He is also an Australian Research Council Fellow (IN220100008) in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies of the Australian National University. Lyndon has significant experience lecturing and coordinating tertiary-level subjects, including the delivery of ‘on-country’ learning. He continues in his roles of policy development and research, and negotiations at the national and international levels, […]
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He is an historian of science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His books include Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in early Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 1993); Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge, 2001); and Notebooks, English
Getting to the venue We will be hosting the Symposium at the Marie Reay Teaching Centre (Building 155), at the Australian National University. >> Google maps The Australian Dialogues event will be held at Louie Louie (upstairs), Verity Lane Market, Sydney Building, 50 Northbourne Avenue. >> Google maps Public transport Tram: Take the tram until
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Event details When: 9-10am, Friday 17 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Human priorities, machine decisions? Limitations of using mathematical models for decision support One way of interacting with possible uncertain futures is through the use of mathematical models to construct and visualise different kinds of outcomes and counterfactuals. Dr Erica Thompson will discuss
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He combines critical theory, socio-legal research, and science and technology studies to explore the interrelations between law, technology, and death. Marc has written Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019) and Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2023). He is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Law and Death (Routledge, 2024, forthcoming).
As a graduate in both biochemical sciences and the humanities she is most interested in cross-disciplinary research, and is internationally recognised for her contributions to the field of science and literature over many decades. Roslynn has published five major books in the field that continue to be cited: H.G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future (Macmillan,
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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Event details This lecture occurred on 15 November 2023. A recording is available here. The Anthropocene is understood to be a new geological epoch in which human activities dominate Earth’s surface processes. If the Anthropocene is defined by the activities and impacts of people, it is paradoxically also a period that may shortly be out
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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
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.