Events

Communities of Change - Western Sydney Now and Into the Future

Conversations for Shaping the Delivery of Services

Tune in to a series of digital events to highlight, discuss and act on the big questions
facing communities and the community sector.

Join us live for these interactive sessions or view later at your convenience.

Tuesday, 17 November 2020 (Day 1) - 10:30am - 1:00pm
Wednesday 18 November 2020  (Day 2) - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Tuesday, 24 November 2020 (Day 3) - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Wednesday 25 November 2020 (Day 4) - 10:30am - 1:00pm

Professor Jim Ife will give a Keynote Presentation and Q&A on Day 1.

You can register for 1 day or for all 4 days.
Registration: http://www.wscf.org.au/communities-of-change-conversations/?mc_cid=7f0b3a5140&mc_eid=10a7ad8c5b

Researching Compassionate Communities in Australia

The School of Social Sciences are launching a recently completed research report, Researching Compassionate Communities in Australia.

Wednesday 28th October 2020
6:00pm
Online Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86209576004

After 3 years, Researching Compassionate Communities in Australia: A short-term longitudinal study is now available to download (link).
We are thrilled to be releasing this into the world and we look forward to connecting with you and hearing what it might spark for you.

We'd like to thank the 9 communities who have made this report possible. Without your commitment, your drive and your generosity in letting researchers follow your journey, we would not have this report. You have offered a gift to the entire Compassionate Communities movement.

Join the authors for a Q&A and virtual toast to celebrate the release of the report.

Res. compassionate communities

Diversity and Creative Social Change Seminar

Covid19, Epistemological Diversity and Creative Practices

Tuesday, 6 October 2020
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Zoom - Join ID  962 2484 7106 (Password: DCSC)

Please join the Diversity and Creative Social Change Strand members, to hear them talk about their recent research experiences and work in progress.

Sarah de Nardi: Visualising racialised pandemic inequalities: adapting a creative method of open mapping and place-based artwork to disclose migrant and refugee communities challenges during COVID-19.
My talk outlines work in progress and an agenda for future work on the theme of place-based learning and its implications for opening up more democratic ecologies of urban spaces. After a brief review of ongoing work with young migrants in Italy, I move on to articulate an upcoming project on migrant experiences of COVID-19 spatial restrictions and inequalities.

Jane Mears: Experiences of Older Women during the COVID 19 Pandemic: Sharing community based initiatives and creative solutions
The COVID 19 Pandemic coupled with the initial findings from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability, have exposed intolerable injustices and inequalities in aged and disability care in Australia.  There are daily calls for a total overhaul of this broken system. This paper looks at ways older women are building on decades of activism implementing successful community based initiatives and solutions to suggest ways to overhaul this system and envisage a future society that includes and nurtures us all.

Spyros Schismenos, Cymbeline Buhler, Supriya Gurung, Nidhi Wali, Charles Ball (HDR students, HADRI): ‘Side by Side’ for COVID recovery: De-Stigmatising ageing and re-integrating elders as valued contributors to society
We are an HDR group within the HADRI research cluster (Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative). We developed a submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, proposing the 'Side by Side' initiative. Our presentation will speak to the submission itself, to our process of developing it and to our experiences of becoming a cross-disciplinary writing team, working 'side by side' with each other.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis in aged care, we propose ‘Side by Side’, an initiative led by a consortium of community and professional stakeholders. ‘Side by Side’ aims to boost cross-generational participation in elders’ lives, activate local and collective support structures, and position elders as community assets.

Bronwyn Davies, Susanne Gannon and Sheridan Linnell: Corona diaries - a performative reading of work in progress.
Since April this year,  Bronwyn, Sue and Sheridan have been meeting early in the morning, mostly every week,  to exchange writing and images. We began in response to an invitation from three colleagues in the UK who have similarly engaged with each other in 'Quarantine conversations'. The genre here might be creative nonfiction; the methodology a collective iteration of critical autoethnography/ writing as inquiry; the onto-epistemological slant, new materialism and feminist affect theory; the ethic, one of friendship; the practice, one of sustaining hope and connection in the face of isolation and lockdown. Mostly though, we write our 'selves' and our relationships with each other and every-thing into existence, while endlessly questioning what on earth it is we are doing.

All School Staff and HDR Students are welcome to attend.
Please use the zoom link and password at the top of the event to join this event.