This post is for students interested in participating in the Decolonisation and Human Origins workshop at UWA 29 & 30 October 2015
Hello!
You've probably heard by now that we are organising a workshop on Decolonisation
and Human Origins at St Catherine’s College UWA on the 29th and
30th of October 2015. The workshop is funded by the Wenner-Gren
Foundation with extra support from the IAS and UWA’s DVCR. (You can find out
more about the workshop on this website.)
This
workshop is restricted and is only available for a limited number of
participants. We have also organised a number of public seminars on the days
before the workshop to give people the opportunity to get to know and engage
with our overseas visitors and their research. Information on these seminars is
also available in our previous posts.
This message
is to let you know that we have a few places available for students (at any
level) to participate in the workshop. Our budget constraints mean that we can
only offer a seriously limited number of places. That said, we will do our best
to include those of you who would like to come and who would benefit from
attending.
What to expect from the workshop:
This is a
two-day workshop and we’ll run from ~9am – 5.30pm each day. Some key things to
know: across the two days we will have six thematic sessions with 2-3 speakers
in each and those sessions will be divided by morning tea, lunch and afternoon
tea, which will be fully catered. We have 5 international and 5 interstate
participants in addition to a number of UWA staff from archaeology/CRAR+M,
anthropology, and human anatomy. Our speakers come from a number of different
disciplines and not all have a background in human origins research per se;
this is intentional and the workshop is meant to be somewhat experimental and
provocative. This workshop would be relevant for students with an interest in:
post-colonial theory and practice; human origins in the broadest possible sense
(including genetics research and the history of research); and, palaeolithic or
Indigenous archaeology.
What we’d expect from you:
Basically,
just to show up and engage J. There is a tendency for people to sign-up
to workshops like this and not show up or cancel at the very last minute and we
(literally) cannot afford this. This is a small workshop (we expect about 30
people in total) and our catering is per person and will be locked in prior to
the workshop so no-shows costs us money and take an opportunity away from
another student – so if we give a space to you we really expect you to show up.
(If you already know you can make one day but not the other or you’ll have to
leave half-way through a day because of an existing commitment that’s okay,
just let us know.)
What next?
If you want
to come, send us an email and let us know how attending would be relevant or
useful to your current/future research interests (in no more than a few
paragraphs) and also confirm that if we give a space to you then you will show
up. As we noted before, there are a limited number of places so we cannot guarantee that we can give a place to everyone. We would need to hear from you by Friday 9 October at 5pm (AWST).
If you have
any questions, let us know!
Best
regards,
Martin and
Jacq
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