Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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• Jul 31
  Engage Expo

  The event will feature stalls from student groups, programs and services, games, food, music, and much more.

  Social events
  The event will feature stalls from student groups, programs and services, games, food, music, and much more.

  Engage Expo is about connecting with and supporting students in their university journey through semester 2, for both returning and mid-year commencing students. The event will feature stalls from student groups, programs and services, games, food, music, and much more.

  • Tuesday July 31 10:30-2:30 - Liverpool
  • Monday, August 13 10:30-2:30 - Bankstown
  • Tuesday, August 14 10:30-2:30 - Kingswood
  • Wednesday, August 15 10:30-2:30 Parramatta South
  • Thursday, August 16 10:30-2:30 - Campbelltown
  • Tuesday, August 21 10:30-2:30 - Hawkesbury
  • Wednesday, August 22 10:30-2:30 - Parramatta City
  • Wednesday, August 22 11:00-2:00 - Nirimba
  Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:30:00 +1000
• Aug 9
  2018 Sydney Science Festival

  WSU and the 2018 Sydney Science Festival welcome you to come along to one or more of our events. 7 - 19 August 2018

  Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances
  All welcome
  WSU and the 2018 Sydney Science Festival welcome you to come along to one or more of our events. 7 - 19 August 2018

  Western Sydney University and the Sydney Science Festival (#SSF2018) are presenting eight events across science week: 10th of August we have 6 events being hosted at our Parramatta South campus.

  • Earth in Searching for ET,
  • Feel the groove: Getting in sync with the musical beat,
  • Designing for Health and Wellbeing in a Smart City showcase,
  • Its all about Wombats,
  • Travel through space and time with Virtual Reality,
  • Focus on Photosynthesis exhibition.
  • 11th August - Penrith Observatory Family Night.
  • 12th August - Forensic Science - Hawkesbury Campus

  To register go to the website and select the event/s you wish to attend. All are welcome and we encourage you to bring along your friends. Spaces are limited, so please register to ensure your spot. We look forward to seeing you there.

  Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:00:00 +1000
• Aug 16
  Promiscuous Provenance | Art by Anna Glynn

  This exhibition encourages a re-examination of our relationship with our colonial past; is our identity built on a strange hybrid history?

  Exhibitions and performances
  This exhibition encourages a re-examination of our relationship with our colonial past; is our identity built on a strange hybrid history?

  Artist Anna Glynn is drawn to the work of the early colonial artists, whose depictions of Australian flora and fauna did not represent the landscape as it really was but instead drew on European forms and animals. Promiscuous Provenance encourages a re-examination of our relationship with our colonial past; is our identity as Australians built on a strange hybrid history, a ‘promiscuous provenance’? Using a range of different media, Glynn populates her own antipodean world with strange hybrid manifestations to invoke curiosity and wonder. Learn more at The Whitlam Institute website.

  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +1000
• Aug 16
  ICS Seminar Series

  Indigenous Knowledges in the Social Sciences: Some Cases and Theoretical Debates

  Conferences and seminars
  Indigenous Knowledges in the Social Sciences: Some Cases and Theoretical Debates

  Indigenous knowledge is an increasingly recognized category in western knowledge production, circulation and use. Yet, it remains a vague category with a specific genealogy, at least in the developed world. Western natural scientists continue to be strongly influenced by the mythology of the modernist universal paradigm. For most of the 20th century they regarded non-western thought as traditional, primitive and under-developed. The centrality of western social knowledge is a function of its global circulation, while indigenous knowledge is often produced, diffused and used locally. Indigenous knowledge also circulates in peripheral places partially due to the scarcity of material conditions of knowledge production as understood in western science. Drawing from a decolonizing perspective, this paper argues that indigenous knowledge is not valued by western science. However, it is used opportunistically to strengthen western understandings of “nature”. In addition, the seminar will discuss the indigenous concept of Comunalidad, as it applies to indigenous communities and broader contexts.

  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:30:00 +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 17
  ACIAC Seminar - Virtual Communities of Fansubbing Practice in Contemporary China: Translation, Remediation and Resistance

  Join and explore fansubbing, subtitling translation done by fans for fans

  Conferences and seminars
  Join and explore fansubbing, subtitling translation done by fans for fans

  This seminar explores fansubbing, subtitling translation done by fans for fans (Díaz-Cintas and Sanchez 2006), in terms of its cultural, socio-political and technological entanglements with the digital publics of China. Collaborating amateur subtitlers intervene what used to be an officially monopolised field of Audiovisual Translation with a bid to defy the tight state ideological and political control while forging a mechanism of self-defence to protect themselves from state interference. They assemble an audience of “affective receptivity” (Pérez-González 2017, 3) under “post-cinematic conditions” where the dissemination of moving image reaches “beyond the classical dispositive of the cinema” (Hediger 2016, 20). Together, they are building virtual communities of informal popular-culture practice in order to carry on their aesthetic and political resistances through remediating and adaptive practices such as: cinephilic bricolage, (illicit) appropriation of commercial audiovisual products, and activist ad-hocracies.

  RSVP VIA OUR WEBSITE ARE ESSENTIAL

  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +1000
• Aug 17
  Writing & Society Research Centre seminar series

  Transculturalism & Translocalism in the South

  academic events; Conferences and seminars
  All welcome
  Transculturalism & Translocalism in the South

  with papers by Stuart Cooke, Alys Moody & Bonaventure Muzigirwa Munganga An exploration of relations (and relationality) between literary communities, writers, and literary practices of the ‘South’, or the countries of southern latitudes (i.e. Southern Africa, Australia, the Pacific, and South America)

  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:00:00 +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
  Educational Conversations Seminar Series

  Dialogic pedagogies to deepen student learning is the topic of the forthcoming Centre for Educational Research Educational Conversation (#EdConvs)

  Conferences and seminars
  Academic, Teachers, Educators, Community
  Dialogic pedagogies to deepen student learning is the topic of the forthcoming Centre for Educational Research Educational Conversation (#EdConvs)

  The purpose of the conversation is to discuss the importance on why classroom talk is a crucial aspect in the classroom learning environment. Through dialogic pedagogies, educators will guide learners to think in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretative and critical. These qualities are directly linked to Objective C in the NSW English Syllabus. I will also share video recorded work samples on how it looks in my classroom and the positive results. In addition, the conversation will explore how teachers could run this in their classrooms by using strategies I currently use. If time permits, participants will be involved in a mock lesson to experience first-hand how dialogic pedagogies could work in the classroom. This Educational Conversation is presented by Daniel Yong, who is currently in his fourth year of teaching at a low socio economic school in South-West Sydney. In 2015 he completed his Master of Teaching degree at Western Sydney University. During his first year of teaching, Daniel was targeted to participate in an action research project with the Primary English Teaching Association of Australia (PETAA) and Charles Sturt University on how dialogic pedagogies could enhance student learning outcomes in literacy. In his second year of teaching (2016), he received an Ultimo Operational Directorate Principals Network Award for ‘Significant Achievement’ as an early career teacher. Daniel currently leads dialogic pedagogies in his school and is hoping to branch out to other networks. In addition, he is currently working with Professor Paul Dufficy and EAL/D specialist, Cindy Valdez-Adams, on a vocabulary project that will equip teachers with the necessary understanding and tools to target EAL/D students to learn new words in a meaningful way. (light lunch provided please RSVP)

  Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +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 22
  “Sex”, “Spirit”, “Nature” and Good Relations Workshop with Kim TallBear

  HDR Workshop led by Associate Professor Kim TallBear.

  academic events; Conferences and seminars
  HDR Workshop led by Associate Professor Kim TallBear.

  In conjunction with a public lecture titled American Dreaming is Indigenous Elimination as part of the HUMAN NATURE Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series (Australian Museum, 23 August 2018), Associate Professor Kim TallBear will be leading a postgraduate workshop titled “Sex”, “Spirit”, “Nature” and Good Relations. The workshop is open to those working in the Environmental Humanities. The workshop is free of charge but places are strictly limited to 20. Participants will be selected based on a 100-word expression of interest. Preference will be given to HDR students and academics from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, and Macquarie University. Successful participants will be asked to read some selected work and write a 1-2 page response on the idea of being in good relation. Detailed instructions will be circulated two weeks prior to the workshop.

  Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +1000
• Aug 22
  Professorial Lecture: Community Justice in Australia - Presented by Brian Stout

  Community Justice in Australia: International Lessons

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  All Welcome
  Community Justice in Australia: International Lessons

  This paper argues that a community justice response is needed to respond to the issues of offending in Australia as the issues and concerns go beyond criminal justice responses and link to ideas of social justice. It draws on international applications and understandings of community justice to suggest that the approach to offending should promote fairness and positive social outcomes. The current Australian response to offending reflects Australian penal history and its exclusionary and punitive approach to the treatment of offenders. The most urgent priority is the significant over-representation and mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in both youth justice and the adult criminal justice system. A community justice approach will invest resources in community development, not just in incarceration and punishment. It will seek to build community by promoting social justice values in responding to victims and offenders. Professor Stout will draw on his international experience to argue that a community justice approach in Australia - incorporating an appropriate recruitment and training of corrections personnel - would rightly place human rights and social justice values at the heart of the criminal justice system.

  BIOGRAPHY: Professor Brian Stout is Professor of Social Work, Deputy Dean, School of Social Sciences and Psychology and Provost, Liverpool Campus, Western Sydney University. Professor Stout’s most recent book is ‘Community Justice in Australia’ (2017, Allen and Unwin). He has worked in probation and youth justice as a practitioner, teacher and researcher in Northern Ireland, England, South Africa and now Australia.

  RSVP: SSAP-Events@westernsydney.edu.au(opens in a new window)

  Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:30:00 +1000
• Aug 23
  HumanNature Series: American Dreaming is Indigenous Elimination

  Join Kim TallBear as she considers the intersections between nature, nation, and the lives and deaths of Indigenous peoples in the USA.

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  Join Kim TallBear as she considers the intersections between nature, nation, and the lives and deaths of Indigenous peoples in the USA.

  Kim TallBear reviews the narratives of nature – especially a sharp division between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’– that have been central to building and maintaining US empire, portraying Natives as the less-evolved children of nature in need of elimination through massacre or assimilation. Narratives of American exceptionalism also drive dominant stories the US tells about itself. These narratives justify commanding “natural resources”— not only Indigenous lands and waters, but also Indigenous biologicals and the bodies of our nonhuman relatives. These narratives of nature and nation continue to justify nation-building visions across the American political spectrum. In this talk, TallBear highlights how American dreaming in any form, including anti-racist moves of the present, are irredeemably co-constituted with the doctrine of inevitable Indigenous elimination.

  • 6.00 pm: Welcome drink & refreshments
  • 6.30 pm: Talk and Q&A

  Admission: $16 AM member / $20 Adult / $18 Concession

  Tickets can be purchased via  The Australian Museum Website(opens in a new window)

  Staff and students from Western Sydney University, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Sydney are eligible for discounted tickets. Email our office via ics@westernsydney.edu.au for your discount code.

  Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:00:00 +1000
• Aug 28
  Public Forum: Where on Earth are we going? Surviving the Age of Humans

  Attend an evening in dialogue with Professor Will Steffen, a world renowned Earth System scientist who will share his work on the Anthropocene.

  Conferences and seminars
  Any interested staff, students or community
  Attend an evening in dialogue with Professor Will Steffen, a world renowned Earth System scientist who will share his work on the Anthropocene.

  You are invited to attend an evening in dialogue with Professor Will Steffen, a world renowned Earth System scientist who will share his work on the Anthropocene — the “age of humans”. We ask Professor Steffen what changes in core cultural values and worldviews will be required to survive the looming state change in the Earth System. His address will be followed by a dialogue with a Western Sydney University panel and a lively audience Q&A session. Doors open at 5.30pm for a prompt 6.00pm start. All staff, students and community members are welcome to attend. Registration is essential as seats are limited. This forum is convened and supported by 21st Century Curriculum Renewal Project, Western Sydney University and Anthropocene Transition.

  Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:00:00 +1000
• Aug 29
  Careers in the Disability Sector under NDIS

  Find out about the extensive job opportunities available in the disability sector under NDIS.

  academic events
  Students and Staff
  Find out about the extensive job opportunities available in the disability sector under NDIS.

