Events
1. A Common Purpose
Organised by Victorian Women Lawyers, in conjunction with Reprieve Australia, sponsored by Justicia Lawyers and Consultants.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sydney Film Festival 2011. Nominated for Best Feature Documentary AFI/AACTA Awards 201.
25 people are convicted of the murder of one man, 14 are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other goes into exile. ‘A Common Purpose’ is the dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy.
Told through the perspectives of defence lawyer, Andrea Durbach, independent journalist, John Carlin and the accused. The story unfolds to reveal one of legal history’s biggest cases on the death penalty. A timeless and inspirational story about a struggle for justice in a country where injustice was entrenched in the law.
There will be a Q&A after the film with Andrea Durbach and Director, Mitzi Goldman
Ticket sale proceeds will go to “A Common Purpose Trust” established to support the educational and health care needs of the families of the Upington 25.
Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Time: 6:00pm registration, 6:30pm start
Venue: State Library Theatrette, Entry 3, 179 La Trobe Street, Melbourne.
Tickets: $30.00 (Thank-you for your support!)
$20 student tickets available. Please email margj.willis@gmail.com from your university email address to book your place.
2. Reinvention Journal and the Monash-Warwick Conference of Undergraduate Research
The conference will be a one day event staged at both Monash and Warwick Universities in April 2013.
Current undergraduate students (including Honours) across disciplines are invited to showcase their research from any unit over the course of their degree in the form of a 20 minute oral presentation, or via a poster.
The theme is ‘Current research issues in your discipline or area.”
Three stipends will be available on a competitive basis for Monash students to travel to present at Warwick University.
- Cash prizes for the best presentations.
- Possibility to publish research in Reinvention, the Monash-Warwick Journal of Undergraduate Research.
- Not compulsory to publish in Reinvention but encouraged.
- Friendly environment to develop research skills and network with students in your field.
- Need not be original research – can be the result of work completed in units.
- Welcome to form panels with friends from same or different faculties.
- Open to students from all universities.
- Can receive advice from tutors/lecturers on what to submit
Abstracts due 10 December 2012 – 250 words. Email jessica.oleary@monash.edu or ernest.koh@monash.edu for further information or to apply.