ERCC public lectures and research seminars Semester 2, 2019 program

ERCC and Critique, Creativity, and Innovation research network public lecture and research seminar program for Semester 2, 2019 launched

Public lectures and research seminars (Semester 2, 2019)

Week 1

Week 2

  • Date: Wednesday 7 August, 6.15 - 7.30pm - Public Lecture
  • Presenter: Genevieve Bell (Director of 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair (ANU))
  • Title: "Decolonising Artificial Intelligence?"
  • Location: Forum Theatre, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 3

  • Date: Tuesday 13 August, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Book Launch
  • Presenter: Peter Otto (University of Melbourne)
  • Title: "William Blake - 21st Century Oxford Authors"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 4

  • Date: Monday 19 August, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenters: Clare Newton, Jenny Waycott and Peter Otto (Co-Leaders of the Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Research Initiative)
  • Panel talk: "Spaces for creativity: imagination, virtual reality and the built environment"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 5

  • Date: Thursday 29 August, 6.15 - 7.30pm - Public Lecture
  • Presenter: Rita Felski (University of Virginia and University of Southern Denmark)
  • Title: "Hooked: Art and Attachment"
  • Location: Theatre 3 (Room 205), Business & Economics, 111 Barry Street

Week 6

  • Date: Monday 2 September, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenter: Ronan McDonald (University of Melbourne)
  • Title: "Kind Pessimism: Reflections on Cynicism"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 7

Week 8

  • Date: Tuesday 17 September, 4:30 – 6:00pm - Seminar
  • Presenters: Stephen Bending (University of Southampton) and Jennifer Milam (University of Melbourne)
  • Title: 'Transatlantic Gardens circa 1800'
  • Location: Linkway, Level 4, John Medley Building (Building 191)
  • Date: Friday 20 September, Full Day Conference
  • Title: "Writing/Reading/Rioting: Revolution, Reaction and Political Violence from the Eighteenth Century to Today"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 9

  • Date: Tuesday 24 September, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenter: David Bourchier (University of Western Australia)
  • Title: “State as Family: Romanticism and National Identity in Indonesia”
  • Location: The Japanese Room, Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design) (133)

Non-teaching week, 30 Sept - 4 Oct

Week 10

  • Date: Tuesday 8 October, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenter: Mark Davis (University of Melbourne)
  • Title: "Against Enlightenment: online anti-publics and post-normative democracy"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 11

  • Date: Tuesday 15 October, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenter: Nikki Hessell (Victoria University, NZ)
  • Title: "Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Week 12

  • Date: Tuesday 22 October, 4.30 - 6.00pm - Seminar
  • Presenter: Marc Mierowsky (University of Melbourne)
  • Title: '"Daniel Defoe and the Naturalization of Refugees"
  • Location: Research Lounge, Arts West (Building 148)

Download the Semester 2, 2019 program information

Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson of Humphry Davy lecturing at the Surrey Institution

Image: Chemical Lectures, Thomas Rowlandson (c. 1810)

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