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.

SCA themed research seminar series: Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form:

Friday, 24 April 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-835 (Level 8, Michie)	Session 1: Vernacular AI, Slop, and Meme Culture	Maria Gemma Brown and Meg Thomas
Friday, 1 May 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 (Level 7, Michie)	Session 2: Lightning Talks - AI mirrors, clones, ghosts, and cultural forms	Dr Kiah Hawker; Dr Lisa Bode; Prof Jenna Ng; Prof Nic Carah
Friday, 8 May 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 (Level 7, Michie)	Session 3: Machine Learning and the History of Style: On the Normal Scientific Study of Verse	Dr Christian Gelder and Dr Joseph Steinberg
Friday, 15 May 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 (Level 7, Michie)	Session 4: Literary Criticism and AI: Interpretation as Practice, Simulation as Discourse	Dr Nick Lord

Upcoming sessions
Past sessions

Themed Research Seminar (Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form) Session 2: Lightning Talks - AI mirrors, clones, ghosts, and cultural forms

1 May 2026 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Themed Research Seminar (Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form) Session 3: Machine Learning and the History of Style: On the Normal Scientific Study of Verse

8 May 2026 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Themed Research Seminar (Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form) Session 4: Literary Criticism and AI: Interpretation as Practice, Simulation as Discourse

15 May 2026 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Themed Research Seminar (Aesthetics, AI, Criticism, and Cultural Form) Session 1: Vernacular AI, Slop, and Meme Culture

24 April 2026 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Forking paths, simultaneous timelines and river monsters: an origin-story artist talk from early hypertext to XR storytelling machines

24 October 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Aesthetic Accountability in Screen Storytelling: Narrative Friction and the Politics of Representation

17 October 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - War in Our Hyperconnected World: Exposing the Invisible Battlespace

19 September 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Burnt Country Film Screening and Q&A with SCA alumna Kirsten Slemint

4 September 2025 5:00pm–6:30pm

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Research Seminar - Pigeon Fool’s Turing test: The relationship between embodied AI bots and networked and absent humans

22 August 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Designing engagement for coral reef rescue

8 August 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Experiments in Public Engagement

31 July 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Video, Bias, Action. Mitigating Cognitive Biases through Role-Play Video Scenarios

6 June 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The Drama Of Anthropological History

23 May 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems and Community Radio in India

11 April 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Close Encounters of the Hermeneutic Kind: UFOs as More-than-Human Media

21 March 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Generative Hate

28 February 2025 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Dissonances: Aesthetic Beauty, Moral Beauty, and Deformity in Crimes of the Future (2022)

25 October 2024 1:00pm–2:00pm

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Research Seminar - Linking research, teaching and engagement – the PEATLI project

11 October 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Upside Down: Adaptation and Digital Affordances in Stranger Things

20 September 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Dispatches from Trump-World: Preppers, Climate Disasters and a Front Row Seat the 2024 Republican National Convention

23 August 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Archives: A Knowledge Café on Ways of Knowing, Seeing, Being, and Accessing

16 August 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Mapping Climate Change through a macrocosm – a UNESCO-Tagged World Heritage Site in India

24 June 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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SCA Research Seminar - The digital speed of care: Temporalities of online petty trading in Vietnam

24 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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SCA Research Seminar - Spectator-Participation-as-Research for archiving the creation and experience of Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City

17 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The Novel on Stage: Adaptation as Intersemiotic Translation in Intermedial Circulation

3 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - An artistic path between art and science: Vulcano, Fata Morgana, and Min Min Light

23 April 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - A Wrench in the Works of the Dream Factory: Special/Visual Effects in the Hollywood Studio Era, 1915-1965

12 April 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Adaptation, Narrative and Rites of Passage

5 April 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The Szondi Test: Mimetic Desire and the Media of Psychiatry

23 February 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - ‘Digital storytelling’ probably doesn’t mean what you think it means

27 October 2023 1:30pm–2:30pm

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Research Seminar - Spaces of Ruin in The Banshees of Inisherin

13 October 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Coping with eco-anxiety: A guided journal trial

22 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - HDR presentations

15 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Exploring Digital Humanities through the Lens of Journalism: A Case Study of Reader Comment Analysis

8 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Write FOR your reader vs. writing WITH your reader: human-centred design in professional communication and Portraying Asian-diasporic identity beyond the limits of the literary label Asian-Australian

1 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Promoting children’s environmental responsibility in the EFL classroom

25 August 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - After the Future: Heat, Collapse, and Exhausting the “Future of Work”

4 August 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Dual Selves and Augmented Embodiment: Reflections on Late Twentieth-Century Trans* Medicine and Culture

29 May 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - “You may think you know what you’re dealing with but believe me, you don’t.” A conversation about the achievement and legacy of Chinatown.

26 May 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Outback Musical: Slow journalism that shows us ourselves

19 May 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Silly, Sentimental, Sweet: Taking Japanese Girls' Stories Seriously

10 May 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Tales from the Trenches of Arts / Industry Collaborations: Or can writers save the world (and get paid for doing it)?

5 May 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - ‘Being with:’ Multimedia images as collaborative agents with human performers in posthuman performance

28 April 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Structured Like a Language Model: Analysing AI as an Automated Subject

24 April 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - From Fatigue Studies to Burnout: A Brief History of Work Exhaustion

31 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Fire Futures: codesigning for resilience

24 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Play as research and pedagogical strategy

2 December 2022 1:00pm–2:00pm

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Research Seminar - Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy

4 November 2022 3:00pm–5:30pm

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Research Seminar - Questioning Criticism: Puzzles and Possibilities in the Art-form of Appreciation

14 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - We Are All Preppers Now: Doomsday preppers, climate activists and subcultures of imminent collapse.

16 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Landscape Symbolism and the Two Paths Through Life

19 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Queering Dark Academia within a New Adult Fiction Context

12 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - A journey through the Australian environmental movement ecosystem

3 June 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Redefining crisis in museums: insider’s perspectives on digital engagement

13 May 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Negotiating balance of cultures among Chinese Australians to facilitate ageing well

29 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Early Adventures in Australian Actor Training

25 March 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Tuning In with the Stethoscope in the Nineteenth Century

11 March 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The appeal of Lil Miquela and the impact of virtual influencers on digital strategic communication

22 October 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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In conversation with Laura Elvery

24 September 2021 1:00pm–2:00pm

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Research Seminar - Mrs America’s Prosthetic Feminist Memory: The ‘Discovery’ of a Cool Feminism for Postfeminist Times

10 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Chilling Effect: The law, lawyers, journalists, and editorial processes

27 August 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - All Scripts are Adaptations?

6 August 2021 1:00pm–2:00pm

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Research Seminar - Holograms and (Dis) Embodied Intimacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Computing

18 June 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Facilitating co-innovation towards sustainable livestock systems in Timor Leste – pulling out all the (communication) stops

4 June 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Converging Professions or Practices? Shifting Dynamics in a Digital Communication World Toning Down the Antagonism Between Communication and Journalism

21 May 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - HDR Roundtable: Ethical or exploitative? The representation of violence and trauma in literature and screen media

7 May 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Passing as White (Collar): Jim Crow’s Typewriter and the Harlem Renaissance

23 April 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Building cultural citizenship through drama: A study of The Community Theatre in Singapore

26 March 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - What Has Streaming Done to Television? Platform Interfaces and Contemporary Viewing

5 March 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Transmedia Australian Literature

13 November 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Why Deep Reading Matters Now: Grief, Hope and Social Justice in a Time of Planetary Crisis

6 November 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Postcards from the Edge of Collapse

30 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The evolution of the sustainability story in communication

16 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - The Post COVID-19 Museum: culture in a time of Coronavirus

25 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Developing Disciplinary Literacies in Hybrid Classes

3 July 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Research Seminar - Imagining the End of the World: Writing the Apocalypse before COVID-19

5 June 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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What can the Middle Ages teach us about acknowledging the fragility of our own lives in a time of great uncertainty? And how can creative practice help us translate those understandings? Dr Helen Marshall presents.

Research Seminar - Why Paintings Matter: Filming Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565)

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25 October 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm

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Research Seminar - To Not Die of History

18 October 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm

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Research Seminar - Selfies, Affordances, and Situational Properties

11 October 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm

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Research Seminar - Enacting a Sense of Home Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia

4 October 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm

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State of Play: Australian Arts Criticism Panel with Miriam Cosic, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Kathryn Kelly

27 September 2019 3:00pm–5:00pm

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The University of Queensland’s School of Communication and Arts and the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing invite you to attend a panel discussion on the state of play in Australian arts criticism.