Sociology Seminar Series

Abstract: Since the early 1990s, the borderlands of China have suddenly emerged as new zones of prosperity and suspicion stimulated by the momentum of China’s “opening up” policies and economic reforms. In this talk, I use China as an example to trace the emergence...

Chubu Study Tour 2015

The English Language Centre (ELC) recently farewelled 21 students from Chubu University Nagoya Japan,  after the 11th annual study program ended on March 15.  UNE’s 11 year relationship with Chubu University was formally acknowledged in November 2014 with the...

Humanities Research Seminar

A common assumption in contemporary scholarship has been that the Saudi state is primarily a construct of the twentieth century, thanks to the discovery of abundant oil wealth in the Kingdom’s eastern provinces in the late 1930s. This presentation argues that...