HASS Guest Column – July

        Asian Studies at UNE: Dismantling Inequalities, and Possibilities for Decolonising Disciplines The Asia-Pacific region accounts for one-third of the world's population, over 60 percent of the world's economy, and nearly half of global...

From the Executive Dean – June 2024 Update

  June 2024 Update As David Bowie exhorted us in his song Changes we need to “turn and face the change”. Thank you to all of you who submitted expressions of interest to be the inaugural Deputy Heads of School for Education, and for HASS. I am looking forward...

HASS Guest Column Dr Sanaz Alian

  UNE’s Urban and Regional Planning has a long and proud history of educating planners in all parts of Australia, so it was a privilege to be able to host an alumni and student event for planners at UNE Parramatta campus on 13 June. With so many planners in...

PhD revives lost convict history

Image: Melita Rowston's research into the experience of Irish convict history in Australia took her to Ireland as well as the remains of the Parramatta Female Factory.   A cacophony of wailing will be the audience’s first peek into the experience of Irish...

Sandstone convict buisling in Parramatta and Dublin, handwritten histories in the National Folklore Collection archives, Dublin.

Unearthing secrets of Samoan stone tools 

Though only a few generations separate modern Samoans from their stone tool carrying ancestors, the knowledge of making the tools has been lost among many tradespeople today.   To help revive the cultural memory of Samoa’s rich stone tool heritage, Professor...

Archaeologist Professor Mark Moore demonstrating techniques for making stone tools in the rainforest in Samoa
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