Research seminars

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Seminars

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This weekly seminar series highlights new research from academics and higher research degree students from across the School of HASS. The series is free and open to the public on campus and/or via zoom video sessions.

The weekly research seminar is usually held during teaching weeks in trimester one and two. It is best to confirm this by checking the weekly advertisement in Events on the UNE homepage.

For further information, contact the Seminar Coordinator Sandy Boucher

2024 seminars

DATESEMINAR
7 MarchAlan Scott: 'Romanticism, fascism, and the cult of genius: Edgar Zilsel on the social roots of irrationalism': Watch
14 MarchJulie Collins and Lorina L. Barker, ‘First Nations Representation at the Eurovision Song contest: why it is important’: Watch

2023 seminars

DATESEMINAR
16 MarchJennifer Yee, ‘Nineteenth-century French culture in a (post)colonial context’ and Charles Forsdick, ‘Across the carceral archipelago: the bagne as postcolonial lieu(x) de mémoire’: Watch
23 MarchGeoff Lienert, ‘Transcending the Self: The Contemplation of Nature in L. Annaeus Seneca’s Natural Questions’ and Fiona Papps, ‘More than simulacrum fabre politum: An Application of Trauma Theory to the Character of Psyche in Apuleius’s Cupid and Psyche': Watch
30 MarchGraham Maddox, ‘Pentecostalism in Australian Politics’: Watch
06 AprilChristina Kenny, ‘Reimagining the Gendered Nation – Human Rights and Citizenship in Postcolonial Kenya’: Watch
27 AprilGodwin Yidana, ‘Women Peacebuilders in Myanmar’ and Ursula De Almeida, ‘Peacebuilding and the Timorese Diaspora: Opportunity or Opportunism?’: Watch
04 MayAngelika Heurich, ‘The Teals: Community supported Independents shaking up the Australian political system’: Watch
18 MayEdith Ziegler, ‘The Worlds and Work of Clarice Beckett’:  Watch
25 MayMatthew Allen, ‘’Gentlemen, the Ladies’: Toasting as a gendered political performance in colonial New South Wales’: Watch
06 JulyThomas Fudge, ‘Secrets of a Church Synod: Conflict, Controversy and Copes in 1960s Armidale’: Watch
13 JulyIssah Tikumah, ‘Tribalism in Africa: Myths and Realities’: Watch
20 JulyCaitlin D’Gluyas, ‘From Juvenile Delinquent to Colonial Worker: Point Puer as a Liminal Landscape of Colonialism’: Watch
27 JulyElizabeth Hale, 'Classical Mythology and Children's Literature: An Alphabetical Odyssey’: Watch
03 AugustRichard Scully, ‘Third Time Lucky - The Cartoon Nation: Fixing Australia’s Problem with its Comic Art History’: Watch
24 AugustXiang Gao, ‘The Plague, the colonial state, and the development of Hong Kong identity’: Watch
07 SeptDuane Duncan, 'Enacting alcohol realities: Analysing gender in research and policy on alcohol-related violence among young people’: Watch
14 SeptMembers of the University Cultural and Creative Arts Network (UCCAN), ‘Art as Activism’: Watch
21 SeptMembers of the Gender and Rural Studies Research Collective, ‘Heteropessimism and its discontents’: Watch
25 Sept(Aspects of Antiquity lecture) Reinhard Senff, ‘Olympia - The Sanctuary of Zeus from Prehistory to the Early Christian Period. Recent Results of the Excavations of the German Archaeological Institute’: Watch
26 SeptReinhard Senff, ‘Aphrodite, Protectress of sea–travel in Archaic Miletus: Results of the excavations in her sanctuary in the Ionian Metropolis’: Watch

Other seminars are held across the various disciplines in the school from time to time. These, and links to previous HASS or Humanities seminar recordings, are below.

Criminology Seminars

Criminology seminars

Recordings/abstracts from past criminology seminars are linked below.

