First Nations' First Person | Contributor #2 Karrabing Film Collective
Artist talk
First Nations’ First Person is a series of talks and workshops hosted by the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop bringing the School of Art and Design community into dialogue with prominent contemporary Australian First Nations’ artists and curators. In the second event in the series, Rex Sing…
Puzzles of a Prime Minister: Alfred Deakin Revealed
Lecture
About the Lecture: When summing up the career of Australia’s second Prime Minister, Australian novelist and social commentator, Vance Palmer, concluded that Alfred Deakin was ‘the ideal Australian statesman’. It was a description at odds with the hostile labels used by some of Deakin’s more…
Conversations Across the Creek: Landscape Regeneration in Australia and Beyond
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
So much more than a Prime Minister: Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)
Lecture
About the Lecture: The remarkable contribution to Australian political life made by Andrew Fisher, Australia’s fifth Prime Minister, has only just begun to receive a measure of the recognition it deserves. Employed as a pit boy in the Scottish coal mines as a nine-year old, Fisher eventually…
Ghost Twitter in Australia: Sentience, Agency and Ontological Difference
Seminar
In this paper, I argue that distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency is a crucial analytical step to take when considering ontological and cosmological differences between groups. Scholars in 'New Animist' and Actor-Network Theory camps sometimes fail to make this distinction…
Care: forging an alternative ethics through art, a roundtable workshop. Led by Associate Professor Jacqueline Millner, LaTrobe University
Workshop
This roundtable workshop will introduce ANU researchers in SOA&D and other disciplines, (such as environmental and gender studies) to LaTrobe University’s Care Project and invite them to join the Care Network research community. The workshop will discuss key themes and practices…