News and Events
March Announcements
Week Ending Friday 30 November 2001
Highlights and Achievements
The Hawke Centre is proud to announce its new patron, Her Excellency, Mrs Marjorie
Jackson-Nelson, Governor of South Australia. Her Excellency joins other distinguished
patrons of the Centre, Nelson Mandela (International patron); Sir Zelman Cowen and Sir
Ninian Stephen, former Governors-General;Sir Eric Neal, former S.A. Governor; Mrs Imelda
Roche; and Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue.
From November 29 to December 1 at City West, the Conflict Management Research Group
presented the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum on 'Reconciliation: a conversation beyond
cultural boundaries'. The forum featured presenters including Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, Prof
Kay Schaffer, Jose Ramos Horta, Prof Juan Task (Argentina) and Graham Neate.
On Thursday November 29 in the Brookman Hall at City East the Asia Pacific Mediation
Forum and the Hawke Institute presented a public address 'Bridging religious and cultural
divides', by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Second
Transitional Government of East Timor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. A capacity crowd
attended.
Glenn Giles from the Aboriginal Research Institute gave a paper at the Fifth National
Information Literacy Conference, 'Information Literacy: The Social Action Agenda', on
Friday November 30 and Saturday December 1 at the Education Development Centre, Hindmarsh.
Glenn's paper was entitled, ‘Fair Go’ Equality? - The ‘peoples
movement’ for reconciliation, ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation)
and critical information literacy.
At the Hartley Playhouse at Magill on Friday November 30 the Research Centre for
Languages and Cultures Education held a performance seminar 'Is there a role for Thea-ter
in languages-and-cultures education?' with the participation of FRAGMENTS, a performing
collective, and their work-in-progress performance of FRAGMENTA, featuring characters from
the dramatic works of Ionesco, Beckett, Camus, Albee, and Benett.
Dr Peter Gale has contributed a chapter to the recently published Mary Kalantzis and
Bill Cope, eds. 'Reconciliation, Multiculturalism, Identities book. He also presented a
paper entitled 'Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Fear' at the Asia Pacific Mediation
Foum held at City West.
Members of the Division starred in the UniSA Revue held at the Royalty Theatre on
Wednesday November 28. The main EASS contribution was entitled 'Playschool', complete with
little boys with very deep voices and little girls with knees that hadn't seen the light
of day for years. Storytime featured the convoluted history of that 'grownup kindy' called
UniSA. A good time was had by all.
Teaching and Learning
The Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work and the Hawke Institute presented
a seminar by Dr Rob Poell, Department of Education, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands,
'Learning networks, learning projects and learning organisations' on Tuesday 27 November
at Underdale.
The official opening of the Industrial Design Graduate Exhibition was held at the
Queens Theatre on Friday 30 November. The guest speaker was Kjell Grant, from RMIT. The
exhibition can be viewed from 10.00am-4.00pm until Friday 5th December.
Pro Vice Chancellor
Michael Rowan chaired the first meeting of the Interim Implementation Committee which
has been set up to begin work on the recommendations from the Education Review
Week Ending 30 March 2001
Highlights and
Achievements
Dr Rob Amery from the Unaipon School, in consultation
with the Kaurna Elders Committee and the Adelaide City Council has been instrumental in
the naming of more than 16 unnamed parks around the city of Adelaide with Kaurna names.
Alternative names for high profile parklands sites have also been chosen. The names
approved by the group have a range of meanings and many refer to edible plants, roots and
berries, such as Karrawirraparri, meaning red gum tree, forest and river which is the
Kaurna name for the River Torrens.
During 19th-23rd March, the Louis Laybourne Smith School
of Architecture and Design held its second Interior Architecture Professional Week. Three
key events occurred during the week - a professional seminar for final year students with
a panel of 8 interior architecture practitioners, a presentation of winning entries from
the 2000 SA Design Institute of Australia awards programme by 5 award winning design
practitioners and a networking/social event on the evening of Friday 23rd for students
which was attended by a large number of interior architecture practitioners.
Mark Kimber's (SASA) exhibition "Dissonant
Melodies" was presented by Greenaway Art Gallery recently with the Art Gallery of
South Australia being one of the purchasers of his work. The exhibition will now tour to
Byron Mapp Gallery in Sydney. Mark is establishing contacts with other organisations which
will benefit the School.
Research and Research Education
Dr Rob Ranzijn from the School of Psychology
convened and chaired a lunchtime seminar on 'Aboriginal Elders speak about ageing, and
aged care providers respond' which was held on Wed March 28th. The 80 participants who
attended included representatives from the Office for the Ageing (SA), the Domiciliary
Care Services, and major aged care organisations. The seminar was organised by the
Australian Assocation of Gerontology (SA/NT Division), of which Dr Ranzijn is the
President
International
Joanne Cys, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture
and Design, (with Lynn Chalmers) presented a paper at the 2001 Interior Design Educators
Council Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, held 28-31 March 2001.
Collaboration and Partnerships
On 27 March John Schenk, Darren Fong and Matt
Rumbelow of the the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, made a
presentation at the Royal Australian Institute of Architect's Professional Development
seminar held at EDS House, North Terrace, attended by some 60 professionals and academics.
The seminar theme was "Architecture in the Digital Economy", and focused on the
advent of "the digital age" within both the education and practice of
architecture.
Important Contacts
Mr Dale Hancock & Ms Dawn Hubbs from the Unaipon
School have formed a collaborative association with BRL Hardy company Banrock Station
Wines, for the provision of archaeological assessments and cultural trail interpretive
information. This has been in conjunction with members of the Mid Murray Aboriginal
communities and relates to the official opening by the Hon. Joan Hall on Saturday 24
March, of Stage 1 of the 7 kilometre Banrock Wetlands and Boardwalk Trail. Mr Dale Hancock
attended along with Aboriginal community members Ms Emily Meyers and Mr Eric Cook, who
were presented with a framed memento of the first Indigenous Story Centre copy. To date 2
Archaeological Assessment Reports have been completed as part of a successful first stage
$10,000 consultancy bid, and Unaipon School Honours student Faye McGoldrick has completed
a thesis on Aboriginal plant use and subsistence activities in the Mid Murray, focusing on
Banrock.
Annie Campbell (BDM Research and Consultancy) attended a
boardroom luncheon hosted by the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Gerard McCabe
Jewellers on 29 March. Seventeen companies were represented. In addition to the Chamber
itself, valuable contacts for future research, training and consultancy opportunities were
established with Mission Australia, Adelaide Central Mission, SA Lotteries and City of
Adelaide.
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