8-14 September 2025
In this presentation, we provide a demo of the “Umibot” chatbot that we developed for victim-survivors, bystanders and perpetrators of image-based abuse. Drawing on a conceptual approach that embraces intersectional feminism and a feminist data ethics of care, we...
Protecting individuals’ identities is a continual challenge for researchers in the data age, when individuals can be easily identified based on their statements, images, and even their grammatical tendencies in writing or speaking. How can researchers using social...
In this interactive plenary panel, internationally-recognised RMIT experts present a set of provocations around near-future challenges and opportunities based on the converging impacts of continuous digital disruptions. What should societies look like in 2050? How can...
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...
The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) group at James Cook University invites Year 9 students to attend the Futures Thinking workshop. Students will meet and engage with social scientists and learn how AI and social sciences impact our everyday lives.
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...
Body image concerns are unfortunately very common. More than 43 percent of people in Australia are dissatisfied with their physical appearance. Negative body image can lead to extreme dieting, excessive exercise, the pursuit of risky cosmetic surgery, as well as...