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25.01.2022 Digital Studio Seminar Series (webinar) Internet and Hackers: New Threats and Opportunities Friday 11 September 10.00pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au//8025-internet-and-hackers-n... Has Covid-19 transformed how we will live in the Internet in our digital future? What are the democratic promises of hacktivism and the security dangers of hacker cybercrimes? This webinar will explore the social, ethical and political implications of the new technology-society relationships in the (post)pandemic times of this free-wheeling horizon of and expanded cyberspace. This event is a part of the Digital Studio Seminar Series 2020: Redefining Digital Keywords: From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms

24.01.2022 Webinar The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times Tuesday 11 August 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm AEST To book: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/ERCC/event/7326... The world will always need its dreamers, and we all have the capacity to dream, but the storytellers and writers will need to dream big, and have a far greater storehouse in the mind for creating the imaginative thinking necessary to respond to the massive changes of a rapidly changing world. Professor Alexis Wright holds the position as the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker). This public lecture is presented by the Critique, Creativity, Innovation Research Group in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) Research Unit.

24.01.2022 Webinar: Sweet Country: Q&A with the Screenwriters Tuesday 28 July 6pm-7pm (AEST) Book: https://events.unimelb.edu.au//7231-sweet-country-qampa-wi... Join Steven McGregor and David Tranter, the recipients of last years Kate Challis RAKA Award (RAKA), in conversation with Associate Professor Chris Healy from the School of Culture and Communication in the Faculty of Arts. The webinar is being presented in association with the Australian Centre, which develops innovative research projects in the Australian arts and humanities. McGregor and Tranter are the screenwriters of the feature film Sweet Country and were awarded the 2019 RAKA for best script for film or television by an Indigenous Australian writer screened in the last five years. This multi award winning film, directed by Warwick Thornton, is based on true stories told to Tranter by his grandfather. Sweet Country is available to view for free on SBS on Demand. Experience this powerful example of Australian cinema at home before joining us for what promises to be a unique opportunity to learn more about the script and the creative process that brought the movie to life. Set in a remote outpost in the Northern Territory in 1929, Sweet Country tells the story of Aboriginal stockman Sam Kelly on the run with his pregnant wife after killing a white station owner in self-defence. The script for Sweet Country is rich, accomplished and complex story-telling. Grounded in a terrible history of dispossession and survivance, the narratives, characterisations, pace and locations of the script are assembled with remarkable skill to produce a confronting text for twenty-first century audiences. Its no surprise that Tranters screenwriting debut, and one of many works over two decades by McGregor, became an internationally awarded feature film. The Kate Challis Ruth Adeney Koori Award, or RAKA, which means five in the Pintupi language, is worth $20,000 and is awarded annually to an Indigenous artist in one of five categories including: creative prose, poetry, script writing, drama and visual arts. It was established in 1991 by Professor Bernard Smith, now departed, to honour the memory of his wife, Kate Challis, who was known in her youth as Ruth Adeney.

23.01.2022 Congratulations Alison! Contribution to the Faculty and University Award: Alison Inglis AM For an individual who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the Faculty and University through outstanding leadership, impact on students, research and teaching, engagement or philanthropy.... The Faculty of Arts recognises alumni who have achieved excellence in their chosen field, and who have made a considerable contribution to the Faculty, the University and their communities, both locally and globally. The Awards are presented annually and are chosen by calling on all our alumni to nominate those who have achieved distinction in one of four areas.

21.01.2022 Belated congratulations: The Windham Campbell Prize ($165,000 USD) awarded to Maria Tumarkin (Creative Writing). At the time of the award, Maria was described by Jessica Alice in an article in The Guardian, as a writer and cultural historian whose atmospheric, unclassifiable non-fiction blends commentary, reportage and memoir, traversing the difficult grounds of trauma, grief, friendship, memory and war. Her body of work demonstrates an exceptional ethical rigour and profound empathy qualities of great literature necessary for a world in crisis. Congratulations, Maria! https://www.theguardian.com//maria-tumarkin-on-winning-the

21.01.2022 The Dungala Kaiela Oration is coming up this Wednesday, with special guest speaker Dr Lois Peeler AM speaking to the theme of 'The River is Us Carrying the Sp...irit and Strength of Dungala'. But perhaps you've been wondering what the oration is all about? Tap to learn more about this annual event and then visit unimelb.me/dko-register to attend our very first virtual Dungala Kaiela Oration. Music credit: Dr Lou Bennett and Lillie Walker (instagram.com/lillieawalker) performing Ngarra Bura Fera at the 2015 Dungala Kaiela Oration in Shepparton.

