Event details When: 2-3.30pm, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins FAHA will chair a panel featuring Dr Tatiana Bur, Roslynn Haynes, Dr Marc Trabsky and Elizabeth Stephens, exploring: Humans, gods & machines in Greco-Roman antiquity Ideas of AI and automation have held cultural traction since Greek antiquity. […]
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Event details When: 10-11.30am on Friday 17 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Professor Richard Yeo FAHA of Griffith University considers an early forerunner to today’s artificial intelligence memorywork; Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington compares the ways in which machines and human historians use questions in historical reasoning; and Professor Gerard Goggin FAHA draws upon his
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Event details When: 9.30-11am, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Speakers Malavika Jayaram is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong Kong with a regional focus. Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker is an Aboriginal man of Alyawarr descent
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The merits and shortcomings of habit’s repetitions have often been assessed via metaphors of pathways. Bruno Latour (1947-2022) praised habit as “the patron saint of laid-out routes, pathways, and trails.” Imagining a lost hiker who, hesitating at every step wondering which way to go, comes across “a trail already used by others,” Latour interpreted this
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What do you do when someone points a camera at you? Do you smile or hide? Perhaps you strike a pose or attempt to blend into the background. As a photojournalist with a mission to present the world as accurately and authentically as possible, the tension TJ sensed between people and his camera was too
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It is significant that it takes three people to write this obituary as a document of Graeme’s diverse and productive life that takes in his brilliant and original scholarship in the area of Patristics (and Early Christianity), his excavation of the Hellenistic site of Jebel Khalid in Syria, and his support, in several capacities, of
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Event details This event occurred on Thursday 16 November. A recording of the lecture is available here. Digital assistants with feminised voices, deceptive female robots, all-male research groups: gender forms a fundamental part of how we imagine the systems, fields, and figures we call ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI). While gender unquestionably shapes and structures scientific objects
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About Genevieve Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA is a renowned anthropologist, technologist, and futurist. Genevieve completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998 and is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. She is currently the Director of the School of Cybernetics and
It was heartening to hear Minister of Education, The Hon Jason Clare MP, talk about his passion for the power of education at his National Press Club address today. And, it is terrific to see the report’s initial set of recommendations are focused on achieving higher equity and participation for regional students, students in outer
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The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was released on Friday 7 July 2023. In the report, Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes recounts evidence of the lives of welfare recipients ruined, suicides among those adversely affected, dishonesty in the face of questions about the legality of the scheme, and the failure to address growing problems with
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The new National Cultural Policy Revive: Australia’s Cultural Policy for the next five years is a major advance in the development of the creative arts in Australia. Like its predecessor Creative Australia, it has aspirations to ‘join-up’ cultural policy with wider social and economic policy. Where it doesn’t join up is with the changes
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“Ngaya giyara Tula. Dhanayi dhalang Dharug, Burramadagal diyin ngaya,” introduces Tula Wynyard in Dharug. “My name is Tula. My ancestral language is Dharug and I’m a Burramadagal woman from the Sydney region.” “Ŋarraya marŋgithirri mathagu,” she continues in Ritharrŋu-Wägilak. “I’m learning [Ritharrŋu and Wägilak] language.” “Growing up I was always learning languages,” Tula explains. “I
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The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.