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Monash University Weekly Bulletin

By Monash University, Gippsland - 22nd August 2005 - Back to News

• Mark the Calendar

‘Terrorising America after 9/11: Staking out "the posts" as weapons of myth deconstruction and pedagogy for public relations’ will be presented by Professor David McKie at the Humanities Communications and Social Sciences Research Seminar on Tuesday, August 30 at the Gippsland Campus. Professor of Management Communication at Waikato University, New Zealand, Professor McKie has taught in Australia, Britain and Libya, and is co-author of the recently published Sage book Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity.

• Making the Grade

Nominations for the annual ‘Jenny Hill Memorial Award for Innovative Practice in Disability Support’ are currently being sought at Monash University Gippsland Campus. Staff are nominated for their support to students with a disability and will be recognised for their efforts at a breakfast to be held on Thursday, September 8.

The Institute for Regional Studies (IRS) is currently filming a small documentary on six communities in regional Victoria, NSW and Tasmania to form a DVD that will be launched at the Institute’s conference in October. Communities were selected for their award winning contribution to cultural awareness and subsequent increased indigenous employment. Filming has taken place in the Bega Valley, Boolarra, Orbost, Yackandandah, Walla Walla (NSW) and Mathinna (Tas).

• Open Subject

Staff at the Gippsland Campus Library are currently working with the Centre for Gippsland Studies to digitise the Centre’s collection of historical images to make them available on the web. The pictures depict life in Gippsland from the early 1900’s including images of rural life, road construction, historic buildings, monuments, people, places and events as well as an extensive documented history of Yallourn and the power industry in the Latrobe Valley. Many pictures being scanned are fragile, and once the collection is available on the web, the photographs can be used by local historians, students, researchers and genealogists. The web collection is expected to be launched later in the year.

"Eavesdropping" is the title of the next free lunchtime concert to be performed by Rae Howel (composer, piano, vibraphone), Karen Heath (clarinet), Luke Richardson (double bass) and Hayley Mueller-Shepard (harp) which will bring contemporary sounds of a classical music ensemble to the Gippsland Campus on August 24 at 1pm in the Hexagon.

The Gippsland Campus held a ‘Snow Photo Competition’ for the best photo captured during the snowfalls at the Campus last Wednesday. The winner, Glen Waterhouse from GREEN Inc received a $30 Mid Valley voucher. The winning photo and runners up can be seen on the Gippsland Campus homepage.

The Bulletin is a weekly service provided by Marketing and Public Affairs, Monash University, Gippsland Campus. For more information on any of the above articles, please call Justin Kohlman at (03) 5122 6214 or email: Justin.kohlman@adm.monash.edu.au. See the Bulletin on line at www.gippsland.monash.edu.au

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