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: Writers Studio Level 6 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, 25 September Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | "Questions" - A.I. 'Morphology' and Labour in Blade Runner (Parker) and There’s Something About Autism: a case study in autistic dramaturgy in playwriting (Wilson) | Talia Parker and Sarah Wilson |
Friday, 9 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series "Alien Machines" | Prof Simone Natale (George Watson visiting speaker) With Dr Adam Dodd (UQ Digital media) as correspondent |
Friday, 16 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Imagined Pasts (Kim Wilkins) Imagined Futures (Helen Marshall) | Prof Kim Wilkins and A/Prof Helen Marshall |
Friday, 23 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Brisbane’s coming of age expo 88 to Brisbane 2032 | Dr Sarah Thomassen |
