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17 July 2021–1 August 2021 You’re invited Back to UQ on Sunday 1 August – UQ s alumni homecoming. Coinciding with UQ Open Day, the day features celebrations, tours, talks, and the chance to reconnect with your university and your classmates.
Whether you have a close-knit cohort to catch-up with or are interested in visiting campus to see what s changed and what s new, Sunday 1 August will be an unmissable day of activities.
Here’s a taste of what’s on offer:
Free, alumni-exclusive campus history tours and research talks;
Chances to explore UQ’s cultural treasures at our Museums and Libraries;
Opportunities to visit your favourite historical buildings and cutting-edge new facilities;
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Artists offer a wake-up call on global techno-politics in new exhibition
Recent and newly commissioned artworks from Australian and international artists can be seen for the first time in a new exhibition about the Internet at The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Don’t Be Evil explores the hidden power structures behind the networked technologies that are dominating our everyday lives.
UQ Art Museum Curator Anna Briers said it was a timely interrogation of the dramatic social, political and personal impacts of artificial intelligence and the Internet.
“In this COVID-19 moment there has been much talk about how the Internet brings people together,” she said.
About this event
How do 50 large foam blocks, wrapped in a cover of sandstone material, complicate ideas of democracy? Andreas Angelidakis’s
DEMOS, currently on show at UQ Art Museum, evokes elitist notions of the sandstone institution, while drawing on the foundations of Ancient Greek democracy. This form of democracy gave citizenship only to wealthy males, born in Greece.
DEMOS complexifies this by asking all citizens, residents, and visitors to engage with, advocate for, and discuss who has a say in the creation of their own
DEMOS structures.
Using
DEMOS as its basis, we unpack the state of so-called liberal democracy in present-day Australia, including the idea that democracy is inclusive of all people. Join experts Professor Katharine Gelber (Head of UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), Dr Glenn Kefford (ARC DECRA Research Fellow, UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), and James Blackwell (Research Fellow, Centr