Dr Ursula Betka, Research Fellow at La Trobe University, will talk on the exhibition and symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in February 2013, and the significance of the relationship between panel painting and manuscript illumination at this high point in Italian art.

Symposium on Indigenous Peoples, Economic Empowerment and Agreements with Extractive Industries, 25th – 26th June 2013 hosted by the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project (ATNS) at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Visit www.atns.net.au for registration details.

Speakers at this Symposium will consider questions that have become more and more significant as extractive industries have reached into virtually every corner of the world. For 10 years the ATNS Project has engaged in ground breaking research at the interface between indigenous peoples and resource extraction and addressed these questions.

• Is mining compatible with maintenance of sustainable indigenous societies?
• Why have indigenous people continued to endure poverty while enormous wealth is extracted from their ancestral lands?
• What has to change if resource extraction is to create opportunities for indigenous development?
• What must government, industry and indigenous organisations and peoples do to bring about this change?

The Symposium will enable ATNS and other researchers as well as indigenous and industry practitioners to present their findings on negotiated agreements and other arrangements that enable indigenous people to shape the impacts of extractive industries, enhance economic opportunities and social development, and create a sustainable basis for industry operations on indigenous lands. The Symposium will discuss the factors contributing to indigenous success or failure in pursuing economic and social opportunity. It will also identify how the potential for indigenous entrepreneurship and sustainable wealth creation can be increased through institutional, structural and legal reforms.

Program Day One: 25th June 2013

Theme 1: Indigenous people and the resource extraction industry: towards public, transparent and human rights compliance standards (convened by Professor Marcia Langton)

Theme 2: Land and new ideas for economic empowerment: title, management and agreement making (convened by Associate Professor Maureen Tehan, Professor Lee Godden and Dr Lisa Strelein)

Day Two: 26th June 2013

Theme 3: The delivery and sustainable governance of benefits to indigenous people from agreements (convened by Professor Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh and Professor Miranda Stewart)

Theme 4: Understanding indigenous population dynamics and the relevance to employment opportunities in the resources sector (convened by Professor John Taylor and Professor Marcia Langton)

Program details will be updated regularly at www.atns.net.au.

For queries, please contact Judy Longbottom on lonj@unimelb.edu.au or +61 3 8344 9161.

We hope to see you there,

The ATNS Team atns-team@unimelb.edu.au www.atns.net.au

Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) Australia 2013 conference is the central event for the Mathematics of Planet Earth Australia initiative.

Mathematical scientists and academics from cognate disciplines will meet to address the mathematical contribution to the challenges facing the planet; some of the themes for discussion are scientific data mining, biological invasion and earth system modelling. This week-long conference aims to establish new scientific collaborations and to promote role of mathematics and statistics to a wider Australian audience.

The Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (ACPMH) and the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS) present a one-day workshop with world leading trauma expert, Professor Edna Foa.

Numerous well-controlled studies have shown that Prolonged Exposure (PE) significantly reduces the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anger, and anxiety in trauma survivors. Practitioners throughout the world currently use PE to successfully treat survivors of varied traumas including rape, assault, child abuse, combat, motor vehicle accidents and disasters. PE has been beneficial for those suffering from co-occurring PTSD and substance abuse when combined with substance abuse treatment.

Professor Foa, one of the world's leading PTSD researchers and clinicians, and developer of Prolonged Exposure Therapy, will be in Melbourne exclusively to present this one-day workshop, to be followed by a 2.5 day masterclass for a limited number of mental health practioners - "Prolonged Exposure: Learning and Practising its Therapeutic Components".

The one-day workshop is suitable for researchers, clinicians, policymakers, administrators and others working in trauma-related mental health. Professor Foa will provide an overview of PTSD and the most effective treatments for a range of trauma-affected populations, as well as a summary of the evidence-based therapy, Prolonged Exposure. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions.