Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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• Apr 26
  Blaze: Working Women Public Leaders

  An exhibition of stories; past and present NSW trailblazing women.

  Exhibitions and performances
  An exhibition of stories; past and present NSW trailblazing women. The exhibition "Blaze: Working Women, Public Leaders" explores the stories of a selection of NSW women who were leaders and trailblazers in public sector work, alongside the perspectives of women working in key public sphere roles today.Melding past and present, this unique exhibition asks provocative questions about women, the public sphere and leadership. "Blaze: Working Women, Public Leaders" is a new exhibition curated and produced by State Archives and Records NSW,presented at the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University from 26 April to 27 July 2018.
  Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Jun 20
  ACIAC Exhibition: Jiawei Shen's Archibald Paintings

  Painting exhibition for renowned Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen.

  Exhibitions and performances; Social events
  Painting exhibition for renowned Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen.

  Jiawei Shen became a well-known artist in China in the mid-1970s during the Cultural Revolution. His oil painting Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland (1974) became an icon in those years and later shown in New York twice at Guggenheim Museum in 1998, and Asia Society Museum in 2008. He won the National Art Exhibition Prize in China five times.

  Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Jun 23
  Rohingya: Rights and Reality

  A photographic exhibition, film screening, and Question and Answer session at the State Library of NSW

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances
  A photographic exhibition, film screening, and Question and Answer session at the State Library of NSW

  The Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) invites you to attend Rohingya: Rights and Reality, a photographic exhibition, film screening, and Question and Answer session at the State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium, Ground Floor, Macquarie Street Sydney on Saturday 23 June from 11am – 2pm. The event combines themes of contemporary relevance including gross human rights abuses of the Rohingya population (described by the UN as a ‘case study in ethnic cleansing’), as well as human trafficking, forced migration, economic migration, and the health and welfare of vulnerable populations in refugee camps. Rohingya: Rights and Reality will showcase a film by WSU and University of Padova Joint PhD (Human Rights, Society and Multi Level Governance) candidate Ahmed Abid on human trafficking in the Bay of Bengal. The flyer for the film The Dreaming Vendors is attached. The screening will be introduced by HADRI’s Dr Garry Stevens. The event forms part of Refugee week and is presented by: Metro Assist; Bangla Hub; Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI), Western Sydney University; Films 4 Peace Foundation; and State Library of NSW. The event is FREE and all are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:00:00 +1000
• Jun 23
  Public Astronomy Night June 23

  Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky through a range of telescopes (weather permitting).

  academic events; Exhibitions and performances; Social events
  students, staff, alumni, general public
  Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky through a range of telescopes (weather permitting).

  Astronomy Night: From Darkness to Light: Star Birth in the Milky Way Speaker – Dr Nick Tothill Stars like our sun are still being formed all around us in our Galaxy, although they're sometimes hard to see. Some of them are going to be like our own Sun, some of them will be smaller, and some will be much, much bigger. I'll talk about new stars and the places we can see them, and what this means for our understanding of our Sun and our place in the Galaxy. Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky through a range of telescopes (weather permitting). $18.00 Adult $12.00 Child/Concession/staff/students $50.00 Family (2 adults + 2 children) Children under 3 years of age free. BOOKINGS VIA OUR WEBSITE ESSENTIAL

  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:00:00 +1000
• Jun 25
  Applying for Work: Resume and Cover Letter workshop - Parramatta City Campus

  This workshop will help you create and modify your resume and cover letter to give you the best chance of landing that job interview.

  Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  This workshop will help you create and modify your resume and cover letter to give you the best chance of landing that job interview. This one hour workshop is designed to give you the skills to target your cover letter and resume to specific opportunities, demonstrate your suitability for the role, and above all, make a great impression on the employer. Although not compulsory, bring your application to work on and get the most out of this workshop.
  Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +1000
• Jun 25
  Finding Work workshop - Hawkesbury campus

  Are you currently searching for a new job, internship or work experience? This workshop will give you tips on how to find suitable opportunities.

  Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  Are you currently searching for a new job, internship or work experience? This workshop will give you tips on how to find suitable opportunities.

  In this one hour workshop, you will learn the essential information required to discover a wide variety of suitable opportunities in today’s working environment, as well as how to tap into the hidden job market.

  Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +1000
• Jun 26
  Applying for Work: Selection Criteria workshop - Bankstown

  This workshop will give you the skills and knowledge to create a solid selection criteria and maximise your chances of landing an interview.

  Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  This workshop will give you the skills and knowledge to create a solid selection criteria and maximise your chances of landing an interview. This one and a half hour workshop is designed to give you the skills to target your selection criteria to specific opportunities, demonstrate your suitability for the role, and above all, make a great impression on the employer. Although not compulsory, bring your selection criteria to work on and get the most out of this workshop.
  Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +1000
• Jun 28
  African Safari: Volunteer Day with CVA

  Volunteer and explore Kingswood campus with Dr Linda Brown (Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution expert) for a unique safari experience

  Social events
  Any interested staff, students or community
  Volunteer and explore Kingswood campus with Dr Linda Brown (Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution expert) for a unique safari experience

  Help improve biodiversity at Kingswood by removing African Olive and African Love Grass—two invasive weeds, maybe spot native wildlife along the way, and help save a critically endangered ecology; the Cumberland Plain Woodland. If you would like to volunteer a few hours of your time with Conservation Volunteers Australia secure your spot now. Limit of 15 people per session. Bookings are essential! Thursday, 28th June - Session 1: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm - Session 2: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Friday, 29th June - Session 1: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm - Session 2: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Jun 28
  Interviewing for Work workshop - Parramatta South Campus

  This workshop can help you by giving you the skills, knowledge & practical experience needed to perform well in a wide variety of interview types.

  Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  This workshop can help you by giving you the skills, knowledge & practical experience needed to perform well in a wide variety of interview types. This one and a half hour practical workshop looks at how to prepare for an interview, how to ace various types of interview, such as panel, telephone and assessment centre interviews, as well as what kinds of questions to ask the interviewer. Students will also have the opportunity to practice interview questions with fellow students, facilitated by an expert Careers Consultant.
  Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +1000
• Jul 2
  Academic Literacy Workshop

  Free two and four day workshops on essay writing and referencing skills.

  Training and skill upgrade
  Students
  Free two and four day workshops on essay writing and referencing skills. Throughout the July inter-session break (2nd to 27th July 2018) there will be a number of free two and four day workshops to help you brush up on your academic style of writing, essay writing and referencing skill. Workshops will be available at Parramatta South, Parramatta City, Bankstown, Kingswood and Campbelltown campuses. Check the webpage for more information and registration.
  Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Jul 3
  Free 2 day Grammar Workshops

  Free 2 day Grammar Workshops available during July inter-session break.

  Training and skill upgrade
  Students
  Free 2 day Grammar Workshops available during July inter-session break. Throughout the first two weeks of the July inter-session break (2nd to 27th July) there will be a number of workshops available to help you brush up on your grammar skills, focusing on the use of pronouns, the use of articles, sentence structure and subject verb agreement. These workshops will be running at Parramatta South, Parramatta City and Bankstown campuses. Check the webpage for more information and registration.
  Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Jul 3
  Free Writing Academic Paragraphs Workshop

  Free one day workshop on Writing Academic Paragraphs.

  Training and skill upgrade
  Postgraduates and 2nd & 3rd year students
  Free one day workshop on Writing Academic Paragraphs. This one day workshop is for postgraduates and students in their 2nd or 3rd years of study only. It will focus on improving paragraph structure and cohesion of sentences. It will be available at Parramatta City Campus for one day only on the 3rd July, 2018. Please check the webpage for more information and registration.
  Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Jul 4
  Thinking Relationally about Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia

  The Symposium centres around the affordances of ideas of racializing assemblages for relational understandings of race, blackness and Indigeneity.

  academic events; Conferences and seminars
  The Symposium centres around the affordances of ideas of racializing assemblages for relational understandings of race, blackness and Indigeneity.

  A one-day Symposium to be held at Western Sydney University on the occasion of the visit of Northwestern University African-American studies Professor, Alexander Weheliye, to Sydney. The Symposium centres around the affordances of Weheliye’s core ideas of racializing assemblages for relational understandings of race, blackness and indigeneity in Australia.

  Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:00:00 +1000
• Jul 5
  School of Humanities and Communication Arts Postgraduate Conference 2018

  10th annual Postgraduate Research Conference School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Writing and Society Research Centre: Interventions an

  academic events; Conferences and seminars
  School Of Humanities and Communication Arts HDRs and academic staff
  10th annual Postgraduate Research Conference School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Writing and Society Research Centre: Interventions an

  It is a time of considerable change in the higher education sector – for the humanities in particular. The increasing emphasis on adaptability, marketability and employability can alert us to new ideas and resources, or make us feel even more alone and unprepared than before, often at the same time.

  The 10th anniversary edition of the Interventions and Intersections conference offers itself as a space in which our diverse postgraduate community from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Writing and Society Research Centre can meet to engage and reflect upon research in all its complexities. We want to encourage communication within and between disciplines; to discuss work strategies and career aspirations; and to value our research, and our research community.

  Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:00:00 +1000
• Jul 5
  ACIAC Seminar "China Redefined - G. E. Morrison's China Reports and His Connection with the Reform Party in the Qing Government"

  Dr Bing Chen, an Assistant Professor from Peking University, will be presenting a seminar about Australia-born China correspondent, G. E. Morrison.

  academic events; Conferences and seminars
  Open to the public
  Dr Bing Chen, an Assistant Professor from Peking University, will be presenting a seminar about Australia-born China correspondent, G. E. Morrison.

  DETAILS Date: Thursday, 5 July 2018 Time: 1.00 - 2.00pm Venue: EA.G.03, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Parramatta Campus (South) Limited seats. RSVP Essential. Please RSVP before 4 July, 2018. Abstract G. E. Morrison’s career in China can be divided into two stages, one being the resident China Correspondent from 1897 to 1912 for the London-based newspaper The Times, and the other being the chief political advisor from 1912 to 1920 to Yuan Shikai, the first President of the Republic of China. Morrison’s focus in his China reports displayed a clear thematic shift, before and after the Westernized reform implemented by the Qing government in the early 20th century, from the struggle for influence and interest between international powers in China to the political and social reforms being considered by the Chinese government. This shift of focus conveyed Morrison’s confidence and optimism towards China’s reform at that time and it had a lot to do with his connection with some progressive bureaucrats represented by the then most powerful Yuan Shikai and Yuan’s Cantonese subordinates such as Liang Tunyen, Liang Shiyi and Tang Shaoyi, all of whom were English-speaking, western-educated high-ranking officials in the central government. Morrison’s reputation as an authority on China affairs was firmly established by his journalistic profession and it led directly to the offer of a job as political advisor by Yuan’s government. It was further augmented by the fact that he later helped to represent China to the Western world in a very different way via his writing and personal influence, not as a hopeless and static country, but as a hopeful and promising land, even though, secretly in his belief, China was never going to be more than an apprentice of the West in its adoption of the Westernized reform.

  Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:00:00 +1000
• Jul 16
  Investing for Development: a just transition to environmentally sustainable societies in Asia Pacific

  A Public Seminar and Discussion

  Conferences and seminars
  A Public Seminar and Discussion

  The Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) is hosting an event involving speakers from International Labour Organization (ILO), European Commission and Nepali partners from Kathmandu University and ILO, Nepal. The title of the event is Investing for Development: a just transition to environmentally sustainable societies in Asia Pacific. The event will be opened by SSAP Dean, Professor Kevin Dunn and Mr Richard Howard, ILO Country Director Nepal. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and all are welcome. Please RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/investing-for-development-a-just-transition-tickets-47156733058 (for catering purposes only).

  Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +1000
• Aug 16
  Property and Construction Managament Expo

  This year's event will connect Western Sydney students in all years of study with a wide range of employers in the Property and Construction industry.

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances
  Property and Construction Management Students
  This year's event will connect Western Sydney students in all years of study with a wide range of employers in the Property and Construction industry.

  Western Sydney University is again proud to host the highly successful Property and Construction Careers Expo in 2018. As a student, the Expo will provide a forum for you to explore available employment opportunities, allow you to enhance your networking skills in meeting with these employers, and help you top;explore your individual career direction and career opportunities more broadly. As an employer, you will be able to raise your organisation's profile through heightened awareness across Western Sydney Students and have the opportunity to meet face-to-face, and to get the first pick of potential candidates for current and upcoming job vacancies.

