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…
Reimagining Memory Activism: Conversations on Asia and the Pacific webinars ( 2021)
Webinar/Online
Reimagining Memory Activism was a series of 4 webniars held between June and August of 2021. The series featured conversations on the play of different histories, interventions, epistemologies, and religious and cultural knowledge as influences on the modes, methods, practices and goals of memory…
Reimagining Memory Activism: Conversations on Asia and the Pacific
Seminar
What are the emerging trajectories in memory activism in Asia and the Pacific? In what ways do they navigate through overarching historical, political, and epistemological debates of our time? How do they reconfigure the potentialities of our world? Shameem Black in a conversation with Yifat…
Crimes Against SounD: Double R One
Performance
Presenting new works from third year composers at the School of Music: Ronan Apcar Lynden Bassett Eleanor Bladon Madi Creecy Lily Fowler KayKay Lai Sylvan Lawrenz Enoch Lee Joshua Lee Milo McLaughlin Kian McLeod Cerise Yumul Showcase will be held in the Larry Sitsky Recital…
‘Every Station Open to All’? Mechanics’ Institutes on the Victorian Goldfields
Seminar
During his speech at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute’s soirée in 1862, Richard Heales captured the sense of the mechanics’ institute as a symbol of home when he argued that ‘nothing bound us to the old country like its institutions, and what would bind us to the new country [but] institutions…
Noir/horror: Reconsidering the “woman question” in mid-twentieth-century American popular fiction and cinema
Seminar
Writing in 1946, Frankfurt School critic Siegfried Kracauer expressed dismay in response to what he saw as a new vogue for ‘horror sheerly for the sake of entertainment’ in Hollywood—on display, he argued, in films like Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase (released the same year) and Alfred…
Higher Degree Research Seminar 1/2021
Seminar
Please join us over two days for our next Higher Degree Research Seminar and support our PhD and MPhil candidates who are giving their research presentations. The seminar is open to all and we welcome your involvement. Professor Chris McAuliffe will open the seminar, and our HDR speakers are…