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    • SSSWARM Seminar: Linking and layering: On the materiality of locality in Fijian fashion design

    University of Sydney, Room 441, Social Sciences Building, Room 441, Social Sciences Building, Science Road, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    About Sydney Staff and Student Workshops in Anthropology, Research, and Methods (SSSWARM) is a postgraduate workshop series aiming to encourage dialogue and debate on the diversity of ways in which anthropologists understand, use, and reflect on research methods. Description This talk focuses upon the ways in which fashion designers materially negotiate location - from social encounters across local, global and online spaces to ancestral connections and atmospheres – into their cultural practice. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of Fijian fashion designers, I explore the ways in which locality is layered into clothing designs as they move through the phases of […]

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    Exposing the Shark Attack Industrial Complex

    Room 650, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney Science Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Exposing the Shark Attack Industrial Complex will examine and challenge the public's relationship with sharks, the beach, and our own identity. The way social, political, and commercial interests combine to portray all sharks in a one-dimensional manner to generate increased income, tourism, hotel rooms, movie tickets, and political cover will be discussed by Associate Professor Chris Pepin-Neff. Pepin-Neff’s talk comes at a sensitive and emotional time for the local community following a cluster of shark attacks across Australia. This talk is based on the idea that being silent about shark attacks and shark bite prevention has never made anyone safer. […]

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    A Wicked Problem: AI, Copyright and Intellectual Property

    Hybrid: Online and at the University of Queensland St Lucia The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    University of Queensland

    Join the University of Queensland Library for a timely discussion on the current and emerging impacts of artificial intelligence on copyright and intellectual property, as part of our Connected Conversations series. Featuring a series of lightning talks from experts across UQ, followed by an audience Q&A, this hybrid event will examine the opportunities, risks and challenges AI presents for authorship, knowledge ownership and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP). Whether you are curious about emerging technologies, navigating questions of copyright and intellectual property, or interested in how AI is reshaping legal and ethical frameworks, this event offers valuable insights and […]

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    TEDxMelbourne 2026: All Analogue

    The Edge, Federation Square, Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Corner Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    TEDx Melbourne

    As digital technologies continue to reshape how we live, All Analogue explores the enduring value of offline, human-centred living. In an age of constant interruption, choosing where we direct our attention may be one of the most radical acts of all. But attention is only the beginning. Across science, culture, nature and human behaviour, we explore what analogue ways of being continue to offer: opportunities to connect, belong, create, adapt and experience the world around us. Hear from TEDxMelbourne-curated speakers, including: Matt Formston AM, GAICD World champion surfer, Cyclist, and Australian Paralympian I Executive, Optus Matt Formston has built a […]

    TEDxQUT Salon | Navigating AI in the Humanities: a Story of Scepticism, Creativity and Experimentation

    Old Government House, QUT 2 George Street, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

    QUT Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

    Sept 17, 2026 12:00 pm Presented by the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Event Details: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Keynote & Presentations 1:00pm - 1:30pm Complimentary Networking Lunch This TEDxQUT Salon invites you to move beyond the binary question of whether AI is “good” or “bad” and instead explore the more interesting and complicated questions of how, why, and when we choose to use it. Our keynote speaker, Dan McKewen, will share his experience of incorporating AI into his creative practice, drawing on a longstanding relationship between technology and art. From exhibiting art-video work in 2020 to experimenting with […]

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    WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum

    ECU City Campus 500 Wellington St, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

    WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum This event is a part of Social Sciences Week At this inaugural WA Migration Update Spotlight Forum Dr Francesco Ricatti presents his volume “Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways", co-edited with Adonis Piperoglou, which examines the uneasy relationship between ongoing colonial histories and the sovereignty of First Nations peoples. Migration does not happen on empty ground, but on and with deep histories, custodianship and continuing political claims. Dr Ricatti’s presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with leading social scientists in this area. 17 September 5:00-8:00PM AWST CC.1N.500 (ECU CITY CAMPUS Level […]

    19th Annual E.L ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture: Climates of Uncertainty

    Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney Science Road, Sydney, NSW

    University of Sydney

    Please join us for the annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. Guest Speaker: Geoff Mann is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and the author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution, Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism, and Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (with […]

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    E.L ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture: Climates of Uncertainty

    Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building (A02), The University of Sydney Science Road, Sydney, NSW

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    Description The annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia. This year it will take centre stage in the program of the 2026 Social Sciences Week (12-20 September). Guest Speaker Geoff Mann is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and the author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution, Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism, and Climate Leviathan: […]

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    2026 Environmental Policy Lecture: Climate Risk & Response: A Behavioural Challenge?

    Forrest Research Foundation Forrest Hall, 21 Hackett Drive, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    UWA Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy

    The 2026 Environmental Policy Lecture, Climate Risk and Response: A Behavioural Challenge?, is presented by Professor Ben Newell. Climate risk is often broken down into three separate components: physical risks (floods, heatwaves, sea level rise), transition risks (technological and societal adjustments to a low-carbon economy), and liability risks (legal and financial exposures arising from a failure to disclose potential climate-related impacts). Professor Ben Newell will share how coordinating our responses to all three of these components benefits immensely from an improved understanding of behavioural reactions to climate change. Drawing on data from a range of studies examining individual and institutional-level […]

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