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WSU: Anthropology and Filming our Social Worlds

Virtual , Australia

Western Sydney University

Ethnographic film-making has long been a medium for ethnographic analysis in Anthropology. In this panel for Social Sciences Week 2022, Anthropology @ Western Sydney University presents a film by Dr Malini Sur (ICS, SoSS) entitled Life Cycle that offers a tribute to the bicycle in uncertain times and its relationship to rapidly changing Indian cities. The film maker will discuss the making of the film and is joined by a panel of discussants in a conversation about the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic film making Panellists: Mary Hawkins, Cristina Rocha, Andrew McWilliam, Kathleen Openshaw and Helena Onnudottir Film Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_y0rxaO7T8&t=10s Life Cycle (42 Minutes) explores the place of the bicycle in the everyday lives of city dwellers in Kolkata. Are Kolkata's bicycles relics of a past to be hastily discarded or are they viable, if complicated cargo vehicles in India’s burgeoning cities? Winding through Kolkata’s roads we follow the city’s daily wage-workers, teachers and environmentalists and their changing relationships to cycling. What happens when new traffic regulations impede two-wheeled travelers from riding on Kolkata’s roads? How do vendors, couriers, newspaper sellers and artists negotiate Kolkata’s roads congested with cars and other motorized transport? Who wins the battle for the road […]

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Climate exodus: hope, refusals and acts of defiance during uneasy times

University of Newcastle

The UON Environmental Humanities Network invites you to a screening of David Baute’s award winning film Climate Exodus (2020), followed by a seminar that seeks to explore localised responses to climate change and ruin. We live in an uneasy time; a time marked by disasters, tragedy and ruin that challenges our relationships to place and time. Increasingly, a common awareness is emerging of how capitalist progress, growth and development walk hand in hand with experiences of dispossession, displacement and disjuncture. Climate change and environmental destruction are two consequences of the accelerated change that have followed neoliberal globalisation and left the world ‘overheated’ (Eriksen 2016) and unable to sustain life as we know it. The UON Environmental Humanities Network invites you to a seminar that seeks to explore localised responses to climate change and ruin. The seminar will take as its starting point the ethnographic film Climate Exodus by David Baute, which narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change and emigrate to start a new life. Drawing on the stories of the film, Hedda Askland will discuss how we can understand displacement in the context of climate change and the political implications of framing displacement in […]

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Household experiments in low waste living: Working toward a sustainability transition

Virtual , Australia

Monash University

Australia is experiencing an urban waste crisis and there is an urgent need to change norms and practices at the household level. Households are often seen as a problem for sustainability transitions, but they are also a source of innovation. We discuss our ARC funded participatory action project working with 35 householders to co-design and evaluate household 6-week experiments in low waste living. In this online panel hear from some of the householders and the research team. Information on the larger project is available here.

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Exploring tropes of art at the Muloobinba / Newcastle Lockup

University of Newcastle

How do past to contemporary tropes of art add to making and shaping contemporary experiences, understandings and perceptions, not only in the art world but beyond as well? And what are the ways in which different experiences and perceptions of time play a key role for developing useful, critical and potentially additional strategies for the future? Each of the participants in this panel, facilitated at the Newcastle Lock-Up — current and former gallery directors, artists and art lovers — will bring their professional and personal expertise to the conversation. Members of the audience will also be invited to participate in the conversation on the day. The panel conversation is set up in collaboration and co-sponsorship between the Newcastle Lock-Up and the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences (HCISS), University of Newcastle. The panel participants are: Courtney Novak Virginia Cuppaidge Gael Davies Brett McMahon Ron Ramsay Daniela Heil About the Panelists: Courtney Novak, Artistic Director: Courtney Novak has extensive experience in creative programming, exhibition development and project management and arts marketing. Courtney joined The Lock-Up in 2014 and has been instrumental in the organisation’s strategic direction, enabling the contemporary art space to become a nationally recognised, award-winning institution. She […]

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Insecurity in the Asia-Pacific region

Virtual , Australia

Monash University

This webinar showcases the research of scholars within Monash University’s School of Social Sciences on security threats in the Asia-Pacific Region and how those threats are being and can be addressed. Topics include energy insecurity, disinformation, armed conflicts, non-state armed groups, climate change, gendered insecurity, and young women's leadership to address complex crises in the Region. By drawing this work together, the event encourages reflection on how security threats intersect as well as how we define security and whose security may be privileged.

