Upcoming events
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Lecture/seminar
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy. Snakes continually appear in the scholarly debates about the utility and value of flora and fauna from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century,…
US/ Israel War on Iran: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
The ongoing US/Israel War on Iran has grave human consequences that deeply threaten regional & global peace1,500+ people reportedly killed in Iran so far, plus 3+ million displaced.1000+ people have been killed in Lebanon and 1+ million displaced.Iranian retaliatory strikes have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Plant Discovery and Art-making at Waniassa 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…