21.01.2022 Master of Publishing and Communications students Xuan and Marina wanted to make diversifying bookshelves easy, so they started Amplify Bookstore to feature Blac...k, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors. They took over our Instagram for a day to tell us their story Please note: This takeover was filmed prior to the current lockdown.

21.01.2022 It's our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship is Declan Fry. Declan has been awarded the fellowship for his work 'Justice... for Elijah: A Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo, Dancing', which our judges described as "an ethically charged, lyrical exploration of contemporary Australian life". Congratulations Declan!

20.01.2022 Free online webinar The PNG and Australian story: Insights around naturalisation, race and membership from Troy Lee v Minister for Home Affairs 27 May 4.30pm-5.30pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/ERCC/event/10317 In this presentation, Professor Kim Rubenstein will discuss the case Troy Lee v Minister for Home Affairs, which was appealed by the Commonwealth of Australia, and is awaiting judgment. Professor Rubenstein was counsel for Mr Lee and will discuss t...he important insights the Commonwealth governments approach (in 2020-2021) around citizenship law and Australia’s historical links with Papua New Guinea (PNG) provides on questions of naturalisation and membership of the Australian community. This session will be chaired by Associate Professor Ann Genovese. This Seminar is part of the Melbourne Series on Naturalisation presented by the ERCC and the Australian Centre.

20.01.2022 Art and environmental activism go together for many Indonesian artists, but some are also pushing for a reckoning as a new way forward for the country.

20.01.2022 Digital Studio Seminar Series (webinar) Events in the Post-Information Age Friday 25 September 10pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au//8031-events-in-the-post-inf... Will the word information acquire new meanings under the pressure of technological transformations caused by the Covid-19 digital lockdown? How will people understand, define and experience major or minor events when they are limited to virtual encounters, online meetings and social media catch-ups? The webinar will interrogate old meanings and explore emerging connotations of what becomes information and whither the nature of an event in the seamless enfolding of the two in the online world. This event is a part of the Digital Studio Seminar Series 2020: Redefining Digital Keywords: From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms

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18.01.2022 Earlier this year Australia established the mandatory News Media Bargaining Code to force Google and Facebook to pay locals news publishers for their content. B...ut what could the long term implications of this legislation be? Check out a panel of industry leaders and media insiders discussing all angles of the policy below. See more

16.01.2022 They've done it again! Our amazingly talented UniMelb Symphony Orchestra have raised the bar (boom tish ) with their online first rendition of the William Tell... Overture. This time featuring a very special guest, Peter Dixon, Principal Cellist of the BBC Philharmonic! Learn more about this collaboration, click tracks and apples at: unimelb.me/williamtell-umso

14.01.2022 In the third episode of our 'Signposts: stories for our fragile times' series, acclaimed Indigenous author Melissa Lucashenko speaks to Alexis Wright about success, her writing process and what advice she offers to young writers. Full ep go.unimelb.edu.au/a3nj

13.01.2022 Being Human Festival The 2020 Faculty of Arts international hub invites you to discover the thrill of Being Human with a series of fun and interactive events. Inspired by this year’s festival theme ‘New Worlds’, there are a range of online activities to explore: lose yourself in an immersive audio experience; contemplate the beauty of the natural world through guided meditations; discuss fascinating cultural artefacts at the Being Human Cafes; and bring your ancient-world wi...ts to the Melbourne Classics Quiz. 12 November-22 November https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/being-human-festival

13.01.2022 Digital Studio Seminar Series (webinar) The Death of the Analogue and Re-birth of the Surrogate Friday 28 August 10.00pm AEST To book: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au//the-death-of-the-analogue-and... Will Covid-19 lockdown finally abandon the analogue age? Will digital surrogate become mainstream in the near future? With the comprehensive digitization of communications across various spheres of human life from entertainment to education, from work to healthcare, the webinar will discuss what these words mean in pandemic time. This event is a part of the Digital Studio Seminar Series 2020: Redefining Digital Keywords: From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms

