Past events
The Subject Tonight is Love
Performance
This evening brings together two inspiring elements of Persian heritage – poetry and music – which together explore the nature of human existence and love. Drawing from the wisdom of 12th and 13th century poets Rumi, Sa’adi, Khayam and Hafez as well as the modern poems of internationally renowned…
Love Across Class
Seminar
What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, the 2024 book Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have…
Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?
Seminar
Commercially available AI systems for the detection of sentiment or emotions from human faces, text, and non-verbal behavior are already widely deployed, even if they don’t fully live up to the marketing hype. At the same time, generative AI models are now capable of producing text and images that…
Economic Interdependence and Rising Power Grand Strategies
Seminar
Compared to historical rising powers such as Bismarckian Germany, China does not use force as often as historical rising powers, prefers coercion instead of force, tends to resort to nonmilitarised coercive tools, and prefers strategic partnerships as opposed to formal alliances. China…
Searching for Harold Holt
Seminar
My interest in Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, began in my childhood. I understood little about his politics but I was charmed by his smile and personality. After he died in December 1967, I had an intimation that he would somehow play a part in my life. And so it proved to be when I…
Peace of God and the Medieval Climate Anomaly: Faith and Environmental Change in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
Seminar
This pre-submission seminar investigates the emergence of the Peace of God movement across what was to become France between 980 and 1050 CE, and its coincidence with the onset of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (c.950-1250CE). The Peace of God movement occurred in the context of a rise in heresy, the…
SPECIAL EVENT: Cao Yu | Beyond Gender, Create Boldly!
Artist talk
CAO YU is a pioneering multidisciplinary artist working across diverse media. Renowned for her incisive and bold artistic language, exceptional creativity, and profound international influence, Cao has been recognized as one of the most influential emerging artists in Asia today, the leading…