The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas, by Alan Atkinson
Book launch
Join award-winning historian Alan Atkinson in conversation with Catherine Gay about his latest book The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas (NewSouth, 2026).Following on from his acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, in his latest work Alan pieces together the life of…
Big Malcolm and the Mulga Mafia: The Coalition under Fraser
Lecture/seminar
One of the great oddities of Australian government which baffles foreign observers – along with preferential voting and the small matter of quite when Australia became a nation – is the endurance of the coalition between the two main conservative parties, one predominantly urban, the other rural-…
Melita Dahl | Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture
Gallery
Over the past three decades, photography has evolved from its traditional role as an indexical imprint of the world into a fluid, computational space shaped by digital transformation. Within this context, the photographic portrait both as a historical art form and a site for computer vision offers…
Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete | Ren Gregorčič
Gallery
Concrete is among the most widely used materials on Earth, second only to water in global consumption. It forms footpaths, bridges, building foundations, dam walls, and the hydrological networks that span a continuum from everyday surfaces to continental-scale infrastructure. Operating across…
Dynamics of multidimensional urban poverty and child health outcomes in poor resources settings: evidence from Nigeria
Seminar
Rapid urbanisation in many developing countries is a profound demographic change, which has fundamentally reshaped the spatial distribution of poverty and health inequalities. Although many scholars have examined the impact of poverty on child health outcomes, their measures of poverty are commonly…
Christine & Stephen Procter Interdisciplinary Craft Symposium 2026
Symposium
This symposium will demonstrate how digital tools can advance creative, cultural, and making practices. It also interrogates a broader definition of technology as any purposeful transformation of material, the value of ingenuity, and implications on ecology. Focusing on glass and ceramics, we will…
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…