Events

Open Workshop: Living in the Midtones

This Open Workshop is an invitation to explore points of convergence in a world of contrasts. People with and without art experience are welcome to participate in a game of words, writing, and drawing to experiment with the nuances of language and the construction of shared meanings, creating a collective mural inspired by the Pacific Ocean—a space that separates and, at the same time, connects Chile and Australia.

Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 March 2025

Workshops run daily:
11.30am – 12.25pm
12.30pm – 1.25pm
1.30pm – 2.30pm*

*No 1.30pm session on Friday 21.

Free, bookings recommended

About Nube Lab

Nube Lab (Santiago, Chile) is a public learning lab that promotes creativity and socio-emotional skills as fundamental pillars for the future. It designs experiences that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, promoting new ways of seeing, learning and doing at all stages of life. This vision aligns with the mission of the Museums & Collections Department at the University of Melbourne to bring art into the everyday lives of the greatest diversity of people, promoting dialogue between cultures, interdisciplinarity, and creative practice beyond the boundaries of art. Out of this shared interest, the two institutions have forged a trans-Pacific alliance that embraces creativity as a tool for learning, encounter and social transformation.

2025 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture

Businesses across the world face growing pressure to address their social and environmental impacts while remaining competitive and profitable. The traditional approach — separating business activities from charitable efforts — no longer works in the modern world of impact investing, where profit and social good go hand in hand. This same divide is reflected in trust law, with separate rules and enforcement between charitable trusts and private trusts.

This lecture will challenge that divide and show there are fundamental similarities between how trusts for individuals and trusts for specific purposes are enforced. By recognising these similarities, we can explore new possibilities, like non-charitable purpose trusts, and rethink how trust law can better support social enterprises. This shift allows us to create governance structures that help businesses stay true to their social missions while also meeting their commercial demands.

About the Lecture Series

In 1958, Ethel Thorpe Southey, better known as Nancy Southey, made a gift to the University of Melbourne to endow a law lectureship in memory of her husband Allen Hope Southey, who had graduated as a Master of Laws in the University in 1917 and died in 1929 at the age of 35. Thirty years later, the Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture again enjoyed the support of the Southey family as they made further donations to build on Nancy Southey’s initiative. Forty years later, Mr and Mrs Southey’s son, Sir Robert Southey, made a generous gift in his will to the lectureship fund his mother had established. And in 2008, 50 years later, the five sons of Sir Robert Southey continued the family’s support of the Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture at Melbourne Law School.