News and Events

Recent and upcoming events

  

22/05/2013 Cyclops Pictionary
Working with the notion of site and sight; how is spatial awareness of site created when sight is impaired? Using the RMIT Design Hub as the “site”, participants will create a game of spatial Pictionary in the dark! Using torches, ambient lighting and string, teamwork and coordination will come into play when drawing the image on the wall. The winners will be defined as the ones who get the most correct answers.

  

22/05/2013 Parkland
Parkland documents and plays with the history and potential narratives of Como Park, a leisure spot and sports ground for the residents of Toorak, Australia. Como Park, once named ‘Australia Park’, is traversed and scrutinized in a three-channel audiovisual installation that borders on documentary, landscape and fiction.

  

22/05/2013 Global Indigenous Studies in the First World: Some Reflections and Epistemological Matters
With Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the Queensland University of Technology

  

22/05/2013 A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race - Weapons, Strategy, and Politics
Join us for the launch of a new book by Richard Dean Burns and Joseph M. Siracusa as part of Global Studies Week

  

22/05/2013 Global Studies and the Study of Political Ideologies
With Professor Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Research Leader at RMIT University’s Global Cities Research Institute

  

22/05/2013 Disability and Digital Inclusion Forum
Digital Inclusion has significant benefits, especially in relation to people living with disabilities. This forum gathers together speakers interested in bringing sharper focus on the benefits of access and creative use of new technology and exploring the emerging possibilities.

Current news

  

Academic awarded international writing fellowship 22/05/2013
RMIT University academic Francesca Rendle-Short is headed to the US after being awarded a prestigious international writing fellowship.

  

Global Studies Week at RMIT 20/05/2013
New ways in thinking about the social, cultural, political and economic issues critical to Australia's future will be explored during Global Studies Week at RMIT University (20-24 May).

  

RMIT launches new Master of Urban Design 20/05/2013
In the face of rapid urban change, RMIT University has launched a new Master of Urban Design to help address the critical issues facing cities locally and globally.

  

National treasure wins prestigious jewellery prize 17/05/2013
RMIT University's Emeritus Professor Robert Baines has been named the winner of the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize at the 2013 International Trade Fair in Munich, Germany.

  

Student signs eight-book publishing deal 17/05/2013
RMIT University student and self-published speculative fiction author Darrell Pitt has signed an unprecedented eight-book deal with Text Publishing.

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