Traffic seminars aim to bring established scholars from a range of disciplines together with graduate student researchers.
For further information on Traffic seminars, please contact the
Traffic Editor, Dr Michelle Smith, at
traffic@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
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Join us for the launch of the eleventh edition of Traffic, 'Fact or Fiction?' and a seminar with the Hon Michael Kirby on 23 November at 2.30pm in the Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre. He will discuss the topic of "Truth or Fiction?" and launch the latest edition of the refereed graduate student interdisciplinary journal, Traffic. The journal, published by the Graduate Student Association, includes contributions from graduate students from fields as diverse as nursing, anthropology and history.
Michael Kirby will explain the differences we have had in the courts (including the High Court of Australia) concerning whether one can tell the difference between truth and falsehood by the impression of witnesses in the artificial circumstances of a court room. Or anywhere else for that matter. In recent years, the High Court has moved to reduce the previous confidence in the mystical judicial capacity to evaluation truth based upon impressions. Instead, it has insisted upon greater reliance on contemporaneous records, objective facts, and the internal logic of the circumstances.
A light snack and drinks will be provided at the seminar. Please RSVP to events@gsa.unimelb.edu.au if you wish to attend.
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Traffic Seminar: The Global Power of the Olympic Games, Beijing 2008 in Historical Perspective - 13 August
Why was China was so eager to host the Olympic Games? What does it hope to gain? And what has hosting the Olympic Games meant for host countries politically, economically, and culturally?
Professor Ghassan Hage in Conversation on Academic Freedom (23 June)
Where do the limits on academic freedom begin and end? Who defines this and how?
On Monday 23rd June at 5.30pm (Theatre D- Old Arts) Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory Ghassan Hage will speak at the inaugural Traffic seminar on the subject of academic freedom.