2019 Africa Week Lecture: “The Right to Protect – In Africa”
Seminar
The Humanities Research Centre and the Herbert and Valmae Freilich Project on Bigotry are honoured to welcome Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans, AC QC, Chancellor of the Australian National University, to present the 2019 Africa Week Lecture on the topic of “The Right to Protect—In Africa” …
Sir William Dobell Annual Lecture: Karen Quinlan AM
Annual Lecture
Sir William Dobell Annual Lecture5.30pm for a 6pm startPlease note refreshments will be availble following the lectureFree, please RSVP hereKaren Quinlan AM has been the Director of the National Portrait Gallery since December 2018. Karen commenced her curatorial career in 1994 at the National…
Making Religious Heritage in China: Governance, Transformation, and Resistance
Seminar
Making Religious Heritage in China: Governance, Transformation, and Resistance Abstract In the past decades around the world, cultural heritage and religion have been intermingled in various ways. In Europe and North America, many religious communities turned churches into museum spaces to…
Crafting Professionals
Symposium
The ANU School of Art and Design is pleased to host a public seminar event with Lauren England (from King’s College London in partnership with Crafts Council UK)5:15 Welcome and introductionIn this presentation, Lauren England will provide an overview of her research on professional development…
Vanishing Point | Exhibition
Gallery
Vanishing PointConsuelo Cavaniglia, Ellen Dahl, Yvette Hamilton, Taloi Havini & Salote Tawale Artist Talk at 5pm Official Opening from 6pmExhibition to be opened by Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator Australian and International Photography, National Gallery of Australia.All welcome |…
Bourdieu’s illusio: When theory, philosophy and ethnography meet
Seminar
About the Lecture In this paper I will explore Bourdieu’s concept of illusio and examine various moment where I found it helpful in thinking my ethnographic material with it. The examples will highlight the various potentialities and meanings of this analytical concept. I aim to exhibit the way…
Catherine Grant, ‘Intangible cultural heritage and music sustainability’
Seminar
Partly in response to UNESCO’s pronouncements about the rapid and extensive loss of intangible cultural heritage, research into ‘music sustainability’ has flourished in the last ten to fifteen years. Although the relationship of music sustainability to globalisation, urbanisation, and changing…