  The disability support sector is currently in rapid growth with the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and currently has staff shortages which is projected to increase in the next 5 years. Attend this free seminar to find out about job opportunities availability under NDIS, even while studying. Speaker: Ross M Fear, Editor of the Global Gazette Disability, Manager NDIS Transition & Manager Education & Development with Global Disability & Health Care Services, radio Announcer/Producer with Alive 90.5 fm and with a 50 year career in disability, mental health, welfare and tertiary education and has been involved in all major social policy reforms in disability services during that period. RSVP to activities@city.westernsydney.edu.au

  Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:30:00 +1000
• Aug 31
  Book launch with Dr Helen Caldicott

  COME CELEBRATE OUR BOOK LAUNCH: The Palgrave Macmillan International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning

  academic events
  General Audience
  COME CELEBRATE OUR BOOK LAUNCH: The Palgrave Macmillan International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning

  VENUE: In association with the 8th International Adventure Therapy Conference at ‘The Tops’ Stanwell Tops, NSW on Aug 31, 9.30-10.15am Editors, Tonia Gray (PhD) Centre for Educational Research WSU, and Denise Mitten (PhD)Prescott College USA are honored beyond belief that Dr Caldicott - a passionate icon of women’s perseverance and activism - will be with us to conduct the book launch.

  With over 900 pages, this volume brings together unique knowledge and wisdom from women who have spent their lives as outdoor educators and leaders, in the Antipodes and/or North America, as well as Denmark, India, Japan, Norway, and the United Kingdom. It is a valuable addition to the field, and to education and leadership more broadly. This compilation examines the theory and practice of outdoor learning from a multitude of perspectives and experiences made available through the voices of more than 80 women, many of whom cover in excess of 30 years of life and career in the outdoors.

  Dr. Caldicott leads with her passion and has pushed for over 50 years for a nuclear-free world. As an Australian physician, she dedicated her life to the health of the planet through activism. She has been awarded 21 honorary doctoral degrees and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling in 1985. Helen is the Founding President of ‘Physicians for Social Responsibility’ and named 'One of the Most Influential Women of the 20th Century' by the Smithsonian Institute. In the 1980s Sen. Edward Kennedy called her the First Lady of the Nuclear Freeze Movement. Her work is as relevant today as 50 years ago. Please put it on your calendars.

  Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:30:00 +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 1
  Alex Colley Symposium

  Alex Colley contributed a large part of his life to wilderness protection. This talk commemorates his contribution.

  Social events
  Staff and students
  Alex Colley contributed a large part of his life to wilderness protection. This talk commemorates his contribution. Sunday, September 1st Bld L2 Northside, Hawkesbury Campus, The program includes world cafe style discussions and a key note address by Andy McQueen, followed by light refreshments. Programme 1:00-1:10pm: Welcome to Country 1:10-2:10pm: Wild Cafés – conservation conversations. Wild Café 1: Fate of NSW National Parks Wild Café 2: Protecting Blue Mountain’s Wild River’s Wild Café 3: Saving the Gardens of Stone Wild Café 4: Fifty Years of Protecting Wilderness 2:10pm- 3:00pm: Andy Macqueen – Re-imagining wilderness: finding soul in a dystopian world. Andy will present challenging ideas about perceptions of wilderness, and how the road ahead should be tackled. 3:00-4:00pm: Complimentary light refreshments Please join Andy and the Colong Foundation for Wilderness to re-imagine wilderness.
  Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:00:00 +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 5
  Run For Your Life

  Former NSW Premier and Foreign Minister Bob Carr in conversation with Whitlam Institute Chair the Hon. John Faulkner.

  Exhibitions and performances; Social events
  Former NSW Premier and Foreign Minister Bob Carr in conversation with Whitlam Institute Chair the Hon. John Faulkner.

  The Whitlam Institute is pleased to announce an exciting upcoming event Run For Your Life: Former NSW Premier and Foreign Minister Bob Carr in conversation with Whitlam Institute Chair the Hon. John Faulkner. As part of the memoir-launch, Carr and Faulkner will offer audiences personal insight into the Whitlam legacy and in particular the impact Gough Whitlam had on one of Labor’s most long-serving and formidable leaders. “In writing this memoir I found—without planning it—that the figure of Edward Gough Whitlam kept walking on stage. As orator and debater and advocate and educator the Whitlam example doesn’t fade. It grows stronger.” - Bob Carr, launching his new memoir Run For Your Life.

  This is a free event, however registrations are essential via The Whitlam Institute Website.

  Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:00:00 +1000
• Sep 8
  Astronomy Night 8 September 2018

  Working and Observing at the Largest Telescopes in the World

  academic events; Conferences and seminars; Exhibitions and performances; Social events
  students, staff, alumni, general public
  Working and Observing at the Largest Telescopes in the World

  Working and Observing at the Largest Telescopes in the World A personal story of Dr Caroline Foster's experience working and observing at some of the largest optical facilities in the world. Dr Foster will discuss her time observing at the Keck, Subaru and Gemini telescopes on Mauna Kea, the Magellan telescopes on Las Campanas, Gemini on Cerro Pachon and the Very Large Telescope on Paranal in Chile; and ours truly (as well as her personal favourite), the Anglo Australian Telescope in Coonabarabran. Find out what it's like having spent hundreds of sleepless nights under some of the most pristine skies, at brain numbing altitudes with lunar landscapes! Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky through a range of telescopes (weather permitting). Cost for Public Astronomy Nights: $18.00 Adult $12.00 Child/Concession $50.00 Family (2 adults + 2 children), children under 3 years of age free. Important: Parents/Carers are responsible for and must remain with their children at all times. Current Western Sydney University staff, students and alumni are entitled to a Concession ticket (remember to bring your staff/student ID or Alumni card with you when you attend).

  Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:00:00 +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 22
  Astronomy Night 22 September 2018

  From Chaos to Cosmos: How the Ancient Greeks saw the Universe

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  students, staff, alumni, general public
  From Chaos to Cosmos: How the Ancient Greeks saw the Universe

  From Chaos to Cosmos: How the Ancient Greeks saw the Universe Every ancient culture gazed up into the night sky and tried to understand what they were seeing. Yet despite this widespread form of enquiry across history, the foundations of modern astronomy are predominantly Greek in origin. Even the very word ‘astronomy’ is Greek. This presentation examines what some of the ancient Greeks did to not only understand the what they observed in the heavens, but also the ways in which some of the conclusions reached by the ancients Greeks are very ‘modern’ in terms of understanding our place in the universe. Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky through a range of telescopes (weather permitting). Cost for Public Astronomy Nights: $18.00 Adult $12.00 Child/Concession $50.00 Family (2 adults + 2 children), children under 3 years of age free. Important: Parents/Carers are responsible for and must remain with their children at all times. Current Western Sydney University staff, students and Alumni are entitled to a Concession ticket (remember to bring your staff/student ID or Alumni card with you when you attend).

  Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:00:00 +1000
• Sep 24
  Science Careers Conference 2018

  Science Careers Conference

  Conferences and seminars
  Students and Staff from the School of Science and Health
  Science Careers Conference

  Western Sydney University Careers is excited to announce the first Science Careers Conference. This is a two-part event to be held at the Parramatta City campus on Monday 24th September 2018. The Conference will provide students the opportunity to investigate potential employment opportunities, build a career development plan to plot their personal career exploration, polish up their networking skills and connect with a wide range of science graduate employers. The day program consists of: - presentations - hands-on workshops - panels of students, graduates and industry representatives - and more! The evening program is a networking event with activities and prizes. The event will include the announcement of the Western Scientific Minds e-mentoring program.

  Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +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 1
  HumanNature Series: Environmental Martyrdom and the Fate of the Forests

  Professor Rob Nixon investigates why growing numbers of environmental activists are risking their freedom and lives to protect the environment.

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  Professor Rob Nixon investigates why growing numbers of environmental activists are risking their freedom and lives to protect the environment.

  Environmental martyrs put their bodies and lives on the line, risking imprisonment, violence or burial in a shallow grave in the dead of night. Some activists remain anonymous, while others gain posthumous fame and power, their deaths becoming a rallying call for others to join the cause. Rob Nixon, Professor in Humanities and Environment at Princeton University and author of the award-winning Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, explores the surge in environmental martyrdom around the world over timber, water, land and mineral rights. Martyrdom is direct action in extremis, he says. But why are so many people sacrificing their lives? And what is the relationship between the fallen martyr and the felled tree?

  6.00 pm: Welcome drink & refreshments.

  6.30 pm: Talk and Q&A.

  Admission: $16 AM member / $20 Adult / $18 Concession and tickets can be purchased through the Australian Museum website(opens in a new window).

  Staff and students from Western Sydney University, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Sydney are eligible for discounted tickets. Email our office via ics@westernsydney.edu.au for your discount code.

  This Lecture Series is jointly funded and coordinated by Western Sydney University, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Sydney and Australian Museum.

  Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:00:00 +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