Public Lecture

Contacts

2020 Daphne Mayo Public Lecture

12 March 2020 5:15pm8:00pm
To honour and commemorate the life of one of Queensland’s most prominent artists and arts educators, the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, has established the biennial Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture.

In 2020 Professor Murray Smith will be presenting the Daphne Mayo Public Lecture entitled: Remain in Light: Philosophical Naturalism, Aesthetic Value, and Cultural Crosstalk.

2019 S.W. Brooks Public Lecture: Famished

16 October 2019 5:00pm6:30pm
This fascinating public lecture will take the form of a one-hour performance of Famished by Cherry Smyth, with accompanying soundtrack of music by composer Ed Bennett and expanded singing by Lauren Kinsella to draw on the power of collective lament. 
stylised image of balls of light

UQ DRAMA CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP ~ Research Roundtable

22 March 2019 4:30pm6:00pm
Participants: Katalin Trencsényi, Bernadette Cochrane, Stephen Carleton, and Kathryn Kelly
Dr. Katalin Trencsényi

UQ DRAMA CREATIVE FELLOW 2019 ~ Dr. Katalin Trencsényi

20 March 2019 6:00pm7:30pm
This public lecture by internationally renowned dramaturg and researcher Katalin Trencsényi will examine this on two levels: micro-dramaturgy (the level of individual performance-making), and macro-dramaturgy (institutional processes).
Heart-to-Heart Conversation with Laura Nsengiyumva and Monique Mbeka Phoba, Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton / The Waxing Crescent Moon Phase, January 2019, photo by Lavinia Wouters.

On the Necessity of Transforming One's Practice

2 March 2019 10:30am11:30am
Talk by Paris-based curator, editor and writer Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, co-presented with the University of Queensland's School of Languages & Cultures and School of Communication & Arts.

2018 Lloyd Davis Memorial Public Lecture: Shakespeare and Statistics

12 September 2018 6:00pm7:30pm
Shakespeare and statistics is not an obvious pairing, but digital texts of his plays and poems are now widely available, and scholars are getting used to analysing them with computers.

2018 S.W. Brooks Public Lecture - On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian Performatives

22 August 2018 6:00pm7:30pm
Highly performative and provocative reign of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, a figure who raised important questions about the boundaries between public and private life, about the constant demand for self-exposure on a highly public world stage

2018 George Watson Public Lecture ~ Host Community Acculturation Orientations, Ethnic Minority Communication, and Perceptions Toward Ethnic Minorities

17 August 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Two studies on relationship among acculturation orientations of Chinese Hongkongers, their perceptions toward South/South-East Asian minority members, and Chinese cultural value orientations as well as intercultural communication competence.