Event Program 2016 - UniSA · 2018-11-08 · Our flagship event for 2016 is JOHN FOXX – founder of the legendary British electronic band Ultravox, pioneering visual artist and experimental

Hawke Research InstituteEvent Program 2016

The 2016 Public Events Program at the Hawke Research Institute (HRI) is one resolutely focused on ideas, innovation and international collaborations. And what a program it is!

Celebrated geographer and cultural theorist Sir Nigel Thrift, internationally acclaimed visual artist John Foxx, and British politician Baroness Janet Royall are just some of the major speakers at our diverse mix of public events that engage national, regional and global issues from a variety of perspectives.Our flagship event for 2016 is JOHN FOXX – founder of the legendary British electronic band Ultravox, pioneering visual artist and experimental ambient musician. Foxx will be in Australia for a series of events – where he will perform live – for the Hawke Research Institute and at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart. In partnership with the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations (Hawke EU Centre) and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre (Hawke Centre), we are also delighted to present Europe After The Rain – Foxx’s first visual art exhibition in Australia, to be held at the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery in July. The Hawke Research Institute Annual Lecture is delivered by SIR NIGEL THRIFT, who will speak on the future of cities in an age of advanced globalisation. Thrift is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s top geographers, and his work has impressively sought to grapple with the problems of urban life and cities as they are transformed by new information communications and digital technologies. Professor Thrift will be visiting the HRI as a UniSA Distinguished Lecturer for 2016 and will work closely with our PhD students and ECR’s during the period of his visit, including a Masterclass.

Another highlight is PROFESSOR JUDY WAJCMAN’s visit to the HRI. Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics, and a leading analyst of changes in technology and society. She will be a keynote speaker at our Workshop on robotics, artificial intelligence and the future of employment, sponsored by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). She will also appear In Conversation, addressing questions about technology and the pressures of our fast paced social lives.We conclude 2016 with the Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture delivered by BARONESS JANET ROYALL. Looking at the challenges of the 21st century, Baroness Royall will consider afresh the future of Europe and possible pathways for the European Union. This Lecture is followed by the Hawke EU Centre Summit, which addresses the challenges of migration and the role of research in developing more equitable outcomes for people in conditions of super-diversity.As ever, many thanks to our collaborative partners this year – the Museum of Old and New Art, the Academy for the Social Sciences in Australia; the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art; the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations; and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.I look forward to seeing you at these exciting events this year.

Professor Anthony ElliottDirector, Hawke Research InstituteExecutive Director, Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations

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Welcome from the Director

Front cover image: John Foxx, Cathedral Oceans, Photograph, 2016.

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PUBLIC EVENT

Truth Really is Stranger than Fiction In Conversation with the Author of ‘The Convict’s Daughter’‘Truth really is stranger than fiction. A youthful and intrepid heroine makes a daring escape down a drainpipe, pursued by her outraged father and disappointed by her down-at-heel, gentleman lover. The Convict’s Daughter contains all the elements of melodrama or farce: love divided, love betrayed, and love triumphant. Hardest of all to believe is that these events actually occurred, in a period of Australia’s history often dismissed as dull – and that no historian or novelist has ever before done them justice.’ Professor Penny Russell, University of Sydney

ABC Adelaide’s Sonya Feldhoff will appear in conversation with author and historian Kiera Lindsey to discuss how the author’s controversial ancestor came to be at the very heart of this wildly improbable colonial drama.

Kiera Lindsey is an award-winning historian who has worked in Australian film and television. She lectures in Australian History at the University of South Australia and was recently awarded the 2015 Hawke Research Institute Fellowship.

Sonya Feldhoff is host of the Afternoon program weekdays on 891 ABC Radio Adelaide.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Hawke Research Institute, as part of the InConversation Series and supported by South Australia’s History Festival..

Tuesday 3 May

6.00pm

Bradley Forum

Level 5, Hawke Building, City West Campus

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Mobility is a basic principle of modernity, and from whose contradictions no one can escape. Mobilities are everywhere, from the earliest days of childhood to the lives of jet-setting global elites. From the body to the globe, the daunting task for the ‘mobile risk society’ is to find sustainable forms, policies and paths to master the destructive, the exhaustive and the apocalyptic energy that hypermobile capitalist ways of living, working and producing enfold.

