Join us for a screening of Ted Dintersmith’s thought-provoking documentary feature film Most Likely to Succeed. Most Likely To Succeed reveals the growing shortcomings of conventional education methods in today’s innovative world.

The film explores compelling new approaches that aim to revolutionise education as we know it, inspiring school communities to reimagine what students and teachers are capable of doing. 

Program

Engaging gay Asian men: hard to research amongst the hard to reach?

There Goes Our Neighbourhood 2018 documents the ambition, resilience and creativity of Sydney’s Waterloo community when politicians and property developers threaten to transform their neighbourhood. Introduction and Q&A with Director Clare Lewis. Presented with the support of the City of Sydney and the Juanita Nielsen Community Centre.

Forgiveness is the Wrong Word: Trauma Testimonies as Public Narrative and Reparative Action
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Stellenbosch University

Truth commissions provide an environment that allows victims to break their silence, transforming the wordless speech of trauma into publicly communicated speech acts.

If John Cage argued that all sound can be music, and if sound is but one form of energy among others, then what of energies and music?

Bringing together range of Juanita’s contemporaries and others for whom Juanita’s disappearance has remained of great interest, this event will explore whether justice for Juanita Nielsen is possible and what it might look like today or in the future.

Exhibiting artist Zanny Begg will be joined by 'Killing Juanita' author Peter Rees; business partner, friend and lover of Juanita Nielsen David Farrell and more TBA. 

Do we know how to learn? Do we know how to teach? What do we really know about effective learning and teaching?

A small-town-girl with big dreams joins forces with a budding journalist looking for his big break in this coming-of-age, nostalgia-drenched play set in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

It’s 1950s America and the thrill of television is all-consuming, "and that's where the fun comes in!". Willing contestants face public humiliation, actual slime, and endless live-to-air TV pranks that put a town on the map forever.

The act of curating is conceived as a collaboration between artists and organisations. This collaboration can work to disrupt the very foundation of the art institution itself. Sarina Basta will discuss how the exhibition creates a research framework that works to shape the way we think about artists and their relationships to nature, society and the things around us.

Please join us for a special opportunity to hear about how the quality of research publications have been evaluated. Renowned expert, Associate Professor David Moher, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, will talk about his insights on best practices on evaluating the impact of publications.

A Scientia Education Academy public lecture

Stickiness describes a material in transition. It is neither solid, nor fluid, but exists at the viscous midpoint. It is fluidity in slow motion. It has a tackiness that retains instead of dissolves. It may be human or nonhuman, organic or synthetic. It is a property, a material, and a process simultaneously. the sticking point takes a gooey interest in the material properties of ‘stickiness’ and asks: what is the political significance of goo?

HEIRLOOMS FOR MUTANT CHILDREN
Hugh Black, Rosy Leake, Sena Kosaroglu, Lihnida Krstanoska-Blazeska, Joshua Reeves, Patrick McDavitt and Ella Tindal
Space One

Join the artists, academics and curators involved in the Choreography-Gallery-Practice: Workshop 2019 for this public showcase of new research at the nexus of dance and the visual arts. Workshop leaders Lizzie Thomson, Shelley Lasica, Sarah Rodigari, Zoe Theodore and Jess Olivieri and the participants will present and reflect on their findings from the previous two intensive days of experimentation and collaboration.