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RMIT is a Partner University and Principal Sponsor of Social Sciences Week

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    • Book Launch: Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies

    Megaflex 3 Building 8, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    Please join us for the launch of Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies. This is the first book which provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant multicultural communities. Come and hear from the editors and authors who not only come from diverse disciplines across humanities, arts and social sciences, and STEM as they reflect on the importance of understanding the complex and nuanced migrant experience, but who are migrants themselves. Prof Catherine Gomes, RMIT University Associate Prof Jing Qi, RMIT University Dr Wilfred Wang, University of Melbourne Dist/Prof Lisa […]

    Empowering Senior Voices: Shaping Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods in City North

    Megaflex 3 Building 8, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    Join us for the launch of the Empowering Senior Voices report, showcasing how older adults in Melbourne's City North precinct used citizen science and participatory research to identify opportunities and challenges for creating more age-friendly neighbourhoods. Drawing on the Stanford Our Voice methodology, the project enabled older residents to document their lived experiences and work collaboratively to develop recommendations for improving inclusion, participation, accessibility, and wellbeing. The event will present key findings and bring together researchers, community members, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how community voices can inform positive social change. Welcome Associate Prof Lauren Gurrieri, RMIT University Lauren Gurrieri […]

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    AI Data Centres: Exploring the Buildings Behind the AI Boom

    The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    AI is here - the genie is out of the bottle. The question now is how we manage its impact and shape a digital future that benefits society. Behind the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is a vast and complex infrastructure network, with data centres playing a critical role in powering the technologies transforming how we live, work and connect. As part of Social Sciences Week, 'AI Data Centres: Exploring the Buildings Behind the AI Boom’ brings together industry, government and academic perspectives to explore the opportunities and challenges of Australia’s digital transformation. The panel will examine how we can […]

    PORCELAIN WAR — an Academy Award Documentary screening

    RMIT Swanston Academic Building (Building 80) Level 1, Room 002 435-457 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    RMIT

    Experience Porcelain War, the Academy Award-nominated documentary and winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary. Filmed amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Porcelain War is a visually extraordinary and deeply human story of Ukrainian resilience, cultural resistance, and the determination to preserve life, identity and creativity in the face of war. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Australian producer Camilla Mazzaferro, RMIT translation teachers and SERC members, exploring the film, its translation, and the role of language in bringing Ukrainian voices to the world.

    Admission is free. Registration is essential as spaces are limited.