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The Need For An Emotional Work Survey, Roger Patulny

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Surveys of emotions offer great potential to understand micro-social dynamics and wellbeing not only within small groups, but within nations as a whole. The most commonly reported emotions in surveys – happiness, satisfaction, loneliness, etc - hint at the social experiences of people from different class, ethnic, marital backgrounds, etc. However, such questions are usually generalised to ‘whole of life’ or domain-specific (eg work, family, etc) assessments. They are unable to capture the micro-social dynamics of interaction, power, and status, and consequently lose much of the social interplay of emotions. Many ‘social’ emotions – guilt, shame, anger, envy – are …

Turing’S Thinking Machines: Resonances With Surrealism And The Avant-Garde Of The Early 20th Century, Klemens E. James

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This paper examines the thinking machines depicted in the visual and theoretical works of Surrealism and other avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. The aim is to establish to what extent the conceptions of these machines prefigure Turing’s ideas about the mechanical brain. Whereas Surrealism and its artistic antecedents (such as the Dadaists) are generally thought to have been uninterested in or mistrustful of such technological developments, it will shown that a number of artists/theorists (Ernst, Duchamp, Picabia, Hausmann, Matta, Dalí, Caillois) envisaged the notion of the thinking machine in a manner which anticipated a number of Turing’s ideas …

Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero

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The word crisis derives from the Greek , ***** “judgment.” Interestingly, DC Comics published in 1985 a twelve-part series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths whose main goal was to clean up the chaos of narrative parallel universes which DC’s writers had established over the past forty-five years, in order to start afresh with one single story continuity. While a miserable fail as an attempt at simplification, Crisis on Infinite Earths still inaugurated an era of multifaceted, elaborate and rich superhero comic books. Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) are the first instances of …

Popular Representations Of Leadership: Heroes And Superheroes In Times Of Crisis, Luis Gomez Romero

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The importance of popular culture in the study of politics–especially in the creation, development and propagation of political ideas–has scarcely been examined in any depth by students of politics. The cultural representations of political institutions and processes apparently escape the defined fields of the theoretical disciplines concerned with political phenomena. Political philosophy, particularly in the Englishspeaking world, has been largely committed in the last four decades to provide rationally compelling arguments aimed to justify the principles of political morality, detaching itself from concrete political experience and privileging instead an abstract, universal and ahistorical normative account of the ideal polity. Political …

An Ecosystem Approach To Management Of Seamounts In The Southern Indian Ocean. Volume 3 - Legal And Institutional Gap Analysis, Robin M. Warner, Philomene Verlaan, Gail Lugten

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is committed to achieving effective protection, restoration and sustainable use of biological diversity and ecosystem processes on the high seas. IUCN Resolution 4.031 (2008), “Achieving conservation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction”, called, inter alia, for the promotion of arrangements, processes and agreements that ensure the consistent, coordinated and coherent application of the best conservation and governance principles and approaches, including integrated ecosystem-based management and the precautionary approach.

Access To Justice For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People, Elena Marchetti

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I would firstly like to pay respect to the traditional and original owners of this land the Mouheneenner people - to pay respect to those that have passed before us and to acknowledge today’s Tasmanian Aboriginal community who are the custodians of this land.

There is a preference these days for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be referred to separately rather than under the umbrella term of ‘Indigenous’ and I will try and honour that preference as much as I can. However, in some circumstances I will be using the term ‘Indigenous’ because it better suits the content …

Raskols: The Gangs Of Papua New Guinea, Stephen Dupont

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Beautiful black-and-white portraits of Papua New Guinea's most fearsome gangsters, brigands, thieves, and carjackers posing with their arsenal of homemade guns and knives.

