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04
Aug
2025

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…

04
Aug
2025

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…

31
Jul
2025

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…

31
Jul
2025

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…

31
Jul
2025

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…

30
Jul
2025

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…

30
Jul
2025

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…