Mid-Autumn Festival
Enjoy live performances, traditional craft activities, moon cake tasting and more!
By Joanne Fernandez | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous; The arts and creative industriesTopic - Culture, language and Indigenous
Ground breaking program supports Aboriginal students
Curtin’s Balang Djuripin pilot project aims to provide secure learning environments for Aboriginal students, as well as develop capacity to embed Indigenous perspectives in the curriculum.
By Arianne Chavez | Campus and community; Feature; Culture, language and Indigenous; Health | Leave a commentTraditional Nyungar tool used in Curtin’s graduation ceremonies
A contemporary ceremonial ‘doak’ – a Nyungar tool used for hunting and digging that is often passed down through generations – is being used in Curtin University’s graduation ceremonies as a mace.
By Yasmine Phillips | Campus and community; Future students; Student News; Culture, language and Indigenous; EducationWinning student designs selected for new ‘bush’ university
The winning designs created by Curtin architecture students have been selected to help guide the vision for the new home of Nowanup Bush University, located 80 kilometres west of Bremer Bay.
By Yasmine Phillips | Campus and community; Future students; Student News; Architecture and construction; Culture, language and IndigenousNew Indigenous enabling program on show at Kalgoorlie Open Day
Indigenous students in the Goldfields-Esperance region will benefit from a new enabling program that will give them a culturally appropriate introduction to university.
By Lucien Wilkinson | Campus and community; Future students; Student Events; Student News; Culture, language and Indigenous; Education; Science and EngineeringGetting clever with big data to understand the spread of ISIS propaganda
Through data science and multimodal discourse analysis, Curtin researchers are providing valuable insight into how meaning is communicated and reinterpreted through digital networks on a mega-scale.
By Kitty Drok | Arts and culture; Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Culture, language and Indigenous; Physical sciences and mathematics | 1 commentCurtin’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies is breaking down barriers to Indigenous higher education
Curtin CAS researcher Aaron Matthews is examining ways to improve the uni experience for Indigenous students.
By Zoe Taylor | Campus and community; Research; Research Featured; Culture, language and Indigenous; Education | Leave a commentBringing the stories home: the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
The Wirlomin Noongar project revitalises and consolidates the memories of a dialect group of Noongar people of the south-west of Western Australia, and communicates them to the wider world.
By Jarrad Long | A decade of impact; Arts and culture; Research; Culture, language and Indigenous | Leave a commentCurtin Professor named 2018 NAIDOC Perth Male Elder of the Year
Curtin University has congratulated Elder-in-Residence Professor Simon Forrest on being named the NAIDOC Perth Male Elder of the Year for 2018.
By Yasmine Phillips | Alumni news; Arts and culture; Campus and community; Research; Culture, language and IndigenousJCPML Anniversary Lecture – Stan Grant
Professor Deborah Terry AO, Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University takes pleasure in inviting you to the 2018 John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Anniversary Lecture. The 2018 lecture will be presented by award-winning journalist and author Stan Grant with an introduction by JCPML Patron, The Hon Julia Gillard AC. Stan is special advisor to the Prime Minister Read More
By Tania Lambson | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous; Humanities