Q2 Photo Gallery

Inaugural Q Lecture reception at The Nicholson Museum. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Q Lecture reception at the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney Quadrangle. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

A full house on the University of Sydney Quadrangle for McKenzie Wark’s lecture “Exit to the Planetarium”. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

CISS Director James Der Derian introduces McKenzie Wark and his lecture, “Exit to the Planetarium”. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

McKenzie Wark at the Philosophy Room S249, The Quadrangle. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

CISS Director James Der Derian moderates as the audience asks questions of McKenzie Wark. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

McKenzie Wark delivering his lecture “Exit to the Planetarium” to open the 2nd QSymposium at CISS. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Members of the audience listen to Wark’s lecture. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

McKenzie Wark listening to questions during the Q&A session. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir

End of Q Lecture and beginning of Q2 Symposium. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Q2 Symposium participants leaving the Intercontinental Sydney Hotel. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Arriving at the Sydney Harbour to take the ferry to the Q Station. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Anthony Burke taking pictures from the Sydney Harbour. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Getting on the ferry to the Q Station. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

View of the Sydney Opera House from the ferry. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Antoine Bousquet and Vincent Pouliot conversing on the ferry. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Sebastian Kaempf and Colin Wight conversing on the ferry. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Admiring the architectrue of Sydney’s Opera House. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Sydney’s skyline in the background as the ferry approaches the Q Station. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

James Der Derian welcomes the first arrivals to the Q Station. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Getting ready to start the Q2 Symposium: James Der Derian at the main conference room. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Glenda Sluga and her colleagues getting familiar with the surroundings. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Mark Salter and Jairus Grove enjoying the nice weather. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

First lunch of the conference! Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Glenda Sluga and Graeme Gill having an after lunch chat. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Participants attending the Welcome to Country ceremony. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Aboriginal custodian Matthew Doyle welcomes Q2 Symposium participants during the Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country ceremony. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Matthew Doyle plays the clapsticks and Brock Tutt on the didjeridoo (wooden trumpet). Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Q2 participants attending the Wlecome to Country ceremony. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Traditional grass burning practice during the Welcome to Country ceremony. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Conference members participating in the grass burning ceremony. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Christopher Neff gives important information to attendees before the beginning of the first panel. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

James Der Derian giving the opening remarks. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

The Space-Time of War and Diplomacy panel. Christopher Fuchs presents “What If There Were QBism before the Quantum of War?” Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Arthur Miller discussing “How the Avant-Garde of the Early 20th Century Affects International Security in the 21st” Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Various Symposium attendees listening to the presentations. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Stephen Kern on “The Temporality and Spatiality of Diplomacy and War in 1914”. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Glenda Sluga at The Space-Time of War and Diplomacy panel. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

McKenzie Wark asking a question to members of The Space-Time of War panel. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

A question to the panel by Rebecca Adler-Nissen. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Media team at work. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Colin Wight opening the floor for the Space: Geopolitical, Galactic and Virtual panel. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Andrea Loehr on Space: Perspective and Limits. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Mark Salter presenting “Moving in Mysterious Ways: The Global Mobility Regime Reimagined.” Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

McKenzie Wark on his presentaiton “Impure War”. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Charlotte Epstein as the Commentator for the panel on Space: Geopolitical, Galactic and Virtual. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

James Der Derian pointing at the ubiquitous Q quadcopter. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

A scene with the Q2 professional paddle boarders. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Ben Foldy showing off his other attributes. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Q2 participants having a down time before dinner. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

First BBQ dinner of the conference. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Having dinner The Boilerhouse Restaurant at Q Station. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Screening of Particle Fever, a documentary film that follows the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider –built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)– in search for a proof of the existence of the Higgs boson. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

James Der Derian introducing Mark Levinson, Director of the documentary Particle Fever. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Mark Levinson, Director of the documentary Parcticle Fever during the Q&A session. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Members of the panel on Time: Historical, Representational and Relative. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Mark Levinson starting the panel with his presentation: Sex, Lies and Particle Physics. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Dean Rickles on Warring-at-a-distance: Mathematicians and the Moral Argument. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

university of Florida Professor Barderine Arfi on “Inheriting from and Translating Quantum Logic(s) in (Re)Presenting Politics and Security”. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Some questions from the participants. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Simon Reay Atkinson, last presenter on the panel Time: Historical, Representational and Relative. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Graeme Gill and Jonathan Bogais listening and taking notes. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.

Antoine Bousquet starting the panel “War: Memorial, Transformational and Gendered” with his presentation Ernst Jünger and the Age of Total Mobilisation. Photo: Gilbert Bel-Bachir.