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19jun4:00 pm6:00 pmReading Environments: MOOM!4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Environment Institute

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Reading Environments is a new series of gatherings sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute and open to staff and students from across the University of Sydney.

Our common focus is the developing, diversified, and interdisciplinary field of the Environmental Humanities. Key concerns will be drawn from environmentally-engaged philosophy, art, literature, history, and so forth. Exemplary topics may include cultures of climate change; bioethics; animals; nonhuman temporalities; ecology and biodiversity; posthumanism; planetarity; etc.

In our first term, we will sample a variety of works – academic and otherwise – that represent significant, but by no means exhaustive, features and futures of the field. Future selections will reflect the interests of salon members. Our method will encompass readings, structured discussions, free conversations, field trips, and other endeavours besides. Our materials will be drawn from sources critical and creative; textual and ephemeral; visual and other-sensory.

This month’s suggested material:

Nnedi Okorafor – “MOOM!” (Hartmann 2012)

“MOOM!” is one of several stories in Okorafor’s oeuvre to engage the environmental and social consequences of petroleum extraction and transportation in West Africa. It was inspired by a 2010 Reuters headline, “Swordfish Attack Angolan Oil Pipeline.” It would become the opening chapter of her 2016 novel Lagoon.

Julio Cortázar – “Axolotl” (1956)

In this short fiction, Cortázar’s narrator encounters a group of reptiles living in a tank at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. What proceeds is a tangle of recognition, identification, “sensibility,” and metamorphosis.

**Elisa Aaltola – “Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and Animal Philosophy” (Environmental Philosophy 10.2 (2013); 75-96)**

Aaltola considers the possibilities of intersubjectivity, and problematizes the place of “propositional language” in human-more-than-human relations. Inspired in part by Simone Weil and Barbara Smuts, Aaltola describes a practice – and ethic – of “attention.”

**Eduardo Kohn – “Runa Puma” (Introduction to How Forests Think (2013))**

Kohn’s text derives from work conducted in the Upper Amazon. It discovers and seeks novel “conceptual tools” for thinking, writing, and practicing beyond an anthropocentric anthropology.

For more information, or to request access to texts, contact: killian.quigley@sydney.edu.au

Time

(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

226 Seminar Room

Department of Media and Communications, John Woolley Building (A20) level 2, University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Environment Institutemichelle.stanne@sydney.edu.au

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19jun6:00 pm7:30 pmSYDNEY IDEAS | PEACE ON THE PENINSULA?: THE ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF NORTH KOREA’S DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Ideas

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After years of tightening sanctions in response to North Korea’s persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-un’s recent diplomatic activism has awakened hopes for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula. This roundtable discussion brings together experts from the University of Sydney and the Lowy Institute to explore the origins and implications of Kim’s recent diplomatic activism from North Korean, US, and Chinese perspectives.

The Speakers:

Dr Justin Hastings, Associate Professor in International Relations and Comparative Politics and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is the author of A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy (Cornell University Press, 2016).
Richard McGregor, an award-winning journalist and author with unrivalled experience reporting on the top-level politics and economies of east Asia, primarily China and Japan. He was the Financial Times bureau chief in Beijing and Shanghai between 2000 and 2009, and headed the Washington office for four years from 2011. Prior to joining the FT, he was the chief political correspondent and China and Japan correspondent for The Australian. His book The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers won numerous awards, including the Asia Society in New York award in 2011 for best book on Asia. His latest book, Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century, was described as “shrewd and knowing” by The Wall Street Journal, and a “compelling and impressive” read by The Economist. He was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2015 and a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center at George Washington University in 2016. He has lectured widely, in the United States and elsewhere, on Chinese politics and Asia.
Dr David Smith has a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and a BA from the University of Sydney. His research examines political relations between states and minorities, with a focus on religion in the US. His book Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.
James Reilly (chair), Associate Professor in Northeast Asian Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (George Washington University 2008) and an M.A. in East Asia Area Studies (University of Washington 1999), was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford (2008-09), and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2015-16). He also served as the East Asia Representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in China from 2001-2008. He is the author of Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China’s Japan Policy (Columbia University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Australia and China at 40 (UNSW Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes and academic journals.

