Events
On this page you will find information on research events run by Information Ecologies @Murdoch as well as events that our core members have co-organised and contributed to.
Philosophy, Misinformation, and Artificial Intelligence – 21st Murdoch Colloquium (Nov 2025)
Information Ecologies proudly contributed to and co-organised the 21st Murdoch Colloquium, held in November 2025 at Murdoch University.
As we progress through the quarter of the twenty-first century, the rapid evolution of information communication technologies continues to reshape our societal landscape. These ongoing transformations—whether viewed as beneficial or detrimental—constitute what has become our ‘new normal.’ Despite their familiarity, many aspects of these changes remain elusive to comprehensive understanding. The Colloquium posits that philosophical insights from within the Humanities can serve as vital tools for clarifying and critically engaging with these complex phenomena, moving beyond fragmented perceptions towards a more cohesive understanding.
This workshop was supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP) and the School of HASS at Murdoch University.
Event website: https://philevents.org/event/show/137605
Information Ecologies: Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence and the Public Sphere – Inaugural Workshop (2025)
presented by Information Ecologies Research Cluster in conjunction with the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University (IPRC) on the 14th of March 2025.
This interdisciplinary workshop was organised by Dr Nardine Alnemr (Political Science), A/Prof Tauel Harper (Communication), Dr Howard Lee (Journalism) and A/Prof Anne Schwenkenbecher (Philosophy)
This workshop was funded by the Indo-Pacific Research Centre (IPRC) at Murdoch University.
THINKING TOGETHER (2023)
Anne Schwenkenbecher was co-convenor of this Interdisciplinary Workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Thinking // Murdoch University, 31 October – 2 November,
Much of our memories, narratives, and knowledge are social in character: collectively generated and interdependent. To a large extent, the philosophical discourses on these issues – questions of how we ‘think together’ – have been conducted separately.
Thinking together: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Collective Memory & Collective Knowledge attempts to bring these discourses into dialogue and, what is more, tap into related debates occurring in philosophy, cultural history and indigenous studies to deepen our understanding of the fundamentally social aspect of who we are and how we make sense of ourselves and the world around us.
This event will also create a space where people from diverse areas of expertise, levels of career, and academic backgrounds can meet to discuss problems, questions, and issues concerning collective forms of memory and knowledge. Thinking Together aims to be an interdisciplinary effort to share and explore innovative ways to understand these phenomena and to stimulate the reflection on the importance of collective thinking as a relevant and valuable source of knowledge for different humanistic, social, and scientific disciplines. This workshop was supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP), International Social Ontology Society (ISOS), Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP), and the ARC Discovery Project “Keeping Kinship in Mind”.
Event website: https://thinkingtogether.au/