Visual Politics Seminar Series

We run regular seminars, lectures and workshops within the Visual Politics Research Program. They are announced on our Twitter and Facebook sites.

The majority of seminars can be heard on the UQ POLSIS YouTube and SoundCloud channels. If you would like more details, have any questions, or if you would like to present your own work please contact Prof Roland Bleiker at bleiker@uq.edu.au

Semester 2, 2021 Visual Politics Research Program

Register here for the Zoom link.

Contacts

Professor Roland Bleiker

bleiker@uq.edu.au

Upcoming sessions
Past sessions

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance

23 September 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Shirin Rai (University of Warwick)

It’s not Personal: Post 60s Body Art and Performance

14 October 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Susan Best (Griffith University)

Visual Politics Workshop

29 October 2021 3:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Convened by Federica Caso and Roland Bleiker

To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images

12 August 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Dr T.J. Thomson (QUT)

Political Theory and Architecture

27 May 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Duncan Bell (Cambridge) & Dr Bernardo Zacka (MIT)

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture

13 May 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Giorgia Aiello & A/Prof Katy Parry (University of Leeds)

Visual Security Studies: Sights and Spectacles of Insecurity and War

29 April 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Juha Vuori & Dr Rune Saugmann (Tampere University)

Visualising Human Rights

15 April 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Jane Lydon (UWA)

Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method, and International Relations

18 March 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof Sophie Harman (Queen Mary University)

Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations

25 February 2021 6:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Prof William A. Callahan (LSE)

Arts Based Methods for Researching Everyday International Relations

15 November 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Holly Eva Ryan (Queen Mary University of London)

The Visual Politics of Populism

18 October 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Benjamin Moffitt (Australian Catholic University)

Filming the Chilean Plebiscite: Trauma and Resistance in Pablo Larraín’s No

20 September 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Dr Marguerite La Caze (UQ)

Dream Painting and the De-Territorialisation of Democratic Politics

26 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presented by Lola Frost (King's College London)

Media Images and the Gendered Politics of Climate Change

24 May 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

The Visual Politics of Populism

Cancelled

17 May 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

A Zeitgeist of Atrocity: Amateur German Photos of the Third Reich and Their Re-emergence on Social Media

3 May 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze Film Screening and Discussion of “Through the Crosshairs”

3 April 2019 10:30am–12:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Situating Visual Knowledge: The Global Politics of Sight, Sense and the Embodied Experience

8 March 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Empathy in War: U.S Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan

22 February 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Visualising Human Rights? Book Launched by Roland Bleiker (UQ)

5 December 2018 5:30pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presenter: Professor Jane Lydon (UWA)

Machine Vision and Security Knowledge

23 November 2018 4:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presenter: Rune Saugman (Tampere)

Visual Methods Workshop for PhD scholars/ECRs

6 November 2018 3:00pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presenter: Professor Debbie Lisle (Belfast)

Visual Reflections on European Migration

5 November 2018 3:30pm–5:00pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presenter: Professor Debbie Lisle (Belfast)

Visuality, Creativity and the Political Roundtable in Honour of Alex Danchev

2 November 2018 4:00pm–5:30pm

in Visual Politics Seminar Series

Presenters: Professor James Der Derian (Sydney), A/Prof Sally Butler (UQ) Dr Rune Saugmann (Tampere), Dr Shine Choi (Massey), Dr Emma Hutchison (UQ), Federica Caso (UQ) and others