CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
DAY 1: Setting agenda and sharing practice
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Time |
Venue |
Event |
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8:30 |
Foyer, Prentice |
Registration and coffee |
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9:00 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Conference Opening |
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9:30 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Panel: Value of the BA – personal perspectives |
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10:30 |
Rooms 216, 115, 212 and Foyer, Prentice |
Agenda Setting Workshop (includes morning tea) 1. Embedding employability and preparing for employment in uncertain futures 2. Ensuring liberal arts values 3. BA curriculum design 4. BA pedagogies |
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11:30 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Panel: What are the differences and similarities in experiences in BA programs internationally? |
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12:30 |
Foyer, Prentice |
Lunch |
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1:00 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Presentation: Patrick Begley, BA Alumnus |
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1:30 |
Rooms 216, 115 & 212 Prentice, 202 and 202a, LIB |
Parallel Presentations: Sharing experiences, innovations and solutions |
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3:00 |
Foyer, Prentice |
Afternoon Tea |
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3:30 |
Rooms 216, 115 and 212 Prentice 202 and 202a, LIB |
Parallel Presentations: Sharing experiences, innovations and solutions |
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4:30 |
Foyer, LIB |
Posters, Cheese, Wine and Entertainment |
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6:30 |
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DINNER WITH FRIENDS |
DAY 2: Developing solutions and future actions
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Time |
Venue |
Event |
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8:30 |
Foyer, Prentice |
Registration and coffee |
|
9:00 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Setting the scene |
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9:30 |
Room 216, Prentice |
Presentation: HASS Futures: Don't be defensive Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT |
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10:15 |
Rooms 216, 115, 212 Prentice and 202 and 202a, LIB |
Contemporary Graduate Outcomes of BA programs (including morning tea) Discussion groups considering the nature of contemporary graduate outcomes 1. Honours within the context of the BA: Research pathway or more? 2. Self-awareness in a broader world 3. Digital humanities 4. Operationalising inter- and transdisciplinary experiences 5. Innovating for HASS with the professions (without losing our souls). 6. UQ Not-so-hidden-Treasures Hunt: BA Learning spaces |
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11:30 |
Rooms 216, 115, 212 Prentice and 202, LIB |
Creating Solutions Workshop Developing possible actions and outcomes to share with conference in final plenary 1. Embedding employability and preparing for employment in uncertain futures 2. Ensuring liberal arts values 3. BA curriculum design 4. BA pedagogies |
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1:00 |
Foyer, Prentice |
Lunch |
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1:30 |
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Plenary: Revitalising the BA: Where do we go from here? Where to from here? Generating and sharing the final conference outcomes with responses from the plenary panel |
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3:00 |
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Final Summation and Close |
