All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Tuesday30Apr2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Native Dignity
Seminar/ForumThis Working Paper Seminar examines how the concept of 'native dignity' underwent two reversals as it passed from a revolutionary European context to the colonial context of 19th century Australia. In the first reversal, the concept of native dig...
PresentersDr Shane Chalmers - 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Capital Beyond Walls: The History of Money Escaping to Tax Havens
Free Public LectureFrom the perspective of several decades of history, what can be done to keep lawyers, wealthy individuals and multinational corporations from stashing away money in offshore tax havens? When massbased income taxes were first introduced during and...
PresentersAssociate Professor Vanessa Ogle
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday1May2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
IndigenousX as a Form of Digital Disruption
Free Public LectureThe @IndigenousX twitter account was launched in March 2012. Since then it has risen to more than 41 000 followers, and over 300 Indigenous hosts on the account have shared thousands of stories, facts, reports, pictures and laughs with an ever inc...
PresentersMr Luke Pearson
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday2May2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Feminism and Gender Inequality in Xi Jinping’s China: A Tough Road Ahead
Seminar/ForumThis seminar will present a pessimistic picture of gender inequities in China today, reflected in rampant levels of discrimination against women in the labour force, the Chinese government’s tightening censorship of feminist ideas and activism, Xi...
PresentersAssociate Professor Jane Golley
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Thursday9May2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation and China’s New World Order
Seminar/ForumXi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. We hear about his 'mass line campaign', the anticorruption campaign, his muchtouted China Dream and China’s assertive actions in the region, as well as conflicting news about his Belt and R...
PresentersProfessor Timothy Cheek - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Technology, Inequality and the Future of Work
Free Public LectureIn the long run, technologies like artificial intelligence, 3D printing and the internet of things may well create more jobs than they destroy. But as Keynes noted, in the long run we are all dead. In the meantime, we are going through a period of...
Presenters Tim DunlopMr Tim Lyons - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Writers on Writers: Nam Le on David Malouf
Free Public LectureJoin author and University of Melbourne alumnus Nam Le in conversation with Christos Tsiolkas, discussing his new book, Nam Le on David Malouf, the fifth in the Writer on Writers series, released on 6 May 2019. Writers on Writers is a series of s...
Presenters Nam Le Christos Tsiolkas
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Wednesday15May2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cultural Earth: Bringing an Ancient Culture to the Modern Day
Seminar/ForumThe importance of First Nations culture and belief and the lessons that they brought have never been more important, and digital technologies provide a wider variety of mediums to explore culture than has been previously available. Digital design ...
PresentersMr Brett Leavy
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday29May2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Indigenous Data Network: Restoring Community Control over an Intangible Asset
Seminar/ForumAustralia's national trade in Indigenous data lacks a centralised governance structure. Stockpiles of information about Indigenous peoples, harvested over 231 years of colonial administration, remain distributed across a nationwide archipelago of ...
PresentersDr James Rose
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday30May2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Dreams of Flight: Gender, Subjectivity and China’s Student Transmigrants
Seminar/ForumThis presentation draws on an inprogress longitudinal ethnographic study of 56 'post90s' women from China who are studying at tertiary level in Australian cities, in order to consider the gendered dimensions of their experiences of education and l...
PresentersAssociate Professor Fran Martin
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Tuesday9Jul2019
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Living in Paris during the French Revolution: The Story of an Ordinary Citizen
Free Public LectureUnder ordinary circumstances, the life of AdrienJoseph Colson (1727–1797), before and during the French Revolution, would be totally unknown and forgotten. A petty lawyer residing in Paris, he never held any positions of authority; he never publis...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Timothy Tackett - 09 July - 10 July
Living the French Revolution Symposium
SymposiumA symposium in honour of Peter McPhee Why is the French Revolution still relevant today, 230 years after the fall of the Bastille? The Living Revolution symposium will explore this question. Celebrating the career of the great revolutionary hist...
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm