Nalda Searles - Drifting in my own land
Exhibition
Nalda Searles is a living icon of Western Australian art. For nearly thirty years she has been an innovator in the use of native fibres and found objects from the environment for the production of fibre-textiles, sculpture and installation artworks. Her practice draws from the unique landscape of…
The Problem of Scale: Narrative Universals in the Human Sciences
Lecture
This talk will examine the grounds for an epistemology in relation to a different time scale in the human sciences, one that can allow us to incorporate ecology, deep time, and technological change as transformative. It will discuss both the ideographic and nomothetic versions of the human sciences…
Touching, Unbelonging and the Absence of Affect
Lecture
She is particularly interested in the use of the visualization of an interface, and suggests that works by Derek Jarman and Shirin Neshat focus less on the spectacular nature of autobiographical expressiveness and more on the problem of the idea of affect as belonging Ranjana Khanna is Margaret…
HRC Seminar: Fuel as Hope: The Humanities confronting climate change
Seminar
Over the past few years, Professor Pinkus' research has involved the possible contribution of the humanities can make to the discussion of climate change. Most of her work has been of a speculative nature. While most scientists embrace the idea that the problems of climate change are so…
Climate change, climate justice, and the anthropos of the anthropocene
Lecture
Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished ServiceProfessor, Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. He holds a visiting Professorial Fellowship at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University…
Can humans manage the anthropocene: Australian carbon pricing in context
Lecture
Professor Ross Garnaut (AO) is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and a Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne, as well as a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Australian National University. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles in journals on…
Floating ideas upon a wine-dark sea, or why I like to look at broken pots
Lecture
The talk will also feature many images of potsherds and detailed photographs of some of the most exquisite paintings from the sixth century BC. Anne Mackay teaches courses in mythology, Greek art and society, and the art of the Bronze Age Aegean, as well as Greek and Latin literature. Her interests…