Previous Conferences
Since its inception in 1998, the annual Humanities Graduate Research Conference has provided a stimulating and intellectually engaged environment in which Higher Degree by Research students can present their work in the format of papers as well as creative production – many for the first time in a public venue. After being suspended for several years, the Conference was reconvened in 2008, under the title Engaging place(s)/engaging culture(s). Held over two days on 5 – 6th November, 2008, the conference opened spaces for the presentation and discussion of a full range of topics and methodologies through which Humanities postgraduate students research and attracted 134 Registrations including presenters not only from Curtin but from other universities in both Western Australia and other parts of the country. On 7th November, the Third Day, hosted by Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute at their Fremantle Offices, enabled students to work in small groups and individually and creatively put into practice ideas examined during the conference. This addition to the program extended the opportunities for students to network with others in an interdisciplinary way, to explore ideas through a pragmatic engagement with place.
In addition each Conference has been followed by the publication of a collection of peer reviewed and edited research essays which from 2001 resulted in the series Undisciplined Thoughts: New Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Although no volume was published in 2006 and 2007, an electronic version of papers from Engaging place(s)/engaging culture(s). will be launched towards the end of 2009.