Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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• Oct 27
  Mind the Gap - Tending the Interface of art and therapy

  An exhibition featuring artworks by Andrew Bromley, Catherine Camden-Pratt, Johanna Davies, Kate Deacock, Mandy Evans, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Joanna Jaaniste, Anita Lever, Joy Paton, Suzanne Perry, Martin Roberts, Sheridan Linnell and Sarah Versitano

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  An exhibition featuring artworks by Andrew Bromley, Catherine Camden-Pratt, Johanna Davies, Kate Deacock, Mandy Evans, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Joanna Jaaniste, Anita Lever, Joy Paton, Suzanne Perry, Martin Roberts, Sheridan Linnell and Sarah Versitano

  Mind the Gap – Tending the Interface of Art and Therapy From early training days as emerging art therapists to professionals in the field, the call to maintain an arts practice reverberates throughout the career of art therapy practitioners and educators. But how is this creative expression cultivated within the matrix of work, family and community commitments? In Mind the Gap, a group of multi-generational art therapists have responded to this challenge by carving out precious time to produce new work or reconnect to their creative practice through the act of exhibiting artwork to new audiences. Tending to this important part of the art therapist’s ongoing professional development, Mind the Gap has been co-curated by Joy Paton and Anita Lever to provide a creative platform for generating important conversations about the ‘interface’ where art and therapy overlap and co-exist. Through the act of exhibiting, art therapy practitioner-educators from the Western Sydney University Master of Art Therapy program are visibly ‘minding the gap’ to ensure the space between can be collectively negotiated in a way that honours the individual arts practice of each participating artist.

  Exhibiting Artists: Andrew Bromley, Catherine Camden-Pratt, Johanna Davies, Kate Deacock, Mandy Evans, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Joanna Jaaniste, Anita Lever, Joy Paton, Suzanne Perry, Martin Roberts, Sheridan Linnell and Sarah Versitano

  Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:00:00 +1100
• Nov 13
  ACIAC Exhibition: The ‘Yunnan School’ of Artists

  A fine and intensive exhibition from recognized Yunnan artists.

  Exhibitions and performances
  A fine and intensive exhibition from recognized Yunnan artists.

  The group of six Yunnan artist painters and printmakers represented in this exhibition are YANG Peng, WANG Yuhui, XIONG Huiming, SHEN Dekun, LYU Min and YE Songqing. This fine and intensive exhibition from recognized Yunnan artists gives an opportunity to understand the development of an historic and contemporary aspect of art practice post-Cultural Revolution in the context of all contemporary art formations throughout China. Rather than urban life Yunnan artists turn to the incredibly varied ethnicity of Yunnan where, since ancient times, many ethnic groups have co-existed harmoniously, which in itself is a tremendously positive social achievement within an increasingly fragmented modern world. This is why Yunnan is rightfully referred to as ‘colourful’. And the word ‘colourful’ characterises Yunnan painting throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century.

  Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +1100
• Dec 12
  ACIAC Book Launch Party

  Join ACIAC for a memorable afternoon celebrating the publication of Dr Tianli Zu’s inaugural book, The Tao: Conversations on Chinese Art in Australia

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  Join ACIAC for a memorable afternoon celebrating the publication of Dr Tianli Zu’s inaugural book, The Tao: Conversations on Chinese Art in Australia

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  Professor Labao Wang, Director of Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture (ACIAC) at Western Sydney University, is delighted to invite you and your family and friends to join us for the launch of a great book about cultural ambassadors by award-winning Chinese Australian artist Dr Tianli Zu, The Tao: Conversations on Chinese Art in Australia, and for ACIAC’s 2018 end-of-year party. There will be PERFORMANCE + MUSIC + FOOD + DRINKS + SPEECHES! Official Launch of The Tao by Tianli Zu with Professor Barney Glover FTSE FRSN MAICD, Vice-Chancellor and President, Western Sydney University.

  Book Review by Dr Stephen FitzGerald AO

  This is an inspired idea, brilliantly realised. It is like visiting a salon, in which people connected by one thread, art, in the large fabric of the modern Australia-China story take turns telling their personal stories. They talk of creating and curating and facilitating art, of moving between the two countries for art, of alighting, moving on, returning. It’s like oral history, or seventeen small-scale oral histories spoken by large-scale individuals. And they all know each other, or have met, and often refer to each other in their stories, and that gives it this sense of a salon conversation. Creator, moderator and editor Tianli Zu is herself a part of this world. A gifted contemporary artist and conversant in both Australian and Chinese cultures, she connects and directs the conversations as a historian, cajoling and coaxing her subjects into candidness, surfacing mood and aspiration and consummation, encouraging their humour. Anchored in the subject of art, this is not an ‘art book’. It’s a book for the reader who finds interest and satisfaction in a good story, in this case a story of personal movement and colour and striving and friendship that has gone on underneath the superstructures of Australia-China relations, and the essential joy of an engaged life. The Tao: Conversations on Chinese Art in Australia is unique in the literature of Australia and China. It is intellectually serious, but also playful; it is enquiring and informative, but also entertaining; and it is such fun to read.

  Please RSVP by Monday 10 December 2018

  Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +1100
• Jan 16
  Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities PhD Summer School

  A 6-day Summer School course for PhD candidates and early career researchers.

