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Curtin University of Technology
Humanities Graduate Research Conference

Program

Detailed Conference Program, Day 1, November 5 printable version [.pdf - 83kb]
Detailed Conference Program, Day 2, November 6 printable version [.pdf - 71kb]

Day 1 - Thursday 5 November 2009
08:00-08:50 Registration - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
09:00-09:30 Welcome: Dr Ann Schilo
Welcome to Country: Ms Jean Boladeras

Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre 210:101
09:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker: Professor Anna Haebich
Elizabeth Jolley Lecture
Theatre
210:101
10:30-11:00   Morning Tea Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
11:00-12:30 210:EJ 104 Case Study 209:214 Board Room 201:322 201:517
Theme Playing with boundaries Nature’s margins Marginal bodies Architectural bordering
  Hilary Wheaton All in the name of research: Crossing the boundary between work and play Katherine Wright
Relating to manicured nature: A case study of the Armidale State Forest
Tarsh Bates
InterUterine exploring the reproductive cyborg through an interspecies aesthetics of care
Janean Robinson and Helen Ferrara
Classrooms without borders: Socially democratic and creative spaces
  Alexandra Myer
Rock scissors paper: Games for social change
John C Ryan
Palm-like fingers holding a coarse line of air: Poetics as a method of enquiry into South-west Australian flora
Matthew Jackson
The emancipatory role of art in blurring gender boundaries
Lara Mackintosh
Too cool for school: Investigating strategies to improve the sustainability of existing government primary schools in Perth, Western Australia
  Tim Barker
A.N. Whitehead and digital aesthetics
Desiree Moon
Patterns and processes of invasion: The dispersion of introduced avian species in Southwestern Australia
Helena Kadmos
Unearthing the mother: A search for the mother’s narrative voice
 
12:30-13:30 Lunch - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
13:30-15:00 210:EJ 104 Case Study 209:214 Board room 201:322 201:517 501:417 LT
Theme Creative frontiers Margins of memory Imagined bodies Ethical realms Education unbounded
  Sandra Adams
Neither here nor there: Searching the margins for a place to belong.
Yvette Walker
Writing the extreme: The ethics of representation in holocaust fiction
Natalie Kon-Yu
Mixing Memory with the Desire to Forget
Melissa Russell
Sade’s “other”: The religious in Sade’s ethics
Sabreena Ahmed
Same old, same old? ...
(from boring to creative presentations)
  Ellen Greenham
Watching the Universe – watching me (the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick).
Roger Horton
Tapping on the touchstone of recognition/why memory is critical to adaptation
Julee Cunningham
StoryDoctoring
Yaya Mori
Towards the retrieval of the political public realm: Truth, knowledge and doxa in the reign of modern natural science   
Noparat Tananuraksakul
The cool medium of English and the message in an Australian context
  Amy Griffiths
A matter of space- issues of available space regarding Artist Run Initiatives in NSW
Natalie Kon-Yu
Mixing Memory with the Desire to Forget
Svenja Johni Kratz
Lines of flight: Cell culture, tissue therapies and contemporary art
Riccardo Baldissone
A way out of the seventeenth century
Yen-Ruey Kuo
Students’ multiple representations and motivation for learning university physics
15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
15:00-15:30 210:EJ 104 Case Study 201:322 201:517 501:417 LT
Theme Crafting margins Green creations Beyond the grid Edifying margins
  EunJeong Jeon
Emotional object creation: “Doing through knowing” “doing through experiencing”
Caleb Goods
Working our way out of a crisis: the 'Green Jobs' solution
Margaret Blackmore
Re-mapping territories: Art/design researchers and information engagement.
Laszlo Bubrik
Relief teachers and the law of requisite variety: An autoethnographic voyage about the status of a relief teacher.
  Alison Muir
What do recycled water and a kimono have in common?
Thor Kerr
Negotiating green building at the margins
Darryn Ansted
Beyond the colour chart: Painting a critique of the artwork of Gerhard Richter
Zoe Brooks
A qualitative investigation of perspectives on one level of secondary school leadership
  Jane Donlin
Craft in the post-traditional period of late modernity – rescuing tradition from the madness of dissolution
S Zaung Nau Public transport demand model based on social-economic factors, urban form and public transport connectivity in Perth, Western Australia Jacqui Monks
Merging theory and practice: Examining the reality of self through a visual praxis
Neil MacNeill The E-interview: A twenty first century approach to school-based data collection
17:15-17:45 Close of day - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre 210:101
18:00-19:00 Sundowner - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer

 

Day 2 - Friday 6 November 2009
08:15-09:00 Registration - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
08:15-09:00 Welcome - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre 210:101
09:30-10:30 210:EJ 104 Case Study 209:214 Board Room 201:322 201:517
Theme Mediating politics From the margins Literary margins Margins of reality
  Caryn Coatney
Read all about it: John Curtin’s key to generating positive news coverage, 1941-1945
Neeti Trivedi
Building identity: home for the urban poor
Brooke Davis
‘Relearning the world’: Finding a space to grieve with Lewis, Didion and Woolf
John Pratt
Beyond stage realism and TV reality
  Heather Dreyer
The difficult art of remaining visible: The National Party and the Australian media
Emil Jonescu More contraptions of psychological affliction-short term custodial design is capricious and arbitrary Liam Lynch Unseamlessly reconciled: Oscar Wilde’s Irish context Christina Houen Re-authoring lives: How a multi-media performance of life narratives in a regional community transcends the given and creates new ways of being
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
11:00-12:00 210:EJ 104 Case Study 209:214 Board Room 201:322 501:417LT
Theme Creative dialogues Chalking margins Bordering cultures Pushing learning limits
  Lynette Frey and Lucy Hopkins
Enunciations: A generative exchange
Helen McCarthy
Backboards to blackboards: Rebounding from the margins
Maryam Khalid
Gendering Orientalism in the war on terror
Michael Openshaw
Technology for the future: the use of online discussion fora to support learners’ cognitive organisation
  Jane Grellier and Joy Denise Scott Wild minds searching-early scholars groping in the gap Penelope Kennish Senior school student engagement in classroom learning Michelle Carey ‘Going native.’ Coming ‘home.’ Exploring settler/invader belongings towards the end of the twentieth century Christine Couanis An investigation of academic self-regulation in young adults in Vocational Education and Training in a Technical and Further Education College
12:00-13:30 Lunch - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
13:30-14:30 210:EJ 104 Case Study 209:214 Board Room 201:322 201:517
Theme Margins of place Civilising boundaries Imagining minds Designing margins
  Anja Reid
Cultural patina, diplomacy and symbolic appropriation: Philatelically negotiating identity(s)
Jamila A Chowdhury
Swelling Women rights in Bangladesh: Law, society and a new promise for mediation
Sarah –Mace Dennis
Reconfiguring forgotten ecologies: Exploring the invisible spaces of perception
George Verghese
The Margin is the centre of design
  Diana Roberts
Changing places: Positioning regional art practice in a global context
Susana Ani Berliyanti
E N A B L E (enabling community to stop child trafficking through education)
Michelle Frantom
Truth to image-making archetypes visible
Nicola Smith
Creative individuals live at the edge, in the margins … Or do they? 
14:30-15:30 Forum: Editing Your Conference Paper - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre 210:101
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer
16:00-17:00 Close of Conference
17:00-18:00 Sundowner - Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre Foyer