Research seminars
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Seminars
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
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7 March | Alan Scott: 'Romanticism, fascism, and the cult of genius: Edgar Zilsel on the social roots of irrationalism': Watch |
14 March | Julie Collins and Lorina L. Barker, ‘First Nations Representation at the Eurovision Song contest: why it is important’: Watch |
2023 seminars
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16 March | Jennifer 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 March | Geoff 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 March | Graham Maddox, ‘Pentecostalism in Australian Politics’: Watch |
06 April | Christina Kenny, ‘Reimagining the Gendered Nation – Human Rights and Citizenship in Postcolonial Kenya’: Watch |
27 April | Godwin Yidana, ‘Women Peacebuilders in Myanmar’ and Ursula De Almeida, ‘Peacebuilding and the Timorese Diaspora: Opportunity or Opportunism?’: Watch |
04 May | Angelika Heurich, ‘The Teals: Community supported Independents shaking up the Australian political system’: Watch |
18 May | Edith Ziegler, ‘The Worlds and Work of Clarice Beckett’: Watch |
25 May | Matthew Allen, ‘’Gentlemen, the Ladies’: Toasting as a gendered political performance in colonial New South Wales’: Watch |
06 July | Thomas Fudge, ‘Secrets of a Church Synod: Conflict, Controversy and Copes in 1960s Armidale’: Watch |
13 July | Issah Tikumah, ‘Tribalism in Africa: Myths and Realities’: Watch |
20 July | Caitlin D’Gluyas, ‘From Juvenile Delinquent to Colonial Worker: Point Puer as a Liminal Landscape of Colonialism’: Watch |
27 July | Elizabeth Hale, 'Classical Mythology and Children's Literature: An Alphabetical Odyssey’: Watch |
03 August | Richard Scully, ‘Third Time Lucky - The Cartoon Nation: Fixing Australia’s Problem with its Comic Art History’: Watch |
24 August | Xiang Gao, ‘The Plague, the colonial state, and the development of Hong Kong identity’: Watch |
07 Sept | Duane Duncan, 'Enacting alcohol realities: Analysing gender in research and policy on alcohol-related violence among young people’: Watch |
14 Sept | Members of the University Cultural and Creative Arts Network (UCCAN), ‘Art as Activism’: Watch |
21 Sept | Members 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 Sept | Reinhard 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.
Arts seminar recordings Presentation Presenter Date On the Vocality of Songs: Freeing the Singer from the Songwriter Paul Smith 20 Sep 2018 Richard Jordan 9 Aug 2018 Sara Lorenzetti 2 Aug 2018 Full Court Press: Pitching and Publishing Creative Writing in the Australian Context Sophie Masson and John Ryan 2 Aug 2018 Making a Political Public: Serialised Print News in Early C17th England Diana Barnes 26 Jul 2018 Kate Wright 19 Jul 2018 Maria Cotter 31 May 2018 Reclaiming "Provincialism": A Transregional Study of Modern French Poetry Valentina Gosetti 24 May 2018 Reluctant Journalists as New Age Librarians, Creating the Global Index for Search and Advertising Cate Dowd 19 Apr 2018 Jennifer Hamilton 15 Mar 2018 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 Dr Samantha Jeffries 30 September 2016 Dr Garner Clancey, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney 28 April 2015 Christina Kenny, PhD candidate, Australian National University 19 May 2015 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 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. Held 13 May 2016 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). Presentation Presenter Date The Role of Values in Decision Making & Bridging the Research to Practice Gap Celeste Young, Research Fellow, 24 Sept 2015 Dr Robyn Bartel, Senior Lecturer, 10 Sept 2015 Adapting Peri-urban Planning to a Post-Productivist Landscape Paul McFarland, Lecturer, 3 Sept 2015 Heading down to the local: Craft beer and local economic development in rural Australia Professor Neil Argent, 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 Dr Michael Reid, Senior Lecturer, 14 May 2015 Previous recordings: All previous seminars are recorded. View them here: Video recordings 2019. Trimester Two, July to October 2019 Date Seminar 12 July 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 2 August 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 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 Date Seminar 8 March Sarah Lawrence, UNE 15 March David Coady, UNE 22 March James Roberts, UNE 29 March Anita Wanki, UNE 5 April NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK 12 April Xiang Gao, UNE 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 31 May Christina Kenny, UNE Bodies as battlefields, bodies as weapons: African women’s resistance and the limits of human rights The following past seminars can be viewed at the link below. Video recordings of past seminars. 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 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 Individual seminar abstracts and recordings are available by following the link on the seminar title. 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. In this engaging presentation series, researchers share their research, conservation efforts, experimental work, fieldwork anecdotes and advice. 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. Date Presenter Seminar title 13 March 2018 Emeritus Professor Michael Bittman Playlist of all 2018 seminar recordings Date Presenter Seminar title 2 March 2017 UNE Sociology 30 March 2017 Dr Jo Coghlan 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 24 October 2017 Professor Alan Scott Playlist of all 2017 seminar recordings 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 15 September 2016 Dr Jordan McKenzie Book Launch: Deconstructing Happiness: Critical Sociology and the Good life (2016, Routledge)2020 seminar recordings
2020 seminar recordings
Criminology seminars
Research symposium: 40 years and 40,000 years
Geography and planning seminar recordings
Victoria University
Geography and Planning, UNE
Geography and Planning, UNE
Geography and Planning, UNE
Geography and Planning, UNETrimester One, 2019 (March - May)
Imaginary pain: Verisimilitude and violence in Seneca’s Controversiae
In defence of rumour and rumour-mongering
Change of time/place: 2.15pm, Arts Building, Lecture Theatre A3
Andreas Mehl seminar cancelled due to illness
Change of location: Arts Building, Lecture Theatre A3Past seminars
Trimester Two, 2018 (July - October)
Lorina Barker, UNE - title to be advisedTrimester One, 2018 (March - June)
Schedule of Seminars
Diary of an Archaeologist presentations
Diary of an Archaeologist.Archaeology seminars
Date Presenter Presentation Boom and bust in the Bronze Age: Mining, metallurgy and society in ancient Cyprus Prof David Frankel 5 Aug 2015 Microscopic revelations Nina Kononenko and Val Attenbrow - Australian Museum and University of Sydney 16 Oct 2015 2018 seminars
2017 seminars
Lecturers2016 seminars
2022 seminars