Works that Shaped the World: Charles E Rosenberg’s The Cholera Years (1962) and the Family Resemblances of Pandemics
Lecture
The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has flushed out a gaggle of historians of medicine, all of us eager to read the lessons of history or, alternatively, make preliminary sketches for a history of the present. What do the various modes of historical analysis have to contribute to understanding our…
Centre for Art History and Art Theory 2021 Seminar Series
Seminar
Tuesdays from 1:00-2:00 pm Theatrette (room 2.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building. All welcome. For those who cannot join us in person, we will use the following Zoom link for the seminar throughout semester:https://anu.zoom.us/j/85040251751?pwd=RDlGbDVxNmpTUW9TVzdYQXUyVkhyUT09 Password:…
Books that Changed Humanity: The Qur’an
Seminar
Few books have changed humanity as much as the Qur’an, the sacred scripture of Muslims. In this public lecture, Dr Hakan Çoruh of Charles Sturt University will offer an introduction and overview of the Qur’an, and discuss modern interpretations and contemporary hermeneutics. Dr Hakan Çoruh is a…
Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium
Symposium
The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom. 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021…
The Australian Magazine as Material Object and Social Network
Seminar
This seminar brings together interdisciplinary academics and artists whose research engages with Australian magazines, to share and present works in progress. The seminar will involve short, informal presentations by researchers as well as larger roundtable discussions about new methodological…
Language, Informed Consent, and Inclusivity in Medical Research and Practice
Webinar/Online
The UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics & IC4CH invite you to ‘Language, Informed Consent, and Inclusivity in Medical Research and Practice' About this event It is well-established that certain groups – for example poorer, immigrant, indigenous, and ethnic minority communities – in the…
In Conversation: Carol Mcgregor and Mary Spiers Williams
Artist talk
Please join us on Wednesday 23 June, 5.30pm for a special event with Carol Mcgregor, current exhibiting artist in the Myall Creek and beyond exhibition, and Mary Williams Spiers, Sub Dean Indigenous Studies College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU. Carol McGregor is of Wathaurung, Kulin Nation and…