Event details

When:6.00pm – 7.30pm
Where:Please see this page for details
Cost:Free and open to all with online registrations required
Registration:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-ideas-peace-on-the-peninsula-the-origins-and-implications-of-north-koreas-diplomatic-tickets-45847627488
Contact:Sydney Ideas
sydney.ideas@sydney.edu.au
9351 2943

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Law School Foyer

Level 2, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney

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Sydney Ideassydney.ideas@sydney.edu.au

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20jun6:00 pm7:00 pmPOMPEIIS OF THE PACIFIC: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VOLCANIC DISASTERS IN PNG6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Organized By: Nicholson Museum

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A Macleay lecture in the Nicholson Museum by Dr Robin Torrence.
What lessons can we learn from ancient people in PNG about how to cope with natural disasters and extreme environmental events?
Inter-disciplinary research on New Britain Island off Papua New Guinea’s northern coast has identified at least 14 major volcanic eruptions since the island was colonised about 40,000 years ago. On each occasion thick deposits of ash buried villages and gardens forcing people to flee their homelands. Robin will talk about her long-term archaeological research project that has identified changes in subsistence and technology linked to volcanic activity, but has also uncovered evidence for incredible resilience as human groups coped with and adapted to this highly catastrophic environment.

Robin Torrence is Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum. Her major research area is New Britain’s Willaumez Peninsula, where her team is focusing on exchange, social change, lithic technology and use-wear, landscape use, and the long-term impact of volcanic disasters on culture change. She has also conducted archaeological research on obsidian exchange in Greece, the Pacific region, and east Russia. Robin has adapted archaeological approaches to the study of ethnographic collections from PNG to identify indigenous perspectives and behaviour within cross-cultural interactions.

Event details

When:6.00pm – 7.00pm
Where:Nicholson Museum
The Quadrangle
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Cost:Free
Registration:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pompeiis-of-the-pacific-tickets-45365715075
Contact:Museum Reception
T + 61 2 9351 2812
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W Nicholson Museum
More info:The Nicholson Museum is open to the public and has free admission;
Monday To Friday 10.00am – 4.30pm
The First Saturday of Every Month 12noon – 4.00pm
Closed on Public Holidays

Time

(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Nicholson Museum

University of Sydney

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Nicholson MuseumThe Quadrangle, the University of Sydney

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21jun12:00 pm1:00 pm'Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia'12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Event Organized By: The University of Sydney Business School

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Book Launch Event – ‘Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia’

Professor Stephen Garton, Professor of History and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney

21st Jun 2018 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm Rm 5050, Lvl 5, the Abercrombie Building (H70)

Presenter: Professor Stephen Garton
Professor of History and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney

Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia, edited by Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist and published by the University of Illinois Press, explores workers’ experiences in the two countries to illuminate important issues in labour history. Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labour relations, and politics. The volume’s essays use transnational and comparative analysis to explore five major areas: World War I’s impact on labour and socialist movements; the history of coerced labour; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures. The contributors are Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O’Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson, Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise. The book arises from Australia-US Comparative Labour History Project, which commenced in 2013, and was sponsored by the BLHG, the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and the Labor and Working Class History Association.

Biography:
Stephen Garton is Professor of History and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney. He is the author or co-author of 7 books and numerous chapters and articles, largely in the area of Australian social and cultural history, although he has also published in the fields of British, British Imperial and American history. He is a former Associate Editor of the journal Labour History and was a member of the Labour History Editorial Board for 25 years.

Date: Thursday 21 June 2018
Time: 12:00pm – 1.00pm
Venue: Room 5050 Level 5
The Abercrombie Building (H70)
The University of Sydney Business School

Light lunch will be served so please advise of any dietary requirements.

