July 2008

Adrian Hearn's new book Cuba

Congratulations to Adrian Hearn on his recent book release Cuba - Religion, Social Capitol and Development.

When Cuba's centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage to generate tourism revenue, and community welfare initiatives to confront drug use, prostitution, and housing decay. In this rich ethnography, the anthropologist Adrian H. Hearn provides a detailed, on-the-ground analysis of how the Cuban state and local religious groups collaborate on community-development projects and how they work with the many foreign development agencies operating in Cuba.

Adrian's book is amongst the first few to be published by staff in the new Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.

New book: Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities

Congratulations to Senior Lecturers Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack who have recently had their new book Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities published through Rodopi.

June 2008

Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

Special Issue: Hyperworld(s):Language, Culture and Society in the Latin American World(s). (Vol 5 No1 - 2008) UTSePress.

March 2008

Radio Program on media freedom in China

Prof. Stephanie Donald was invited to Triple J Radio on 28 March. She talked about current media coverage in China before the Olympics.
Click here to listen to the radio program

2008 AIESEC Australia January National Conference

For two weeks of January 2008, Perth, Western Australia was the home of the AIESEC Australia January National Conference. UTS’s small delegation was made up of Sharmila Jayaweera- President of AIESEC at UTS, Sam Thing- Finance Director and Martin Borg- University Relations Director.
Click here to read detailed report