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The Handmaid’s Tale: fact or fiction? A feminist new materialist approach to literature through time, affects and genealogies This paper has as its main aim developing a feminist new materialist [...]

The 2018 Latin American symposium will address cultural, social, gender, education and labour themes related to the contemporary flows of people from various Latin American countries (Mexico and [...]

Simulating sensing: learning how to make clinical sense at medical school Doctors undergo intense work in training their sensory perception, a training that is being reconfigured through the [...]

Mediating distance – how media challenge friendship relations We depend more than ever on digital media for maintaining our social contacts, while we observe an increasing mobilisation of [...]

Dr Son Vivienne & Dr Lutfiye Ali each introduce their current research for the next in DERC’s Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar Series. In this presentation Son Vivienne presents an overview [...]

Catherine Gomes, together with ISANA VIC/TAS and Shanton Chang (Melbourne Uni) have received a $45,480 International Student Welfare Grant from the State Government of Victoria (Department of [...]

Indigenous Cinemas of the Future Over the last several years, Indigenous filmmakers have explicitly drawn on science fiction genres. Engaging recent short films depicting noncolonial encounters of [...]

Congratulations to DERC members Juan Sanin and Shanti Sumartojo, along with the School of Design’s Liam Fennessy, for their new $30k partnership with Bendigo Hospital to develop a sensory [...]

Chinese language media in the Australian cyberspace: diaspora media as a form of thought engineering This lecture applies quantitative text analytics and interpretive discourse analysis to map [...]

Research by Adrian Dyer, Scarlett Howard, Aurore Avarguès-Weber, Jair Garcia and Andrew Greentree published in Science Journal proves that bees can understand the concept of zero. This is the [...]