Arts And Culture News

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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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• Ground-breaking TV studies book turns 40

  Professor John Hartley speaks about his first book, Reading Television, which helped to establish television studies as a field of research.

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• Australia needs pop culture tourism – here’s why

  And yes, making more movies here is a good first step.

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• Bringing the stories home: the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project

  The Wirlomin Noongar project revitalises and consolidates the memories of a dialect group of Noongar people of the south-west of Western Australia, and communicates them to the wider world.

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• Curtin Professor named 2018 NAIDOC Perth Male Elder of the Year

  Curtin University has congratulated Elder-in-Residence Professor Simon Forrest on being named the NAIDOC Perth Male Elder of the Year for 2018.

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