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Weekly Bulletin – Monday, May 26, 2003

• Mark the calendar

By Monash University - 26th May 2003 - Back to News

In order to focus on the news writing talents of budding journalists, students from Monash University Gippsland have formed the Monash Press Club. The Press Club is planning to launch its flagship publication "Threshold News" on May 26.

Vaughan Higgins from the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences has co-authored a paper entitled ‘Building the Calculating Farmer: Computer Software and the Governing of Farm Planning’. The paper was presented at the Sydney Conference, ‘Building the E-Nation’ in April and has been submitted to the European journal, Sociologia Ruralis. The paper reflects on the increasing promotion of computers in farming over the past ten years, and the link between the expectation that farmers will become more efficient through the use of computer software and the type of governmental technology that has productive effects and shapes the practices of farmers in particular ways.

Contemporary Australian artist, Susan Purdy will talk about the process of one of the earliest photographic techniques - the photogram on Tuesday, May 27 from 12 to 1pm in the Tutorial Room, Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University Gippsland Campus. Work that will be featured, "The Secret of Emptiness", was completed during Susan's Australia Council Studio Residency at the National Institute for the Arts in Taipei in 2001, and explores notions of origin, distance and difference.

• Making the Grade

The Commonwealth Study Conference Australia New Zealand will be touring Gippsland in October. The tour will take in Monash University Gippsland Campus, Latrobe Regional Hospital, as well as a cross-section of local government bodies, tourist destinations and agricultural businesses in West, Central and East Gippsland.

Members of the public and staff are invited to attend the opening of "Recent Photographs" by Neale Stratford and "Recent Sculpture" by Katrina Henry on Tuesday, May 27 at 5.30pm in Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design (GCAD) at Monash University Gippsland Campus. Mr Stratford and Ms Henry were the first students to graduate in 2002 from the Honours Year offered by GCAD. The exhibition will be available for viewing in Switchback Gallery from 28 May - 12 June 2003.

• Open subject

The Bachelor of Computing at the Gippsland Campus is to be restructured into a Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT). The BIT will allow students to become IT professionals, with the course specialising in the areas of ‘System Development’, ‘Business Systems’ and ‘Internet Technology’. BIT is a three-year full time course.

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