Against the background of earlier research on mobility pioneers, this Masterclass discusses the potential for research on (aero)mobilities pioneers 2.0. While in the early 2000s ‘virtual mobilities’ and the current normality of aeromobilities sounded like music from the future, contemporary mobility systems and regimes become increasingly grounded on these.

Sven Kesselring is Professor of ‘Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities’ at Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Pioneering (Aero)mobilities Masterclass by Professor Sven Kesselring

Monday 23 May

2.00pm

Council Room


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Airports have long bridged populations and places, but today the contemporary airport experience is ‘global’ as never before. Thanks to globalisation, privatisation and the advent of a new business budget model for many airlines, the transformation of airports is one involving frequent flyer programmes, business lounges, five-star transit hotels, adventure parks, business conference rooms, cinemas, health clubs and much more.

This Workshop will address how airports, airspaces and airport cities are increasingly central to the development of the contemporary global order, one involving multiple mobilities based upon both freely-chosen forms of travel and patterns of enforced movement. Participants will address how airports blend different kinds of mobility through detailed appraisal of Australasian and European perspectives on international air traffic.

Participation at the workshop is by invitation only.

Life in the Sky Comparing EU and Australasian Perspectives on Aeromobilities and Global Airports

24 – 25 May

9.00am daily

Council Room


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EXHIBITION

This exhibition, from visual artist and pioneer of electronic music John Foxx, focuses on the complex interplay between identity, memory, architecture, and time and place. The images made from photographs and found objects were gathered over a period of around thirty years by Foxx in his travels across Britain and Europe.

Here is the subtext of the modern European world - the overlooked, forgotten, neglected and unnoticed. A palimpsest of images, from Rome to the east end of London, abandoned Manchester factories to prehistoric settlements in the south of France, incorporating statuary, ruins, overgrown gardens and once familiar objects worn and altered by time and weather.

Europe After The Rain presents no less than a critique of oblique identities – glimpses of a world hiding in plain sight, populated by the forgotten, the lost and the melancholic – largely unnoticed, yet ever present in the European industrial cities of today.

Europe After the Rain An Exhibition by John Foxx

13 July – 5 August

9.00am – 5.00pm weekdays (late Thursday)

Kerry Packer Civic Gallery


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Founder and original lead singer in Ultravox, John Foxx has enjoyed a remarkable musical career stretching from work with Brian Eno and Conny Plank to Harold Budd and The Belbury Circle. His first two solo albums from the 1980s, ‘Metamatic’ and ‘The Garden’, were foundational to British electronic and synthpop - inspiring artists across the decades from Gary Numan and Depeche Mode to Moby and Blur.

At once cult hero and enigmatic outsider, John Foxx joins HRI Director Anthony Elliott to reflect on his ground-breaking music from Ultravox to his current solo work, his time working in the music industry where his recording studio in East London included such famous clients as The Cure and Tina Turner, his work as an artist and time as a student at the Royal College of Art, as well as his experimental forays in film and cinema. The conversation includes live performances by Foxx.

The Quiet Man An Evening with John Foxx

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PUBLIC EVENT

Hobart event only

Wednesday 27 July

7.00pm

Bradley Forum


Admission $20.00

Hawke at MONAThe Hawke Research Institute has partnered with the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) to deliver an encore performance of THE QUIET MAN in Hobart on Friday 29 July 2016.

For more information, visit mona.net.au/what’s-on/events

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PUBLIC EVENT

Monday 1 August

11.00am

Council Room


In the context of new technologies, the digital divide that characterised the early days of computers and mobile phones has ended. Women today are equal users of digital devices and social media. So is there still a need for a feminist analysis of technology?

In this Masterclass, Professor Wajcman will examine the extent to which technical expertise is still marked by gender stereotypes and how the apparently neutral internet and even algorithms reflect mainstream values and culture.

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

From Gender and Technology to Feminist Technoscience Masterclass by Professor Judy Wajcman

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Monday 1 August

6.00pm

Bradley Forum


Technologies are not neutral tools that emerge independently of society. Rather, their design and use reflect as much as they shape the society which invents those technologies. So what does our contemporary fascination with digital gadgets and robotics tell us about our culture? How does this fascination reflect our perception of relationships between humans and machines?

