Brisbane Free University is proud to present our first film night.
Do The Math is a fast paced and inspiring film about the rising movement to solve the climate crisis.
Entry is free, and all are welcome.
For More info on the film, please see: 350.org/math
Where: 120 Boundary st, West End – Behind the blue door.
When: To Be Announced.
Brisbane Free University invites you to join us for an open panel discussion on Coal Seam Gas.
Our panel for the evening:
Ack Mercer, Sarah Lowe, Drew Hutton and Trevor Berrill.
All welcome! Please feel free to invite people to this event.
Where:
Carpark under Westpac bank, 89 – 91 Boundary st, West End. (Stop 5 on the 199 busline.)
When:
Tuesday, May 21, 18:30 – 20:30.
Brisbane Free University’s 7th session is coming up this week!
Where: Carpark under Westpac bank, 89 – 91 Boundary st, West End. (Stop 5 on the 199 busline.)
When: Tuesday May 7, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
About the Speakers:
Nancy Williams is an anthropologist who has taught at three different universities and has four decades’ worth of experience working in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
Michael Aird was born at Southport and has spent most of his life living in the Gold Coast region, the traditional country of his ancestors. His career as an anthropologist in the area of Aboriginal cultural heritage has included curating over 15 exhibitions. In 1996 he established Keeaira Press an independent publishing house and has produced over 25 books, including his own book, the well-known ‘Brisbane Blacks’.
Fern Thompsett is an anthropologist with several years’ experience working on a number of native title cases across Queensland. She is currently working on a research paper critiquing several aspects of the anthropologists’ role in native title processes.
Aaaaand:
There will be tea provided! But mugs are limited, so if you can, please bring your own.
Brisbane Free Uni welcomes you to join us in a discussion vital for our times.
Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaca: Lecturer in ethics, politics and law at the University of Queensland.
About the speakers:
Michael will discuss the importance of critical reasoning skills to anyone wanting to be a democratic citizen, community leader, activist, or other political actor. He will cover what critical reasoning is, why it is important to promote it and develop it in oneself, and some of the basic reasoning mistakes people commonly make.
Guilherme is a keen migrant, having lived and studied law and social sciences in Portugal, Italy, Israel, Germany and Australia. He currently lectures Ethics in International Politics at UQ, but above all, he is interested in teaching students to unleash their potential.
All welcome, mug-less or otherwise.
As a follow up to BFU’s last session, ‘West End’s Shrinking Public Realm’, we not only have a new podcast up, but also a link to a paper by Peter Walters entitled ‘Maintenance of the Public Realm in the face of rapid inner city densification: A Case study of West End in Brisbane, Australia.’ Vive the public realm of online information! Read and enjoy.
BFU is looking forward to some critical navel-gazing with our upcoming session, featuring presentations by Peter Walters, who will focus on a sociological analysis of urban development, and Cameron Parsell, who will explore identities and the meaning of home, in the context of his research with people sleeping rough around West End and elsewhere.
Presentations will be followed by time for open discussion.
When: Tuesday 9th of April, 6.30 – 8.30 pm.
Where: Westpac carpark, 89-91 Boundary St, West End.
About the speakers:
Peter Walters is an urban sociologist from the School of Social Science at UQ. He teaches first year students what sociology is, and graduate students what sociology could be. He researches how we shape cities and how they shape us, including Brisbane and, more recently, Dhaka in Bangladesh. He also researches village life in the Solomon Islands, which has nothing to do with cities.
Cameron’s research interests focus on people living in urban spaces and homeless accommodation, and also his research seeks to understand policies and programs that aim to assist people to access secure housing.
Got thoughts and suggestions for the future of BFU? Or just feel like spending time with other members of the BFU community outside of our usual car park habitat? We’re holding an open meeting this Saturday afternoon to discuss and try to incorporate as many different ideas as we can into the project. Everyone is welcome to attend. Feel free to bring picnic supplies!
When: Saturday 16 March, 3 – 4.30 pm.
Where: Orleigh Park, West End (near the City Cat terminal)
If you can’t make it to the meeting, you’re more than welcome to email us at any time with your suggestions.
Did you know BFU now has a mailing list? If you’d like to receive notifications about our events in your inbox, simply send an email to brisbanefreeuniversity[at]gmail[dot]com with ‘mailing list’ in the subject line and your name in the email’s body. Easy Peasy.
Brisbane Free University are excited to present our fourth session, featuring the following presentations:
Indigenous Resistance (Sam Watson – writer, film maker and political activist)
Indigenous Knowledge (Dr Norman Sheehan – Principal Research Fellow, Link Up Queensland)
Presentations will be followed by time for open discussion.
When: Tuesday, 12 March. 6:30 – 8:30.
Where: Westpac carpark, 89-91 Boundary St, West End.
About the speakers:
Sam Watson is a well-known Brisbane-based political activist, novelist and film maker. He is the grandson of Sam Watson who was of the Birri Gubba tribe. Through his work in the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service in the early nineties, Watson was involved in the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He has twice run as a candidate with the Socialist Alliance and was deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, where he taught Black Australian Literature.
Dr Norm Sheehan is a Wiradjuri man born in Mudgee NSW. He is a teacher in Aboriginal community and completed his PhD in Education at the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2004 winning the N. V. Varghese Prize for Education. He has published Stolen Generations Education a Social and Emotional Well Being textbook for Aboriginal Studies. This work completed with Link Up Queensland was nominated for a Deadly award in 2012.
On the 20th of February, Brisbane Free University presented its third session: an investigation into weight loss dieting.
The evening featured presentations by:
Andrew Clarke, PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Queensland.
Amanda Dearden, Coordinator of Isis: The Eating Issues Centre.
The presentations were followed by question times and open discussion.
It was an exciting night for BFU. There was a great turn-out, and both presentations were very well received.
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