  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:00 +1000
• Aug 21
  Soil Biology Masterclass 2018

  Incorporating soil health and biology and management practices to sustainably increase productivity and profitability

  academic events; Training and skill upgrade
  Growers, farmners, consultants
  Incorporating soil health and biology and management practices to sustainably increase productivity and profitability

  Learn How To Harness The Life In Your Soils For Better Farming Outcomes Participants at our Soils Masterclasses will learn how to adopt practices and strategies to enhance the life in soils and use the power of plant-soil-microbial relationships to unlock soil nutrients, produce healthier and more nutritious plants and understand how microbes drive modern farming success.

  Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Aug 21
  Tourism and Heritage Careers Expo

  Careers Expo for students in Tourism and Heritage.

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances; Information sessions
  Tourism and Heritage Students
  Careers Expo for students in Tourism and Heritage.

  Western Sydney University is again proud to host the Tourism and Heritage Careers Expo. This event will connect Western Sydney University Tourism and Heritage students in all years of study with a wide range of employers from relevant industries. As a student, the Expo will provide a forum for you to hear from graduates about their journey into satisfying work, explore available employment opportunities, allow you to polish up your networking skills in meeting with these employers and help you to explore your own personal career direction and hear about career opportunities more broadly. As an employer, you will be able to raise your organisation's profile through heightening awareness across the WSU campus student and staff communities and have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential candidates for current and upcoming job vacancies.

  Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +1000
• Aug 31
  Technology Careers Evening

  Western Sydney University IT, Communications, Engineering, and Design students connect with employers in Technology.

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances; Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  IT, Communications, Engineering, and Design students
  Western Sydney University IT, Communications, Engineering, and Design students connect with employers in Technology. Western Sydney University is proud to host the Technology Careers Expo to be held at our Parramatta South campus. This event will connect Western Sydney University IT, Communications, Engineering, and Design students in all years of study with a wide range of employers in the Technology Services sector. As a student, the Expo will provide an opportunity to explore available employment opportunities and internships, allow you to polish up your networking skills in meeting with these employers and help you to explore your own personal career direction and hear about career opportunities more broadly. As an employer, you will be able to raise your organisation's profile through heightening awareness across the WSU campus student and staff communities and have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential candidates for current and upcoming job vacancies.
  Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:00:00 +1000
• Sep 5
  'Globalization Matters: Theory and Practice in the Time of Trump' Master Class

  A Master Class for PhD students and other researchers.

  academic events; Conferences and seminars; Training and skill upgrade
  A Master Class for PhD students and other researchers
  A Master Class for PhD students and other researchers.

  How can we best understand globalization today? What are the contemporary consequences of globalization during a time of right-wing populism? How does having a global perspective enhance our research into different local and regional phenomena? The ‘Globalization Matters’ Master Class offers PhD students and other interested researchers the opportunity to explore these questions with Professors Manfred Steger (University of Hawai’i) and Paul James (Western Sydney University), two of the most innovative writers on globalization today. During the Roaring Nineties, globalization—both the process and the idea—bestrode the world. Everybody was talking about it. Widely hailed as the ‘most important phenomenon of our time’, ‘globalization’ became one of those rare concepts that have taken the entire world by storm. Now, the concept and the practice is everywhere, but strangely less understood than ever. This Master Class will both cover the full range of approaches to globalization and offer researchers the opportunity of exploring how their own work could benefit from a global studies perspective.

  Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Sep 14
  Policing and Criminology Careers Expo

  There’s more you can do with a Policing or Criminology degree than you think!

  Exhibitions and performances; Information sessions
  Criminology and Policing Students (UG)
  There’s more you can do with a Policing or Criminology degree than you think!

  This event will bring together some of our 2000 Policing and Criminology students with employers from a variety of industries and organisations. The event allows exhibitors to showcase and promote their employment and graduate opportunities. In addition, it allows organisations to increase their profile among students and the Greater Western Sydney community, talk to students about industries they may not have considered, and gives you the first choice of some of our top students.

  Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Sep 19
  Digital Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/Technology International Conference

  Co-organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University.

  Conferences and seminars
  Academics, artists and practitioners interested in digital cultures
  Co-organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University. The advent and ubiquity of digital media technologies precipitate a profound transformation of the spheres of knowledge and circuits of culture. Simultaneously, the background operation of digital systems in routines of daily life increasingly obscures the materiality and meaning of technologically induced change. Computational architectures of algorithmic governance prevail across a vast and differentiated range of institutional settings and organizational practices. Car assembly plants, warehousing, shipping ports, sensor cities, agriculture, government agencies, university campuses. These are just some of the infrastructural sites overseen by software operations designed to extract value, coordinate practices and manage populations in real-time. While Silicon Valley ideology prevails over the design and production of the artefacts, practices and institutions that mark digital cultures, the architectures and infrastructures of its operations are continually rebuilt, hacked, broken and maintained within a proliferation of sites across the globe. To analytically grasp the emerging transformations requires media and cultural studies to inquire into the epochal changes taking place with the proliferation of digital media technologies. While in many ways the digital turn has long been in process, its cultural features and effects are far from even or comprehensively known. Research needs to attend to the infrastructural and environmental registrations of the digital. Critical historiographies attend to the world-making capacities of digital cultures, situating the massive diversity of practices within specific technical systems, geocultural dynamics and geopolitical forces. At the same time the contemporaneity of digital cultures invites new methods that draw on digital media technologies as tools, and, more importantly, that engage the intersection between media technologies, cultural practices and institutional settings. New organizational forms in digital economies, new forms of association and sociality, and new subjectivizations generated from changing human-machine configurations are among the primary manifestations of the digital that challenge disciplinary capacities in terms of method. The empirics of the digital, in other words, signals a transversality at the level of disciplinarity, methods and knowledge production. This conference brings together research concerned with studying digital cultures and the ways that digital media technologies transform contemporary culture, society and economy. The hosts specifically encourage approaches to digital cultures emerging from media and cultural theory, along with transnational currents of communications, science and technology studies. We also explicitly invite researchers from digital humanities, digital anthropology, digital sociology, gender studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies, architecture, organization studies, environmental studies, geography and computer science to engage in this endeavor to develop a critical humanities and cultural studies alert to the operations, materialities and politics of digital cultures.
  Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Sep 27
  Psychology Careers Expo

  Careers Expo for Psychology Students

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances; Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  Psychology Students
  Careers Expo for Psychology Students Western Sydney University is again proud to host the highly successful Psychology Careers Expo. This year
  Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Oct 12
  Social Work and Community Welfare Careers Expo

  Careers expo for students in Social Work and Community Welfare

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances; Information sessions; Training and skill upgrade
  Social Work and Community Welfare Students
  Careers expo for students in Social Work and Community Welfare Western Sydney University is again proud to host the highly successful Social Work and Community Welfare Expo. This year's event will connect Western Sydney University Social Work and Community Welfare students in all years of study with a wide range of employers in the Human Services sector. As a student, the Expo will provide a forum for you to hear from graduates about their journey into satisfying work, explore available employment opportunities, allow you to polish up your networking skills in meeting with these employers and help you to explore your own personal career direction and hear about career opportunities more broadly. As an employer, you will be able to raise your organisation's profile through heightening awareness across the WSU campus student and staff communities and have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with potential candidates for current and upcoming job vacancies.
  Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +1100
• Nov 26
  International Conference on Human Rights Education

  The 9th International Conference on Human Rights Education (9th ICHRE).

  Conferences and seminars
  The 9th International Conference on Human Rights Education (9th ICHRE).

  The 9th International Conference on Human Rights Education (9th ICHRE) coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 25th anniversary of the education-oriented Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Much work has been done to improve knowledge and education about these principles of human rights globally. But there is still much work to do to embed these principles into everyday thinking where they can underpin civil society. On this anniversary, the 9th ICHRE will explore the question: how can human rights education (HRE) develop and strengthen civil society and transform the ways in which civil society works? The 9th ICHRE aims to develop a Sydney Declaration on how HRE can strengthen civil society as an agent for positive change.

  Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +1100