21/05/2012 Music for the future
Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry) student Rebecca Baldacchino is organising a charity event so that underprivileged children are given the opportunity to experience music through her major project entitled “Music for the future.”

24/05/2012 Art graduates work for sale
In 2012 RMIT School of Art graduates will again be attending the Affordable Art Fair to sell their work. Below are just some of the amazing pieces that will be available for sale.

24/05/2012 The Kite Runner Film screening at RMIT Gallery
Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, the film is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.

25/05/2012 Short Film Screening - Lines of Flight
The screening includes an introduction from the film's director, Martin Wood, a follow up Q&A session and a Hub Melbourne Wine-down.

29/05/2012 Seminar: Getting to the heart of hERG K+ channels
Professor Vandenberg will talk about how hERG K+ channels play an important role in helping maintain normal cardiac rhythm. His research has brought his team closer to understanding the overall mechanism of C-type inactivation in hERG channels. There is still more to learn about the mechanical and pharmacological manipulation of inactivation.

01/06/2012 School of Art Graduate Research Conference
A series of workshops, speakers, confirmation and completions seminars by higher degrees by research candidates.

06/06/2012 Accumulated experience
This exhibition, inspired by Elkhonon Goldberg’s book The Wisdom Paradox , considers how our everyday experiences are constantly accumulated and affect the formation of our ‘selfhood’.

07/06/2012 Weaving Words: the relationship between poetry and carpets in the Persian world
Susan Scollay will speak of the beauty of Persian poetry and its vibrant tales of human and divine love and its relationship to carpets in the Persian world.

14/06/2012 Indigenous arts residency exchange
The School of Art’s international Artist in Residence Program—iAIR—in collaboration with the University of Lethbridge’s Gushul Studios hosts an annual Indigenous residency exchange between Canada and Australia. These reciprocal residencies have been established to foster an increased mobility for artists and promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue.

20/06/2012 Penpals: Post-conversation
Penpals : Post-conversation is the culmination of an experimental collaboration between Melbourne and Hong Kong based artists from the RMIT Master of Fine Arts. As penpals, each pair of artists has collaborated to form the conceptual underpinning of a work through handwritten correspondence. Through cross-cultural dialogue, Penpals : Post-conversation explores systems of interpretation through language, location, individual and collaborative art practice.

21/06/2012 Global Studies Seminar Series 4
Global Studies Seminar Series 2012

26/06/2012 Seminar: In one ear and out the other - neurohumoral mechanisms for feedback control of hearing sensitivity
Professor Housley's presentation will outline a neurohumoral mechanism that affects hearing acuity and helps reveal specific sounds against noisy backgrounds. He will discuss how this mechanism complements purinergic signalling in the cochlea, helping people adapt to longer-term hearing sensitivity at high sound levels and protecting them from noise-induced hearing loss.

26/06/2012 The Arab Spring: Root causes and implications
The Arab Spring did not emerge from nowhere. It had root causes that have been festering for a long time. These include forces of frustration, forces of humiliation, and forces of anger.

02/07/2012 Experience Day: Medical laboratory visits (Day 1)
These lab tours provide Year 10, 11 and 12 students interested in a career as a medical scientist the chance to go behind the scenes into medical laboratories, including major teaching hospitals in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

02/07/2012 Experience Day: Art and Design
These interactive art and design workshops offer Year 10, 11 and 12 students the opportunity to experience ceramics, furniture design, product design, communication design and landscape architecture.

03/07/2012 Experience Day: Medical laboratory visits (Day 2)
These lab tours provide Year 10, 11 and 12 students interested in a career as a medical scientist the chance to go behind the scenes into medical laboratories, including major teaching hospitals in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

03/07/2012 Experience Day: Computing, Animation and IT
This workshop offers Year 10, 11 and 12 students the opportunity to see how animation, computing, information technology systems and games graphics are applied to real life situations and how the advances in technology are changing the way we live.

04/07/2012 Experience Day: Medical laboratory visits (Day 3)
These lab tours provide Year 10, 11 and 12 students interested in a career as a medical scientist the chance to go behind the scenes into medical laboratories, including major teaching hospitals in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

04/07/2012 Experience Day: Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing
This workshop offers Year 11 and 12 students the chance to see how engineering is changing the way we live. Through a series of hands-on workshops, you will gain an insight into sustainable systems engineering, aerospace, automotive, mechanical and mechatronics engineering.

04/07/2012 Awkward sideways glances
In Awkward Sideways Glances three artists collaborate under the direction of the curator to create an immersive site-specific built structure. Ideas of authorship, play and control will surface as artists transform the space through abstract spatial constructions, optical illusion, suspended objects and installation painting.