Registrations close 19 June 2018.

Enquiries
For more information please contact:
Glenn Howell
T +61 2 9351 6625
E business.researchgroups@sydney.edu.au
The University of Sydney Business School

Time

(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

Room 5050 Level 5

The Abercrombie Building (H70) The University of Sydney Business School

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The University of Sydney Business School

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21jun5:00 pm7:30 pmMasterclass for the Master of Public Policy5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Event Organized By: Department of Government & International Relations

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Presented by Professor Gaby Ramia

Experience firsthand one of the classes that may form your future course. Postgraduate masterclasses are your opportunity to join a one‑hour session from the actual curriculum, delivered by one of our leading academics.

Event Program
This session will be held as part of the Postgraduate Open Evening, CBD Campus.

5-5.45pm Registration and networking
5.30pm Official welcome
5.45-6.45pm Postgraduate masterclass for the Master of Public Policy
6.45-7.30pm Networking

Public Policy: What will you Learn?

Ever wondered how some of society’s problems come and go from public attention while others stick around for a long time? How and why do governments deliver their policies and who do they work with and against in doing so?

Governments choose the problems they deal with. Their choice process is in the realm of ‘politics’. How, when and if governments deal with problems relates to the ‘policy’ process. How the public service is organised to deliver on policies is in the ‘administrative’ space. The field of public policy has policy, politics and administration at its heart.

During this masterclass, you will engage in discussion about the field of public policy and its basic elements, and work together in groups on live, still-unresolved examples of government policy and the problems policy seeks to address.

About the Presenter

Gaby Ramia is currently Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney. His home Department is Government and International Relations, which he joined in 2016.

Time

(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Sydney University CBD Campus, Level 17

133 Castlereagh St, Sydney

Organizer

Department of Government & International Relations

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21jun6:00 pm8:00 pmPolitics in the Pub | The Greens, Recent Results, Long Term Trends and Looking Towards 20196:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event Organized By: Politics in the Pub

21jun6:00 pm7:00 pmWalkley Media Talks: 50/50 vision – Sydney6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Organized By: The Walkley Foundation

26jun12:45 pm1:45 pmBook Launch: Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem, by Milton Osborne12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Event Organized By: Lowy Institute

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Over the course of nearly 60 years’ engagement with Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne has become one of Australia’s leading authorities on the region. His Southeast Asia: An Introductory History, first published in 1979, is now in its 12th edition and has been translated into five Asian languages.

Osborne’s latest work, Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem: Remembering Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds, 1956–1981, is a memoir of his career as a young diplomat in Phnom Penh, from 1959–61, and later as an academic and consultant to UNHCR, when he worked in Vietnam and along the Thai–Cambodian border.

Following remarks on his experience of these early postcolonial years in Southeast Asia, Dr Osborne will be joined in conversation by Aaron Connelly, Director of the Southeast Asia Project at the Lowy Institute.

Dr Milton Osborne has held various academic appointments, including as a nonresident fellow of the Lowy Institute. From 1982 to 1993, he returned to government service as head of the Asia Branch of the Office of National Assessments. In 2013, the French Government honoured him with an appointment as Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite for his writing on France in Asia and his role in liaison with French officials.

Time

(Tuesday) 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Location

Lowy Institute

Level 3, 1 Bligh Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

Organizer

Lowy Instituteevents@lowyinstitute.org

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26jun6:00 pm8:00 pmPopulism, authoritarianism and gender in Trump’s America6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event Organized By: US Studies Centre & the Electoral Integrity Project

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The 2016 election of Donald Trump as US president has generated considerable interest in the role of populism and authoritarianism in contemporary democratic politics both in the United States and elsewhere. Trump’s electoral victory initiated a series of worldwide women’s marches to protest his election, may have helped to spark the #MeToo movement, and has generated unprecedented interest in running for political office among American female Democrats.

The outcome of the 2016 presidential election raises numerous important questions that have implications for the upcoming 2018 congressional and 2020 presidential elections. Are American voters more populist and more authoritarian than in the past? Why were (mostly) young American men marching with flaming torches to protest the removal of a confederate statue in Virginia? What is happening with Democratic and Republican women in 2018, and why did many women vote for Donald Trump and controversial candidates like Alabama’s Roy Moore? Is there really an increase in anti-immigration sentiment in the United States and other wealthy democracies, or is something else happening?

Join two of the United States leading political psychologists, Stanley Feldman and Leonie Huddy in a roundtable discussion hosted by US Studies Centre CEO Professor Simon Jackman, to talk about the role of populism, authoritarianism and gender in American politics, and the politics of democracies in Europe and Australia.

This event is jointly presented with The Electoral Integrity Project

Stanley Feldman

Stanley is a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on the origins of political preferences, with particular interests in the structure of political ideology and values, the role of emotions in politics, and the psychological bases of attitudes and opinions. His work has examined the impact of personality on political attitudes, the nature of authoritarianism, prejudice, and emotional and political reactions to terrorism. He is currently working on projects to better understand the nature of ideology and the effects of empathy on political attitudes, and has a forthcoming book on authoritarian attitudes in the United States.

Leonie Huddy

Leonie is a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She studies political behavior in the United States and elsewhere through the lens of intergroup relations, with a special focus on gender, race, and ethnic relations. Her recent work extends that focus to the study of partisan identities in the United States and Western Europe.

Simon Jackman

Simon has been CEO of the US Studies Centre in April 2016. He is a leading expert in survey research and was previously a Professor of Political Science and Statistics at Stanford University. Jackman’s teaching and research centres on public opinion, election campaigns, political participation, and electoral systems with special emphasis on American and Australian politics.

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Law Lounge

Organizer

US Studies Centre & the Electoral Integrity Project

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26jun6:00 pm7:30 pmSydney Ideas | Radicalisation6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Ideas

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Co-presented with the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, in the School of Social and Political Sciences

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Event type: Lecture
Date: Tuesday 26 June 2018
Time: 6 – 7.30pm
Venue: Law School Foyer, Level 2, Sydney Law School (F10), Eastern Avenue
Cost: Free and open to all with online registrations required
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Home-grown terrorism is among the most urgent challenges confronting western societies today. Attempts to understand jihadism often treat this development as a form of political violence, a form of religious extremism, or the result of the manipulation and grooming of vulnerable people. But once we start to explore actual experiences of radicalization we discover a great diversity of experiences, as well as the fact that radicalization is not something done to people, but something produced by active participants. In this presentation Professor Kevin McDonald explores case studies of different radicalization experiences, based on interviews with members of banned organizations and the social media use of British and French young people who travelled to Syria. He focuses on a university student, a computer hacker, and a former drug dealer. These experiences highlight embodied imaginaries more than political ideologies, conspiracy theories more than religion, and suggest new ways to understand and respond to the allure of jihadism as well as other forms of violent extremism.

The Speaker:

Before joining Middlesex University as Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology in 2013, Professor Kevin McDonald has held senior academic positions at the University of Melbourne in Australia, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, together with a Marie Curie International Fellowship at Goldsmiths College in London. Fluent in three languages, he is a leader of international research networks around engagement and disengagement from violence, social and religious movements and the construction of civil societies, and the empowering role of digital technologies. He is a facilitator with the UK-based Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, where he has worked on its Iraq Research Fellowship Programme, and is a member of the Australian Attorney General’s Countering Violent Extremism Research Panel.

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Law School Foyer

Level 2, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Ideassydney.ideas@sydney.edu.au

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27jun5:30 pm7:00 pmSINOPHONE CHALLENGES TO POSTCOLONIAL THEORY5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre

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This lecture will examine the interlinked historical formations of the Anglophone, the Francophone and the Sinophone in an effort to consider postcolonial theory comparatively as well as relationally. The purpose of the lecture is three-fold, all with methodological implications: to intervene in the predominant Anglo-Franco focus of postcolonial theory, to offer new ways of theorizing the postcolonial from Sinophone perspectives, and finally, to propose a way of considering comparison as a method that is not a comparison of discrete historical and literary formations, but a search for relationality among them.

Invited Speaker

Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA

Shu-mei Shih is a Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has published extensively in the field of Sinophone studies, comparative studies, and world literature. Notable publications include Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai, Columbia UP, 2013); The Creolization of Theory (co-edited with Françoise Lionnet, Duke UP, 2011); Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific (U of California Press, 2007); and Minor Transnationalism (co-edited with Françoise Lionnet, Duke UP, 2005).

This event is supported by Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC).

Image credit: Untitled by Hung Chang (c. 1959). Oil on canvas. Cover image of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader.

Event details

When:5.30pm – 7.00pm
Where:
Education Lecture Theatre 351

Education Building

Manning Rd

The University of Sydney

NSW 2006
Cost:Free
Contact:Claire Stevens
E claire.stevens@sydney.edu.au

T (02) 9351 5359
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Time

(Wednesday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Education Lecture Theatre 351

Education Building, Manning Rd, the University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre

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27jun6:00 pm7:30 pmEnvironmental Behaviour Change: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers and Grass-Roots Campaigners6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Environment Institute

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The assumption that helping the environment means changing our individual behaviours is a commonplace of daily life. We are all urged to ‘do our bit’, to ‘consume responsibly’ and to make small changes. The underlying assumption is that thousands of small individual actions all add up and will bring about the required level of environmental progress.

This proposition is hotly contested within academic scholarship. Its empirical truth is called into doubt by environmental scholarship emphasising the big gap between intentions and actions. Moreover, its theoretical and conceptual foundations are troubled in some branches of social theory that urge us to move beyond person-centred accounts of change in favour of approaches that recognise the critical role of the material world in changing habits.

This panel invites two successful environmental change agents — Managing Director of Clean Up Australia, Terrie-Ann Johnson, and co-founder of Manly’s Operation Straw and owner of eco-friendly business Grumpy Turtle Design, Harriet Spark, to discuss their work and to bring it into dialogue with these debates.

Join us as we explore the multiple social ecosystems that act in the spaces between the government and the individual.

Speakers

Terrie-Ann Johnson, Managing Director of Clean Up Australia
Harriet Spark, co-founder of Manly’s Operation Straw
Associate Professor Ruth Barcan, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies

Chair

Dr Fiona Allon, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies

Biographies

Terrie-Ann Johnson joined Clean Up Australia in 2003 as Corporate Affairs Manager. Since then she has held several management positions developing and leading the delivery and evaluation of all of Clean Up Australia’s campaigns and projects including Clean Up Australia Day, Clean Up the World, Clean Water and Towards Zero Waste. In 2007 Terrie-Ann was appointed Chief Executive, responsible for strategic planning, advocacy, people management, fundraising, compliance, communication and stakeholder management, financial controls and business ethics. In 2012 she was appointed to the Board of Clean Up Australia Limited as Managing Director.

During the span of her 30 years as a professional communicator, Terrie-Ann has worked with a vast array of specialist services organisations including Rubicon Point, Perpetual Trustees, Lend Lease Corporation, MLC Limited, Business Men’s Assurance, Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia) Limited and The Scout Association of Australia (NSW). She has also held multiple Board and Committee Memberships including the NSW Government Sports Advisory Committee, International Association of Business Communicators, the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT, Surf Life Saving Australia, the Westpac Helicopter Rescue Service and most recently Clean Up Australia Limited. Terrie-Ann is a graduate of the University of Technology, NSW, Australia (Bachelor of Arts), and Charles Sturt University (Master of Arts).