12.01.2022 Webinar Hosted by Potter Museum of Art Machine: Unpack the Art, Ethics and Science of the Machine Wed 16 September 2020 2.00pm AEST Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/session-two-machine-interdi... Ever considered how technology might promote discrimination or impair our ability to make shrewd decisions? Or wondered how an AI doctor might diagnose illness just through listening? These, and a host of other questions, will be considered as part of the next interdisciplinary forum in our ongoing series, as we engage with a pressing concern of our time the theme of machine. Today, as we experience rapidly expanding developments in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, data and algorithms are increasingly impacting our daily lives. From simulating human intelligence to collecting our personal data, the machine of the computer system engages us as individuals, communities and societies both as creators and as consumers. Presenting a diverse program of speakers from a range of disciplines over three days, MACHINE will explore a series of timely themes investigating the interface between humanity and machine across fields of research including digital ethics, data analytics, creative writing, visual art and mathematics. As with all forums in this series, MACHINE will feature a range of our academic colleagues from the University of Melbourne, proposing art-making as a form of knowledge creation alongside other academic fields of inquiry. Co-presented with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics

12.01.2022 Free webinar hosted by the Australian Centre Federation Stars: The meanings of popular astronomy in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century Thursday 24 September 2020 1.00pm-2.00pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/australian-centre/event/8252... In 1901 a new flag was chosen to represent a new nation, and the central emblem was a constellation of the southern sky. By this time, the symbolism of the Southern Cross had been entrenched; almost all previous Australian flag designs had included this device. The meanings of the Cross and the southern stars were, however, diverse and changing across the long nineteenth century. This talk will describe the genealogy of astronomical symbolism in colonial Australia and detail some of the performances and contexts that infused meaning into popular astronomy, with a focus on visual communication through lantern slides and related technologies. I will also sketch out some ideas about how these practices evolved in the early twentieth century. The Australian Centre hosts interdisciplinary discussions on research important to contemporary Australia, and Australias relations to the region and the world.

11.01.2022 Free online webinar Naturalisation in history: From Calvin’s Case to Locke 21 May 10am-11am AEST with Professor Stephanie DeGooyer ACLS Burkhardt fellow at UCLA and Associate Professor of English at Willamette University; and Professor Peter Otto... Executive Director of the ERCC and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, English and Theatre Studies, at the University of Melbourne. Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/ERCC/event/10262 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, naturalisation had not yet systematically attached to a project of cultural and affective nationalism or to an idea of national security, as it would in the nineteenth century. Instead, in an opposite framework, naturalisation in early modern England disconnected immigration from personal and communal identities. Rather than shore up the boundaries of the nation, as it is thought to do today, naturalisation carved a bureaucratic and mercantile path for individual liberty regardless of country of birth, simplifying and cheapening national privileges for desirable alien merchants, sailors, and tradesmen. In this crucial period, naturalization came to support the idea of what Stephanie DeGooyer calls paranational liberty: the right of the private individual to roam and settle anywhere they chose. While Jews and Catholics would, with few exceptions, be restricted from naturalisation, and, on the whole, naturalisation policy in early modern England targeted a relatively select and wealthy group of white and male individuals, the idea that new national subjects could be created by statute, rather than godly and sovereign will, gave rise to a construction of immigration as the opening of the nation to outsiders rather than its hermetic defense. This session is hosted by Professor Peter Otto. This Seminar is part of the seminar series on Naturalisation presented by the ERCC and the Australian Centre.

10.01.2022 Congratulations: Jo Chandler (Centre for Advancing Journalism) has been awarded the $10,000 Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism by the Walkley Foundation. This is for research in the Pacific on climate change impacts and climate justice. Further details: https://www.walkleys.com/grants/sean-dorney-grant/

10.01.2022 Further congratulations: In the same round of Walkley Foundation grants announced, one of our students Jessica Malcolm won a grant for regional reporting for our Centre for Advancing Journalism publication, The Citizen. She's the only student journalist to have received one of these freelance grants - the rest have gone to established and largely highly experienced freelance reporters. So that's a great result for us at The Citizen. Further details: https://www.walkleys.com//walkley-grants-for-freelance-re/

