PROGRAM

 

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DAY 1 – December 4

Faculty of Engineering – Climate & Science

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8:00-9:00am - Tea, coffee, registration

 

Morning Session

9:00-9:10am – Welcome, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost, Professor Annamarie Jagose

9:10-9:20am – Welcome, Ambassador of Bhutan, His Excellency, Sonam Tobgay

9:20-9:30am – Introduction, Professor Hesham El Gamal, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, USYD

9:30-9:45am – Prof. Ken-Tye Yong presents Engineering collaborations between USYD & Bhutan

9:45-10:10am – Dr. Xiaochen Liu presents Bhutan-USYD Protein Folding Alliance

 

Mid-Morning Break

10:10-10:40am - Morning Tea

 

Late Morning Session

10:40-10:55am Tenzin Jamtsho, JCU, Small molecule drugs from the excretory-secretory products of helminths and Aboriginal medicinal plants.

10:55-11:10am Karma Yeshi, JCU, Biodiscovery of anti-inflammatory drug leads from climate-affected plants of Australian Wet Tropics in Far North Qld

11:10-11:35am Associate Professor Zhiyong Wang, USYD, School of Computer Science, Coding Fest: A journey of connecting students in Bhutan and Sydney.

11:35-11:50pm Dr Sangay Wangchuk, CSU, Human–Wildlife Conflict and Implications for Food Self-Sufficiency in Bhutan

11:50-12:05pm Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal, UNE, Public attitudes towards snakes and frogs in Bhutan

 

Lunch Break

12:05-1:10pm – Lunch

 

Early Afternoon Session

1:10-1:35pm Professor Ken-Tye Yong, USYD, Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging and Sensing

1:35-1:50pm Tashi Dorji, ECU, Understanding climate change impacts on happiness through the case of Bhutan’s pursuit of Gross National Happiness

1:50-2:05pm Ngawang Gempo, JCU, Comparative metabolomics studies of the selected climate-affected plants of the Australian Wet Tropics 

2:05-2:30pm Dr. Hossein Moeinzadeh, USYD. Uncertainty in Water Quality Measurement.

2:30-2:45pm Jambay Jambay, Griffiths University, Navigating Water Resource Challenges in Bhutan: Unraveling the Complex Interplay of Forest Cover, Climate Change, and Sustainable Solutions

2:45-3:00pm Dr Sherub Phuntsho, UTS, Source separation of urine and treatment for nutrients in a circular economy

 

Mid-Afternoon Break

3:00-3:30pm - Afternoon Tea

 

Late Afternoon Session

3:30-4:30pm – Panel: Unlocking the Potential for Innovative Business Collaborations Between Bhutan and Australia

Ujjwal Deep Dahal, CEO of DHI; Jacques Von Benecke, CTO of DHI; Dr Mobin Nomvar, MD of Scimita Ventures; Associate Professor Omid Kavehei, USYD ; Professor Ken-Tye, Panel Chair.

4:30-4:45pm Tshering Samdrup, UWA, The Effects of crop diversity on household income

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DAY 2 – December 5

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Culture

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Morning Session

10-10.10 FASS Welcome Dr Bunty Avieson, Discipline of Media & Communications, and Professor Kalervo Gulson Associate Dean (Research) .

10.10 – 10.50 Introduction by Dr Gwen Hyslop of Keynote Address by Dasho Karma Ura, President of the Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies, Fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg

10.50 -11.10 – Kaka Kaka, UNE, Gross National Happiness values as understood by principals, teachers and students in Bhutan

11.10-11.30 Phuntsho Wangdi, Chang Mai U, A critical review of the influences of Westernisation through policy transfers on Bhutan’s education policies

 

Mid-Morning Break

11.30-11.45 coffee/tea

 

Late Morning Session

11.45 – 12.05 Dr Lhawang Ugyel, UNSW, Non-Western Public Administration: The Institution of Zhung Dratshang of Bhutan 

12.05-12.25 Dr Bunty Avieson, USYD, Wiki-Bhutan project: The Dratshang pioneer Dzongkha Wikipedia as a platform for cultural resilience

12.25-12.45 Tashi Dema, UNE, Exploring multilingualism, national unity and cohesion in electoral discourse

12.45- 1.05 Deki Choden, ECU, Employees’ Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Ethical Leadership, CSR Scepticism and Meaningfulness at Work: An Empirical Study of Companies in Bhutan

 

Lunch Break

1.05-1.45 lunch

 

Early Afternoon Session

1.45-2.05 Gwen Hyslop, USYD, Looking to the past to feed the future: A multi-disciplinary study of the domestication history and spread of Buckwheat and Job’s Tears.

2.05-2.25 Ben Hewitt Indigenous Taxonomies of Life: Linguistics of Khengkha in South Central Bhutan

2.25-3.10 Panel: The Bhutanese diaspora, Sonam Pelden ECU, Understanding the needs of migrants from Bhutan living in Perth; Pelden Chejor, ECU, Assessment of culture shock experienced by Bhutanese university students in Perth; Bidha Wangchuk, ECU, An in-depth study on the early experiences of female Bhutanese students in Western Australia. Associate Professor Vicki Banham: Panel Chair.

3.10-3.30 Yedzin Tobgay, U of Melbourne, Navigating the Affective Politics of Kinship, Feminism and Power in Studying Rural Bhutanese Women

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Mid-Afternoon

3.30-4.30 Afternoon tea and Poster session with Kinley Rinchen, ECU; Dorji S, UNE; Vicki Banham, ECU; Karen Anderson, ECU; Isabel Sebastian, ICLS, plus Coding Collaboration of Bhutanese and USYD students - Kinley Zangmo; Ugyen Penjor; Hemanth Lepcha; Choki Lhamo; Kezang Dorji; Thinley Wangmo; Tshering Wangchuk; Dorji Yangzom; Dhendup Ghishing; Kushal Chhetri; Sourav Rai.

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Conference ends

 

December 6, 10am-1pm.

Post-conference Wikipedia workshop

Seminar Room S226, MECO,

Woolley Building, Manning Road.

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The Discipline of Media and Communications warmly invites participants of the conference to a Wikipedia editing workshop with Associate Professor Toby Hudson from the School of Chemistry and Associate Professor Frances Di Lauro from Writing Studies . Dr Hudson will demonstrate how to disseminate research findings and publications through the platform of Wikipedia and Wikidata, while adhering to their Conflict-of-Interest policies.

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You will need to bring your own laptop and numbers are limited, so please register with Dr Bunty Avieson.

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