The Future of Thinking in an Information Age
Lecture
Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture will analyse what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these technologies and ‘thinking’ in a historical context. Professor Cathy Davidson argues that many of…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - The Politics of Adoption and the Ethical Architecture of Human Rights Cambodia
Seminar
Deciding what is best for a child poses a question no less ultimate than who decides on the ethical system that should inform the choice?” --Steven Parker, Faculty of Law, Griffin University, Australia, discussing the implementation of universal child rights cross-culturally (1994:30). …
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Maori, portraiture and the aesthetics of cross-cultural appropriation
Seminar
Landscape and portrait painting and photography were popular in late 19th and early 20th century European settler visual culture. Yet of the two, Maori avidly appropriated portraiture, incorporating it into displays of ancestry and genealogy that form the interiors of descent group meetinghouses.…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - The British Empire and the Birth of Historical Research in India, c. 1890-1950.
Seminar
Focusing on colonial India, this seminar tracks the use of the word “research” by historians and attempts to understand and contextualize the practices that constituted “research” in history before “research” as an activity assumed its present, professional university-related form. Dipesh…
Handing on/handing over the Classical Tradition?
Seminar
Drs Martha and Margaret Malamud will give short presentations on their own scholarly engagement with the Classical tradition in the American context. Other topics of discussion may include: who owns Classics and who should teach it? what is nature of the Classical tradition in Australasia and…
Imaging Identity: Media, Memory and Visions of Humanity in the Digital Present
Conference
Imaging Identity Lecture Series Lecture Series Booking Form Keynote Speakers WJT Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History,…
Friday Forum - Dance and Life: Art as a tool for social transformation
Seminar
Jacqueline Lo is the Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. Her talk will centre on a four-minute video about 'In Repose', a dance-ritual performance by Japanese-Australian artists to honour early Japanese sojourners and their relations with…