Professor Gayle Avery (right), co-editor of Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand’s Gift to an Unsustainable World, at the book’s launch in Bangkok with Mr Don Pramudwinai (centre, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand) and Dr Chirayu Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya (left, Chairman of the Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation).
Book makes waves in Thailand
Professor Gayle Avery from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management recently launched her co-edited book Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand’s Gift to an Unsustainable World at a gala event in Bangkok. The book project, and its elaborate launch, was sponsored by the Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation, with many Thai leaders from business and politics in attendance at the launch event.
“It is so exciting and gratifying to have our research institute’s work appreciated at a national level. This book has already made waves in Thailand that were completely unexpected. It showcases the King of Thailand’s sustainability philosophy that is being implemented across the country. Most rewarding of all, our sustainable leadership language is becoming standard terminology in Thai discourse,” said Gayle.
Professor Kathryn Millard (left) in discussion with Academy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy at the Sydney Film Festival.
Sydney Film Festival discussion draws capacity crowd
Included in the recent Sydney Film Festival’s rich schedule of events, Professor Kathryn Millard from the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies hosted a discussion with Academy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in front of an engaged, capacity crowd last Monday 13 June. Obaid-Chonoy is a is a Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and activist whose latest documentary film, Journey of A Thousand Miles, was screening as part of the Festival.
Left to right: Mrs Sonja Griegoschewski (Director of the Goethe-Institut, Sydney), Associate Professor Ulrike Garde (Macquarie University), Dr Meg Mumford (UNSW), Dr Margaret Hamilton (University of Wollongong).
New book delves into the Theatre of Real People
The launch of the new book Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond, co-authored by Associate Professor Ulrike Garde from the Department of International Studies, has been met with much excitement from academics, theatre practitioners, representatives from the performing arts and the general public alike. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book delves into the Authenticity-Effects created by ‘real people performers’ – people who are not usually trained actors on stage, who present aspects of their own lives – allowing readers to explore a theatre’s capacity to invite engagement with cultural diversity through the works developed by practitioners at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house.
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