Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies - Seminar on Resilience: ‘Children Drowning’: The Violence and Resilience of a Narrative
Seminar
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent children drowning at sea’ is one that has proved resilient in Australian political discourse over the course of the twenty first century. In this paper I…
Professional Ethics and the ‘Caring’ Museum Symposium
Symposium
Hosted by the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS), The Australian National University in collaboration with the Institute of Cultural Capital (ICC), Liverpool John Moores University and University of Liverpool in the UK, this research seminar will explore the ethical implications of…
Ien Ang, ‘Chinatowns and the rise of China’
Seminar
This paper discusses how Chinatowns today are increasingly contested sites where older diasporic understandings of Chineseness are unsettled by newer, neoliberal ones, dominated by the pull of China’s newly found economic might. In particular, the so-called ‘rise of China’ has spawned a…
Symposium: To see ourselves as part of something larger
Symposium
Drawing together scientists, architects, historians and artists To see ourselves as part of something larger considers how we might understand our place within complex ecosystems, be these nature reserves or the streets where we live. The symposium centres on the ways that visual arts and design…
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel
Seminar
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella Caribbean literature ‘has continuously addressed, rather than belatedly discovered, its commitment to the environment’. Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et…
Apollo's Gift: Music and the Mind
Performance
ANU welcomes world renowned Music-Neurologist Prof. Eckart Altenmüller (Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine Hanover, Germany) for a week residency as Visiting Fellow as a result of ANU Woodwind Lecturer Sally Walker’s RHSA Grant. Also an accomplished flautist who…
The Way We Wear Exhibition | Embassy of Australia, Washington USA
Touring Exhibition
The Way We WearContemporary Wearables from the ANU School of Art & DesignAn exhibition at the Embassy of Australia, Washington DC. The Way We Wear showcases the work of current staff and alumni of the ANU School of Art & Design. The works in this exhibition display…