Presentation

Presenter

Date

People need to understand why we are who we are: an ethnographic study of homeless women in Brisbane

Dr Helena Menih

28 April 2016

'Just Waitin' For a Mate': Police reality television as a public relations strategy

Dr Alyce McGovern

4 August 2016

Samuel Marsden's neighbours: A magistrate and the construction of a neighbourhood in Parramatta

Matthew Allen

8 September 2016

Exploring women's and men's pathways to imprisonment in Thailand: ethical, practical and theoretical challenges

Dr Samantha Jeffries

30 September 2016

Contemporary crime trends and crime prevention

Dr Garner Clancey, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

28 April 2015

She's not a witch, she's just a very naughty woman: Embodied resistance in the Colony of Kenya and the case of Mekatilili

Christina Kenny, PhD candidate, Australian National University

19 May 2015

Policing the Outback

Steve Bradshaw, retired Assistant Commisioner, NSW Police

14 September 2015

Sober and orderly? A short history of policing public drunkenness in New South Wales

Dr Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Historical Criminology, UNE

6 October 2015

Geography and Planning Seminars 

UNE's Geography and Planning discipline's research seminars are open to the public. Presenters include members of our own academic staff as well as guest speakers from other institutions.

Research symposium: 40 years and 40,000 years

Held 13 May 2016

Play symposium recording

Session 1

Presenter

Title

Fiona Utley and Robyn Bartel

Introduction and Publication plans

Stephen Harris and Fiona Utley

Another walk on the wildside: a phenomenology of rewilding and edge lands

Marty Branagan

The Franklin River: a case study of wilderness preservation (Part 1)

Bert Jenkins

Wilderness Transcience

Navjot Bhullar

Nature as Therapy: The role of green care in mental health

Marty Branagan

The Franklin River: a case study of wilderness preservation. (Part 2)

Steve Norris and Tony Lynch

Wilderness Triumphant

Session 2

Boyd Blackwell

Mining Wilderness and Traditional Peoples: How to Transcend and Transform the Imbedded Conflicts Presented Through Multiple and Sequential Use of Remote Resources

Paul Reader

Google-eyed wilderness: reconciling visual constructions of remote open spaces and places with other historical and Indigenous understandings

Wendy Beck

Wilderness in the distant past- some New England reflections

Vanessa Bible and Tanya Howard

History of the Australian Wilderness Preservation Movement and Environmental Law

Robyn Bartel, Don Hine, Methuen Morgan & Graham Marshall

Wilderness binaries and biodiversity management in urban settings (note moved from original programme, and note also Joshua Nash Apologies).

Geography and planning seminar recordings

Presentation

Presenter

Date

The Role of Values in Decision Making & Bridging the Research to Practice Gap

Celeste Young, Research Fellow,
Victoria University

24 Sept 2015

Heterotic Water Futures from a Quixotic Water Past?
Vernacular knowledge, transformative learning and syncretic governance in the Murray-Darling Basin

Dr Robyn Bartel, Senior Lecturer,
Geography and Planning, UNE

10 Sept 2015

Adapting Peri-urban Planning to a Post-Productivist Landscape

Paul McFarland, Lecturer,
Geography and Planning, UNE

3 Sept 2015

Heading down to the local: Craft beer and local economic development in rural Australia

Professor Neil Argent,
Geography and Planning, UNE

13 Aug 2015

Fiction for the Creeping City: A literary Geography of the Postwar Melbourne Novel

James McGregor, Lecturer, Geography and Planning, UNE

30 July 2015

“Too many jumbucks in the billabong? Evidence of early post-European settlement impacts on billabongs of the Murray-Darling"

Dr Michael Reid, Senior Lecturer,
Geography and Planning, UNE

14 May 2015

 Past Arts, Humanities and Social Science Seminars

Previous recordings: All previous seminars are recorded. View them here: Video recordings 2019.

Trimester Two, July to October 2019

Date

Seminar

12 July

Ms Saffaa, I am my own guardian: Resistance, agency and art

16 July

Russell Ward annual lecture, Barry Godfrey, From ‘convicts’ to ‘criminals’: What is the actual evidence for the convict stain?

