Research Seminar: Investigating Overt and Covert Perpetuation of Prejudice and Bigotry in Children’s Picture Books
Seminar
The call for the publication and use of diverse books for children is gaining momentum worldwide. Dr Helen Adam (Edith Cowan University) and Dr Sally Murphy (Curtin University) studied award-winning Australian picture books in 2019 and 2020. In this seminar they present findings…
SCENES FROM THE MALL: Exploring the balance between recording history and storytelling in everyday life
Seminar
SCENES FROM THE MALL: Exploring the balance between recording history and storytelling in everyday life. All portraits are made to be seen in the future. Pictures such as those in this collection may be most obviously seen as a historical snapshot of people and places but, given the commonplace…
Uncovering Kuwae’s Past: recent fieldwork on Epi Island, Vanuatu
Seminar
In the fifteenth century CE, a massive volcanic eruption on the island of Kuwae reshaped the physical and social landscapes of Central Vanuatu. The disaster resulted in the destruction of a large portion of Kuwae, creating a submarine caldera more than 12 kilometres wide, which separates the…
Mycelium and Microscopes
Workshop
The seriousness of topsoil-loss humanity is facing, is both terrifying and heartbreaking. Creative techniques of ecological intimacy help us to weather this terror. Who might we be if we began to come home to soil? To treat soil as a loved one? Mycelium and Microscopes is a creative soil…
Unsettling Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and the ancient Greek chorus
Lecture
Presenting an HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Unsettling Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and the ancient Greek chorus Many of us insist on an idea of living as a sequence of events, moving through challenge, conflict, space, and eventually finding an end. The linear trajectory of…
Leading change in the Social Sciences: Fighting Racism & Bigotry - Event Nr. 08: Language & Racism
Panel discussion
This conversation will explore how discrimination against Indigenous languages and speakers of other cultures only serves to perpetuate the stigmatisation and undervaluation of cultural diversity and individual identities. Linguistic discrimination can severely limit future education and…
Does Interiority Matter? Experiences of Inner Life
Seminar
Does Interiority Matter? Experiences of Inner Life There are certain deep-rooted concepts that come to play upon this subject that require to be extrapolated; with an emphasis on visual culture and theories about imagery and interiority, the topic of interiority will be explored in three sections…