What's the vibe unique to hardware systems from CPUs to data centres? What's the affective texture of program code? How might cloud infrastructure be sublime? Dylan Chng considers how aesthetics of The Digital are distinct from digital aesthetics. 27 July rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/critiq...

Critiquing digital critique: Aesthetics of the digital

Aesthetics has historically been a pressure point in scholarship on digital technoculture. Following on from similarly concerned Y2K-era work on so...

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Explore the emotional geographies of Melbourne’s urban forests. This talk explores how emails to trees express care and challenge anthropocentric assumptions—revealing new ways to think about human–nature commitments and urban forest futures. Mon 25 May rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/emotio...

Emotional geographies of the urban forest: insights from an email-a-tree initiative

In Australia, policies are prioritising increases in urban forest coverage and diversity as a climate change adaptation response. However, the rela...

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For our April HADES seminar, Dr Bill Pascoe leads an open discussion of digital mapping and its relation to humanities theory and critique - focusing on how and why digital maps are especially useful for truth telling about colonial history. 2pm Monday 27 April, via Zoom go.unimelb.edu.au/byt2

Counter mapping: Australian wars and resistance through critical cartography

This HADES seminar provides an open discussion of digital mapping and its relation to humanities theory and critique. Dr William (Bill) Pascoe...

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To kick off our 2026, we're excited to have @kateycoleman.bsky.social presenting on how arts-based and speculative research methods can disrupt dominant frameworks and open new possibilities for climate learning and systemic change. Mon 30 Mar, 2pm, via Zoom go.unimelb.edu.au/aep2

Subverting power structures in climate education: Learning from SWISP’s Living Lab inside DISTRACTION

This HADES seminar explores how arts-based and speculative research methods can disrupt these dominant frameworks and open new possibilities for cl...

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While maps may appear as an objective narrative, the mapmaker is telling a story – using data, design & presentation. In this seminar we'll explore different maps made using the same data and question the stories maps tell – and what we can learn from them! rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...

Same data, different stories: How different maps can change the data narrative

A geographic map can be powerful data visualisation, used to explore concepts of place, location, and distance that are inherent in much humanities...

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12 Aug: Claire Loughnan presents Against Erasure – a 3D model of the Manus Island Detention Centre. Preserving collective lived experience & knowledge, the project challenges us to confront state violence and the power of digital tools in education & research rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/agains...

Against erasure: Digital witnessing of the Manus Island Detention Centre

The Against Erasure project developed a 3D digital reconstruction of the Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, as a multidisciplinary teaching r...

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For our June HADES seminar, Sebastien Plutnaik will share #archeofrag, software which analyses spatial relationships in archaeological sites, enhancing our understanding of artifacts, sites, and excavation! 10 June, Zoom Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati... github.com/sebastien-pl...

GitHub - sebastien-plutniak/archeofrag: R package for Refitting and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

R package for Refitting and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology - sebastien-plutniak/archeofrag

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Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? June @wearehades.bsky.social seminar features Sébastien Plutniak presenting on #archeofrag - software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites. 10 June, 2pm - 3pm, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Enjoyed Jonathon Laskovsky's talk at @wearehades.bsky.social. Borders between states and borders between disciplines can be permeable while also being places of control. Rivers and seeds show the spaces and places that cross borders and challenge the authority of lines on a map.

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? Sébastien Plutniak presents archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites, enhancing our understanding of artifacts, sites, and excavation! 10 June, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?

The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining rele...

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Next HADES seminar with Jonathan Laskovsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and data use in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression. Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, online rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Between the space of borders

Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

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Join Jonathan Laskovsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and how data is used in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression. Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, via Zoom Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Between the space of borders

Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

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In 2025, HADES seminars focus on ‘Place’ Mapping places in digital research charts the prosaic and poetic in visual representations and the stories we tell from data. This data may not be physically located, yet the stories we tell are shaped by the place they occupy. blogs.unimelb.edu.au/hades/

The next HADES seminar features Michael Falk, Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti speaking about the wikihistories project (wikihistories.net), where they uncovered an anthropocentric and neo-colonial bias in English Wikipedia's coverage of Australia 14 Apr, 2-3pm, Zoom Register go.unimelb.edu.au/j6ip

How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia

In 2024, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive tho...

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