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You’re Invited! 50 Years of independence – Reflections on Papua New Guinea

Ngumba-Bada Campus (The Cairns Institute). Bldg D3.063, 14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield

Join us for a special evening to mark 50 years of PNG independence, featuring a film screening from the early election period, panel discussion led by PNG academics based in Gimuy, Cairns and the launch of a new exhibition showcasing PNG memorabilia with stories of nation-builders, challenges, opportunities, and unique cultural artefacts. This is an in-person event located at Ngumba-Bada Campus (The Cairns Institute) Building D3.063, 14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia The Cairns Institute at James Cook University

Can ChatGPT be trusted with our kids?

Virtual

How does GenAI imagine a child? Or an Australian? And why does it matter? Ask generative AI to show you an image of a child and you’ll get a few standard results. But dig deeper and it will reveal how harmful biases can be baked into the core of these tools. In this insightful talk, Curtin University Professor Tama Leaver unpacks how GenAI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT imagine children and how already marginalised groups are being overlooked even in our AI world. He’ll be joined later by Dr Suzanne Srdarov in a panel discussion led by Professor Michele Willson exploring the big challenges in using GenAI safely. This session is for anyone curious about AI and children’s digital experiences – from educators, policy makers, digital professionals, and parents and caregivers looking to better understand the cultural and ethical implications of GenAI in children’s lives. If you can’t make it in person, you can join us online. Please note a link to stream the event will be sent to you via email closer to the date. Light refreshments will be provided.

Free

Join Us for Lunch: Education with Deepfakes, Hallucinations, and Smartglasses

Victoria University Level 14, Room T1416, 370 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Bring your lunch and your curiosity to this provocative, hands-on session designed for educators, researchers, students, and policymakers. Education with Deepfakes, Hallucinations, and Smartglasses invites you to engage with real-world scenarios drawn from global conversations about the future of trust, privacy, and truth in education. Handle smartglasses. Watch a deepfake. Debate a hallucinated report. Together, we’ll explore: A fake video of a student using slurs goes viral—how should schools respond? AI-generated feedback misrepresents a teacher’s intent—who’s accountable? A parent secretly live-streams a student interview—what does consent look like now? This interactive, scenario-based event won't tell you what to think, it will ask you what you’d do. Rather than predicting the future, we’ll interrogate it: surfacing tensions around identity, evidence, and power in an age of synthetic media and surveillance. We’d love to see you there. This event is hybrid. For those wanting to join online, a link will be sent closer to the date after registration. Please note, only those that join us physically are in the running to win a pair of Smart Glasses. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-with-deepfakes-hallucinations-and-smartglasses-tickets-1555076789539

Free