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  A 6-day Summer School course for PhD candidates and early career researchers.

  Taught by Professor Katherine Gibson, Dr Stephen Healy and members of the Community Economies Collective Research Network.

  When: 16-18, 21-23 January 2019

  Where: Parramatta City Campus, Western Sydney University

  What role can the humanities and social sciences play in making other worlds possible? What capacities do we have as scholars to shape the world? What ethical responsibilities and earthly cares come with this work? These are difficult questions. The answers we might give benefit from collective thinking and learning. Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities is a short course that offers PhD students and early career researchers (ECRS) the opportunity to explore these questions with scholar members of the Community Economies Collective who have been thinking outside or beyond capitalist relations since the publication of J.K. Gibson-Graham’s The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy in 1996. Course Overview: The first three days of the course will explore the conceptual foundations of feminist post-capitalist thinking. The second three days will focus on how to imagine and enact post-capitalist possibilities through research practice. Prior reading preparation will be required.

  How to Apply: Applications are open to currently enrolled PhD candidates and early career researchers (no more than 5 years out of PhD).

  Expressions of Interest in attending this Summer School should be registered on the following Google Form by 30 September 2018: http://bit.ly/2nVBp1W(opens in a new window). For more details please contact stephen.healy@westernsydney.edu.au or check out the Summer School page at http://bit.ly/2MHxsM0.

  Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +1100
• Jan 21
  The Asia-Australia Algebra Conference 2019

  It will bring together world experts in a wide range of topics related to algebra. The objective of the conference is to promote collaboration betwee

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  It will bring together world experts in a wide range of topics related to algebra. The objective of the conference is to promote collaboration betwee

  The Asia-Australia Algebra Conference incorporating the 2nd Australian Algebra Conference will be held at Western Sydney University, from 21st to 25th in January of 2019. It will bring together world experts in a wide range of topics related to algebra. The objective of the conference is to promote collaboration between working algebraists.

  Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +1100
• Jul 17
  7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference, 17-19 July 2019

  Hosted by School of Social Sciences & Psychology (SSAP), Western Sydney University

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  Hosted by School of Social Sciences & Psychology (SSAP), Western Sydney University

  Western Sydney University has the privilege to host the 7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference at Parramatta South Campus. This well-known international conference showcases interdisciplinary scholarship that addresses and advances the field of emotional geographies. The conference is linked to the international journal Emotion, Space and Society, published by Elsevier, which Professor Andrew Gorman-Murray (SSAP) co-edits with Dr Kye Askins (University of Glasgow) and Associate Professor Kate Swanson (San Diego State University). The conference has been held previously at: Lancaster, UK, 2002; Kingston, Canada, 2006; Adelaide, Australia, 2010; Groningen, The Netherlands, 2013; Edinburgh, UK, 2015; and Long Beach, USA, 2017.Building on a lineage of internationalisation and interdisciplinarity, the seventh conference promises to provide a forum for researchers from different disciplines to investigate and explore the role of emotion and affect in social and spatial processes.

  About Western Sydney University and the Conference Theme

  The geography discipline at Western Sydney University is rated 4 (above world standard) in the Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework, and is ranked in the Top 200 globally by the QS University Rankings. Western Sydney University has diverse, multidisciplinary expertise in emotional geographies, encompassing researchers from a range of disciplines, including geography, heritage studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and education. Work within emotional geographies speaks to Western Sydney University’s four research themes: Urban Living and Society, Health and Wellbeing, Education and Work, and Environment and Sustainability. The 7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference provides an excellent setting to enrich the engagement of emotional geographies with these research themes.

  Conference Chair

  Professor Andrew Gorman-Murray

  • E: a.gorman-murray@westernsydney.edu.au
  • Professor of Geography, School of Social Sciences and Psychology
  • Director, Urban Research Program, School of Social Sciences and Psychology
  • Member, Sexualities and Genders Research, School of Social Sciences and Psychology

  Organising Committee

  • Associate Professor Denis Byrne
  • Dr Jenna Condie
  • Dr Sarah de Nardi
  • Dr Stephen Healy
  • Dr Garth Lean
  • Dr Gerda Roelvink
  • Dr Hayley Saul
  • Associate Professor Emma Waterton

  Event Coordinator Yinghua Yu E| y.yu@westernsydney.edu.au PhD candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

  Keynote speakers(opens in a new window)

  Professor Paul Kingsbury

  • E: kingsbury@sfu.ca
  • Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University

  Dr Catherine Robinson

  • E: catheriner@anglicare-tas.org.au
  • Social Research and Analysis, Social Action and Research Centre (SARC), Anglicare Tasmania Inc.

  Registration

  • Call for themed sessions due: 10 December 2018
  • Call for abstracts due: 4 March 2019
  • Call for activities for HDR training and mentoring event due: 4 March 2019
  • Program release: 15 April 2019
  • Early bird registration due: 13 May 2019
  • Registration due: 17 June 2019

  The conference registration opens now, and we offer a range of discounted pricing below:

  • Early bird full registration: $325
  • Full registration: $375
  • Early bird student registration: $200
  • Student registration: $225
  Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +1000