural heritage in Western Australia between 1820s and 1970s.
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People of Chinese cultural heritage has been part of the history of Western Australia since the proclamation of the Swan River Colony. They in the past were subjected to certain policies, which were legal but arguably unjust in light of contemporary societal attitude towards equality and fairness (...)
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Anthropology and Sociology Research Workshop
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Interested Postgraduate Students and Early Career
Researchers whose research engages with themes of
migration, home, identity and belonging are invited
to attend a special research workshop with Professor
Paolo Boccagni. Participants will give brief presentations
summarising their research on these (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - WA Migration and Mobilities Update : ‘Belonging in Western Australia: Addressing Migrant and Refugee Inclusion’
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This year the Update tackles the important question of belonging, with the theme ‘Belonging in Western Australia: Addressing Migrant and Refugee Inclusion’. Each year around 200,000 people move permanently to Australia, and many more come temporarily for work or education – how are we, as a (...)
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Friday 30 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The transmission of the intangible cultural heritage of porcelain production in mid to late 20th Century China (1950 - 2000)
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Traditional forms of craftsmanship and craft production are types of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), and their survival has been challenged by urbanisation, industrialisation, and globalisation. This urgency motivates my doctoral research on heritage craft production in China, with the aim of (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series : Marginality and the X Factor: Assessing the Applicability of the Zomia Hypothesis in the Context of Archipelagic Southeast Asia
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This paper begins with a critique of the marginality concept proposed by von Braun and Gatzweiler in Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology due to its neglect of dimensions of local agency. It then proceeds to consider Scott’s rethinking of peripheral societies in (...)
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