Arts And Culture News

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• NASA space architect helps launch Curtin’s Research Rumble

  NASA’s Johnson Space Centre space architect Larry Toups will help launch next week’s Research Rumble, a series of events showcasing Curtin University’s world-class research projects.

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• Pictures of A Thousand Silences

  Hoda Afshar left her home town of Tehran 11 years ago already a respected photojournalist and artist. The Curtin PhD candidate is in Perth to discuss her latest exhibition exploring marginalisation.

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• New project shines light on deaths in custody around the world

  The global stories of Indigenous and refugee deaths in custody will be told using visual media as part of an innovative international research project being launched this month.

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• Curtin PhD student wins The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

  A Curtin University PhD student has been awarded The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for 2018 in recognition of a novel she wrote as part of her thesis in creative writing.

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• Curtin awards honorary doctorates to three leaders in their fields

  Three leaders in their respective fields - venture capitalist Bill Tai, leading visual arts champion Alan Dodge and pharmacy trailblazer Brian Wall - have been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Curtin.

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• Designing the interior of Mars habitats

  It’s only a matter of time before we see humans living on Mars, but who’s going to design what’s needed up there?

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• Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance enriches student’s creative work on Scotland’s witch trials

  “I hope to give voice to Orkney’s early modern women, who have been marginalised by history, much as they were through life.”

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• Getting clever with big data to understand the spread of ISIS propaganda

  Through data science and multimodal discourse analysis, Curtin researchers are providing valuable insight into how meaning is communicated and reinterpreted through digital networks on a mega-scale.

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• Australian TV well behind in accessibility for vision impaired

  Australia is the only English-speaking OECD country in the world that doesn’t require its broadcasters or streaming services to provide audio description. Curtin researchers want to change that.

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• Friend or faux? Inside China’s counterfeit trade

  The economic impact of imported fake goods worldwide is more than US$460 billion, higher than the drug trafficking trade.

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