Events

Art of Sound
Free lunchtime music events

You are invited to attend a series of free music shows at Kingswood Campus throughout May 2013. 

On Thursday 16 May, come and see Microwave Jenny, an Indigenous Australian husband-and-wife duo playing pop folk songs.

Music Performance
Microwave Jenny

1.00 pm - 2.00 pm
Thursday 16 May 2013

Playhouse Theatre
KWD.D.G.19
Kingswood Campus
 

Microwave Jenny have received Triple J airplay and glowing reviews for their self-released single, Stuck On the Moon. They are "completely independent, self-managed touring musicians who pride themselves on the DIY nature of their career."

Entry to this performance is free! For a sneak preview of their sunny harmonies and uplifting performance, enjoy Only Love as recent Featured Video of the Day on IndigiTube. 

Other events scheduled in May are the screening of a documentary on Robert Ashley on Thursday 23 May, and Wild Creativity and Mad Interactions, a composition student concert, on Thursday 30 May.

Crossing Boundaries in Music Postgraduate Conference
and An Immanent Future: Music and Philosophy Sydney Seminar

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear two of the world's most distinguished music scholars Susan McClary and Robert Walser (Case Western Reserve University) Discuss the state of music in today's world and to converse with Roger Dean and Catherine Stevens, University of Western Sydney, about the future of music.

Crossing Boundaries in Music Postgraduate Conference
and
An Immanent Future: Music and Philosophy Sydney Seminar

Susan McClary and Robert Walser
Case Western Reserve University

Seminar chaired by
Sally Macarthur, University of Western Sydney

Wednesday 5 June and Thursday 6 June 2013

Performance Space, O.1.62A
Kingswood Campus

The postgraduate conference and the Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy are free events and all members of the public are welcome.

For further details and registration visit the Crossing Boundaries page or contact Dr Sally Macarthur or Ian Stevenson.

Digital Humanities Seminar held on Friday 26 April 2013
Presented by Professor Ray Siemens and Dr Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, Canada

The presentation was filmed and can now be viewed online.

Dr Lynne Siemens

Professor Ray Siemens

Digital Humanities is a field of research and teaching that has been growing dramatically around the world, especially over the past 5 years.  This seminar took advantage of the presence in Sydney of two distinguished visitors from Canada, and marks the first formal event of the new Research Group.

Professor Ray Siemens and Dr Lynne Siemens each made a presentation, followed by questions and discussion.  Both speakers have a wealth of experience of digital humanities both in Canada and internationally.

Further information is available online. 

Writing & Society Research Centre Seminar
Chris Andrews ‘Roberto Bolaño's Overinterpreters

How was Roberto Bolaño able to write so much genuinely inventive fiction between 1996, the year in which he published Nazi Literature in the Americas, and his death in 2003? This paper will concentrate on the process of overinterpretation and show how it works in stories whose characters or narrators use photographs of real French writers as starting points for the construction of imaginary lives.

Writing & Society Research Centre Seminar
Chris Andrews ‘Roberto Bolaño's Overinterpreters

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Fri 10 May 2013

3.G.55
Bankstown Campus

Dr Chris Andrews teaches in the School of Humanities and Communication at the University of Western Sydney, where he is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre.

All welcome. RSVP/info writing@uws.edu.au

Further information online.

Sydney Review of Books: A new avenue for literary criticism in Australia

The Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney has launched Sydney Review of Books – a free online literary review that focuses on Australian writers.

The site will present extended essays by prominent critics and writers, examining recently published titles and placing them in relation to the authors’ work as a whole, and the larger issues which they bring into play.

See the UWS News Centre article for more information.

AGDA Awards

The University of Western Sydney's Bachelor of Design Program performed amazingly at the Australian Graphic Design Association Awards. These awards celebrate the best design student achievements and define excellence in Australian design education. Awards are judged in the areas of:

• Original thinking
• Innovative solution
• Functionality and usability
• Brand aesthetics and effectiveness

In total, the University of Western Sydney was awarded eight AGDA awards. This is a great achievement and a great finish to the year for some very hard working students. We were also successful in a range of ALUMNI industry based awards where three past UWS students were also awarded AGDA awards (details below).

• Final Sessions, Rabbit Hole project directed by Kat Sandbach won two awards across two categories.
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• Made, 2011 Graduation Exhibition, Rabbit Hole Project directed by Michelle Catanzaro
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• Liminal, 2012 Publications Magazine, directed by Michelle Catanzaro
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• Adam Vella
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• Adam Vella
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• Jesse McIlwraith
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Alumni

• Thi Nguyen
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• Joe Tarzia
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• Paul Principe
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