10.01.2022 Kate Challis RAKA Award The award is now open for applications from Indigenous poets. In 2020, the $20,000 award celebrates the best book of poetry by an Indigenous author published in the preceding five years. The award was established by eminent art and cultural historian Professor Emeritus Bernard Smith. It is named to honour the memory of his late wife, Kate Challis, who was known in her youth as Ruth Adeney. Past winners of the RAKA include screenwriters Steven McGregor and David Tranter (2019), visual artist Yhonnie Scarce (2018), author Alexis Wright (2016) and poet Lionel Fogarty (2015). Deadline: Monday 7 September 2020 Application information: https://scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awar/kate-challis-award

09.01.2022 Webinar: New Romance and the Virtual Return of the Material Obsolete Wed 26 August 1.00pm AEST Bookings: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/ERCC/event/7795... Before the nineteenth century, books in Britain were intensely human objects. For more than three hundred years, making a book involved human beings forging, setting, and inking type; straining on levers to squeeze that type onto paper; and making individual sheets of that paper by hand, out of the clothing people had worn on an everyday basis in the closest possible proximity to their bodies. Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, the book-making professions automated each of the previously manual processes by which books came into being, and the primary component of paper shifted from rags to wood-pulp. As a result, the book as affective, signifying, object was radically reconfigured. While William Morris artisan repudiation of modern printing at the end of the nineteenth century is well known, this talk turns to examine a concomitant yet, I would suggest, theoretically richer resistance to popular industrial publishing from within. More specifically, I argue that early editions of novels such as Treasure Island, King Solomons Mines, and The Lost World three cornerstones of a fin-de-siècle literary movement Michael Saler terms the New Romance work to ameliorate the rupture of industrialisation. They do so, I suggest, by resurrecting material elements of the pre-industrial book in virtual form, through facsimiles of fictional pre-modern maps and other complex visual simulacra that revive a sense of human intimacy within the otherwise-alien landscapes of the modern book and modern literary production. This Seminar is part of the Seeing Double Seminar Series presented by the Pasts and Futures of Virtual Reality Research Group in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) Research Unit

08.01.2022 Don't forget to register for the 2020 Narrm Oration coming up this Thursday For the inaugural online 2020 Narrm Oration, guest speaker Associate Professor M...ichael-Shawn Fletcher will discuss how embedding the Aboriginal world view and notion of Country into mainstream Australia has the potential to benefit the lives and livelihoods of all Australians and our Country. Professor Fletcher is a descendant of the Wiradjuri, Director of Research Capability at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and Assistant Dean (Indigenous) in our Faculty of Science.

06.01.2022 Are you a recent doctoral graduate looking for your next challenge? At UniMelb, we offer the McKenzie Fellowships program, where you can join a lively research... environment that is international and truly public-spirited. Applications for our 2022 program are open now! Please note, if you applied for our 2020 program, your eligibility has been retained and you’re invited to refresh your application.

05.01.2022 Free online seminar Ethics in using digital media in times of crisis 25 May 12noon-1pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au//10377-ethics-in-using-digit As an overarching health and social crisis of our time, COVID-19 has embodied and triggered other equally pressing crises such as social equality and justice and emergency response. Since physical interactions and movement have been limited and even prohibited at times, digital media offers new opportunities fo...r social service organisations to reimagine their approach in responding to these crises and reach the communities they serve. Digital ethics has hence become a prudent and pressing issue for service providers and members of the public. This panel discussion brings together three leading experts in their respective fields, to discuss and reflect on ethics in using digital media in times of crisis. The third session in the Media@UniMelb Seminar Series presented by the Media and Communications program in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts.

05.01.2022 Ever wondered about how to handle Indigenous research data or how to cite Indigenous knowledge holders in research? The Indigenous Knowledge Institute and Libra...ry have just launched the Indigenous Knowledges Research Library Guide to support researchers to undertake ethical research unimelb.me/2H0MRX8 See more

05.01.2022 Webinar Ian Fairweather: Art/Writing Thursday 27 August 1.00pm AEST Bookings: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/australian-centre/event/7738... Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) lived for extended periods in China, Bali and the Philippines before settling on Bribie Island, off the coast of Queensland. Living in a self-made house constructed from bush materials, without water and electricity, Fairweather created works that prompted a leading art critic in 1962 to name him our greatest painter. This talk will draw on research related to Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters (2019) and Fairweather and China (forthcoming) and consider connections between painting, writing, reading, and translation. Speaker: Dr Claire Roberts FAHA is an art historian specialising in modern and contemporary Chinese art and cultural flows between Australia and Asia. Australian Centre Seminar Series

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04.01.2022 We're proud to acknowledge recipients of 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours who are current and former staff members, valued alumni, or special friends and supporters. Tap through for the full list.

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03.01.2022 Signposts: Stories for our Fragile Times Hosted by Professor Alexis Wright, Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/signposts-stories-for-our-fra... Latest episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch

02.01.2022 Peter Blazey Fellowship 2021 The Fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing and is intended to further a work in progress. The prize amount is $15,000 and a residency at the Australian Centre. It was established in 2004 to honour the memory of Peter Blazey - journalist, author and gay activist - and has been made available through the generosity of Clive Blazey and Tim Herbert, brother and partner respectively of Peter Blazey. Deadline: 24 August 2020. More information https://scholarships.unimelb.edu.au//peter-blazey-fellowsh

02.01.2022 Free webinar Naturalised Chinese in colonial Australasia 3 June 4.30pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/ERCC/event/10320... Over the first half of the twentieth century, the nations of New Zealand and Australia did not naturalise Chinese settlers. Before this, however, thousands of Chinese were naturalised across colonial Australasia despite anti-Chinese laws and policies. In this presentation Dr Bagnall will discuss the history of naturalised Chinese and consider how naturalisation case files both individually and collectively can contribute to our understanding of the place of Chinese settlers in the British Australasian world. This seminar will be hosted by Dr Marc Mierowsky. This Seminar is the final in the seminar series on Naturalisation presented by the ERCC and the Australian Centre.

01.01.2022 Free Online Webinar Public broadcasting and quality journalism under siege: the case for a Royal Commission 2021 A.N. Smith Lecture in Journalism presented by The Hon Kevin Rudd AC 15 July 2021 6.30pm-7.30pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/arts/event/10813... Quality public interest journalism is the lifeblood of any true democracy, but Australia’s news industry is plagued by structural decline, disruption and dysfunction. In his 2021 A.N. Smith lecture, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will argue our print media is the most concentrated in the democratic world and is dominated by a self-interested Murdoch monopoly that ruthlessly sows disinformation into public debate and intimidates its critics, chilling free speech. But as wealthier Australians flock to defamation courts, ordinary citizens are stonewalled by toothless regulators. And while corruption is on the rise and extremism on the march, the journalistic profession is shrinking especially in regional communities as commercial priorities drive newsroom decisions. And that’s just for starters. Mr Rudd also contends that instead of working with journalists to tackle these challenges, our national government has embarked on a wholesale assault on our national broadcaster, the ABC. Mr Rudd says Australians should refuse to accept the demise of public interest journalism is inevitable, and reasserts that now is the time for a Royal Commission to ensure Australians can rely on a strong, growing and more diverse media for the future. Arthur Norman Smith was a founder of the Australian Journalists’ Association, served as its first general president and for five years as its general secretary. Thanks to a generous bequest from the Smith family, the prestigious A.N. Smith Lecture in Journalism is presented each year by a leading authority on some aspect of journalism.

01.01.2022 Free online seminar New tastemakers and Australia’s post-digital literary culture: the book as concept Tuesday 22 June 2021 12noon-1pm AEST Registrations: https://events.unimelb.edu.au//10617-new-tastemakers-and-a New tastemakers and Australia’s post-digital literary culture: The book as concept investigates the impact of digital technologies on patterns of taste-making in Australian literary culture. The project examines how engagements with digital publishing and social n...etworking platforms have changed the ways in which Australian literature is produced, distributed and consumed, and addresses the questions of what this means for the future of Australian literature. This seminar presents their book-to-date, chapter-by-chapter on transnational public affairs nonfiction, literary celebrity, the use of big data by publishers, publishers’ networks and marketing practices, and the relationship between literary prizes and social media. This panel discussion brings together five leading experts in their respective fields, to discuss. The fourth session in the Media@UniMelb Seminar Series presented by the Media and Communications program in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts.

01.01.2022 Have you ever wondered just how visual effects artists make movie monsters real? To create just two seconds of film could involve up to 10 people and a few mont...hs of work. On this episode of Eavesdrop on Experts, we chat to alum and special effects artist Genevieve Camilleri about her work and her Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2021 Academy Awards Tap to listen.