Conferences

This exciting conference aims to bring sustainability to the forefront of all activities undertaken by staff and students and the broader Monash community. It will provide an outstanding opportunity for professional development in the area of environmental sustainability.

To register, visit the Sustainability matters website.

The 3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) will be hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University (Caulfield Campus). The Conference theme is "Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context". With more than 250 high quality papers by presenters from some 35 countries, this promises to be a very exciting event for the field of translation and intercultural studies.

Exploring relations between contemporary art and the archive.

Presentations/ discussions/ exhibitions. Thinkers/ artists/ writers/ curators.

Archive/ Counter-Archive is a two-day conference offering fresh thinking and dialogues on the current relations between contemporary art and the archive with a particular focus on drawing.

Twelve presentations and additional discussion sessions, plus satellite events and exhibitions at the Monash Centre, Project Gentili and Dryphoto in Prato, Italy that debate and extend the challenges and effectiveness of deploying archives and archival thinking in contemporary art practice.

Keynote speakers: Professor Okwui Enwezor and Dr Charles Merewether.

Presenters include: Azra Aksamija (Bosnia and Herzegovina/ USA), Andrew Benjamin (Australia), Rossella Biscotti (Italy), Sonia Boyce (UK), Brian Catling (UK), Victoria Lynn (Australia), Avis Newman (UK), and Tom Nicholson (Australia).

Archive/ Counter-Archive is part of a series of collaborative projects organized by the Faculty Art & Design, Monash University and The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts, London.

Annual conference: The External Relations of the European Union: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - 24-25 September 2009.

Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street , Melbourne , Australia.

Ambassador David Daly (Head of Delegation, Ambassador of the European Commission Delegation to Australia, Canberra) will give a Keynote Speech on 25 September at 9.30 am on EU Enlargement, Not Just a Question of Time.

The updated programme of the conference will be available online on Friday 11 September.

A video conference connection will be organized between Melbourne and Brussels from 5 to 6.30 pm (Australian time) on 25 September.

Discounted registration is available for students, Monash alumni and AIIA members.

Further information : Europe centre news web page.

Online registration.

Should you experience any problems with the online registration please email: Amanda.Crichton@general.monash.edu.au .

The Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences invites you to attend the 4th Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium.

There will be several sessions of free communication in the form of poster and oral presentations. Plenary speakers share their knowledge and experience. Attendance is free and the faculty invites you to join colleagues and presenters for lunch afterwards.

The main focus of the symposium will be to give postgraduate students a platform to explain their current research to other students and academic staff whilst improving their public speaking and presentation skills. We hope to foster an inclusive research atmosphere in the faculty, both within the postgraduate student body and among academic staff, by providing this opportunity to learn more about specific research being undertaken outside individual labs and departments. Student presentations will be judged by a panel of Postdocs, with monetary prizes given for outstanding work.

The plenary speaker on the day will be Patrick Sexton, Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, and Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Venue: Lecture Theatre 5 for oral presentations and Cossar Hall for poster presentations and lunch.

RSVP: Registration is essential, please contact darlene.mcgown@pharm.monash.edu.au.

Researchers in the fields of mental health, psychology or psychiatry are invited to attend a symposium celebrating good mental health and highlighting the challenges of living with mental illness.

Eminent and early career researchers will discuss the real impact their research has had on mental health service delivery, clinical practice and the lives of those living with or caring for people with mental illness. This symposium is hosted by the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University. It is one of of a number of events the School is hosting to mark Mental Health Week (4-10 October 2009).

Registration essential by email to rsvp.spppm@med.monash.edu.au.

The Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology is hosting a one day conference: "Helping children in the aftermath of bushfires: Recognising and responding to emotional and psychological distress".

This informative one day conference will be useful for teachers, principals, GP's and mental health workers.

Prominent speakers include: Prof Louise Newman, Prof Brett McDermott, Dr Sandra Radovini, Dr Neil Coventry, Prof Beverley Raphael and Dr Vanessa Cobham.

How can the planning process be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

How do climate change issues meld with regional planning and strategies of urban growth?

Presenters:
The Honourable Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court, NSW.

Professor Leslie Stein, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Former Chief Counsel, Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Counsel, South East Queensland Regional Plan Review.

Evan Jones, Director of Planning, Brookfield Multiplex Former Executive Director, Sydney Metropolitan Strategy and South East Queensland Regional Plan Review.

Helen Gibson, Deputy President, Head of Planning and Environment List, VCAT.

Melanie Meyers, Former Chief Counsel, City of New York.

John McInerney, Councillor, City of Sydney, Former Manager for Planning, City of Sydney, City of Melbourne.

Darren Ray, Former Mayor, Port Phillip.

This exciting Conference presents a comprehensive range of Keynote Speakers: Dr. Jim Lees(Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist);Greg Gebhart,Senior Educator ACMA Cybersafety Research;Tom Woods, 16 yr. old cyber wizkid as seen on 60 Minutes and Robyn Treyvaud, co-author Cyber Safe Kids and Teaching Kit,to present the clinical/mental health, educator, parental and adolescent's perspective on cyber issues for children and young people.In addition several clinical papers will be presented on case studies of children and young people with difficulties around cyberbullying or computer addiction issues.The day will also feature a Discussant Panel of some eminent Child Psychotherapists including Professor Bruce Tonge and Jeanette Beaufoy, to explore clinical/mental health aspects raised throughout the day.

4th Annual Healthy Start to Life Annual Scientific Meeting -Thursday 5th November, 2009.

Sessions include "Developmental Biology", "Animal Models of Development and Disease" and "Prematurity, Development and Protection" and will showcase some of Monash University's research in these areas. Registrants are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations at the Annual Scientific Meeting. For more details, visit For more information visit Healthy Start to Life website. Prizes will be awarded for the best poster presentations.

Healthy Start to Life National Conference on "Nutrition, Development and Health" - Friday 6 November, 2009. Will feature some of Australia and New Zealand's leading clinicians and researchers in the areas of human development and nutrition (see flyer on website for confirmed speakers).

The Australian Centre for Biodiversity Talkfest is an annual event that showcases student talks around biodiversity, in its broadest sense (including ecosystem processes). Awards are given to those students presenting the best talks and a mixer is held afterward for students, research staff and academics to engage socially.

The 2009 Australasian Tablets in Education Conference (ATiEC)

Creating an Engaging Teaching and Learning Experience with Tablets

Hosted by the eEducation Centre

Tablet technology is increasingly embraced by educators across Australasia as an effective way to create a more engaging and stimulating teaching and learning environment. The 2009 Australasian Tablets in Education Conference (ATiEC) intends to bring educators together who share a passion in adopting tablet technology across educational settings (primary and secondary schooling, vocational training, and higher education) and across diverse subject ranges.

The 2009 ATiEC will serve as a forum for:

• generating (more) passion for tablet technology in education
• exchanging ideas and broadening horizons
• stimulating debates on new pedagogical approaches
• identifying best practices in the educational use of tablet technology
• building a community of tablet adopters in education in Australasia.