Campus celebrates diversity

A photographic exhibition, lectures, book launch and displays marked the Ipswich Campus Diversity Week 2006 celebrations last week.

A group of Public Relations students joined in the Diversity Week activities, organising a celebration of the Pacific Islander community through photographic displays and information sessions. Photographs of Tuvalu were on display at the Campus all week, and an information session by UQ Boilerhouse Pacific Islander Community Liaison Officers Mona Mahanga and Savali Harvey was held to discuss the Pacific Islander experience.

Footprints on Funafuti, a Pacific Legacy, a photographic exhibition by Jocelyn Carlin, also forms part of these celebrations, and will be on display at Customs House this weekend - Saturday, May 27 to Sunday, May 28. The exhibition, which is open to interested members of the public, will then be on display at the Ipswich Campus next week from May 29 to June 2 in the Community Room at the UQ Boilerhouse. For more information, telephone 0408 473 373.

Arts Ipswich also hosted a book launch and public lecture by Dr Gilbert Burgh, co-author of Ethics and the Community of Inquiry: Education for Deliberative Democracy (Thomson 2006). The event provided a platform for discussion on the role of education reform in developing understanding of values in a pluralist society.