17 July

Judith Wright annual lecture, Tony Birch, Walking and thinking: Country and deep time

26 July

Megan Daniels, Mothers, prostitutes, or sex goddesses? Rethinking naked female figurines in Iron Age Mediterranean sanctuaries

2 August

Jane Ahlstrand, Authoritarian women in a democratic era: Representations of Indonesian female politicians in online news

9 August

Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Gaols, justice and remembering in film and television practice

16 August

Clemente Marconi, Archaeology of colonial encounters in western Sicily

23 August

Cameron Moore, Freedom of navigation and the Law of the Sea: Warships, states and the use of force

30 August

Stephen Hodkinson, Re-evaluating Spartiate life: A grassroots perspective

13 September

Helen Monro, Citizens making a difference: The influence of voluntary associations in Victoria’s country towns, 1851-1901

20 September

Graham Maddox, Ancient Rome as a source of modern republican liberty?

27 September

Katherine Chambers, Faith and philosophy: Augustine of Hippo and Neoplatonism

4 October

Giulia Torello-Hill, ‘Speaking hands’: The representation of gestures in the Lyon Terence

Trimester One, 2019 (March - May)

Date

Seminar

8 March

Sarah Lawrence, UNE
Imaginary pain: Verisimilitude and violence in Seneca’s Controversiae

15 March

David Coady, UNE
In defence of rumour and rumour-mongering

Change of time/place: 2.15pm, Arts Building, Lecture Theatre A3

22 March

James Roberts, UNE

Reading the bones: The value of animal remains in understanding the human past in prehistoric Southeastern Arabia

29 March

Anita Wanki, UNE

The impact of leadership on governance and security in Ghana and the Central African Republic from 1993 - 2013

5 April

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Andreas Mehl seminar cancelled due to illness

12 April

Xiang Gao, UNE

China as a ‘responsible power’ in international relations

10 May

Glenn Porter, UNE

The challenges of forensic facial identification as evidence in criminal justice

17 May

Erin Ihde, UNE

Kings of Space: The 1950s children’s sci-fi novels of Ivan Southall and W.E. Johns in a Cold War context

24 May

Michael Brogan, UNE

Before it’s too late: Anthropological reflections from 1950 - 1970

Change of location: Arts Building, Lecture Theatre A3

31 May

Christina Kenny, UNE

Bodies as battlefields, bodies as weapons: African women’s resistance and the limits of human rights

Past seminars

The following past seminars can be viewed at the link below.

Video recordings of past seminars.

Trimester Two, 2018 (July - October)

Date

Seminar

13 July

Anneke Van Mosseveld, UNE

Science and the Australian Army: Innovations in camouflage, machinery, anthropometrics and flower power

20 July

Tim Causer, University College London

The evacuation of that scene of wickedness and wretchedness’: Jeremy Bentham, the panopticon prison &  New South Wales, 1802–3

27 July

Matthew Longo, Leiden University

The politics of borders: Sovereignty, security & the citizen after 9/11

3 August

Lesley McLean, Martin Gibbs, Jenny Wise & Tristan Taylor, UNE

Dark Tourism: Four Cases in Time and Space

10 August

David Kent, UNE

The Insolvent Debtors' Courts and a spotlight on early 19th century working-class business practices

17 August

Antonios Kotsonas, University of Cincinnati

The Cretan Labyrinth: Monument & Memory from Prehistory to the Present

24 August

Paul Barratt AO, UNE

Public sector outsourcing: Can we afford it?

