Burnt Country Film Screening and Q&A with SCA alumna Kirsten Slemint
Burnt Country Film Screening and Q&A with SCA alumna Kirsten Slemint
Date: Thursday 4 September 2025
Time: 5pm
Location: Room 738, Michie Building (Building #9)
Blurb
Burnt Country (2024), looks at the intersection of western and Indigenous science. It explores the Indigenous practice of cultural burning and its potential in land management in conservation, and considers Australia’s relationship to fire in the wake of the devastating 2019/2020 wildfires. Featuring UQ scholars Bill Ellis, Hugh Possingham, and Rod Fensham, the film has so far received nominations in the student BAFTA and Grierson documentary awards, and a finalist nomination in the Oscars. In October, it will be showcased at the United Nations in New York.
Bio
UQ alum Kirsten Slemint (Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Journalism ’19) is a scientist, journalist, and filmmaker. During her UQ studies she was awarded a New Colombo Plan scholarship to travel to India, where she produced a short film on urbanisation with the support of the School of Journalism’s Media and Production Support team.
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series
The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Friday, 28 February Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Generative Hate | |
Friday, 21 March Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Close Encounters of the Hermeneutic Kind: UFOs as More-than-Human Media | |
Friday, 11 April Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems and Community Radio in India | A/Prof Elske van de Fliert |
Friday, 23 May Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | The Drama Of Anthropological History | |
Friday, 6 June Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Video, Bias, Action. Mitigating Cognitive Biases through Role-Play Video Scenarios | |
Thursday, 31 July Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Experiments in Public Engagement | Prof Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford University) |
Friday, 8 August Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Designing engagement for coral reef rescue | A/Prof Elske van de Fliert and Dr Skye Doherty |
Friday, 22 August Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Pigeon Fool’s Turing test: The relationship between embodied AI bots and networked and absent humans | Dr Abbie Trott |
Friday, 19 September Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | War in Our Hyperconnected World: Exposing the Invisible Battlespace | Dr Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox |
