Race, Culture & Data: Dealing with Difference in Schematic Technologies
Seminar
In a recent blog post, UTS Emeritus Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz wrote: “[A] dark hole sits at the heart of multicultural Australia – the data bypass on how the COVID-19 virus pandemic is affecting our culturally diverse communities.” According to Jakubowicz, “…
Seminar: Habit's Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct
Seminar
How are we to understand the political roles that habit has played in the exercise of different forms of power? I develop two lines of argument in relation to this question. The first considers how conceptions of habit as a form of repetition following the course of a pathway have informed the…
Works that Shaped the World: Sarah Bellamy (1770-1843) and Women Transported to Botany Bay
Seminar
Born in 1770, 250 years ago, Sarah Bellamy was one of the longest lived first fleeters by the time of her death in 1843. Owing to the dearth of records, hers and the lives of other women transported from England to arrive in Botany Bay in 1788 have been described as ‘unthinkable…
Positions in Painting
Symposium
Positions in Painting is a three part symposium focusing on artists who have been working towards solo exhibitions very recently. Painting is at the core of each practice, yet Teelah George, Jelena Telecki and Natalya Hughes works also move across sculpture, installation, textiles/craft and deploy…
2020 Drawing Prize Public Reception
Arts & entertainment
Please join us for the online reception of the 2020 Drawing Prize, Finalists & Winner announcement Wednesday 30 September, 2020 | 6pm via Zoom The Winner will be announced by guest judge, Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of…
Books that Changed Humanity: The Quiet American
Lecture
The world may yearn for a ‘quiet’ American in 2020, but 65 years ago, the English novelist, Graham Greene presaged its dangers in The Quiet American. In an age where US leadership has all but flamed out, its remnant pyre illuminating mostly failure, Greene’s perfectly structured novel warned of…
Conversations across the Creek: Pill Testing
Seminar
Pill testing, or drug checking, is a medically supervised intervention focussed on providing reliable and non-discriminatory information to people who intend to use drugs. The ACT government sanctioned trials of pill testing at the Groovin the Moo festival in 2018 and 2019, and…