14 September

Felicity Joseph, UNE

‘Mute Life’ and Poetry: Philosophy at the limits of language

21 September

Francois Soyer, UNE

Performing gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The extraordinary life and inquisitorial trial of Maria Duran

28 September

Lloyd Weeks, UNE

Three years on at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai: Piecing together the late prehistoric societies of southeastern  Arabia

5 October

Sandy Boucher, UNE

There is no (longer any) problem of biological teleology

12 October


Lorina Barker, UNE - title to be advised

Trimester One, 2018 (March - June)

Date

Presentation

9 March

Professor Hans Taeuber, Daily life in ancient Ephesos: The evidence from the graffiti

16 March

Peter J Crawford, How seriously does Australia take water security? Political assertion versus reality

23 March

Bronwyn Hopwood, The Good Wife: Fate, fortune, & familia in Augustan Rome

13 April

Jim Belshaw, New England travels: Journeys through space and time

4 May

Thomas Kehoe, 'Homicide was committed frequently by our soldiers': The problem for US military government during the World Wars

11 May

Alan Scott, Populism and neo-nationalism in Europe: A tale of two countries

18 May

Iain Davidson, Signs, pictures, art, marks

25 May

Thomas Fudge, Where are all the women in the Hussite Revolution?

1 June

Mal Ridges, Caring for culture: The science of supporting Aboriginal culture in the NSW Office of Environment  and Heritage

15 June

Johanna Garnett, Myanmar and China: Economic allies in development or destruction?

22 June

Wendy Beck, The archaeology of Northeast NSW: Wetlands and cave excavations 1986-2016

29 June

Adrian Walsh, Desperate exchange and injustice

Linguistics Seminars

Schedule of Seminars

Individual seminar abstracts and recordings are available by following the link on the seminar title.

Previous years seminars

Note: All seminars for the months February to June will be from 1–2pm. Seminars for the months July to November will be from 12–1pm. The venue for all seminars is Oorala Lecture Theatre.

Archaeology Seminars

Diary of an Archaeologist presentations

In this engaging presentation series, researchers share their research, conservation efforts, experimental work, fieldwork anecdotes and advice.

Diary of an Archaeologist.

Archaeology seminars

DatePresenterPresentation
Boom and bust in the Bronze Age: Mining, metallurgy and society in ancient CyprusProf David Frankel5 Aug 2015 
Microscopic revelations Nina Kononenko and Val Attenbrow - Australian Museum and University of Sydney16 Oct 2015
Sociology Seminars

Our research seminars present the latest research, papers and publications from our researchers. Held throughout the year, it's a great opportunity to engage with the UNE research community.

Find out about the numerous upcoming seminars, as well as viewing previous seminar  recordings:

The Sociology discipline holds regular research seminars presented by a diverse range of speakers. The series coordinator is Dr Cary Bennett.

2018 seminars

Date

Presenter

Seminar title

13 March 2018

Emeritus Professor Michael Bittman

How did the populations of advanced economies grow so much fatter? The potential contribution of time use and other evidence on the social organisation of eating

Playlist of all 2018 seminar recordings

2017 seminars

Date

Presenter

Seminar title

2 March 2017

UNE Sociology
Lecturers

Barriers and facilitators to inclusive education.  

30 March 2017

Dr Jo Coghlan

Political Fashion: Interrogating identity and Ideology

4 May 2017

Dr Genine Hook

Feminist Pedagogy for Sociology: Negotiating belonging in Australian Higher Education

31 August 2017

Dr Guy Redden

John Howard's investor state: Neoliberalism and the rise of inequality in Australia

8 September 2017

Professor Penny Jane Burke

Gendered differences in Higher Education: The politics of emotion

21 September 2017

UNE Sociology Lecturers

Honours and Masters in Sociology

24 October 2017

Professor Alan Scott

Remaking Market Society

Playlist of all 2017 seminar recordings

2016 seminars

Individual abstracts and recordings are available by following the link on the seminar title.

Date

Presenter

Seminar title

3 May 2016

Dr Cary Bennett

Polymorphous anxieties and perverse pleasures: drugs, moral panics and the dispositive

14 September 2016

UNE Sociology lecturers

Sociology Honours/Masters information session recording

15 September 2016

Dr Jordan McKenzie

Book Launch: Deconstructing Happiness: Critical Sociology and the Good life (2016, Routledge)

Playlist of all 2016 seminar recordings