All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Monday4Mar2019
- 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Space and Bodies, Walls and String
Free Public LectureLike walls, string figures delineate space. Unlike walls, string figures are easily manipulated. The 2019 SHAPS Public Lecture Series will explore the theme of ‘Walls’— the walls we build to exclude and contain the Other, to control the movement ...
PresentersDr Dinah Eastop
- 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Thursday7Mar2019
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
An Introduction to Laser Cleaning and Practical Conservation Applications
Free Public LectureThis presentation is an introduction to laser cleaning for conservation and cultural heritage applications. The presentation will introduce the science of what happens during laser cleaning treatments when laser pulses interact with different mate...
Presenters Bartosz Dajnowski
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Friday8Mar2019
- 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
The Stones of Melbourne: History, Excavation, Circulation and Affect
OtherA oneday workshop exploring the archaeological, architectural, heritage and affective resonance of the stones of Melbourne, in quarrying, social histories, architecture, art and design, in the past, present and future of Melbourne. The workshop i...
PresentersDr Tim EdensorProfessor Stephanie Trigg
- 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday13Mar2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel
Free Public LectureGidon Bromberg, cofounder and Israeli coDirector of EcoPeace Middle East, will give a lecture and answer questions on the subject of the recently released EcoPeace report on 'Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palesti...
PresentersMr Gidon Bromberg
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Thursday14Mar2019
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Source of Xi Jinping's Extraordinary Power
Seminar/ForumXi Jinping has arguably become the most powerful person in the world. This has come from a combination of the absolute sovereignty of his communist party over all things China; his 'red genes', family heritage, which cannot be challenged; his purg...
Presenters Rowan Calick - 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia
Free Public Lecture2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe ...
PresentersProfessor Jonathan M. Bloom
- 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Thursday4Apr2019
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia can't Solve Black Problems
LaunchIndigenous Settler Relations Collaboration Seminar Series Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy – from protection to assimilation, selfdeterminati...
PresentersProfessor Sarah Maddison Lidia Thorpe
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Thursday11Apr2019
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Low Literary Laughter and Latin Comedy in Fragments
Free Public LectureLiterary Roman drama was much more than the wellknown and imaginative comedies of Plautus and Terence, which were based on Greek original comedies and which influenced the themes and the repertory of later playwrights such as Shakespeare and Moliè...
PresentersProfessor Costas Panayotakis
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm