University of Melbourne Events Calendar
Featured events
Genocide in the Wildflower State Screening and panel
Feb
11
1:00pm
Film Screening
The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences and WEHI warmly invite you to a special screening of Genocide in the Wildflower State. The event includes a post-screening Yarn, Cuppa and refreshments with Dr Jim Morrison, Chairperson of Yokai.
Content Warning:
This award-winning documentary provides a deeper understanding of the experience of the stolen generations from the firsthand voices of survivors. Their stories illuminate ongoing impacts of Western Australian state policies including systemic violence, child removal, eugenics, forced assimilation and cultural trauma. This is confronting material for which viewer discretion is advised.
It is about acknowledging survivor resilience, truth, justice and healing, offering essential context for contemporary reconciliation work.This film contains confronting material about state-run policies of racial absorption, eugenics, and forced assimilation of First Nations people in 20th-century Western Australia. It includes references to systemic violence, child removal, and cultural trauma. Viewer discretion is advised, and attendees are encouraged to take breaks or step out if needed.
Andrew Leigh: The Shortest History of Innovation official book launch
Feb
17
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Launch
Join us at this Melbourne launch of Minister Andrew Leigh’s latest book: The Shortest History of Innovation.
From the wheel to gene editing, new ideas shape our world.
In this dazzling, surprising and always entertaining book, bestselling author Andrew Leigh tells the story of innovation.
Innovation shapes almost every corner of our lives, yet we rarely pause to notice it. Someone had to invent nails and wheelbarrows; alphabets and books; glass windows and windscreen wipers; tin cans and synthetic dyes. From tools and technologies to fresh approaches in art and architecture, innovation surrounds us.
Leigh shows that three forces drive innovation: tinkering, teams and trade. He examines hotbeds of creativity, the forces that suppress them, and the surprising ways ideas travel across borders and disciplines. The result is a lively, compact look at the engines powering progress.
A brilliant follow-up to the international bestseller The Shortest History of Economics.
