2009 Seminar Schedule 

The seminar series usually run on Wednesdays from 12:30 to around 2 pm. The venue is usually the Arts Faculty Building number 19, room 1003, University of Wollongong.

If you are interested in presenting, please contact Dr Vicki Crinis

If you would like to receive notices regarding upcoming seminars, please contact us.

All interested are very welcome.

 

Dates Title Presenter Home Institute
Wednesday 18 March
 The Epistemic Problem for Potential Contributors to Aid Agencies Dr Keith Horton University of Wollongong
Wednesday1 April
 Do Women have a Right to Mine? Women, Gender and Work in Coal Mining in India Dr Kuntala Lhira-Dutt Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU
Tuesday 7 April Taijiquan: a traditional Chinese martial art of philosophy Professor Chen Yiping College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University
Wednesday 22 April
 Multiple Realities: Prevalences and Causes of Factory Women Moonlighting in Sex Work in Cambodia Dr. Kasumi Nishigaya Adjunct Research Fellow -
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
The Australian National University
Wednesday 6 May
 State of Emergency: The Violence of the Sydney 2007 APEC Meeting Nick Southall University of Wollongong
Wednesday 20 May Sadistic women and masochist men: The fad for ryōki or ‘curiosity hunting’ in Japan’s early postwar press Associate Professor Mark McLelland University of Wollongong
Wednesday
3 June
  “And I am also gay”: Non-normative Sexualities, Internet Technology, and the Reconfiguration of the Singaporean Public Sphere Dr Robert Philips CAPSTRANS Visiting Fellow
Monday
20 July		 “From Decolonization To Globalization To Regional Integration – A Costly Price To Pay By The Acp Group Of States In The Worst Economic And Financial Crisis In History” Sir John Kaputin Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of 79 states party to the Cotonou Convention with the European Union
Wednesday 29 July Surfers and surf spots in Australia and Japan:
a comparison of relations with place among surfers in two countries		 Dr Alex Leonard CAPSTRANS Visiting Fellow
Wednesday
19 August
 'Being There - Tapping the Global Power of Local Culture from Inside the United Nations Professor Stephen Hill CAPSTRANS, UOW
Thursday
27 August		 The automobile and subversive mobility;
Western and subaltern mobile modernities confronted.		 Dr Ing Gijs Mom Programme Director Mobility History
Eindhoven University of Technology
Wednesday
14 October
 Japan Red Cross Nurses: From Manchukuo to Detention in the Soviet Union Dr Rowena Ward UOW
Wednesday
21 October

Balibo and Reporting War 

 

 Tony Maniaty and Ross Tapsell UOW
Wednesday
4 November		 Implications of the Samoan Tsunami Professor Paul Sharrad and
Debra Gough (Post Graduate)		 UOW
  

 

 
Last reviewed: 2 November, 2009

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