Seminar | Australia and the World: A Transcultural Approach
Seminar
About the Seminar Australia, the ‘land of opportunity’, has a unique environmental history. It’s where two of the most important global fields of contemporary transcultural expression have confronted each other for decades: heritage preservation and the resources industry. These two transcultural…
COEDL Summer School 2018
Workshop
Summer School 2018 Date: 26 - 30 November 2018 Venue: Australian National University, Canberra The Centre’s annual Summer School is a flagship educational event on Australia’s linguistics calendar. Over the course of five days, we bring together leading national and…
Frankenstein and the Communication Challenges of Regenerative Medicine
Seminar
Within and without the medical profession, many believe we are at the eve of a medical breakthrough of tremendous proportions by the advent of regenerative medical techniques using revolutionary stem cell technologies. They promise much more efficacious treatment of chronic, non-communicable…
School of Art & Design partners with DESIGN Canberra
Activity
School of Art & Design looks forward to partnering with DESIGN Canberra again in 2018. From 5 to 25 November 2018 DESIGN Canberra promotes Canberra as a global city of design. Throughout November 2018, over 100 events, exhibitions, talks, tours, activations, markets, collaborations, artist…
Public Lecture: Professor Mike Tooby
Lecture
‘WHO, ME?’ – PEOPLE, ART AND OTHER ENCOUNTERSa public lecture by U.K. curator, museum director and educationist Mike Tooby is an independent curator and researcher based in Cardiff, Wales.Mike is Professor of Art and Design at Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University. Other recent…
Book Launch - ANU Visiting Fellow Dr Paul Burke
Book launch
Anthropologist and ANU Visiting Fellow Paul Burke is hosting a book launch to celebrate the release of 'An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri, Matriarchs, and the Refashioning of Tradition'. The launch will begin at 5pm, and the official proceedings will commence at 5:30pm, with…
The Xenotext
Seminar
“The Xenotext” is an artistic exercise currently being undertaken by the poet Christian Bök, who proposes to create an example of “living poetry.” Bök plans to generate a short verse about language and genetics, whereupon he plans to use a “chemical alphabet” to translate this poem into a sequence…