All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Wednesday21Aug2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Technology and Organisation Fluidity in British Politics
Free Public LectureDigital Politics seminar series New technologies are affecting the organisation of British political parties. Using the British Conservative Party as a case study, Dr Anthony RidgeNewman will compare the effects of technological advancements on B...
PresentersDr Anthony Ridge-Newman - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
On the Ruins of History and the Obstinacy of Struggles
Seminar/ForumThe Institute for International Law and the Humanities is pleased to announce the inaugural Saba Mahmood Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Associate Professor Samera Esmeir (Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley). Th...
PresentersAssociate Professor Samera Esmeir - 6:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Leonardo Revisited: New Perspectives on the Man and his Works
Free Public LecturePlease Note: The venue for this event has been upgraded to the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West West Wing. On the 500th anniversary of his death, this event will bring together the perspectives of engineering and history to reexamine the ...
- 12 August - 06 September
Audio-Visual Communication at Melbourne: A Retrospective
ExhibitionThe School of Culture and Communication and the Digital Studio are proud to present a selection of student projects, representing almost 10 years of consistently highquality work in the subject AudioVisual Communication. AudioVisual Communication...
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tuesday27Aug2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Alternative Visions for Australia’s Future
Free Public LectureThe unprecedented challenges on our collective horizon require a shift in thinking from the factional to the civic. Join us as the Honourable Kevin Rudd AC and Professor John Howe, Director of the Melbourne School of Government discuss the future ...
PresentersThe Honourable Kevin Rudd
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Thursday29Aug2019
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Parental Absence in Childhood and Criminal Behaviour: Prison Data in China
Seminar/ForumLargescale ruraltourban migration has resulted in dramatic changes in Chinese family structure over the past three decades. The barriers to bringing the children of migrants to the cities resulting from China's household registration (hukou) syste...
PresentersProfessor Lisa Cameron - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Hooked: Art and Attachment
Free Public LectureProfessor Felski's lecture makes a case for attachment as a key word for the humanities. How does a novel entice or enlist us, how does a song surprise or seduce us? To be attached is to be affected or moved, and also to be linked or tied. It incl...
PresentersProfessor Rita Felski
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Monday2Sep2019
Wednesday4Sep2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Possibility of Citizen Intelligence: The SWARM Project
Free Public LectureDigital Politics seminar series For the last two years, the SWARM Project has been designing and testing a platform to improve the quality of reasoning in intelligence analysis. The research coincidentally discovered that there are many people ou...
Presenters Richard de Rozario
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Saturday7Sep2019
Tuesday10Sep2019
- 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Why Should we Trust You? Thinking Through the Role of Evidence in Making Difficult Decisions
Free Public LectureIn an era of fake news, alternative facts and opinion being conflated with expertise in the interests of maintaining ‘balance’, the need for evidence has never been more important. Despite this urgency, it is often challenged, contested and – when...
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The Two University Freedoms: Academic Freedom and Freedom Of Speech
Free Public Lecture2019 Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Fay Gale Lecture Two concepts are much bandied about in contemporary public debate about universities: academic freedom and freedom of speech. Almost everyone agrees that they are very important bu...
PresentersProfessor Adrienne Stone
- 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Wednesday11Sep2019
- 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Encounters with the Deep Past: A Revolution in Australian History
Free Public Lecture2019 Ernest Scott Lecture In this public lecture, Dr Billy Griffiths charts the revolution in Australia’s timescale over the past halfcentury and the rise of a new historical consciousness. In the 1950s, it was widely believed that Indigenous Au...
PresentersDr Billy Griffiths - 5:45 pm - 8:30 pm
Collaboration not Exploitation: Challenges in Indigenous-Settler Relations
Free Public LectureWhat does it mean for universities to collaborate well in Indigenoussettler relations? How can collaboration be supported and nurtured in ways that advance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander goals and aspirations? Across our institutions of hi...
- 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Thursday12Sep2019
Wednesday18Sep2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Vote Compass: An Exercise in Public Engagement
Free Public LectureDigital Politics seminar series During the 2019 federal election campaign, Vote Compass received 1.62 million responses – exceeding the 1.3 million responses received in 2016 – making it the largestever survey of political opinion in Australia. T...
PresentersDr Aaron Martin - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sleepwalking through Privilege and Oppression?
Free Public Lecture2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita In the 1960s many of the intelligentsia (academics, writers, journalists) in the West came to see ethical and spiritual depths in practices and beliefs that were previously believed to express the s...
PresentersProfessor Raimond Gaita
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Friday20Sep2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts
Seminar/ForumA book review seminar for Professor Desmond Manderson’s latest contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and the humanities: Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2019). The seminar will featu...
PresentersProfessor Desmond Manderson - 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Contemporary Australian Poetry
SymposiumContemporary Australian poetry is undergoing a kind of renaissance. Across the country there have never been more poetry readings, events, social media attention, publications, collaborations and so forth. Why is poetry so hot right now? What is g...
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Monday23Sep2019
Wednesday25Sep2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Data and Democracies: Developing Data in the Victorian Government
Free Public LecturePublic sector leaders know that modern analytics and datadriven technologies lead to better decisions and outcomes. As governments embrace the potential 21st century datadriven decision making, they face challenges such as integrating new technolo...
PresentersMr Julian Hebden
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday2Oct2019
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Beyond the Binary: Enacting Freedom of Gender Expression
Free Public Lecture2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita Terms such as 'gender fluidity', 'nonbinary' and 'nonconforming gender' serve both as descriptors of, and as refusals of, identity categorisation. Consequences of the public visibility of diverse ge...
PresentersAssociate Professor Kate MacNeill
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday9Oct2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Weaponisation of Fake News in Australia in the Digital Age
Free Public LectureDigital Politics seminar series ‘Fake news’ has become a global term since Donald Trump’s candidacy to become President of the United States. In this seminar, Dr Andrea Carson outlines how Australian politicians have adopted a fake news discourse...
PresentersDr Andrea Carson - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Colonial Fantasy: How Progressive Australians Perpetuate Colonialism in 21st Century Australia
Free Public Lecture2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita Regardless of the policy approach – from protection to assimilation, selfdetermination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition – settler colonial governments have continued to do harm to Indi...
PresentersProfessor Sarah Maddison
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tuesday15Oct2019
Wednesday16Oct2019
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Feminism: A Spoken Essay
Free Public Lecture2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita I am going to try to do something here. I will approach this lecture as an essay, an act of figuring something out in real time. Unlike a traditional lecture, an essay carries within it ‘the willing...
PresentersDr Maria Tumarkin
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday23Oct2019
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online Political Engagement in Southeast Asia
Free Public LectureDigital Politics seminar series Southeast Asia is the most social media active region in the world, yet our understanding of online political participation is still in its infancy. Elections often see online political participation peak as polit...
PresentersDr Aim Sinpeng - 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
The Importance of History: Reflections from a Foreign Correspondent
Free Public LectureShaun Walker reflects on the uses and abuses of history in Russia and the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, and on how an understanding of history can help us understand the present in this part of the world. Walker will discuss his 20...
Presenters Shaun Walker
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday30Oct2019
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Climate Change: A Very Short Arc that Bends towards Justice?
Free Public Lecture2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita Political inaction in Australia and around the world means that we now have an alarmingly short window in which to act in order to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. As the urgency to increas...
Presenters Lucy Manne
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm