SCIENCE. ART. FILM Interstellar + Panel
Arts & entertainment
Matthew McConaughey leads as Cooper in this Christopher Nolan science fiction epic, starring alongside Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon. In the wake of ecological collapse, Cooper must pilot a…
Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism
Lecture
The 2024 HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism This talk will introduce key themes from the speaker’s forthcoming book on Roman diversity, using examples from the Roman gladiatorial arena to illustrate how the value…
‘The Future of Our Past’ ~ Memory Activism and the Feminist Temporalities of International Women’s Year 1975
Seminar
Rising from the ashes of patriarchally induced historical amnesia, feminist history is now delivered to us in discontinuous ‘chunks’ of activist time or tenuously connected crests and troughs. The perception that this narrative gives us of discontinuity spurs feelings of disconnection as feminists…
Mural Art for Outreach at UC
Seminar
Mural art for outreach at UC This casual chat will present our public art project, called Creative Encounter. As the name suggests, we are curious about the impact of art at the moment of encounter. The project begins with the premise that art has a power to circumvent the barriers of language and…
Australian Politics: A Memoir
Seminar
Kim Huynh needs your help. He has a passion for storytelling and has come up with the title and cover for a book, but doesn’t know how to fill it. At this stage he wants to combine his family’s history with Australian politics and culture and has started by writing, Feast for the deceased: A…
Beautiful Weeds: Unravelling Perceptions of Invasive Plants
Seminar
Who gets to decide if a plant is “native” or a “weed”? The term 'weed' is not a botanical classification; weeds are just plants. The ways in which we interact with and seek to control the environment around us are dictated by cultural, emotional and economical values. These judgements are…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Vesper + Panel
Arts & entertainment
This recent science fiction release is set in the wake of an environmental catastrophe, wrought by out-of-control genetic technology, which separates survivors on either side of stark class divisions. In a post-apocalyptic world, teenage bio-hacker Vesper is presented with…