Conference program

10.15 - 10.30

Welcome: Celebrating Curiosity and Reflection – Associate Professor Beth Driscoll, Associate Dean Education and Students

Forum Theatre, Arts West

10:30 – 10:45

Dean’s Address – Professor Jennifer Balint, Dean

Forum Theatre, Arts West

11:00 – 12:00

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

Artificial intelligence

Inclusion and accessibility

Immersive learning

Research Lounge, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Meeting student needs

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Voices in the classroom

Room 155, Arts West

Chair: TBD

GenAI in the classroom

Room 156, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Inclusive classrooms I

Room 161, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Reimagining carceral spaces – A guerilla tour of HM Prison Pentridge

Dr Bree Carlton and Dr Liam Gillespie

A further experiment on the DPC method incorporating literacy methods and strategies: the case of teaching Chinese character writing

Dr Zhenyi Guo, Tracy Hong, and Dr Liping Du

Teaching without PowerPoint

Professor Margaret Cameron

Enhancing students’ professional skills: learning to write through writing labs

Dr Sonja Molnar and Dr Elena Balcaite

Innovations and challenges in creating a diverse and inclusive Korean classroom

Dr Adam Zulawnik

Postcards from Italy: Experiences and opportunities from an intensive travel subject

Dr Callum Reid, Annabelle Romano, and Natasha Brooks

Is it essential to teach digital methods to arts students, and if so, how?

Dr Xin Pei

WIL teaching in Grattan Street Press

Dr Sybil Nolan

“GENius in the Machine”: Socratic Chatbots for collaborative learning

Dr Rachel Woodlock

Embodied learning, relationality and art-making in small-group humanities teaching

Dr Kay Are

Experiential Learning and VR experiences in the teaching of Italian language and culture

Elisabetta Ferrari and Mitch Buzza

Teaching journalism to a changing cohort – innovations in teaching and engagement and integration

Lucy Smy, Associate Professor Andrew Dodd, and Dr Jeff Sparrow

Arts Discovery – Listening to stories from the field

Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr Nira Rahman, and Professor Jacqueline Dutton

Perspectives on translation technology and assessment: Towards creative and ethical appropriation

Dr Yu Hao and Professor Anthony Pym

12:45 – 1:45

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

Student research

Artificial intelligence

Inclusion and accessibility

Escape rooms

Research Lounge, Arts West

The future of the lecture in Arts

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Chair: TBD

The University of Melbourne Critical Ethnography Lab

Room 155, Arts West

GenAI and higher education

Room 156, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Inclusive classrooms II

Room 161, Arts West

Interactive Roundtable: Unlocking learning: Enhancing student engagement and teamwork through interactive escape rooms

Dr Michael ‘Maxx’ Schmitz

Teaching and learning resources: Experiential Learning and reinventing the lecture

Dr Elena Balcaite and Dr Tahlia Birnbaum

Roundtable: The University of Melbourne Critical Ethnography Lab (CiEL): Researching the future of ethnography and training the next generation of ethnographic researchers

Dr Jeff Garmany, Dr Fabio Mattioli, Cindy Stocken, Ridge Pang, and Nina Zepcan

Future (Im)perfect: Challenges and opportunities for HASS education in the age of Gen-AI

Dr Mitch Goodwin

Roundtable: Inclusive classrooms: possibilities and challenges

Professor Claire Maree, Julius Chun Sang Mok, Associate Professor Ikuko Nakane, Dr Liz Strakosch

Can poll everywhere save lectures?

Dr Nick Pendergrast

Leveraging generative AI for assessment: Observations and lessons

Alice Boer-Endacott, Dr Anna Kosovac, Brian Martin, and Dr Megan McIntosh

What shall we do with the lecture?

Dr Kristian Camilleri

Breaking out of the SILO Silo: Leveraging human expertise and generative AI

Dr Guy Morrow and Dr Allison Creed

2:00 – 3:00

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

International students

Artificial intelligence

Inclusion and accessibility

Digital objects

Research Lounge, Arts West

Strength in numbers

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Seeing you, seeing me

Room 155, Arts West

Assessment in the age of AI

Room 156, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Safe and inclusive learning spaces

Room 161, Arts West

Roundtable: Propping up computer literacy: Objects and experiences in Digital Studies

Dr Michael Falk, Dr Mitch Goodwin, Dr Richard Gillespie, Dr Fabio Mattioli, Dr Claire Loughnan, Meredith Hinze, and Grace Quiason

Roundtable: Strength in numbers: Opportunities and challenges of team teaching

Dr Annelise Roberts, Dr Scott Welsh, Dr Laura Lori, Dr Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, and Dr Fiona Druitt

Roundtable: Seeing you, seeing me: Exploring common misperceptions about Chinese international students and possible engagement strategies

Dr Qiuping Pan, Dr Yu Hao, Dr Eric Fu, and Anne Farrelly

Teaching and assessing a new project-based language subject: the challenges of non- examined language assessment in the world of AI

Associate Professor Robert Lagerberg and Dr Natalia Batova

Roundtable: Safe and inclusive learning spaces

Associate Professor Ika Willis, Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr Kay Are, Dr Tahlia Birnbaum, and Larissa Tittl

"Certainly! Here’s a possible title for your presentation: Beyond perplexity: Developing robust assessment criteria to address AI-generated text in the humanities"

Fiannuala Morgan

Developing protocols for oral examinations

Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt

3:30 – 4:30

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

Student wellbeing with a teaching and learning focus

Developing student skills

Peer review of teaching

Enlivening learning

Research Lounge, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Ethics and relationality

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Kindness and connection

Room 155, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Trying something new

Room 156, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Experiences of peer review

