Work-in-Progress Seminar - Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, G.M Trevelyan and the defence of literary history
Seminar
In January 1903, the new Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, J.B. Bury, delivered a famous inaugural lecture on ‘the Science of History’, proclaiming the virtues of collective research and scholarship over the traditional belletristic qualities of English historical writing, reaching back to…
Friday Forum - The Politics of Exhibitions
Seminar
In what ways and to what extent are exhibitions shaped by implicit and explicit political forces? Censorship, national pride, geopolitics, cultural inclusion and religion are some of the issues that will be explored in this forum on the politics of exhibitions. Jackie Menzies will bring a world…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Art as a site of engagement: Indian Portraits
Seminar
Encounters between Indians and foreigners from the late 18th century through to the present have produced a body of potent graphic images that reflect national and personal relations through periods of colonization, rapid urbanisation and social change. New technologies such as lithography,…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Sounding civilised: British sound-portraits of Europeans and English-speaking peoples in the Second World War.
Seminar
This paper builds on recent work that highlights the significance of language, accents and voice in defining national identity. It uses British film and radio produced in the Second World War to trace an increasingly inclusive version of ‘the sounds of civilisation’ against German barbarism: one…
In the Image of Asia: Moving across and between locations
Conference
Convened by: Dr Fuyubi Nakamura, RSH, ANU & Dr Ana Dragojlovic, RSPAS, ANU Registration form (Word Doc)Program (PDF 540Kb)Abstracts (PDF 1.5MB) This interdisciplinary conference explores how ‘Asia’ has been imagined, imaged, represented and transferred visually across linguistic,…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Imaging the Transnational Subject: State Collapse and Public Art in Sierra Leone
Seminar
In this seminar Dr Christensen will examine a 1993 public art movement that took place in Sierra Leone as the country teetered on the edge of state collapse in the face of both a recent military coup and an incipient civil war. Inspired by the successful coup and the expectation that the war’…
Sunbaked: Some reflections on Australian photography, land and landscape, historically and now
Seminar
Abstract: Taking photography as a rhetorical art practice, this paper considers contemporary Australian photography engaged with land, landscape and place, investigating ways in which imagery contributes to inflecting our understanding of ‘Australianness’. Examples discussed refer to the outback,…