HADES Blog
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August: Against erasure – Digital witnessing of the Manus Island Detention Centre
Tuesday 12 August 12pm to 1pm Online via Zoom 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion With Dr Claire Loughnan REGISTER NOW Delve into the intersection of digital humanities, criminology, and memorialisation with the Against Erasure project. Against Erasure is an innovative 3D reconstruction of the Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre preserves the collective knowledge of a controversial chapter in Australia’s immigration history and creates a …
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June: Location in archaeology – How certain are we this thing was there?
Tuesday 10 June 2pm to 3pm Online via Zoom 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion With Dr Sébastien Plutniak REGISTER NOW The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining relevant spatial units, their limits, and the inclusion of remains in these units. This is what is done when an archaeologist states, ‘this pottery sherd was …
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May: Between the space of borders
Monday 12 May 2pm to 3pm Online via Zoom 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion With Dr Jonathan Laskovsky REGISTER NOW Jonathan will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and academic careers. Firstly, he will discuss ideas in relation to what Andrew Benjamin calls border conditions – the particularities at border sites and the way …
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April: How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia
Monday 14 April 2pm to 3pm Online via Zoom 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion With Michael Falk, Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti REGISTER NOW In 2024, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive those representations. Examining 35,000 articles about Australian places and interviewing volunteer editors, we found that English Wikipedia reflects an …
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Play and Immersion as Method
When: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEDT Speakers: Dr. Andrew Yip Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom REGISTER NOW We live in a post-digital world in which physical and social spaces are hybrid spaces and born digital artefacts themselves have become significant cultural objects with complex lives and afterlives. The affordances of the post-digital world give us new ways to …
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Decentering Ethics with AI Art
When: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM AEST Speakers: Dr. Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K. Sunde Format: 30 minute presentation & 30 minute open discussion via Zoom REGISTER NOW How do artists and cultural institutions shape thought and action in the space of soft ethics? How can we think a more decentered ethical approach that considers non- human agents with AI Art? Will AI soon need some …
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Resources for colours in research outputs
Welcome! Thanks for joining us at HADES today. Our speakers today are Amanda Belton and Usha Nata from Melbourne Data Analytics Platform. They are excited to be talking about colours in visual research outputs that include cartography, data visualisations and information designs. If you want to dig into some colourful context here is their curated selection of resources and references. Go …
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Negative digital urbanism
Negative digital urbanism Thursday, 17 November 2022, 2.30pm – 3.30pm With A/Prof David Bissell Online via Zoom Register now Abstract On-demand digital platforms are shaping processes of urbanisation by transforming governance processes, worker subjectivities and consumption practices. However, claims about such transformations risk ignoring the diverse and often underspecified ways that evaluations about platform urbanism are being made. This paper grapples with our incapacities to know …