Presenters: Mr James Horton, Mr Timothy Pilgrim, Dr Monika Zalnieriute, Professor Megan Richardson

The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, will head a legal, social policy and rights panel at the University of Melbourne. Commissioner Pilgrim will be joined by human rights scholar and advocate, Dr. Monika Zalnieriute, and technology advisor, James Horton. The free public event will be hosted by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the University of Melbourne.

University of Melbourne’s privacy and legal expert, Professor Megan Richardson, will MC the interactive panel and will be taking questions from the floor and from the live Twitter feed #ppnMelbourne. Privacy professionals, academics and students with an interest in privacy rights are encouraged to attend and join in the discussion.

Doors open at 5:30pm with refreshments on arrival. PLEASE NOTE due to increased interest this event has relocated to Graduate School of Education, 234 Queensbury St. Room 230

Presenters: Professor Harry Aveling

This presentation explores translation and the exercise of power using the case of Pham Duy Khiem (1908–1974), Ambassador of the Republic of (South) Vietnam to France in the mid-1950s.

It investigates control over texts – what is chosen to be translated, who chooses it, how the target text is produced and how it is integrated into the target culture, as well as plagiarism and ownership.

Pham Duy Khiem wrote two collections of Vietnamese folktales in French, republished as Légendes des Terres Sereines (Paris 1951). These stories have been used by other writers, often without acknowledging Pham’s authorship.

Presenters: Dr Sue Murphy, Dr Greg Moore, Ms Kirsten Raynor, Associate Professor John Rayner

Discovering Horticulture is an excellent introductory course for those wishing to learn more about horticulture. A perennial favorite, Discovering Horticulture has been running at the University of Melbourne's Burnley Campus for over two decades. The course comprises 10 sessions:

• Attaining a healthy soil
• Plant identification
• Plant propagation
• Mulch, pots, water and nutrition
• Plant form and function
• Tree and shrub care
• Garden history
• Landscaping
• Annuals, bulbs and perennials
• Plants for a dry garden

This course runs every Tuesday night commencing on Tuesday 7 August and concluding Tuesday 23 October (two week break for school holidays).

Full course cost is $890 including GST.

Presenters: Professor Elizabeth Horodowich

We tend to think that shortly after the Columbian voyages, Europeans began to understand the lands Columbus explored as America, or as a fourth and separate continent. Much evidence, however, suggests that Europeans represented the Americas as overlapping or contiguous with Asia in the decades and centuries following Columbus’ explorations. That is to say, early modern Europeans continued to trust in and adhere to Marco Polo’s understanding of global geography, well into the 17th century. By considering myriad representations of Amerasia, this talk seeks to make this lost continent visible, as well as to explore the ramifications and significance of this Amerasian world view.

This event is supported by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) and the Trust and Cultural Exchange Project (funded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne)

Presenters: Mr Philippe Platel

Philippe Platel, Artistic Director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival and Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy, will discuss the 30th anniversary of French cinema in Australia. Philippe will explore the rich cultural relationship between the two countries, and review the French Film Festival which runs from 6 March to 10 April 2019.

Presenters: Mr Gilles Prilaux

In this presentation, the eminent French archaeologist Gilles Prilaux will outline the difficulties and dangers of his work in conducting a veritable autopsy of the First World War battlefields, where uncovering traces of mass human death incurs the constant risk of millions of unexploded shells.

In 2014, Prilaux was tasked with dating the underground city that lies 30 meters below the northern French town of Naours. Rediscovered in the 19th century, this huge cave complex had become a much visited tourist attraction. Popularly believed to date from prehistoric times, it turned out in fact to be a 17th century construction, born of that era’s religious conflicts. In the course of this research, however, Gilles Prilaux uncovered something completely unexpected: thousands of names and regimental numbers, scrawled on the limestone walls by World War I soldiers, a considerable majority of them Australian. From that discovery, he conceived a new project, namely, to investigate the lives behind the graffitied traces so long hidden in the caverns. What has emerged from his work is not just a wealth of moving and revealing stories, but a new dimension for Australian reflection on this foundational time of our history.

He will present his discovery of the 'underground archives' left by soldiers of many nationalities (including hundreds of Australians), whose names and other inscriptions survive in the caves beneath the Somme.

Presenters: Dr Emma Barron

#ItalianUniMelb seminar series

Italy’s post-war ‘economic miracle’ brought dramatic changes to the lives of all Italians. For women these changes were, in many ways, revolutionary. Italy’s mass culture boom provided women with information and a range of opinions on their changing role in society, which both challenged and reinforced the influence of the family, state and church. Young Italian women had a whole new world before them, and magazines provided information and ideas about it. This lecture examines the distribution of different magazines by class and region to explore Italian women’s access to ideas about the modern world.

Presenters: Mr Clément Baloup French Graphic Novelist and Artist

The Vietnamese diaspora now counts more than two million people spread throughout the world. Who are they? What are their stories? With his graphic novel series Mémoires de Viet-Kieu/Vietnamese Memories, Clément Baloup, a French artist of Vietnamese heritage, set out to record the experiences and memories of several diasporic individuals now living in France (Quitter Saigon/Leaving Saigon, 2010), the United States (Little Saigon, 2016) and Taïwan (Les mariées de Taïwan/Brides of Taïwan, 2017). Relying less on photorealism than on a visual poetics, he paints an unforgettable portrait of bodies in motion and provides a unique visual representation of their life stories.

In his first public lecture in Australia, Clément Baloup will discuss his graphic work, motivation and creative process before showcasing his art. His talk will be followed by Q&A, book signing and light refreshments. A limited number of his books, recently translated into English, will be available for purchase.