Appearing in conversation with HRI Director, Professor Anthony Elliott, Professor Wajcman will examine the ways in which digital technologies enable us to complete tasks faster and more efficiently, notwithstanding the common lamentation that the pace of everyday life is too fast and spiralling out of control. Professor Wajcman will argue that there is no temporal logic inherent in technologies. It is we who build and design them for all-too-human purposes and desires.

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Siri, Why am I so Busy? In Conversation with Professor Judy Wajcman

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Hawke Research Institute, as part of the InConversation Series.




2 – 3 August

Council Room


From self-driving cars to drones, and from robot pets to digital ‘love machines’: robotics and artificial intelligence are transforming the world as we know it and radically. Against the backdrop of a tsunami of technological change, some analysts predict that up to 50% of jobs are likely to go to robots and artificial intelligence during the next two decades.

This Workshop, held at the Hawke Research Institute and sponsored by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts from different disciplinary backgrounds to explore the social implications of robotics and artificial intelligence on work, employment and unemployment. The Workshop aims to strengthen Australia’s research capacity regarding the digital capability and skills of Australian citizens to compete in a global economy shaped by technological automation.

Participation at the workshop is by invitation only.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Employment

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Tuesday 9 August

2.00pm

GK2-15

Level 2, Sir George Kingston Building, City West Campus

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The ‘digital humanities’ are growing rapidly into what some feel will become the dominant methodology of the current generation of scholars, and what others interpret as a distraction, or indeed an outright threat, to humanistic traditions of knowledge creation.

In this masterclass, Dr Jennifer Edmond will introduce the basic definitions and approaches of digital humanities, including some of the real opportunities and threats the ‘digital turn’ in scholarship may pose.

Jennifer Edmond is Director of Strategic Projects in the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.

How is Technology Changing Humanities Research? Masterclass by Dr Jennifer Edmond



In this Masterclass, Sir Nigel Thrift – widely hailed as one of the world’s top geographers – will discuss “non-representational theory”. This is an approach to the social sciences pioneered by Thrift which seeks to shift social science away from traditional notions of scholarly reflection and contemplative forms of social thought and instead towards the unprocessual elements of social practice.

The Masterclass is a wide-ranging introduction to Thrift’s work on global finance, cities and political life, the spatial and temporal constitution of social life and affective politics – and will be of interest to students and academics working in the social sciences, humanities and beyond.

Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, DL, FBA, FACSS is one of the world’s leading human geographers and social scientists. Most recently, Professor Thrift was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick.

Join us for Experimenta Recharge, a conversation with Professor Ross Gibson and Professor Nikos Papastergiadis centred on ideas raised by the 6th International Biennial of Media Art: Experimenta Recharge, an exhibition at Samstag Museum. Featuring Australian and international artists who employ, critique and experiment with media and technology, Recharge asks: does knowledge change when presented across technologies and cultural contexts? Can artists illuminate knowledge for new generations? Can art lead us to new modes of consciousness?

Ross Gibson is Centenary Professor of Creative & Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. Previously the Creative Director for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, he was a Senior Consultant Producer during the Museum of Sydney’s development.

Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, and having provided cultural identity consultancies for government agencies and collaborated with artists and theorists of international repute throughout his career.


Thursday 1 September

5.00pm

Samstag Museum of Art

Hawke Building, City West Campus

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Wednesday 21 September

2.00pm

Council Room


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Experimenta Recharge An Exhibition Floor Talk

Image aboveAnaisa FRANCO, Paranoia, 2010, reactive sculpture, 15.0 x 11.0 x 20.0 cm. Image © the artist, courtesy Experimenta Media Arts and RMIT Gallery. Photograph by Mark Ashkanasy.

Non-representational Theory: Performative, Embodied and Affective Knowledge Masterclass by Professor Sir Nigel Thrift

EXHIBITION



Throughout cities of the world today, an explosion in digital information and communications technology is producing a profusion of data as never before. Supercomputers, artificial intelligence, big data, social media – cities are becoming sentient.

