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…
Keywords Public Lecture Series: Shameem Black on Humanitarianism
Lecture
Speaker: Dr Shameem Black joined ANU from the United States, where she received her PhD from Stanford University in 2004 and served as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Yale University from 2004 to 2009. Her research and teaching focus on questions of globalization and ethics in…
Historians at Work: The historians' boots
Lecture
What are historians looking for when they set out on foot (or by road, rail or air) in their quest for the past? And how often do they find it? The questions raised include: Has the digital age made travel superfluous? Do historians' observations of a particular landscape shape…