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Ngukurr to Newcastle: exploring the living archive through possum skin cloak making

University of Newcastle

Join us for a conversation which explores the life of Dexter Daniels a Union activist from the community of Ngukurr in the Northern Territory. Dexter was key in organising and supporting the Wave Hill walk-off and other strikes for worker’s rights and land across the Northern Territory. Recent research has uncovered Dexter’s connections to Newcastle, through his engagement with the Trades Unions. We are working with the Ngukurr community and students from Cooks Hill campus to re-tell his story through the medium of a possum skin coat. Keri Clarke will explain the process of possum skin cloak making and students will talk about their experiences of being involved. With Keri Clarke, BoonWurrug Wemba Wemba Cloak Maker, Kate Senior, Professor of Anthropology, University of Newcastle, and students from the Cooks Hill Campus of Newcastle High Register now

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Tackling Tasmania’s big challenges: Social Sciences at the Parliament of Tasmania

University of Tasmania

An evening where Social Sciences researchers meet with Members of the Tasmanian Parliament. On Wednesday 7 September 2022, researchers from the University of Tasmania, in partnership with Social Sciences Week, meet with Members of the Tasmanian Parliament in a closed session to discuss tackling Tasmania’s big challenges including: Professor Victoria Carrington and Professor Karen Martin : Trauma informed practice in Tasmanian schools – what does this mean? Professor Nicholas Farrelly: How does our engagement with Asia change under a new Federal Government. Associate Professor Catherine Robinson: Better, bigger, stronger: Improving responses to unaccompanied homeless children in Tasmania. Following the session, each talk will be made into a series of podcasts that address Tasmania’s key challenges politically, economically and culturally, consider where we want to be in 10 years, and focus on biggest areas of influence now.

Music!Dance!Culture! Podcasting as ethnographic field research

Virtual , Australia

Australian Anthropological Society

Music!Dance!Culture! (www.music-dance-culture.com) is a podcast about music and dance across cultures supported by an Australian Anthropology Society’s Engaged Anthropology Grant and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The podcast makes academic research about music accessible to a wider audience, and particularly to the communities with whom we do our research. In a time when opportunities for performance are fewer and musicians’ livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the pandemic, the podcast has provided an important avenue for performance and sharing of the knowledge of vulnerable musical traditions. The podcast has also fostered innovative approaches to ethnomusicological fieldwork in a time when travel has been curtailed. Hosts Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan and Georgia Curran will discuss podcast production, reflect on the challenges they have overcome, and share some examples from episodes in a new show reel. This event will also include performances of minority musical genres featured in our podcast episodes.

Language and social inclusion

Seminar Rooms 2 & 3, Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Seminar Rooms 2 & 3, Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, VIC, Australia

Monash University

Language plays a core role in people’s ability to participate in society, yet the role of language in fostering social inclusion is often overlooked in social policy. This panel explores some of the more pernicious ways that linguistic discrimination and the ‘monolingual mindset’ contribute to social exclusion in Australia, and what needs to change to develop policies and institutions that better respond to the multilingual reality of contemporary Australia.

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Ethnographic Film Night: Life after Lockdown in Wuhan

University of Newcastle

It is over two years since we experienced the first period of lock down because of COVID’19. Since then, we have had periods of interruptions at various levels of society. Deferrals, delays and disappointments have become part of the status-quo as the intangible virus translates into tangible consequences and material realities. The virus interrupts and is omnipresent: it is in our homes, as we grapple with the virus taking hold of our bodies and the bodies of loved ones; in our communities, as our mobility, opportunities to socialise and engage in communal activities get impeded by people being sick, requirements for self-isolation, or concern about the spread of the virus; at our workplaces, as we respond to requirements for QR log ins and masks, social distancing rules and a new sense of environment. We have been told we have to learn to ‘live with COVID’ – but what is this? What does living with COVID mean? What is life like now, after lock down? These questions will be at the centre of the University of Newcastle’s fourth annual Ethnographic Film Night. Initiated as a UON Social Science Week event in 2019, the Ethnographic Film Night has brought together people from […]

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