Arts & Culture

Medieval painting of young ladies and men in a church

The Decameron: Medieval lockdown project or ‘wine-soaked sex romp’?

Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century masterpiece, now a Netflix series, shows the universality of human responses to a pandemic (along with some sex)

A young woman and child singing into a microphone

‘The more you tell a story, the stronger the story becomes’

Indigenous-led songwriting is helping to celebrate cultural knowledge, revitalise language and improve wellbeing in a remote community in the central Kimberley

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The fight to save Syrian antiquities

Scholars across the globe have joined forces to preserve the beleaguered country’s cultural heritage for all our sakes

Shelf of books by Stephen King

After 50 years, why Stephen King is still relevant

Carrie, Pennywise and other Stephen King horrors endure because his stories are grounded in an authentic depiction of suburbia

Five Spam tins with arms and eyes in front of small keyboards

The spambots are coming for your job, Aldous Huxley

Robotic ‘Spam’ tins recreating dystopian fiction ask us to consider the role of AI, art and animals in society – and how they intersect

Seven member pop group dancing and singing on a stage

Opinion

Is K-Pop going K-aput?

The Korean Wave is a global phenomenon, but there’s a dark side to South Korea’s soft-power strategy that we need to talk about

Woman exasperated at mobile message

No bandwidth to think is the cost of being time poor

Cyber time poverty can affect all of us as distractions from social media, work messages and 24-hour news, but we can fight back

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Universities can change names without distancing themselves from troubling histories

Removing a person’s name from a building need not mean the University severs its relationship with its past, instead it is an opportunity to redefine our future

"Melbourne had no place for the ‘black’ Indigenous population in the ‘white Australian race'"

Before 1940, the University of Melbourne was the centre of Australian eugenics – and it didn’t end with World War II

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In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began

An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history

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