2022 Past Events
2022 Social Sciences Week
5th September 2022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm AEST (in person – Parramatta City Campus - 1PSQ 01.2.26)
Indigenous Activism in Humanities and Social Science Research(opens in a new window)
This event explores how Indigenous social science and humanities scholars engage in activism research and how academics could better advocate for Indigenous communities.
Presenters include Dr BJ Newton (keynote), Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan and Robyn Newitt. Chaired by Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan and Associate Professor Kate Huppatz.
5th September 2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm AEST (Zoom)
WSU: Anthropology and Filming our Social Worlds (opens in a new window)
Ethnographic film-making has long been a medium for ethnographic analysis in Anthropology. In this panel for Social Sciences Week 2022, Anthropology @ Western Sydney University presents a film by Dr Malini Sur (ICS, SoSS) entitled Life Cycle that offers a tribute to the bicycle in uncertain times and its relationship to rapidly changing Indian cities. The film maker will discuss the making of the film and is joined by a panel of discussants in a conversation about the challenges and opportunities of ethnographic film making Panellists: Mary Hawkins, Cristina Rocha, Andrew McWilliam, Kathleen Openshaw and Helena Onnudottir Film Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_y0rxaO7T8&t=10s Life Cycle (42 Minutes) explores the place of the bicycle in the everyday lives of city dwellers in Kolkata. Are Kolkata's bicycles relics of a past to be hastily discarded or are they viable, if complicated cargo vehicles in India’s burgeoning cities? Winding through Kolkata’s roads we follow the city’s daily wage-workers, teachers and environmentalists and their changing relationships to cycling. What happens when new traffic regulations impede two-wheeled travellers from riding on Kolkata’s roads? How do vendors, couriers, newspaper sellers and artists negotiate Kolkata’s roads congested with cars and other motorized transport? Who wins the battle for the road – the bicycle or the car?
8th September 2022 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm AEST (Zoom)
Racialised Pandemic: establishing a community-research agenda (opens in a new window)
Racism associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected certain groups in Australia, for example Indigenous, Asian, Muslim and migrant communities (Kamp et al. 2021; Elias et al. 2021). The pandemic has highlighted the impact of structural racism in public health emergencies as evident in disparities in exposure, susceptibility and treatment of the novel coronavirus along racial lines (Yearby & Mohapatra 2020). Furthermore, public health measures adopted to mitigate the spread of the virus in NSW were also uneven. This disparity was particularly evident in Western Sydney, home to the largest Indigenous, Muslim and migrant communities in Sydney, which saw some of the strictest and longest lockdown regulations, received the most COVID-related fines, and saw a heightened police and enforcement presence that was not evident in other parts of Sydney. Western Sydney has been subjected to racial logics of inequality as a result of negative COVID-related impacts on employment, income, access to appropriate public health messaging, and mobility, as well as exposure to the virus and related deaths. Elias et al. (2020) talk of the “multidimensional nature of racism”, where those “who already face numerous social, economic and health vulnerabilities” also encountered intensified marginalisation and exclusion during the pandemic. The aim of this panel is to centre the communities that experienced racism and to draw on the social sciences to discuss a community-research agenda for addressing the problem of racism generated by the pandemic and broader continuing inequality in Western Sydney. Looking at the multidimensional nature of racism, specifically, structural racism, from an interdisciplinary perspective, we will draw on geography, sociology, social work and law, in order to respond to the needs of the communities who experience racism.
2022 Art Therapy Student Exhibition
Please use the link below to visit a digital version of this year's Integrating Arts & Therapy exhibition by first year students in the M. Art Therapy.
To navigate around the exhibition, click on the screen with your mouse and hold it down, you can then move the page around to see left, right, up, down, or to turn around and go back. Click on the white arrows in the black circles to view works or to move from space to space - clicking on the red cross in the red and white circle will open up the artist statement.
A floorplan is provided below to assist.
Art Therapy Exhibition 2022
Exhibition: Felt Edge — Whitlam Institute
Our Art Therapy Exhibition - Felt Edge: social justice in contemporary art and therapy, opens today (23 February) at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries. This Exhibition is co-curated by Joy Paton and sessional staff member Anita Lever.
Note: Margaret Whitlam Galleries is open to the public on Wednesdays and Thursdays. This exhibition comprises artworks by staff, students and graduates of the Art Therapy program at Western Sydney University. www.whitlam.org
https://www.whitlam.org/events/2022/2/8/exhibition-felt-edge
