Program

Main Function RoomRoom 1: S07_2.17Room 2: S07_2.18Room 3: S07_2.19
8.30-8.55Arrival: registration & tea/coffee
9.00-9.50Welcome & Keynote Address: Associate Professor Caroline Lenette (UNSW)
Session 1Heritage & Landscape (1)Gaming & Social MediaSociety & Culture: Gender
10.00-11.15Jillian Huntley:
Transforming cultural heritage outcomes in joint management frameworks: facilitating the inclusion of Indigenous values though The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project.

Kane Alexander Sardi:
The Tasmanian Gothic in the Contemporary Australian Cultural Landscape

Amy Way:
‘Between Discovery and ‘Deep Time’: Mungo Man, settler mythology, and the contest of Australia’s deep history
Kyle Medlock:
‘“I alone determine my destiny:” Contending with tainted nostalgias in Magic: the Gathering.’

Giulio Pitroso:
Navigating gaming communities for research purposes. A short guide written by an unexperienced PhD student.

Susan Grantham and Kai Grant:
Winning votes one TikTok at a time: An analysis of how TikTok was used in the UK General Elections
Hannah Adler:
Communicating endometriosis prevalence: How can gender inclusivity and accuracy coexist?

Heather Anderson and Bridget Backhaus:
Feminist fractures: Locating ‘her stories’ in the history of Australian community broadcasting.

Erin Nichols (online):
‘Care-full aggression’: Exploring the disruptive potential of kinetic excess.
11.15-11.45Morning tea
Session 2Voice & AffectEducation: PolicyHeritage & Landscape (2)
11.50-1.05Adele Pavlidis:
Build it and they will come? Repoliticizing inspiration to rethink sport participation legacies from the Olympic Games

Louise Smith:
Using artificial intelligence to support adult migrants and refugees learn English: EAL teachers’ voice matters.

Emily House:
Sound as Method: Listening beyond borders in the Australian context
Bruce Fitter:
Synergy in Study: Interdisciplinary Paths of Humanities and STEM
 
Phuoc Hoang and Ben Fenton Smith:
Defining Internationalisation: To What Extent is it Values-Based?

Kai Grant:
‘The Greatest Value of Them All?’
Courtney Webster:
Characterising formation pathways of oxalate accretions: implications for radiocarbon dating rock art

Nam Nguyen:
Adaptation and Adversity Acceptance as Resilience to Flooding at World Heritage Sites: a case study of Hoi An Ancient Town, Vietnam

Robert Mason:
Bordering Conflict: Curating War, Violence and National Identity in Museums
1.05-1.55Lunch
Session 3Storytelling & ResearchPositionalitySociety & Culture: Community
2.00-3.15Jessica Woods:
‘Feeling the Heat’: Short Stories on Climate Change and the Female Experience.
 
Rosemary Long:
Fragments of Self: Dementia in The Father
 
Tonia Chalk:
Story, Fact, Law: The suspicious death of 13-year-old ‘half caste’ Cissie Brennan
Devpriya Chakravarty:
Values and Researcher Identities: Methodological Reflections in studying EDM Culture Among Urban Indian Youth
 
Carl Anacin:
Insider Research in Migration and Music Sociology: Contextualizing Indigenous and (G)local Method(ologie)s in Studying Migrant Musicians
 
Narayan Ghimire:
Reflections on insider positionality in migration research
Barb Pini and Marnie Cruickshank
Affective Governmentality and the Financialised Child
 
Caitlyn Fields & Susan Forde
‘I thought we would all be the same and I don’t think we were’: Young Australians’ Reflections on the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum
 
Alexandra Dunn
Why Do You Care? They’re Just Criminals
Session 4Social JusticeEducation: Experiences
3.20-4.40Emily Wright:
In what ways does the Phenomenon of White Privilege Exist Below the ‘Poverty Line’ in Contemporary Australia?

Jade McGarry:
Framing public vs private violence: a content analysis of The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The West Australian
 
Nat Kassel:
Humanising the economic: mediating the visceral effects of millennial precarity through literary journalism
 
Ella Jeffery:
‘overexposed & underdeveloped’: The Poetics of Gentrification in Keri Glastonbury’s Newcastle Sonnets
Maryline Kassab:
The Fall Guys (and Girls): Surviving Sessional Teaching in the Age of Crisis
 
Mingyan Hu and Kelly Shoecraft:
Use of GenAI to facilitate learning in higher education: Students’ voices matter
 
Mark Finnane:
The ethics of scholarship and the right to speak
4.45-5.00Closing Remarks:
Professor Michael Ondaatje
5.00-6.00Casual drinks