Humanities Research Seminar

“The Archaeology of Crisis: The wreck and survivor camps of the VOC ship Batavia (1629)” Martin Gibbs 9.30-10.30am Friday 27 February 2015   On 4 June 1629 the Dutch East India Companyvessel Batavia wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the Western Australian...

New England Ensemble 40th Anniversary Concert

Sunday 22 February, 2.00pm Madgwick Hall, UNE BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in E flat major Op 16 DVOŘÁK: Piano Quartet in E flat major Op 87 SCULTHORPE: Landscape 11 The  acclaimed New England Ensemble was established as Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of New...

UNE’s February Fast Challenge

The University of New England is committed to supporting the health and well-being of all staff.  In 2014 a formalised Health and Well-being Strategy was developed which includes the objective of “facilitating staff wellbeing”.  Strategies supporting this objective...

Humanities Research Seminar

Adrian Jones - The Eastern-European Other Enlightenment: Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723): Rebel Moldavian Prince, Ottoman Historian and Musician, Exile in the Russia of Peter the Great 9.30-10.30am Friday 13 February 2015 Dr Adrian Jones OAM is an Associate Professor...

School of Education Seminar Series

Adrian Jones The Essay : Heritages and Hindrances Why are history essays so po-faced? Assessments in senior-secondary and tertiary studies of history routinely set students to research and write something restrained and constrained. Standard training in the writing...

Grant for Frontline New England website

Senator the Hon. Michael Ronaldson has informed Dr. Nathan Wise, Lecturer in Public and Applied History in the School of Humanities at UNE, that he has approved a grant for $15,000 under the Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program to the University of New England to...

Booloominbah Collection

The Booloominbah Collection has exciting changes taking place under the new management of UNE Life’s Food & Beverage Manager, Debbie Cartledge. Some staff may have noticed small layout changes which allow for a very relaxed atmosphere. The changes have...

School of Education Seminar Series

Professor Ya Sun -   Analysis of Evaluative Meanings of Conceptual Metaphors Based on Semantic Tagging of Wmatrix Through the case study of metaphorical construction of the concepts of BUSINESS and ENTERPRISE, this paper integrates corpus linguistics and the...