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…
Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition Finals
Activity
The Australian National University is delighted to present the Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition to be awarded in 2018 at the School of Music. The Whitworth-Roach Classical Music Performance Competition occurs annually and is open to all ANU students. The competition has a…
Beyond Words? Trauma in Literature from the Concentration Camps
Seminar
Cathy Caruth’s studies on trauma and literature, especially her seminal 1996 work, Unclaimed Experience, laid much of the groundwork of literary trauma theory. Caruth labelled trauma ‘the unexperienced event’. Direct knowledge of the traumatic experience, according to Caruth, is impossible; the ‘…