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Tuesday 15 November 2022
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November 15 – Collective Unease

15
Nov
10:00am – 3:00pm 15 November – 21 July Weekly (to Jun 2)
Collective Unease
Exhibition

• Museums & Collections
Collective Unease is a bold exhibition of three new commissions inspired by the University of Melbourne’s students, archives and collections. The three works, by artists Andy Butler , Lisa Hilli and James Nguyen , move beyond colonial narratives to a complex, multi-voiced …
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November 15 – Swarm

15
Nov
11:00am Weekly (to Dec 3)
Swarm
Exhibition

• Museums & Collections
Are we hardwired to be part of the pack?

 

Enter SWARM, a space that uncovers the very essence of human behaviour and questions what drives us to be social.

There are more of us now than ever before – 7.9 billion people across the entire globe – with …
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November 15 – Gregory Burgess: From the Coalface

15
Nov
All Day
Gregory Burgess: From the Coalface
Exhibition

• University Library
Gregory Burgess: From the Coalface celebrates the donation of the archive of Gregory Burgess Architects to the University of Melbourne’s Archives and Special Collections. This acquisition of more than four decades of drawings, plans, models and concept sketches from the practice of one of Australia’s premier architects will be the first of our architectural collections to …
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November 15 – Teachers using innovative learning spaces well (The ILETC Project)

15
Nov
1:00pm – 5:30pm 15 November – 16 November
Teachers using innovative learning spaces well (The ILETC Project)
Conference or Symposium

• Melbourne Graduate School of Education
What do we know about helping teachers to use innovative learning spaces well?

Four years of intensive research in the ILETC project (Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change) has built an extensive body of evidence, strategies, and resources.

This event will share those findings, and identify the ‘what’s next’ – …
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November 15 – Artworks that broke the mould

15
Nov
All Day
Artworks that broke the mould
Other

• Faculty of Arts
The average gallery-goer only lingers for 27 seconds when they look at a work of art. Does our haste to absorb everything mean we actually leave with less than we’d like?

Learn to look deeper in this online video series for art-lovers with short attention spans. Explore items from the NGV’s permanent …
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November 15 – Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration: Harnessing technology to advance gender equality

15
Nov
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Ninian Stephen Law Program Oration: Harnessing technology to advance gender equality
Other

• Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE)
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) warmly invites you to the second Oration of the Ninian Stephen Law Program: New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies .

This program   is a four-year initiative at the University of Melbourne, proudly supported by the Menzies Foundation.

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November 15 – ‘Our Mothers’ Land’: environmental resistance in Indonesia

15
Nov
6:30pm – 8:30pm
‘Our Mothers’ Land’: environmental resistance in Indonesia
Film Screening

• Faculty of Arts
Join us for a screening and discussion of Our Mothers’ Land (dir. Leo Plunkett. 2020) and Samin vs Semen (dir. Dandhy Dwi Laksono 2015) in the second week of screenings in the ‘ Contemporary Film as a Platform for Democracy in Indonesia ’ series produced in partnership between Screening Ideas, the Asia Institute …
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Thursday 17 November 2022

November 17 – Talking Spaces 10

17
Nov
9:00am – 5:00pm 17 November – 18 November
Talking Spaces 10
Conference or Symposium

• Melbourne Graduate School of Education
After a two-year COVID break, Talking Spaces finally returns!

Since LEaRN began, we’ve built this popular event into a tradition, facilitating great conversations between designers, researchers, and educators.

Talking Spaces 10 will include influential speakers, specialist sessions, discussion panels, site visits, and informal networking opportunities, hosted at venues …
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November 17 – Coming to Power, Learning to Govern and Gathering Momentum, 1943-1954

17
Nov
9:30am – 1:00pm 17 November – 18 November
Coming to Power, Learning to Govern and Gathering Momentum, 1943-1954
Conference or Symposium

• Robert Menzies Institute
To fulfil our mission to foster research into academic discussion on Menzies, the Robert Menzies Institute is hosting a series of four annual conferences bringing together historians and other thinkers to develop a collection of papers which will make a major contribution to the existing historiography on Menzies and the Menzies era. Once published in four volumes by …
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November 17 – Book Launch – The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942

17
Nov
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Book Launch – The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942
Launch

• Robert Menzies Institute
Join the Robert Menzies Institute on Thursday 17 November 2022 to celebrate the launch of our first book The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942.