Harriet Spark fell in love with the ocean while dive instructing on the Great Barrier Reef. Experiencing the beauty of the underwater world first-hand, and learning about the threats this ecosystem faces, led her to swap her fins and mask for a pencil and computer. Harriet believes in conservation through creative communication. She has worked in communications and design for some of Australia’s leading environmental organisations, including 1 Million Women and Taronga Conservation Society Australia, and has spearheaded several environmental initiatives, the most recent being Operation Straw. Harriet now runs Grumpy Turtle Design, a creative agency working businesses, companies, and organisations that are doing good for this blue planet of ours.

Ruth Barcan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and an affiliate of the Sydney Environment Institute. Her teaching and research are centred on embodiment, the senses and everyday life, with a particular interest in everyday practices of sustainability. In recent years she has studied the environmental dimensions of the revival of domestic chicken-keeping in Sydney. Her current research centres on everyday life as a space of informal environmental education. Ruth is the author of Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices (2013); Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses (2011), Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (2004), and the co-editor of Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry (1999) and Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning (1997).

Time

(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Law School Foyer

Level 2, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Environment Institutemichelle.stanne@sydney.edu.au

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27jun6:15 pm8:00 pmDriverless Future6:15 pm - 8:00 pm Event Organized By: School of Architecture, Design & Planning

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Please join the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning Alumni Association for the panel discussion, Driverless Future.

A future where driverless vehicles are part of the everyday urban experience is fast approaching.

How are connected and autonomous vehicles going to impact on urban design and planning for the built form? Will the experience of driverless vehicles foster or hinder social experiences?

This panel discussion, facilitated by Jess Scully, Curator and City of Sydney Councillor, brings together experts in transport design, policy and planning, connected technologies and social research to explore the integration of driverless cars and possible implications for the experience of the urban. Case studies from the speakers own practice or research will be presented and discussed.

PANELISTS

Professor Robyn Dowling
Associate Dean Research – University of Sydney, Architecture, Design and Planning

Robyn’s current research is concerned with the ways in which urban governance and urban life are responding to climate change and technological disruptions. She builds upon the foundations of urban planning to explore the partnerships and complex relationships through which contemporary cities are governed, and most recently the notion of smart cities. Her work has encompassed the documentation of the new forms of autonomous mobility that are being forged in cities, car sharing and the challenged posed by autonomous vehicles.

Tanya Vincent
Principal Manager Urban Design – Transport for NSW

Tanya has over 20 years’ experience bridging the disciplines of architecture, urban design and planning. She explains her current project, the Sydney Light Rail as “12km of route equals 24m of urban design” and enjoys working with many talented professionals to balance the tensions between link and place in the city. Tanya brings to her education and policy roles practical solutions from working knowledge of greenfield development, neighbourhood planning, housing and infrastructure projects. She has produced several industry references such as Landcom’s Residential Density Guide and is a Churchill Fellow.

David Holden
Director – Kinesis

David has over ten years’ experience working across Australian and American cities in both the public and private sectors and is a Director at Kinesis, a technology led sustainability and strategic urban design consultancy. David focuses on the use of urban data and analytics to deliver planning, transport and sustainable city strategies for Australian and international governments and private sector partners. He is currently working with state governments and developers on the delivery of parking solutions that respond to emerging mobility trends.

Andrew Mehaffey
NSW Director – HMI Technologies

Andrew has a wealth of experience and industry standing in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), most recently as NSW Director of HMI Technologies where his team leads the NSW Smart Shuttle Autonomous Vehicle Trial. Andrew has led the successful initiation, development and deployment of a broad range of major high-profile advanced technology solutions for roads and road-based public transport. He has represented NSW and Australia as an ITS expert in numerous national and international forums, was a Director of ITS Australia and chaired the organising committee for several of ITS Australia’s National Summits.

Time

(Wednesday) 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery Rd, Sydney NSW 2000

Organizer

School of Architecture, Design & Planning

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28jun10:00 am12:00 pmComparison as Relation: A Masterclass with Shu-mei Shih10:00 am - 12:00 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre

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Following the ‘Sinophone Challenges to Postcolonial Theory’ lecture on the previous day, this masterclass will explore further a new method of comparison called “relational comparison.” The readings for the class offer two instantiations of this method that uses world historical approaches to studying world literature. Attendees are invited to consider how this method might or might not be useful or usable for their specific projects.

