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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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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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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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A conversation between research and practice – equity in higher education

Virtual , Australia

University of Newcastle

In this online panel, we explore ways that insights from social science research contribute to meaningful community engagement to support new approaches to equity and social justice in higher education. Australian higher education equity policy has continued to struggle to meet its objectives in creating access to higher education for under-represented people and communities. To understand why these disparities persist, The Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE) at the University of Newcastle works collaboratively with participants, communities and external agencies to understand who is missing from higher education, why, and what can change to make universities more accessible and relevant. We do this through research-informed practice and practice-informed research - where researchers and practitioners work closely together - to understand social and cultural inequities and injustices that significantly affect educational access, experiences and participation. In this workshop, we bring together speakers across CEEHE programs that work with people from an Out Of Home Background, people with a refugee background and people who are experiencing or have experienced gender-based violence. Register now

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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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