8-14 September 2025

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Social Sciences After Dark: Disturbing Technology

The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne

RMIT Culture co-presents Social Sciences After Dark: Disturbing Technology, which explores humanity’s deepest anxieties through a horror double bill. This event is the first in the Social Sciences After Dark series, a celebration of the power of film as a window on human society.   First, a story by RMIT alum James Wan: in M3GAN (2022) we meet a grief-stricken girl and the remarkably disturbing doll who becomes her friend. Next, we mark the 40th anniversary of David Cronenberg's classic VIDEODROME (1983), where the disturbing technology is the television signal.   Engage with a panel of diverse social scientists between films for a rousing discussion about our deepest fears of technological change, and the implications for society.    Social Sciences After Dark is a highlight of RMIT’s events marking national Social Sciences Week, convened by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.  It is a RMIT Engaging for Impact event and is supported by the RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms, College of Design and Social Context, College of Business and Law, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, and RMIT Culture.   Moderator: Dr Jessica Balanzategui (Media and Communication, RMIT University) Panellists: Assoc/Prof Jordy Kaufman (Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology) Dr Alexia Kannas (Media […]

$10

Ethnographic Film Night: Horror in the Andes – Between Memories

Virtual

This year’s Social Science Week Ethnographic Film night will feature two short movies: Horror in the Andes and Between Memories by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich. These films present parts of Dietrich’s work in Peru, where, for almost a decade, she has explored the questions of how people create worlds for themselves after violent conflicts and how stories are told about violence and trauma. Horror in the Andes (2020) is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. In this film, Dietrich explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community. Between Memories (2015) is an exploration of the practices of remembering in the shadow of the complex legacies of twenty years of violence and war. In three audio-visual pieces made in collaboration with relatives of the disappeared, insurgents of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and members of the Armed Forces, this documentary creates an on-screen dialogue between memories, which in practice remains elusive. The screening of the two films will begin at […]

Free

UNDERCOVER: The Hidden Faces of Homelessness

RMIT Storey Hall Lecture Theatre, Building 16, Room 016.01.001, Level 1 342-344 Swanston Street, Melbourne

The Homelessness and Housing Insecurity research theme of the Social Equity Research Centre invites you to a screening of the documentary, Undercover, followed by a panel discussion, UNDERCOVER: The Hidden Faces of Homelessness Narrated by Margot Robbie and sharing the often secret lives of an eclectic group of women across Australia, UNDER COVER shines a light on the devastating reality of older women’s experiences of homelessness. UNDER COVER follows ten of these women. For these women, life hasn’t panned out the way they expected. They've lived in nice houses, worked good jobs, educated their children and then suddenly ... life unravelled and through no fault of their own, they found themselves unable to pay their rent or mortgage. The women featured in UNDER COVER, are all over 50, and are a diverse group from varied backgrounds - wealthy, poor, middle class, working, unemployed, migrant and Indigenous. Faced with the hardships of housing stress and ageing, these women are seeking to find a home to call their own, for the final chapter of their lives. Their moving but optimistic portraits reveal the struggles these women face, and lay bare the flaws in our society, as well as our economic fragility in the modern […]