Readings

Shih, Shu-mei. “Comparison as Relation.” In Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. Eds. Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, pp. 79-98.

—–. “Race and Relation: The Global Sixties in the South of the South.” Comparative Literature 68.2, 2016: pp. 141–154.

Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA

Shu-mei Shih is a Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has published extensively in the field of Sinophone studies, comparative studies, and world literature. Notable publications include Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai, Columbia UP, 2013); The Creolization of Theory (co-edited with Françoise Lionnet, Duke UP, 2011); Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific (U of California Press, 2007); and Minor Transnationalism (co-edited with Françoise Lionnet, Duke UP, 2005).

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location

Rogers Room, N397

Level 3, John Woolley Building, the University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre

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28jun6:00 pm8:00 pmPolitics in the Pub | Give 'Em the Boot? Time to Close the US Base in Darwin6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event Organized By: Politics in the Pub

28jun6:00 pm8:00 pmFeaturedBook Launch | Human Rights and the Care of Self6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event Organized By: Department of Government and International Relations and Sydney Democracy Network

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To be launched by Professor Duncan Ivison and Associate Professor Ben Golder

When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of “care of the self,” Lefebvre turns to some of the most celebrated authors and activists in the history of human rights–such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Henri Bergson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Malik–to discover a vision of human rights as a tool for individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their own sake. This new perspective allows us to appreciate a crucial dimension of human rights, one that can help us to care for ourselves in light of pressing social and psychological problems, such as loneliness, fear, hatred, patriarchy, meaninglessness, boredom, and indignity.

“Alexandre Lefebvre is a unique voice in the humanities, one who takes up topics of enormous difficulty and does so with such tremendous erudition and fundamental insight that it is almost as if he is having a friendly discussion with the reader. Lefebvre claims that improving oneself rather than helping strangers is what the idea of human rights is all about and always has been—a claim that he pulls off with considerable brilliance. His reconstruction of human rights discourse in the 1940s is the truest that has ever been presented. Reading this remarkable book provided the most intellectually enjoyable hours that I can remember in a long time.” — Samuel Moyn, Yale University

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Date and time: Thursday 28th June, 6pm for 6.30pm

Please RSVP here or phone 02 9660 2333

Time

(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

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49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, NSW, 2037

Organizer

Department of Government and International Relations and Sydney Democracy Network

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29jun9:00 am1:30 pmResourcing Scholar-Activism9:00 am - 1:30 pm Event Organized By: Sydney Environment Institute

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A Workshop on scholar activism

This workshop will provide an interactive forum for academic staff and postgraduates to discuss the challenges and opportunities of scholar-activism in the context of the neoliberal university.

Speaker

Professor Paul Routledge, Leadership Chair in Contentious Politics and Social Change, University of Leeds

Chair

Professor David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Co-Director of the Sydney Environmental Institute, University of Sydney

Biographies

Professor Paul Routledge‘s research interests include critical geopolitics, climate change, social justice, civil society, the environment, and social movements. He has long-standing research interests concerning development, environment and the practices of social movements in the Global South, particularly South Asia and Southeast Asia, and in the Global North. In particular, his research has been concerned with two key areas of interest: the spatiality of social movements in the Global South and Global North; and the practical, political and ethical challenges of scholar activism.

Professor David Schlosberg‘s work focuses on environmental political theory, environmental and climate justice, climate adaptation planning and policy, and contemporary environmental movements. His current book project is on sustainable materialism, or the environmentalism of the practices of everyday life.

This is a closed workshop.

Time

(Friday) 9:00 am - 1:30 pm

Location

Level 6 Seminar Room

Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney

Organizer

Sydney Environment Institutemichelle.stanne@sydney.edu.au

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