A Quaker-Chartist
Lecture
HRC SEMINAR Among the unsung figures of Australia’s Liberal political history, Joseph Jones (1824–1887), a Welsh Quaker emigrant, does not figure highly. Indeed, the Australian Dictionary of Biography provides only a brief insight into his life. And yet Jones was a colourful…
A Quaker-Chartist, free trader and Australian Liberal: the free-thinking career of Joseph ‘Coffee’ Jones, 1824–87
Seminar
HRC SEMINAR Among the unsung figures of Australia’s Liberal political history, Joseph Jones (1824–1887), a Welsh Quaker emigrant, does not figure highly. Indeed, the Australian Dictionary of Biography provides only a brief insight into his life. And yet Jones was a…
Artist Talk: Cristin Millett
Artist talk
Cristin Millett is currently visiting Australia as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2020, during which time she will serve as a resident artist at SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia, studying ectogenesis and ultimately creating a sculptural artificial uterus that will allow viewers to…
The Agency of the Animal in Filmmaking: Robert Nugent
Artist talk
The Agency of the Animal in Filmmaking: Robert NugentThis event is being held in conjunction with the More than Human: the Animal in the Age of the Anthropocene exhibition currently showing at the School of Art and Design Main Gallery. Filmmaker, Robert Nugent, will show segments of his feature…
Agonistic Liberalism
Seminar
In the 1990s, John Gray coined the term ‘agonistic liberalism’ to characterize a family of views in political theory which flourished in Oxford in the second half of the twentieth century. Agonistic liberals are committed to one or more traditional liberal principles (eg the priority of liberty or…
Climate Sign Archive
Project Space
Climate Sign Archive Join us for the launch of the Climate Sign Archive. A project led by Anna Madeleine, the archive is a digital record of protest signs to collaboratively capture the movement for action on climate change.The project aims to document the diversity and creativity of protest signs…
More than Human: The animal in the age of the Anthropocene
Gallery
More than Human: The animal in the age of the Anthropocene The Anthropocene is a geologic time scale where humans are leaving an indelible mark upon the earth. In this ‘age of the human', is there a place for non-human life in this rapidly changing world? This exhibition brings together artists…