In this provocative lecture, one of the world’s leading geographers examines what kinds of technological practices are becoming commonplace in cities today. Professor Sir Nigel Thrift reconsiders what a city which is aware of itself might look like, and what this means for our lives in the twenty-first century. According to Thrift, the advent of a global informational overlay across cities - touchscreens, virtual landscapes, location tagging, augmented realities - is, in turn, creating a new spatial awareness with major consequences for how we understand our relations to ourselves, others and the wider world.

Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, DL, FBA, FACSS is one of the world’s leading human geographers and social scientists. Most recently, Professor Thrift was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick.

Hawke Across the RegionsThe Hawke Research Institute has partnered with The University of Melbourne’s EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges to present THE SENTIENT CITY at The University of Melbourne on Thursday 22 September at 6.00pm.

For more information, visit eucentre.unimelb.edu.au/events/the-sentient-city

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The Sentient City Hawke Research Institute Annual Distinguished Lecture by Professor Sir Nigel Thrift

PUBLIC EVENT

Wednesday 28 September

6.00pm

Bradley Forum



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Since the European Economic Community (EEC) was established in 1957, the countries of the European Union and the world as a whole have changed exponentially. But the values which underpin the European Union have not changed.

For the Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture, Baroness Royall argues that the values of the European Union have assumed greater importance as we seek global solutions to the challenges of the 21st century.

Baroness Janet Royall of Blaisdon PC was Leader of the House of Lords and a member of the British Cabinet under UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Administration. As Leader of the Lords (2008-2010), she held the titles of Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. She has been strongly committed to the advancement of the European project, and has served as Secretary General of the British Labour Group in the European Parliament and as Head of the European Commission Office in Wales.

Europe, the World and the Challenges of the 21st Century Hawke EU Centre Annual Lecture by Baroness Janet Royall

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Monday 31 October

6.00pm

Allan Scott Auditorium

Hawke Building, City West Campus

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Understanding and tackling the global migration challenge has reached new levels of social complexity. Many now ask whether the world is at a global tipping point? In 2015, Europe was hit with a historic wave of humanity – people, many from the Middle East and North Africa, fleeing violence or poverty, seeking a place to live, a job and a chance in life for their children. Meanwhile in Australia, border protection has moved centre stage – with intense academic and public debate concerning the status of Australia’s international obligations to the protection of fundamental human rights.

The Summit, convened by the Hawke EU Centre, brings together leading world figures in migration studies, academics, policy analysts, community activists and political leaders to examine the role of research and policy-relevant evidence from several European and Asia-Pacific projects on migration and the crisis of asylum.

Participation at the Summit is by invitation only.

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Global Tipping Points and the Role of Research European Union and Asia-Pacific Migration Summit

1 – 2 November

Bradley Forum


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Mobility and migration are prominent subjects of debate across disciplines, propelled by the increased international displacement of individuals and groups. In the context of France and the Francophone world, questions of migration are currently fiercely contested. The blurring of borders and the challenge to the configuration of the nation-state provoke questions over national identity, belonging and exclusion.

This conference, co-hosted by the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide, will address themes of mobility and migration, particularly with consideration to the past, present and future of mobility in the Francophone world. Distinguished guest and Professor of Francophone Literary Studies at the Université de Paris-Ouest, Professor Jean-Marc Moura, will deliver the keynote lecture for this conference.


Mobilities and Migrations Les Flux Migratoires Australian Society for French Studies XXIV Annual Conference

Professor Phipps will be joining the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations for a one month residency in October to conduct work on refugee policy and develop ties between the EU and Australia while also pursuing public debate and engagement with these issues. Various events will be scheduled during her visit.

Alison Phipps is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET). She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Waikato University, Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2012 she received an OBE for Services to Education and Intercultural and Interreligious Relations

in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has undertaken work in Palestine, Sudan, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, USA, Portugal and Ghana. She regularly advises public, governmental and third sector bodies on migration and languages policy and is the author of numerous books and articles and a regular international keynote speaker and broadcaster.


EU Thinker in Residence: Refugee Policy Professor Alison Phipps at the Hawke EU Centre


25 October - 18 November

Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformation

27-29 North Terrace, City West Campus

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6 – 9 December

9.00am daily

City West Campus

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Event Program 2016 - UniSA · 2018-11-08 · Our flagship event for 2016 is JOHN FOXX – founder of the legendary British electronic band Ultravox, pioneering visual artist and experimental