Australia's Indigenous languages
Lecture
Speakers at the forum will include: Professor Jane Simpson, Head of the ANU School of Linguistics and Language Studies and a researcher of Australian languages Dr Jaky Troy, Director, Indigenous Social and Cultural Wellbeing Program (AIATSIS) Dr Patrick McConvell, Research Fellow in Linguistics…
Hypermediated Deathworlds: New wars, the world novel and exorbitant witnessing
Seminar
The eighteenth century novel was seen as a genre par excellence embodying the interplay between distant suffering, technology , and humanitarian witnessing. For novel studies today, the charge of this formulation has multiplied beyond measure in the current era of saturated visualisation of…
Masterclass with Paul Magee: Creative Practice as Research
Workshop
Critiques of practice led research Higher degree research in the creative arts over the last twenty years has overwhelmingly taken the bifurcated form of 1) an artwork produced in relation to a given problem plus 2) an accompanying essay describing the research gains made while producing that…
Development and human rights: an unsustainable marriage? Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights 2012
Lecture
Sundhya Pahuja is jointly Professor of International Law at the University of Melbourne, and Research Professor in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. She researches, supervises and teaches in the areas of international law, development and…
Acknowledging the Past, Sustaining the Present and Future: Preserving Immigrant Cultural Heritage
Lecture
By integrating and preserving migrant cultural heritage for posterity and viewing it as an active and ongoing contribution to the evolving narrative of Australian identity and nationhood, we achieve a “right” of social citizenship to share in the heritage of the country (Marshall 1994). We also…
Euphemism and language change: The sixth and seventh ages
Seminar
Word taboo plays perpetual havoc with the methods of historical comparative linguistics, even undermining one of the cornerstones of the discipline — the arbitrary nature of the word. When it comes to taboo words, speakers behave as if there were a very real connection between the physical shape of…
Expanding the Museum: Connecting Artists with Audiences
Lecture
"As well as prying money out of the hands of politicians and businesspeople, Macgregor's other major achievement has been opening up contemporary art to the masses. She scrapped entrance fees, lured big name artists and formed an innovative partnership with the Penrith Panthers, a working class…