Friday, 7th July
The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2023
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Speakers
Plenary: Associate Professor Emily O'Gorman - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
9:00AM - 9:55AM
Friday, 7th July
Seals in the Anthropocene: more-than-human coexistence, rippling capitalism, and baselines in the Coorong lagoon
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Emily O'Gorman
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:25AM
Friday, 7th July
Rethinking collaboration in a more-than-human world - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Tom Roberts
Walking with water: A relational and respectful design to resurfacing water memory in the city.
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Ana C. Lara Heyns
Amplifying wonder amid ecological crises: speculative encounters in oceanic worlds
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Michele Lobo
Unwieldy underworlds': Work-in-progress in/on the uncontained and uncontainable ocean - 418.203:ST
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Charity Edwards
“Certainly it was only too obvious that the ocean had ‘noticed’ us,” Kelvin says.
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Charity Edwards
Turning the seabed into a political space: the geo- and bio- politics of geometrics and biometrics
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Merdeka Agus Saputra
Oceanic imaginaries through fiction: Examining the fictional city of "Masayá" created by slum-dwelling children in the Philippines
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Aireen Grace Andal
Exploring the complexity of human-shark encounters and lack of control in ocean environments
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Teaniel Mifsud
China Water Network – new environmental geographies of China - 418.206:ST
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Sarah Rogers
Encountering diverted water: the politics of water in rural China
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Xin Zi
Scalar politics, materiality and China’s accreditation of water heritages
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Xiao Han
Collaborative Water Governance in Urbanising China: Case Study of Baiyangdian Lake
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Mengyao Li
How China's new River Chief System is affecting the 'Tiao-Kuai' relationship in the water sector at the local government level.
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Yuzong Chen
New and emerging research in cultural geography - 418.302:ST
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Kaya Barry
Song back:
Baraya Birrbay Barray Guulabiyn
, ‘singing up Birrbay Country for Koalas'
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Arlene Gili Mehan
Gendered Ethnomusicology: Representation of Everyday Geographies through Folk Songs of the Garhwal Himalayas, India
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Pankaj Rawat
DIY dispatches: zinemaking as a collaborative research practice
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Willow Ross
Embers of imagination: Perceptions of bushfire meet performative arts
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Deniz Yildiz
Finding ways for Geography Education to flourish within and beyond the discipline - 418.304ST
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chairs: Roger Baars & Susan Caldis
Teaching geography as an out-of-field subject: Exploring possibilities of support for pre-service teachers who are navigating this complexity of teaching
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Susan Caldis
Ecological Restoration at Ballajura Community College, Perth, Western Australia: A Collaborative Place-Based Education Project
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Graham Thompson
Decolonising and indigenising school geography in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Karen Finn
Educating for the Uncertain – Current Challenges in Climate Change Education
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Roger C. Baars
Rural resilience: exploring hidden narratives - 418.208:ST
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Connor Goddard
Disaster management in a rural community , a sense of place, and the importance of local knowledge
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Madeleine Newton
“Is it too late to move – again?” Two-step migration and decision-making in non-traditional retirement destinations
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Connor Goddard
Insider/outsider: negotiating fieldwork
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Leena Bakshi
‘It’s just what you do’: Farming and fighting fires in Western Australia’s broadacre landscape
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Mary O'Halloran
Environmental Humanities and Geography Roundtable - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Kaya Barry
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - 418.203:ST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Fostering more care-full approaches to trauma and risk in a hyper-diverse neighbourhood
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Imogen Carr
Universities as investment products: exploring private sector engagement in university property
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Sha Liu
"Doing it by the book": transforming public libraries and contested urban futures
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Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
Yarning Circle - 418.206:ST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Tropical and island urbanism: Emerging urban theories and narratives in tropical and island contexts - 418.302:ST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Aireen Grace Andal
Southbound, eastbound, and homebound: Bangkok’s learning journey towards global arboricultural expertise
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Chieh-Ming Lai
Post urban-rural frontiers? Examining diverse island urbanisms in the Philippines
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Arnisson Andre Ortega
Squatting and eviction threats in urban Fiji
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Poonam Pritika PPD Devi
Geographies of children and young people - 418.304ST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Chairs: Roger Baars & Catherine Volpe
Readiness to teach geography: perspectives of recent graduate teachers
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Catherine R Volpe
Grow a Star: Reflections on a targeted intervention program as part of care infrastructures for vulnerable youth.