About The Book

The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 explores the formative period of Menzies’s life, when his personal outlook …
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November 17 – Validation of Einstein’s General Relativity: the centennial of an Australian scientific achievement 

17
Nov
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Validation of Einstein’s General Relativity: the centennial of an Australian scientific achievement 
Public Lecture

• School of Physics
School of Physics UoM and Royal Society of Victoria Presents – Validation of Einstein’s General Relativity: the centennial of an Australian scientific achievement

In 1922, the path of a total solar eclipse crossed the central part of Australia, presenting the first opportunity to validate Eddington’s claims that Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity …
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Friday 18 November 2022

November 18 – Food and Society: Latin America, Iberia, and Australia

18
Nov
9:00am – 8:00pm
Food and Society: Latin America, Iberia, and Australia
Conference or Symposium

• Faculty of Arts
This interdisciplinary one-day Conference is designed to cover a wide range of issues relating to the crucial subject of food as it applies to Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and Australia. Topics include food’s connections to history, food security, environment & climate change, migration, culture, cuisine, media, business, politics, and development. The Conference is designed to bring together, academics …
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November 18 – MSDx Summer 2022

18
Nov
9:00am – 5:00pm 18 November – 2 December
MSDx Summer 2022
Exhibition

• Melbourne School of Design
MSDx Summer is on! Discover what’s happening at the Melbourne School of Design, as it transforms into a multi-floor gallery showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by our talented students in one of Australia’s largest design exhibitions.

MSDx illustrates the quality and diversity of output …
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November 18 – designX 2022

18
Nov
10:00am – 5:00pm 18 November – 2 December
designX 2022
Exhibition

• Melbourne School of Design
designX is the inaugural Bachelor of Design graduate showcase, celebrating the work produced by students in the capstone subject. 

The designX showcase will take over Level 4 of the Glyn Davis Building, with innovative and inspiring designs on display from students in Architecture, Civil Engineering Systems, Computing, Construction, Digital Infrastructure Engineering …
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Tuesday 22 November 2022

November 22 – Contemporary film as a platform for democracy in Indonesia: gender, human rights and the environment

22
Nov
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Contemporary film as a platform for democracy in Indonesia: gender, human rights and the environment
Training or Workshop

• Asia Institute
A one-day online workshop with experts and filmmakers

*attendance is limited. Please contact Edwin Jurriens: edwin.jurriens@unimelb.edu.au

One of the commonly acknowledged achievements of the post-1998 process of democratic reform or Reformasi in Indonesia has been the increased freedom of expression including media freedom. However, the post-New …
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November 22 – 2022 MAP Demo Day

22
Nov
5:30pm – 8:00pm
2022 MAP Demo Day
Other

• Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre
MAP’s annual Demo Day is a platform for the 11 outstanding MAP Accelerator teams to share their progress, their milestones and most importantly, share their incredible stories. For the first time in three years, the event is live and in-person!

From an online marketplace connecting musicians to influencers to promote music …
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November 22 – Building Better Biosecurity in the Wake of a Global Pandemic

22
Nov
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Building Better Biosecurity in the Wake of a Global Pandemic
Public Lecture

• Faculty of Science
In the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the world has woken up to the importance of biosecurity and the need to manage international borders. Yet strong sectorial identities exist within biosecurity that are associated with specific international standards, individual economic interests, specific research communities, and unique stakeholder involvement. Despite considerable research addressing human, animal, plant, and environmental …
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November 22 – In conversation with Ben van Berkel from UNStudio

22
Nov
6:30pm – 7:30pm
In conversation with Ben van Berkel from UNStudio
Public Lecture

• Melbourne School of Design
Please join us for the next MSD Public Lecture with special guest Ben van Berkel, Co-Founder and Principal Architect at UNStudio.

Since its inception, UNStudio has been known as a speculative practice, producing real-world projects through the means of research, experimentation, testing, and conceptual frameworks.

