News and Events

Past Events

• Thursday 2 July 2026 5pm - 7pm
  Electricity and the devil – A Play
  
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• Wednesday 1 July 2026 10am - 4:30pm
  Scenes Of Instruction And Experience: Teaching Modernism, Modernist Teaching
  
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• 22 June 202626 June 2026
  2026 Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School - Structure and Action: Psychoanalytic Theory Now
  
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• Friday 26 June 2026 4:30pm - 6pm
  Book launch: The Art of Gesture, w. Prof. Andrew Benjamin
  
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• Thursday 25 June 2026 6pm - 7:30pm
  After the Symptom (The Deluge), Assoc Prof. Sigi Jöttkandt
  
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• Tuesday 23 June 2026 6pm - 7:30pm
  Acting in an Apocalypse, Prof. Justin Clemens
  
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• Thursday 4 June 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm
  Ecstatic Corpse: Research-Creation in Bodily Decomposition
  
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• Wednesday 27 May 2026 5:30pm - 6:30pm
  Archiving Architecture, w. Lucy Benjamin
  
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• Thursday 9 April 2026 5:30pm - 7pm
  Book Launch: The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema, w. Nonie May
  
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• Friday 27 March 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  Book Launch: The Search for a Science of Verse, w. Christian R. Gelder
  
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• Friday 27 March 2026 2pm - 3pm
  How (not) to decolonise Marx/ism, w. Terrell Carver
  
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• Tuesday 3 March 2026 11am - 12:30pm
  Panel discussion with the Ngangkari Traditional Healers of Central Australia
  
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• Monday 23 February 2026 3pm - 6pm
  Information/Aesthetics Workshop
  
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• Friday 13 February 2026 10:30am - 4pm
  Jacques Lacan’s “Science and Truth”: 60 Years On
  
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• 9 February 202610 February 2026
  Spinoza Workshop 2026
  
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• Tuesday 10 February 2026 4pm - 5pm
  Are some things (still) unrepresentable?, w. Thao Phan
  
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• Tuesday 16 December 2025 1pm - 2pm
  On the Question of Technology in China revisited: Disorientation in Jia Zhangke’s 'Still Life'
  
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• Thursday 11 December 2025 10am - 6pm
  Points of Departure: Topos, Temporality, Method
  
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• Tuesday 2 December 2025 4pm - 6pm
  Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present w/ Katie Barclay & Diana G. Barnes
  
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• Friday 14 November 2025 9:30am - 5:30pm
  Decolonization and Liberation: Fanon at 100
  
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• Wednesday 12 November 2025 5pm - 6:30pm
  Book Launch: Reading Hegel Irony, Recollection, Critique w. Robert Lucas Scott
  
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• Wednesday 5 November 2025 10am - 1pm
  Digging the Commons: Enacting “Free”
  
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• Thursday 30 October 2025 9:20am - 5:30pm
  A Deleuzian Centenary
  
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• Wednesday 17 September 2025 4:30pm - 6pm
  Ezra Pound’s Malatesta Cantos: From amor mundi to amor fati
  
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• Thursday 14 August 2025 6pm - 8pm
  The Mechanic and the Luddite Book Launch, Jathan Sadowski
  
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• 21 July 202525 July 2025
  Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025: ‘Forms of Life’
  
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• Friday 25 July 2025 4:30pm - 6pm
  Planetary Politics, Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis Book Launch, Lucy Benjamin
  
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• Thursday 24 July 2025 6pm - 7:30pm
  Negation, Negative Dialectics and Utopia: Why Sex Matters, Prof. Claire Colebrook
  
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• Tuesday 22 July 2025 6pm - 7:30pm
  The Poverty of Life: The return of Cynic philosophy in the Age of the Anthropocene, Prof. Vanessa Lemm
  
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• 2 July 2025
  Juliet Mitchell’s "Psychoanalysis and Feminism", 50 years on
  
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• 28 June 202529 June 2025
  Marxist Work Day 2025
  
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• Friday 27 June 2025 5:30pm - 7pm
  Marx's 'Capital'. Hegelian sources - w. Andy Blunden
  
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• Wednesday 25 June 2025 3pm - 4:30pm
  Walter Benjamin, Oscar Wilde, Australia, w. John Schad
  
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• Thursday 19 June 2025 12pm - 2pm
  Our Warrior Film Screening
  
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• Wednesday 18 June 2025 9am - 5pm
  Constitutional Poetics
  
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• Tuesday 13 May 2025 3:30pm - 5pm
  Impossibly Tangled and on Fire, or Reparative Reading for Administrators, w. Ika Willis
  