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Kathy J Mee
Rural resilience: exploring hidden narratives - 418.208:ST
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Connor Goddard
Succession of farmers’ outlooks in transitioning landscapes – observations from rural Nepal
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Nicola McGunnigle
Improving Infrastructure along the
Wheatbelt Way
: A Drive for more Viable Destination Development in Rural and Remote Western Australia
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Graham Thompson
Lunch
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Friday, 7th July
Cultural Geography Study Group - 418.204
1:15PM - 1:45PM
Friday, 7th July
Critical Development Study Group - 418.207
1:15PM - 1:45PM
Friday, 7th July
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
1:50PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Grassroots activism caring-with uneven urban waterscapes
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Alexandre da S Faustino
Contesting justice and responsibilities in climate changed cities: perspectives from the Asia Pacific
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Sara Fuller
Death by a thousand cuts: adjudicating multispecies life and death on the urban fringes of Perth and Sydney
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Donna Houston
Greening the city the first time around: a more-than-human history
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Andrea Gaynor
Unwieldy underworlds': Work-in-progress in/on the uncontained and uncontainable ocean - 418.203:ST
1:50PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Charity Edwards
Ocean sports as counterspells to capitalist sorcery
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Rebecca Olive
Bondy and the Sea, 1983: Wet Ontologies, Splish-Splashy Controversies, and Real Estate Imaginaries of the America’s Cup
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Loren Adams
Enhanced weathering and electrochemistry: the experimental science of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal startups
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Amerlia Hine
Geographies of insecurity - 418.206:ST
1:50PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Ari Jerrems
Affective Atmospheres of Insecurity in Everyday Places
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Petra Tschakert
Governing risk via ‘community relations’: insights from Barrick’s Pierina gold mine
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Nadia Degregori
A legal geography of (in)security: anti-infrastructural protest in the Anthropocene
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Dhiraj Nainani
Insecurities trade-offs: the multigeographic experiences insecurities of Latin American migrants in Australia
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Rafael Azeredo
Geographies of children and young people - 418.304ST
1:50PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Catherine Volpe
Collaborative and creative resistance: Reflections on creating a thesis-based children's literature through artistic endeavours
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Aireen Grace Andal
“It kind of simulates me in some other universe”: An Investigation into Children’s Digital Ways of Playing #Roblox #Avatars #MyStyle
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Catherine Volpe
Generative digital worlds of children and young people
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Jess McLean
Using remote sensing data to investigate associations between preschooler outdoor play and home yard vegetation cover.
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Trina Robinson
Rural resilience: exploring hidden narratives - 418.208:ST
1:50PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Connor Goddard
Patterns of Rural Community Livelihood and Local Knowledge on Socio-ecological Production Landscapes in the Agro-ecological Zones of the Brahmaputra Valley
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Bimal Sharma
Understanding divergent and convergent discourses on climate risk perspectives and landscape values in Huon Valley, Tasmania
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Malcolm S Johnson
Planning for a post mine future
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Fiona McKenzie
Afternoon Tea
3:10PM - 3:35PM
Friday, 7th July
Urban Geographies of Coexistence, Collaboration, and Complicity - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
3:40PM - 4:40PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Natalie Osborne
Flourishing with balloon vine and lantana on the edges of Sydney
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Harriet Narwal
Religions on the Fringe: Places of Worship in Melbourne’s Greenfield Developments
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Damien Laing
Geographies of insecurity - 418.206:ST
3:40PM - 4:40PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Ari Jerrems
Seasonal insecurities
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Kaya Barry
The Afterlives of State Failure: Echoes, Aftermaths, and their Translation
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Ari Jerrems
Geographies of children and young people - 418.304ST
3:40PM - 4:40PM
Friday, 7th July
Chair: Catherine Volpe
Geography Of Children’s Worry: Variation and Influences During the recent Health Outbreak of COVID-19
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Roula Zougheibe
Food for Thought: Montessori Gardens Making Place Matter
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Rachael A Walshe
Nothing about us without us: Youth advisory groups and climate change research
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Charlotte Jones
Closing Address - Haydn Williams 405.201LT
4:50PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 7th July
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