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From State Records NSW
The exposure draft is available on the State Records NSW website. The deadline for comments is Friday, 2 July 2010. If you require any further information about the draft authority or have any queries about the consultation process, please contact Angela McGing, Project Officer, Government Recordkeeping by telephone on (02) 8247 8630 or via email to Angela McGing.
The Doctoral Student will study the contemporary impacts of repatriating historic archival data to Aboriginal communities in west Arnhem Land. S/he will be hosted by Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation in the town of Jabiru in Kakadu National Park, which is approximately 40 minutes drive from Gunbalanya (aka Oenpelli), the third and final base of the Arnhem Land Expedition. The Student will be expected to spend substantial periods of time in Jabiru where a new digital knowledge centre is being established. Travel to northern Australia and substantial support for the fieldwork will be covered by the ARC funding. The digital knowledge repository will be a major case study for the project. The Doctoral Student will directly contribute to the centre and from this position develop contacts within the Aboriginal communities of west Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park. They will study the relationships between Western media and the traditional cultures of the area. This will advance one of the core objectives of the project: to better understand 'the meaning and value of repatriation by analysing how data are received, interpreted and deployed'. The project is interdisciplinary in scope and we hope that applicants from a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences will be interested in this opportunity. Scholars from musicology, history, performance studies, linguistics, anthropology, media and cultural studies are welcome to apply. This list is suggestive, not prescriptive. The choice of Supervisor and Associate Supervisor will depend upon the disciplinary background of the successful applicant. A readiness to work collaboratively with Aboriginal communities and with other members of the research team is a basic requirement. A high level of computer literacy is also essential. Applications close on 15 June 2010. The approved applicant will be required to meet the normal requirements for enrolment in a postgraduate research degree in the relevant department of the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney. For further information on application procedures see http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/future_students/courses/postgraduate/research.shtml, or contact arts.postgraduate@sydney.edu.au. The Arts Postgraduate Handbook contains details about the application process and requirements. Inquiries about the scholarship should be directed in the first instance to Linda Barwick and Martin Thomas. 
State Library of Victoria Conference Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 30 September–2 October 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS – Closing Date: 31 October 2010 In recent years memory has been an increasingly significant resource for many different types of communities: for survivors of natural catastrophe and human-made disaster; in country towns dealing with demographic and environmental change; for cities and suburbs in constant transformation; in the preservation of special places or the restitution of human rights; for the 'Forgotten Australians' and 'Stolen Generations'; for migrants and refugees creating new lives; among virtual communities sharing life stories online. Memories are used to foster common identity and purpose, to recover hidden histories and silenced stories, to recall change in the past and advocate change in the present, to challenge stereotypes and speak truth to power. The concept of 'community' can be enlisted for change or conservatism; 'communities of memory' can be inclusive and empowering, or exclusive and silencing. Oral historians, in a variety of guises and combining age-old listening skills with dazzling new technologies, play important roles in this memory work. Our conference welcomes participants who use oral history in their work with and within communities of memory across the many fields and disciplines that contribute to community, public and academic histories. We invite proposals for individual presentations, workshops and thematic panels. The conference will include history walks and tours that introduce participants to Melbourne's rich and diverse communities of memory. Keynote speakers include Stephen High; Nathalie Nguyen & Peter Read. We welcome proposals for presentations in a variety of formats and media, including standard paper presentations (typically 20 minutes); short accounts of work in progress (typically 5 minutes); participatory workshops; and thematic panels comprising several presenters. Presentations should involve oral history. For more information or to submit a proposal, visit the website or email the organizers. 
Creation takes a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin, the founder of evolutionary biology and husband to a passionately religious wife. A great family man, we follow his life as, torn between religion and science, he struggles to finish research for his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. Based on the biography penned by Darwin’s great, great Grandson, Creation stars real-life husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. A heart-breaking love story and a fascinating insight into the very human plight of faith and knowledge. Creation will release in selected cinemas nationally from July 15. |
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