Join us on Monday 2 September for the 2024 Hancock Lecture. Presented by Dr Nathan Gardner from the University of Melbourne. What makes a multicultural nation? The contribution of Chinese Australian communities. Since its enthusiastic inception in the 1970s, the place of multiculturalism is today contested. It has faced challenges of credibility mounted from both the […]
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The 60th anniversary of Donald Horne’s landmark book, The Lucky Country, prompts us to think afresh about Australian culture and social changes, and ask: are ordinary Australians fulfilling their aspirations? Are we a tolerant people? The Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 55th Annual Symposium will take on the big questions posed by Horne and bring others to
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Australia has a rich history of world-leading researchers of the ancient world, its languages, literature, thought, history, art and civilisations. The Trendall Lecture celebrates this long tradition and reminds us of the deep and continuing relevance of the ancient world and late antiquity to modern life. We are delighted to partner each year with the Australasian
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Join us in Canberra or online for insights on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) premier Centres of Excellence program. There are major opportunities for aspiring researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences to design transformational research programs and strategic partnerships with enduring impact in the leadup to the 2026 CoE round and beyond. This
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Event details When: 12.00-12.10pm, Friday 17 November 2023. Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre Foyer Jenny Fewster, HASS and Indigenous RDC Director, ARDC will provide an update about HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. In 2020 the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (HASS&I RDC) was announced as a first step toward developing a more
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Event details When: 12.10-1.30pm, Friday 17 November 2023. Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre Foyer In a panel chaired by Professor Mark Andrejevic FAHA and featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Maggie Walter FASSA, Professor Leanne Wiseman and Dr Jake Goldenfein we will explore: AI and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing, increasingly pervasive
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Event details When: 11.30-12.50pm, Thursday 16 November 2023 Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne Creativity and cultural labour practices have long been considered resistant to automation. Our sector – though often underpaid and undervalued – took comfort in this, luxuriating in the knowledge that our work was profoundly and unequivocally human – even when it is (almost always) the product of
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Event details When: An introduction by Viv’s creator Jill Bennett will take place at 12.50pm. Meet Viv during session breaks on 16 and 17 November 2023. Where: Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre Foyer Developed by the ARC Laureate Felt Experience & Empathy Lab [fEEL], Viv is one of a suite of digital companion characters, distinctive for
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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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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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