Room 161, Arts West

Enlivening learning through role-playing games, board games, and object-based learning

Dr Hannah Gould

Empathy & imagination: Methods for reflecting on and fostering empathy as a teaching practice for social pedagogies

Dr Scott Welsh, Dr Andrea Dodo-Balu, Professor Jacqueline Dutton, Dr Tahlia Birnbaum, Dr Annelise Roberts, Dr Sally McIntyre, and Dr Callum Reid

Embodying the value of kindness in the changing landscape of universities

Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah

Experiential learning in practice: Honours students discuss their experiences of peer to peer learning

Hannah Harrison, Ashjayeen Sharif, Eugene Watson, Minzi Shen and Yijing Wang, and Dr Liz Dean

Roundtable: Reflections on peer review of teaching

Associate Professor Beth Driscoll, Dr Antonia Wimbush, Dr David Tittensor, Dr Guy Morrow, Dr Jane Eckett, Marie Trbovic, Dr Michael Falk, and Sharon Mullins

Object based assessments: Opportunities and challenges

Dr Gerhard Wiesenfeldt

Teaching Palestine on stolen Indigenous lands

Dr Charlotte Mertens and Dr Claire Loughnan

Enhancing international students’ language efficacy in the classroom via teamwork

Dr Simon Christie

Engaging students in learning through flipped classroom and nested assessment design

Associate Professor Kate Macdonald, Dr Heath Pickering, and Dr Elena Balcaite

Simulation or real-life action? How to teach democratic innovations through practice

Dr Benjamin Leruth

Acknowledging Country: Experiences from Arts Discovery

Dr Tahlia Birnbaum, Dr Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Dr Andrea Dodo-Balu, Professor Jacqueline Dutton, Natalie Lynch, Dr Scott Welsh

Reflections on international students’ L2 subject content anxiety

Dr Beatrice Venturin

‘Trying things out’ – Beware the pitfalls of novel teaching techniques

Dr Kerstin Knight

10:15 – 10:30

Day 1 Debrief – Associate Professor Beth Driscoll, Associate Dean Education and Students

Forum Theatre, Arts West

10:30 – 11:30

Keynote – Professor Sandra Phillips, Associate Dean Indigenous

Keep the Fire Burning: Fire as metaphor for curriculum renewal that respects Indigenous Peoples, Cultures, and Knowledges in the Arts.

Forum Theatre, Arts West

12:00 – 1:00

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

Sustainability

Visual arts and objects

Research Lounge, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Overseas subjects as international and intercultural experiences

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Incorporating student reflection

Room 155, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Teaching confronting material

Room 156, Arts West

The future of sustainability

Room 161, Arts West

Close encounters of the multisensory kind: incorporating objects and props into the art history classroom

Dr Jenny Hall

Roundtable: UMOS as international and intercultural experiences

Associate Professor Rachel Diprose, Dr Yasu Watanabe, Matt Absalom, Professor Claire Roberts, and Associate Professor Nicole Tse

Reflecting with rubrics

Professor Maria Rost Rublee

Roundtable: Teaching ‘sensitive’ material: reflection on pedagogical practices and experiences in criminology

Dr Stephen Burrell, Associate Professor Bianca Fileborn, and Dr Charlotte Mertens

Roundtable: The future of sustainability (in the Faculty of Arts curriculum)

Professor Chris Healy, Dr Liz Dean, Dr Fallon Mody, Dr Sonja Molnar, and Professor Sandra Phillips

Object-Based Learning: Teaching innovation and new opportunities in Art History & Curatorship

Dr Georgina Walker

Promoting student engagement through the use of subject comprehension assessment

Associate Professor Aaron Martin

Learning on display

Dr Matthew Martin and Dr Heather Gaunt

Teacher training, learning technologies and practical judgement: Enabling learners to reflect on experience and realise care ethics in the workplace

Dr William Wilding

2:00 – 3:00

Teaching with objects, props, and experiences

Teaching strategies

Sustainability

Teaching with video and film

Research Lounge, Arts West

Chair: TBD

Campus as classroom

Forum Theatre, Arts West

Doing the reading

Room 155, Arts West

Creative assessments

Room 156, Arts West

Climate crisis and the curriculum

Room 161, Arts West

Chair: TBD

French 8 Multilingual video series: Capturing the vibrant voices of Melbourne’s street artists

Sandrine Michel and Claire Dumans

Interactive Roundtable: Campus as classroom

Professor Paul Rae, Associate Professor Andrew Dodd, Dr Hayley Singer, and Dr Rachel Standfield

Roundtable: Doing the reading

Associate Professor Beth Driscoll, Dr Callum Reid, Professor David McInnis, and Dr Claire Parnell

Roundtable: Non-traditional assessment

Dr Guy Morrow, Dr Wilfred Wang, Dr Joshua Pocius, Associate Professor Ika Willis, and Associate Professor Sean Chaidaroon

Creating a sustainable and intellectually stimulating capstone experience: Decoloniality and sustainability in the Sociology curriculum

Dr Liz Dean and Dr Elena Balcaite

Learning materials: Building a film technology archive

Dr Alicia Byrnes and Dr Nonie May

Arts education and climate justice – How can we integrate global heating into our curricula?

Dr Stephen Burrell

Teaching media and communications in the era of knowledge economy and AI aesthetics

Dr Tommaso Durante

Emancipatory political ecology pedagogy in and out of the classroom

Dr Denisse Rodriguez and Professor Simon Batterbury

3:15 – 4:00

Education and Students Strategy in the Faculty of Arts – Including a Q&A with Professor Jamie Evans, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students and Education)

Forum Theatre, Arts West