All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Thursday17Oct2019
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 - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Teaching History in the 21st Century
Seminar/ForumModerated by Professor Mark Edele, the Hansen Chair in History, this onehour discussion will address the continuities and discontinuities in History learning at secondary and tertiary levels, and provide insights on how to foster interest in Histo...
- 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Localising Collectivism: A Do-It-Yourself DNA in Modern and Contemporary Art in Japan
Seminar/ForumBy now, it has been widely accepted that there are multiple modernisms, whose multiplicity lies in diverse historical contexts within which works that look similar in form to Western modernism come to have different significance when understood wi...
PresentersDr Reiko Tomii - 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
Thursday24Oct2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Scaling up Agriculture? The Local Realities of Land Transfer in Inland China
Seminar/ForumThis seminar will examine the realities of land transfer at the local level in China. Dr Sarah Rogers will introduce survey data collected in four provinces – Hubei, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Yunnan – and then, drawing on recent fieldwork, will look in ...
PresentersDr Sarah Rogers
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Friday25Oct2019
Tuesday29Oct2019
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
New Paths to Community Safety: Punishment Policy and the Courts
Free Public LectureThe 2019 John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology It is 50 years since the publication of Sir John Barry’s lectures entitled 'The courts and criminal punishments'. Unlike anything ever written by a serving Australian judge, the lectures explore...
PresentersJustice Christopher Maxwell
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 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 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where is the Line? Ethical Social Media Marketing and Communications
Future Student EventIn a world of Facebook ads, fake news, Cambridge Analytica and privacy breaches, marketers and communications specialists are working in a climate of distrust. So, is ethical marketing possible in the industry as it currently exists, and what does...
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Thursday31Oct2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:15 pm
Reflections on Europe’s Future: Borders, Beliefs and Brexit
Free Public LectureThe European Union seems to be constantly in crisis. Its values are being contested, populists are gaining traction and Brexit continues to cause unease. In this public lecture, Professor Murray will reflect on the crisis of the European ‘project’...
PresentersProfessor Philomena Murray
- 5:30 pm - 7:15 pm
Friday1Nov2019
Thursday7Nov2019
Thursday14Nov2019
- 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Art in the Gallery: A Gija Artists Open Studio
OtherSee Gija artists at work in the Arts West Gallery and celebrate the art of Warmun, an Indigenous community in farnorth Western Australia. Hear from senior Gija artists about the use of ochre in Warmun paintings, and watch a demonstration on the us...
- 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Frayed Lives, Threads of Hope: A Salon Exploring Australia's Response to the Global Refugee Crisis
Seminar/ForumThe refugee crisis has reached epic proportions. 68.5 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, environmental crises and/or human rights violations. This Salon will explore how to move t...
Presenters Iain Butterworth
- 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Friday15Nov2019
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Refugees, Remembrance and Resilience: A Concert
PerformanceRefugees, Remembrance and Resilience is a significant communitybuilding concert event celebrating asylum seekers’ community resilience by bringing together performing artists, associated charities, resources, and supporters of the global refugee c...
PresentersDr Zachary Dunbar
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sunday17Nov2019
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
‘What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?’: A Shakespearean Walking Tour
OtherThis walking tour through Trinity College will offer a cultural history of Shakespeare in the early years of Melbourne, with a focus on Trinity’s beautiful Shakespearethemed lead light windows. Highlights of the tour, which will be led by Shakesp...
PresentersDr Gayle AllanDr David McInnis
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Thursday21Nov2019
- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Melbourne Classics Quiz 2019
OtherFriends, Romans, Melburnians – lend us your minds! The Melbourne Classics Quiz is back by popular demand. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne invite you to a Quiz Evening at University House. Enjoy $5 pizza and drinks at happy hou...
PresentersProfessor Tim Parkin
- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Friday22Nov2019
Thursday5Dec2019