Association of Architecture Schools in Australasia

SoLAR Southern Flare Conference

Learning Analytics –the Data Describing Learning Activities

The inaugural SoLAR Southern Flare will be held in Sydney, 29-30 November 2012. This is a satellite event of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge; the premier research forum, providing common ground for academics, administrators, software developers and companies to shape and debate the state of the art.

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Achieving Sustainable Outcomes through Dialogue and Engagement - The Best from Action Learning and Action Research 2012

The ALARA Conference focuses on Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management, with particular emphasis this year on dialogue and engagement to allow delegates to learn and discuss the best methods, techniques and outcomes in Action Learning and Action Research.

37th Annual Conference of Australasian University Building Educators Association (AUBEA)

The Australasian University Building Educators Association (AUBEA)was established 37 years ago to bring together all those involved in building research and education. The principal aim of AUBEA is to promote and improve teaching and research in building through communication and collaboration. Our highly acclaimed annual conference brings together researchers and educators from Australasia and other regions and provides them with a strong platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration.

AUBEA maintains a strong connection to industry and in particular the professional institutes, all of which actively sponsor the annual AUBEA conference. Industry partners include:

* The Australian Institute of Building [AIB]
* The Australian institute of Quantity Surveyors [AIQS]
* Australian Institute of Building Surveyors [AIBS]
* The Chartered Institute of Building [CIOB]
* The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors [RICS]

The annual conferences of AUBEA are hosted by universities in Australasia. In 2012,the Construction Management and Property Program of the Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales is proudly organising the AUBEA 2012 conference.

For further details please contact Imriyas Kamardeen on imriyas@unsw.edu.au or +61293854761.

The Third Sector as Civil Society in Australasia: Identity, Role and Influence in the New Century

The ANZTSR biennial conference brings together hundreds of academics and practitioners to share their knowledge, experience and research in the third sector.

As we move into the next decade of a rapidly changing and challenging world, we need to constantly revisit our role for ANZTSR. This is a good opportunity, not only to continue our interest in third sector organizations and their governance, but to reassess the wider role of civil society in our region.

2009 UTS Teaching & Learning Forum

Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm

Keynote presentation: Embedding graduate attributes Simon Barrie, University of Sydney

Cities Nature Justice: dialogues for social sustainability in public spaces

Cities Nature Justice is a 3-day international symposium addressing the social science and science of sustainability. Participants will be addressing the central question of whether social sustainability be achieved at the same time as environmental sustainability?

Cities Nature Justice will bring together social science and science researchers, environmental activists, Indigenous advocates and communicators from India, China, South East Asia, Australia and the United States to discuss new approaches to understanding city environmental issues by bringing both social science and science to bear on key questions of public space, water and social justice.

Key speakers include:
o Setha Low (Professor of Anthropology, CUNY, President American Anthropological Association) will speak on the three kinds of justice needed to address public space planning and management in cities with high ethnic diversity.
o Kartik Shankar (Associate Professor, Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) will speak on city impacts on the challenges to marine biodiversity.
o Dai Qing (Investigative science journalist and social activist) will speak on water, heritage and environmental justice in developing world cities like Beijing.
o John Maynard (Professor of Aboriginal Studies, Newcastle University) will speak on the Aboriginal experience of port cities Newcastle and Sydney.
o Amita Baviskar (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University) will speak on environmental politics and the restructuring of urban spaces and livelihoods in Delhi.

4Rs 2008

The 4 Rs - Rights, Respect, Reconciliation, Responsibility - Planning for a socially inclusive future for Australia is an international conference
locating Australian policy & practice dilemmas within an international context.

The 4Rs frame Australia's future as a cosmopolitan civil society. This conference comes at a critical time for Australia, when the opportunities and desire for change abound, yet older fears still persist.

The 4Rs explore the internal debates and the relationships between crucial social, political and cultural questions, with their relevance to public policy, community development and societal cohesion.

The conference is designed around the four themes and their interaction- human rights, Indigenous advancement, inter-communal relations, and active citizenship.

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