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• Wednesday 23 April 2025 10am - 11:30am
  Anarchy and Film, Catherine Malabou in conversation
  
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• Tuesday 15 April 2025 3pm - 5pm
  Critical Research and Institutional Redesign: For an Ecological Approach to Human-AI Government Decision-Making
  
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• Thursday 27 March 2025 7pm - 8pm
  Disaster Nationalism: Richard Seymour in conversation with Jeff Sparrow
  
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• 17 February 202518 February 2025
  Spinoza Workshop 2025
  
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• Tuesday 10 December 2024 10am - 4:30pm
  Dividing the Novel: A Symposium
  
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• Monday 18 November 2024 3pm - 4pm
  Writing and Anti-theatricality: The place of the theatrical and the emerging subject in Artaud and Mallarmé, w. Parul Tiwari
  
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• Friday 1 November 2024 3pm - 5pm
  National Liberation Marxism & Western Marxism, Vijay Prashad
  
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• Friday 25 October 2024 10am - 1pm
  Utopian Horizons: Remembering Fredric Jameson
  
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• 8 October 2024
  Inside the Image – Reading 'RINGER'
  
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• Thursday 26 September 2024 9:30am - 5pm
  Rereading Convict Aesthetics
  
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• Friday 9 August 2024 2pm - 4pm
  Changing the Climate
  
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• Thursday 8 August 2024 9am - 5:15pm
  Festschrift: A Celebration of Alexis Wright
  
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• 18 July 202419 July 2024
  Borders as both site and method conference
  
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• 8 July 202412 July 2024
  Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School: Times of Catastrophe
  
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• Thursday 11 July 2024 6pm - 7:30pm
  Times of Catastrophe: How can we act in time?
  
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• Tuesday 9 July 2024 6pm - 7:30pm
  Times of Catastrophe: The Power of Economic Sanctions
  
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• Wednesday 22 May 2024 1pm - 2:30pm
  Autonomy against police power: the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the historical avant-garde w. Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks
  
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• Monday 6 May 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm
  Concrete Archives, Infrastructures of Memory w. Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Redford
  
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• Friday 12 April 2024
  
  CFP - Borders as Both Site and Method Conference, call for papers closes 12 April
  
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• Monday 8 April 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm
  Partisans of the Absolute State: Revolutionary Republicanism, Institutional Warfare, and the Young Hegelian Movement w. Charles Barbour
  
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• Monday 4 March 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm
  'Social Rights, Machines, and Care: Struggles over Working Time in Australia from the 19th Century to the 21st' w. Sean Scalmer
  
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• Tuesday 28 November 2023
  
  All Work, No Play symposium
  
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• Monday 9 October 2023 4:15pm - 5:30pm
  Book Launch - The Power to Assume Form: Cornelius Castoriadis and Regimes of Historicity, Sean McMorrow
  
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• 29 September 202330 September 2023
  The Lessons of Academic English Conference
  
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• 21 September 202322 September 2023
  Marxist Work Day 2023
  
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• Monday 11 September 2023 4:15pm - 5:15pm
  Lived experience expertise, ontological authority and the promise of ‘Woman’ – psychoanalytic reflections on diversity and equity goals in management w. Juliet Rogers
  
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• Monday 7 August 2023 4:15pm - 5:15pm
  Crossroads to Tomorrow: IBM and Third World Dreams of Modernities w. André Dao
  
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• Monday 19 June 2023
  
  CFP - Marxist Work Day 2023, Call for Papers closes 19 June
  
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• Tuesday 13 June 2023 3pm - 8:30pm
  Public Lecture and Poetry Reading with Keston Sutherland
  
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• Monday 5 June 2023 4pm - 5pm
  To Lose Interest in Self-Improvement—or Organisation on Other Terms w Antonia Post
  
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• Monday 1 May 2023 3:30pm - 5pm
  The Teaching of Philosophy and the Life-Death of the Academy: On Canguilhem as Derrida’s ‘philosophical super-ego' w. Chris O'Neill
  
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• 17 March 2023
  Book Launch - Barron Field in NSW: The Poetics of Terra Nullius, Tom Ford and Justin Clemens
  
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• 14 February 202328 February 2023
  Grey, VCA 3rd year Critical Art and Theory Exhibition Part II
  
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• 2 February 202312 February 2023
  Grey, VCA 3rd year Critical Art and Theory Exhibition Part I
  
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• 12 December 2022
  On Management Symposium
  
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• 1 October 2022
  Theorem - Elizabeth Presa
  
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