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November 22 – ‘Lukas’ Moment’: human rights and social justice in Indonesia

22
Nov
6:30pm – 8:30pm
‘Lukas’ Moment’: human rights and social justice in Indonesia
Film Screening

• Faculty of Arts
Join us for a screening and discussion of Lukas’ Moment (dir. Aryo Danusari, 2005) and a trio of animated short documentaries (dir. Kartika Pratiwi/ AJAR 2019, 2021) in the third week of screenings in the ‘ Contemporary Film as a Platform for Democracy in Indonesia ’ series produced in partnership between Screening Ideas , the …
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Wednesday 23 November 2022

November 23 – The history, place and future of the imagination

23
Nov
11:00am – 12:30pm
The history, place and future of the imagination
Public Lecture

• Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture
Richard Kearney’s work traverses the relationships between imagination, narrative, and embodiment in their myriad interconnected ways from the most loving and sacred to the most carnal and even cruel.

Professor Kearney’s public lecture will concentrate on the fate of embodiment, touch and the contemporary imagination, especially in the face of our current digital age. He invites …
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November 23 – Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation

23
Nov
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation
Seminar or Forum

• Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Panel Discussion: Young people and immunisation – exploring the issues when parental consent is absent or contested

About this event

Existing law, policies and programs underpin Australia’s high level of childhood immunisation. However, access to vaccination for young people under 18 years of age …
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November 23 – Melbourne Classics Quiz

23
Nov
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Melbourne Classics Quiz
Other

• Faculty of Arts
Friends, Romans, Melbournians, lend me your minds!

Think you know your per se from your id est ? Can you spot the difference between a nymph and a muse? Join us for the fifth Melbourne Classics Quiz and find out!

The quiz is back, live and in-person at University …
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Thursday 24 November 2022
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November 24 – 2022 VCA Art Grad Show

24
Nov
11:00am – 5:00pm Daily (to Dec 1)
2022 VCA Art Grad Show
Exhibition

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
To register for the Opening on 23 November, please click here .

The VCA Art Grad Show is one of Melbourne’s landmark cultural events, showcasing our graduating Undergraduate, Honours and Masters students in one, combined exhibition.

Spread across the Art Studios, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, the Stables …
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November 24 – 2022 Narrm Oration – Truth, Understanding, Transformation: laying the foundations for change

24
Nov
5:00pm – 6:30pm
2022 Narrm Oration – Truth, Understanding, Transformation: laying the foundations for change
Public Lecture

• Provost
The Narrm Oration is the University’s key address profiling leading Indigenous peoples from across the world in order to enrich our ideas about possible futures for Indigenous Australia. The 2022 Narrm Oration will be delivered by Professor Eleanor Bourke AM, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission and is titled:

Truth, Understanding, Transformation: laying the …
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November 24 – Seeds of Change with Tiahni Adamson: Hugh DT Williamson Lecture 2022

24
Nov
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Seeds of Change with Tiahni Adamson: Hugh DT Williamson Lecture 2022
Public Lecture

• Science Gallery
Join us for an electrifying address by Tiahni Adamson for Science Gallery Melbourne’s annual Hugh DT Williamson Lecture.

“Climate change is the biggest threat facing the survivability of everything that exists on planet Earth. It can be easy to feel disempowered and frustrated during these times, however, grassroots movements and the power of …
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Friday 25 November 2022

November 25 – Why are wet soils in wetlands so different?

25
Nov
6:00pm – 7:15pm
Why are wet soils in wetlands so different?
Public Lecture

• Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
Wetlands are important ecosystems, hosting critical habitats and diverse species. The soils which support these ecosystems are highly dynamic environments, acting as sinks for carbon, and playing a critical role in the cycling of greenhouse gases, nutrients, and biogeochemical processes at the intersection of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Coastal wetland soils …
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Monday 28 November 2022

November 28 – The world in artists’ colonies

28
Nov
9:30am – 5:00pm 28 November – 30 November
The world in artists’ colonies
Conference or Symposium

• School of Culture and Communication
Models for writing art history range between globalised studies, national, regional or local histories, and the enduring individual monograph. None of these fully accommodate the artists’ colony. Colonies historically attract artists from elsewhere, of differing nationalities, brought together in a single geo-spatial frame, they may cohere owing to the appeal of a particular ‘master’, or location renowned for …
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Tuesday 29 November 2022

November 29 – Future forward: emerging artists now

29
Nov
6:00pm – 7:15pm
Future forward: emerging artists now
Public Lecture

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
This free talk is part of the VCA Director’s Dialogue series , hosted by VCA Director Emma Redding.

What are the pathways of learning, research and practice for emerging artists? How can the VCA remain globally relevant and recognise its context, locality and history of traditional owners? How can the art institute …
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Wednesday 30 November 2022

November 30 – Indigenous Knowledge Institute (IKI) Intersections Symposium

30
Nov
10:30am – 4:15pm
Indigenous Knowledge Institute (IKI) Intersections Symposium
Conference or Symposium

• Indigenous Knowledge Institute
Join the Indigenous Knowledge Institute as we explore the relationships between music, dance, and lore through multidisciplinary panel discussions.

This online symposium is being held within the National Recording Project for Indigenous Music and Dance in Australia’s (NRPIPA) 21st Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance and the International Council for Traditional Music’s (ICTM) inaugural Symposium …
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Monday 5 December 2022

December 5 – Practitioner reflections (Peacebuilding Perspectives conversation series)

5
Dec
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Practitioner reflections (Peacebuilding Perspectives conversation series)
Seminar or Forum

• Faculty of Arts
Practitioner reflections on moving from humanitarian to peacebuilding perspectives

This event involves Dr Tania Miletic in conversation with Denise Nichols, exploring her reflections on the past two years as a Practitioner Affiliate with the Initiative for Peacebuilding, building from decades experience in humanitarian work.
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December 5 – The Peter Hall Lecture 2022 – Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)

5
Dec
6:00pm – 7:00pm
The Peter Hall Lecture 2022 – Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)
Public Lecture

• School of Mathematics and Statistics
The School of Mathematics and Statistics is proud to invite you to the 2022 Peter Hall Lecture in Probability and Statistics:

Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)

The lecture will be delivered by J. S. Marron , from the Department of Statistics and O.R., University of North Carolina. 

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Wednesday 7 December 2022

December 7 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7
Dec
7:00pm – 10:00pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performance

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written by William Shakespeare
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Directed by Jane Davidson
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Thursday 8 December 2022

December 8 – Biomimetic Materials: Curiosity-driven research to next-generation of sustainable and biomedical materials

8
Dec
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Biomimetic Materials: Curiosity-driven research to next-generation of sustainable and biomedical materials
Public Lecture

• Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Nature’s materials – from butterfly wings to snail mucus – are time-tested and honed by natural selection to fulfill every purpose. Drawing inspiration from nature holds enormous promise for developing the next generation of sustainable materials.

Discover the next generation of marine organism-inspired sustainable and biomedical materials from Professor Ali Miserez, leader …
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December 8 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8
Dec
7:00pm – 10:00pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performance

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written by William Shakespeare
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Directed by Jane Davidson
Conducted by Richard Davis

Benjamin Britten’s stunning adaptation of …
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Friday 9 December 2022

December 9 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

9
Dec
7:00pm – 10:00pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performance

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written by William Shakespeare
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Directed by Jane Davidson
Conducted by Richard Davis

Benjamin Britten’s stunning adaptation of …
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Saturday 10 December 2022

December 10 – Composer Symposium: The Art of Composition

10
Dec
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Composer Symposium: The Art of Composition
Seminar or Forum

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
A discussion panel of five leading jazz artists discussing their compositional processes featuring Nadje Noordhuis (NY), Sandy Evans (SYD), Andrea Keller, Barney McAll and Sam Anning , moderated by Miriam Zolin .

Presented by the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival in collaboration with major partner the Melbourne Conservatorium of …
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December 10 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

10
Dec
7:00pm – 10:00pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performance

• Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written by William Shakespeare
Composed by Benjamin Britten
Directed by Jane Davidson
Conducted by Richard Davis

Benjamin Britten’s stunning adaptation of …
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