Speech At The Exhibition Opening Of "Metropolis: Rotwang's Robot, Revolution, And Redemption" A Selection Of Memorabiia Relating To Fritz Lang's 1927 Sci-Fi Fantasy Film. From The Collection Of Michael Organ., Jonathan P. Cockburn

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Opening speech by Dr Jon Cockburn for the exhibition “Metropolis: Rotwang’s Robot, Revolution, and Redemption”. The exhibition contains a selection of memorabilia relating to Fritz Lang’s 1927 Sci-Fi fantasy film. The memorabilia is on loan to the Wollongong City Gallery from the collection of Michael Organ. The opening speech reflects on the development and production of the film Metropolis (1927), its reception on first release in Germany and then abroad. The film’s influence on the genre of science fiction to the present day is noted. The film’s ambiguous themes are of particular interest especially when considered in the light of …

Enforcement Cooperation In Combatting Illegal And Unauthorized Fishing: An Assessment Of Contemporary Practice, Stuart Kaye

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The emergence of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the 1970s placed potentially vast areas under national jurisdiction. From relatively modest territorial seas close to the coast as the only basis of fisheries jurisdiction for States, suddenly the international community embraced a new form of jurisdiction over resources that extended to fisheries up to 200 nautical miles from land. This extension brought over one third of the world’s oceans under national jurisdiction, or more importantly, approximately ninety percent of the world’s wild fish catch.

While the possibility of bringing the resources of these areas under national control was of tremendous …

A Língua Portuguesa E O Conflito Intergeracional Em Timor-Leste, Marisa Ramos Goncalves

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A escolha do Português como língua oficial de Timor-Leste emergiu junto da opinião pública portuguesa como uma opção lógica da liderança timorense e abriu portas a um forte investimento público de cooperação no ensino e promoção da Língua Portuguesa em Timor-Leste.

No entanto, uma análise objectiva da realidade social e política do período pósindependência em Timor-Leste teria sido instrumental na orientação da cooperação Portuguesa para a escolha de estratégias mais inclusivas e apolíticas de ensino da língua.

A Língua Portuguesa é um factor de tensão entre a “geração de 1975”, educada no tempo colonial português, e a denominada “gerasaun foun” …

Broadband And The Impact On Education, Elizabeth D. Eastland

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Broadband has the potential to radically transform the educational landscape. Coupled with access to the Internet, it has the potential to decrease the time it takes to learn a subject, increase grade point averages, increase course completion rates and, particularly important for Australia, provide rural and regional Australia with access to the same teaching resources as metropolitan areas, particularly important given the chronic shortage of teaching resources experienced. However educational institutions, particularly universities, are highly complex organisations with geographically dispersed campuses, culturally diverse stakeholders, multiple interfaces to the external world, and a multiplicity of different discipline-specific users. At the same …

Staging Patti Smith: (Un)Reliable Stories, Identity, And The Audience-Text-Reader Relationship, Catherine Mckinnon

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Humans are the only animals that use stories to help make sense of the world. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan argues that ‘we lead our lives as stories, and our identity is constructed both by the stories we tell ourselves and others about ourselves and by the master narratives that consciously or unconsciously serve as models for ours’ (2002:11). An inquiry into how humans construct stories is also an inquiry into reliable and unreliable narration, into identity, and into the relationship between author, text and reader. It goes to the root of what it means to be human.

In this paper these three …

Creating A Supportive Environment For Innovation, Elizabeth D. Eastland

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The Maternal As Hospitality, Fiona Utley, Jane M. Lymer

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There is significant play between the trope of hospitality as providing a political ontology and arguments that the maternal as pregnant embodiment is the original hospitality and thus the grounds of ethical engagement. For example, Diprose’s critique of a political ontology of hospitality identifies that political hospitality is only possible due to women giving their lived time as potential mothers towards establishing and maintaining domestic stability. The more conditional the hospitality the more existing inequities are exploited with women increasingly unlikely to garner recognition for their civil rights over embodiment and reproduction. Alternately Aristarkova argues that the Levinasian-Derridean conception of …

Can We Inhabit (Narrative) Time?, Shady E. Cosgrove

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With the emergence of time-based movements (such as the ‘Slow Food’ movement and Japan’s ‘Sloth Club’) that question the pace of late-capitalist economies, time is emerging as a critical issue in the twenty-first century. This is of particular interest to authors because so much of time is understood within the context of narrative – and time has always been a key issue for authors in constructing texts. A novel can span one day (James Joyce’s Ulysses) or family generations (Jung Chang’s Wild Swans). It can be recounted from a position in the far-off future (Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre) or the …

Walking, Drawing And Procedure, Brogan S. Bunt

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What is the relationship between coding practice and contemporary forms of socially engaged art practice? Both can trace links to the conceptual art tradition. Both explore issues of system, instruction, communication and constraint. Both disturb the limits of autonomous art - either by choosing to speak and to think in an alien, technologically inflected language, or by refusing to function in the gallery context and in the service of producing neatly solid and distinct aesthetic phenomena. Although at times the two can correspond closely – within currents, for example, of open source culture and political software art – they tend …

Merge/Multiplex, Brogan S. Bunt

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The tradition of modern and contemporary art seems to be characterised by an endless pushing back of the boundaries separating art and everyday life, art and the sphere of the social. This is typically interpreted in terms of a work of merging and blurring – an effort of interference that affects dimensions of both art and life. This paper suggests an alternative conception. Drawing upon the metaphor of electronic multiplexing, it argues that, while never simply absolutely distant from one another, art and the sphere of lived relations and social interaction are closely interleaved and yet retain a sense of …

Wikinews - A Safe Haven For Learning Journalism, Free Of The Usual Suspects Of Spin And Commercial Agendas, David Blackall, Leigh T. Blackall, Brian Mcneil

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Online distributed and networked voluntary journalism, across all media, is attracting attention as an alternative news service - offering situated, active, learning opportunities for emerging journalists. The internationally oriented journalism site Wikinews is positioned to offer high-quality learning in newswriting; while emphasizing ethics, reliability and therefore accuracy. Wikinews also offers opportunities for supported production and learning in the converged media context for original investigative journalism across the print, audio and visual formats.

This paper reviews the assignment processes in two 2011 undergraduate subjects in journalism, where Wikinews was used for publishing and assessment. Wikinews was effective for improving student engagement, …

Which World, And Why Do We Worry About It?, Paul Sharrad

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The paper looks at various meanings of ‘World Literature’ (widely read books; great works of transcultural influence; a disciplinary structure and practice), assessing Australia’s place in each and what might underlie a wish to belong to any.

In particular, it locates the last focus of scholarly discussion in French and US sites and the drive to reform Comparative Literature studies, examining possible factors leading Australian universities to engage with such debates and possible effects on local practice.

The paper notes how Postcolonial literary studies called for this kind of reform of comparative literature and pushed towards a ‘world literature’ under …

The Prophet, Sally Evans

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In the beginning

my dog’s eyes clicked open with a flash of epiphany, brown-curled ear cocked at some subsonic voice: a motorbike, a firework, or the .........................

'They Don’T Flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students, Joshua M. Lobb

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In Creative Writing and the New Humanities, Paul Dawson declared that “Creative Writing needs to answer the critique of authorship and of the category of literature offered by Theory” and that central to discussion is the question “how do writing programmes negotiate the insights of contemporary theory, and the critique of literature which these offer?” (2005, 161). In the late 1990s, the rhetoric of Creative Writing academics certainly reflected this challenge. Jen Webb proposed that “one of the skills writing students need is an understanding of the politics of identity and representation” (2000); Kevin Brophy agreed, declaring that Creative Writing …

The Art Of Transformation, Sarah B. Miller

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Re-Enacting Performance Art, Lucas M. Ihlein, Chris Hewitt, Andrea Saemann

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Lucas Ihlein’s re-enactment work has primarily revolved around Expanded Cinema from British artists of the 1970s. Working with Louise Curham as “Teaching and Learning Cinema”, Ihlein’s approach involves a carefully annotated and documented re-invention of the original works, paying particular attention to the technological specificity of film, video and digital media.

