Plant Discovery and Art-making at Wanniassa Hills Reserve
Workshop
AboutJoin Dr Rebecca Mayo and Professor Mitchell Whitelaw and explore Wanniassa Hills Reserve through plant discovery and art-making. Observe, learn and create with the plants and other inhabitants of Wanniassa Hills Reserve. This activity combines hands-on making with digital tools…
2nd Panel Discussion: US/ Israel War on Iran
Lecture
Photo Credit: Mehdi Khoshnejad (Pexels)A month on, multiple indicators point to how the US/ Israel War on Iran represents not a regional confrontation but a global structural shock with serious military, economic and geopolitical implications.Across the region but particularly in Iran and Lebanon,…
Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI
Seminar
At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan “knowledge is power” has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the informational environment for a group is a way to shape their decisions; it is essentially a way to…
Climate’s Computational Infrastructures
Lecture/seminar
What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary futures? How do computational ensembles pull together computing architectures, data pipelines, calculative practices, and institutional settings to make…
Surface Rights: Aboriginal Lands and Minerals Under the Woodward Royal Commission
Lecture/seminar
On the 50-year anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, this seminar turns to the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of the recognition of Aboriginal mineral rights. Why were Aboriginal mineral rights not…
Research Seminar | Dr. Le-Tuyen Nguyen
Seminar
Vietnamese Musical Heritage: From the Mekong Delta to the Mountain ForestAbstractA special lecture-recital featuring a new repertoire of Australian music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Written for the guitar by Vietnamese-Australian composer Le-Tuyen Nguyen, these compositions…
Latest Demographic Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Pace, Development, and Inequalities
Seminar
Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced rapid demographic change over the past century, marked by sustained fertility decline, improvements in life expectancy, and shifting migration patterns. Although these processes are often described as part of a compressed demographic transition, they…