Tertiary Campus Ministry Association
Annual Conference
Saturday, 28 September - Wednesday, 2 October 2002
Duval College, University of New England,
Elm Avenue,
Armidale, NSW
Theme:
Australia: you're ministering in it! - Chaplaincy on/to today's multi-cultural,
multi-faith university campus
We live in a rapdily changing world where change seems to be the only constant.
Ideas, values and trends swirl around us at an ever increasing rate making it
hard to make sense of where we are heading. How well do we understand the culture
we are from and in which we minister? The 2002 TCMA Conference will help us
begin to examine our multicultural, multifaith Australian society and culture,
especially that of the modern university campus, and better equip us to be effective
ministers in a changing environment.
The Papers
A number of the speakers at the conference have agreed to make their papers
available in a variety of ways. One can be downloaded
and some will be published in the next edition of the TCMA Journal.
Your Hosts
The 2002 TCMA conference
was organised by a team of chaplains from the University
of Newcastle and the University of New England.
UNE has plenty of accommodation but not many chaplains, while Newcastle has
more chaplains but no accommodation, so we thought we could combine resources
to bring you a conference. We hope you will find it enjoyable, useful and challenging.
Newcastle University chaplaincy has provided Angie the seahorse as the basis
for the conference logo.
During the conference, we met in Anaiwan country. The Anaiwan, Dhungutti and
Gumbaynggir people all have traditional links with the land we will be on. We
remember that Aboriginal people have lived in this land since time immemorial,
caring for the earth as their God-given vocation. We honour the traditional
owners and the elders of this land.
Keynote Speakers:
- Hugh Mackay - social historian -
on the multi-cultural nature of Australian society
- Aviva Kipen - the Progressive Rabbi
who coordinated the Victorian government's interfaith celebrations of
the new millennium and the centenary of federation, and the interfaith
memorial service for September 11 - on crafting interfaith ceremonies
that work
- Patricia Miller - Director, Student
Administration and Support Services at the Australian National University
- on issues relating to the university culture itself and the place
of faith and spirituality within it
Plus ...
A multi-faith session on dealing with
death and other crises. Five speakers will have half an hour each to introduce
us to the basics of how their particular faith group deals with crisis
and what chaplains not of their faith might to do support someone undergoing
a crisis. The faiths represented are Baha'i, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim
and Pagan.
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Conference Committee . . .
| Judy Redman - Armidale Convenor |
| Matthew Wilson - Newcastle Convenor
(except that he's now moved to Albury-Wodonga) |
| Julia Perry - Workshops Coordinator
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| Dom Carrigan |
| Mary Guy |
| Roy Hazlewood - Treasurer |
| Bev Patterson |
Sponsors . .
We would like to thank the following universities and other organisations
whose generosity has helped us to keep the conference costs down:
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Australian Catholic University, Australian
National University, Bond University,
Catholic Development Fund Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Central Queensland
University,
Deakin University, La Trobe University, Macquarie University,
University of Canberra, University of Newcastle, University of New England,
University of South Australia, University of Western Sydney
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