Post-3.11 Australia-Japan Co-Operation: Facing Non-Traditional Security Challenges: Items Of Sentimental Value, Anne A. Collett

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To those for whom this talk and the photographs that accompany it may cause distress, I apologise, and hope that what I have to say will be taken in the spirit intended - that is, as a tribute to those who worked to find ways to alleviate distress, heal wounds, offer comfort and repair damage. This talk offers me (and I hope you as an audience) an opportunity to think through the meaning of 'connection', and the meaning of photographs, their relationship to collective memory and community, and their capacity to allow survivors and those who witness tragedy intimately or …

Responding To Genocide: Australian Parliamentary Discussions About The Crisis In Darfur, Deborah Mayersen, Thomas Galloway

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‘Australia’s response [to the crisis in Darfur] has been slow, it has been hesitant, and, I regret to say, it has been inadequate’, remarked Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd in February 2005 (House of Representatives Hansard: 47). Since 2003, genocide in Darfur has claimed more than 300,000 lives, with 2.6 million more displaced by the conflict (Degomme and Guha-Sapir 2010: 294-300; Reeves 2012). The international response to the crisis has been slow and lacklustre, and while the intensity of the conflict has fluctuated in the past nine years, the situation remains dire. The Australian government’s policy response to …

Anti-Corruption Movements And The 'Twittering Classes' In The Postcolony: An Indian Case Study, Ramaswami Harindranath, Sukhmani Khorana

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Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have been widely celebrated as the triumph of civil society. Such accounts extol the role of social media and the Internet as the loci for the mobilisation of popular protest, so much so that news narratives and scholarly commentary both see these technologies as shaping these revolutions, as enabling such upheavals in civil society. Using a recent case of popular mobilisation in India, namely the anti-­‐corruption movement inspired in 2011 by Anna Hazare, this paper attempts to locate these developments within particular formations in the postcolony.

Engaging Aboriginal Art From The Idea Of Australia, Ian A. Mclean

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In writing the first national history of Australian art Bernard Smith was instrumental in inventing the idea of an Australian national culture. In this respect his histories should be understood in the context of a wider postcolonial – or at least post-empire – discourse that shaped the idea of Australia after the world wars. Galvanizing the many threads of this discourse was the idea of an independent nation state. What role did Aboriginal art have in this discourse? As a committed Marxist Smith had a great deal of sympathy for the downtrodden, including Aborigines. However the idea of the nation …

Jimmy Buffett's Islands - Research Seminar Series, Irene M. Lucchitti

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Throughout the centuries, various societies have conjured mythical islands in response to their own cultural needs. Hy Brasil, for instance, offered European societies a measure of comfort against the vast emptiness of the Atlantic Ocean and the uncertainty of what lay beyond it.

For the past fifty years or so, Jimmy Buffett has been writing and singing about islands both real and imaginary. His audience, though boasting a worldwide membership, is mostly American. His island fantasias are easily attained – in the first instance by the yachting classes of East Coast America but also, just as easily, by anyone willing …

Pierre Loti's Iceland Fisherman And The Islands Of Ireland - Colloquium For Research In Texts, Identities & Cultures (Critic) Seminars, Irene M. Lucchitti

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In 1896 W B Yeats famously counselled John Millington Synge ‘to give up Paris’ and go to the Aran Islands. Yeats advised his friend to ‘live there as if you were one of the people themselves’ and ‘to express a life that has never found expression’. Synge took the advice and made his first journey to Aran in 1898. In the three months leading up to the trip, he read Pierre Loti’s Iceland Fisherman and took a copy with him as he made his first crossing to Aran. In 1917, another copy of this book was carried to another island …

Namatjira's Absent Presence In Australian National Discourse, Ian A. Mclean

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By the early 1950s Albert Namatjira had achieved an unprecedented presence in the Australian consciousness. He had sell-out exhibitions, received more press coverage than any other Australian artist, was lionized in Australia’s capital cities and had become a household name. His success was due to more than the quality his art. His Aboriginality played into the mid-twentieth-century discourse of Australian nationalism and the look and subject matter of his paintings reflected the most prominent and popular school of Australian landscape art associated with this discourse. Why then is his work absent from official exhibitions designed to promote the idea of …