12-20 September 2026
As part of Social Sciences Week 2025, the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wollongong invites you to our flagship panel event, Social Sciences for a Changing World: Housing, Safety, Health, and Country. This panel will feature...
Human Centred AI (HCAI) involves the co-configuration of AI and humans to prioritise human needs, values, capabilities, and wellbeing. It necessarily involves holistic, multi-stakeholder, multi-professional, and multi-disciplinary perspectives. HCAI focuses on...
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...
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...
AI-powered deepfakes and cryptocurrency-related crimes are escalating cyber threats, creating significant challenges for risk management and crime prevention. High-profile cases, such as the $25 million Arup fraud in Hong Kong and the nearly $1.5 billion Bybit hack,...
AI has been lauded as the next technological paradigm shift, yet it has been released to the public with little thought about its impacts on children and child sexual abuse. This panel discussion brings together expert voices from the areas of advocacy, law, policing...
This seminar is hosted by the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Discipline of Sociology & Criminology and Social Sciences Week 2024. Science and technology are embedded in almost every aspect of our daily lives. Yet too often, they are regarded as...
Join us for afternoon tea at RMIT’s Garden Building (City Campus) to discover more about the role digital technology is playing to advance social impact on a global scale. Explore the applications of digital tech for social good Understand how industry is using...
The humanities, arts and social sciences sit with the possibilities and tensions of living with artificial intelligence. Are we entering an era of extraordinary creativity, an explosion in our capacity to conjure ideas, images, and sounds? Are we flourishing with AI?...
With a passion to work more collaboratively, Anthroprospective and the Centre for Native Title Anthropology are teaming up to host two engaging events this September during Social Science Week in Melbourne as a way of encouraging social science academics to engage in...