All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Tuesday25Sep2018
Thursday27Sep2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Trust and Contingency in Marcel Proust’s 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu'
Seminar/ForumThe novel A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (191327) challenges conventional ideas about trust in various ways. Most obviously, perhaps, Proust’s scepticism about personal identity – his view that individuals comprise multitudes of distinct selves – s...
PresentersDr John Attridge
- 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday3Oct2018
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Environments of Indigenous Song
Seminar/ForumIn Australia, repatriation of song records from archives to communitiesoforigin has emerged as key intervention used to support the social production and transmission of song knowledge. In repatriating and disseminating data it is essential that w...
PresentersDr Sally Treloyn
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday4Oct2018
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
China’s First Charity Law and its Implications for Civil Society
Seminar/ForumWith the passage of China’s first Charity Law in March 2016, Chinese nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) entered a new and unprecedented era of legal regulation, one that dramatically transformed the formal rules governing statecivil society rela...
PresentersDr Anthony Spires
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Thursday11Oct2018
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Indigenous Friends App: Owning and Decolonising Mobile Technology from a Non-Technical Person
Seminar/ForumIn this talk, Ruth will express what she learned about the possibilities of decolonising technology and Indigenous control of both the design and the content of mobile technology. She will discuss her experiences with graduate student Alejandro Ma...
Presenters Ruth Koleszar-Green - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Listen to the Land
Film ScreeningListen to the Land is a documentary that explores the complexity of a EuroCanadian researcher, educator and filmmaker engaging with an Indigenous community. The film, created by Celia HaigBrown and the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach (Northern Q...
PresentersDr Celia Haig-Brown
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Monday15Oct2018
- 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Luther and the Jews
Free Public LectureMartin Luther’s attitude to Jews forms one of the most disturbing aspects of his legacy as a Protestant reformer. This lecture by one of the world’s leading historians of Martin Luther will consider how and why Luther’s attitudes to Jews changed a...
PresentersProfessor Lyndal Roper
- 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Wednesday17Oct2018
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Digital Interactions in Cultural Materials Conservation
Seminar/ForumCultural materials conservation develops capacity and knowledge to conserve continuing cultural records. Through interactions and understanding, conservators aim to enable individuals and communities to create and access their heritage for the pre...
PresentersDr Nicole Tse
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday18Oct2018
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Disability as Exception: Digital Economy of Disability in China
Seminar/ForumWith the increasing prevalence and impact of information and communication technologies on the Chinese socioeconomic fabric, growing numbers of disabled people have sought employment and income opportunities by harnessing the power the ICTs and Ch...
PresentersAssociate Professor Haiqing Yu
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Tuesday23Oct2018
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Queer Use
Booked OutFree Public LectureBooked out This lecture is now oversubscribed and bookings have been closed. To be added to the wait list, please contact Brittany Wilkins: brittany.wilkins@unimelb.edu.au This lecture from independent feminist scholar and writer Sara Ahmed exp...
Presenters Sara Ahmed
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Monday29Oct2018
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Alexis Wright: A Journey in Writing Place
Free Public LectureThe final presenter for the 2018 Faculty of Arts Dean’s Lecture series will be Professor Alexis Wright, Boisbouvier Chair of Australian Literature at The University of Melbourne and a recipient of both the Miles Franklin and Stella Awards for her ...
PresentersProfessor Alexis Wright
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Tuesday30Oct2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Keeping Justice at Bay: Institutional Harms and the Damaging Cycle of Reparative Failure
Free Public LectureThe grand claims of nations and their institutions ostensibly keen to repair injustice are often undermined by the design and implementation of the processes they employ to provide redress and resolution. The establishment of mechanisms such as tr...
PresentersProfessor Andrea Durbach - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Truth and Stereotypes
Free Public LectureOur thoughts and our conversations are filled with generalisations. From everyday trivialities such as birds fly or trams are crowded to contested claims such as women are oppressed or Muslims are peaceloving, we think and communicate using genera...
PresentersProfessor Greg Restall
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Monday10Dec2018