City Hill for Canberrans
Workshop
School of Art & Design students are running an ANU project that revisits Canberrans' knowledge of City Hill's unique history and their dreams for its future. Many people have never visited City Hill, so the team are using visual arts to bring City Hill to campus through an AR model and…
‘The Future of Our Past’ ~ Memory Activism and the Feminist Temporalities of International Women’s Year 1975
Seminar
Rising from the ashes of patriarchally induced historical amnesia, feminist history is now delivered to us in discontinuous ‘chunks’ of activist time or tenuously connected crests and troughs. The perception that this narrative gives us of discontinuity spurs feelings of disconnection as feminists…
PhD Oral Presentation - Meanings on Music in post-firestorm Mallacoota NYE 2019
Seminar
Padma Newsome extends an open invitation to their PhD Oral Presentation. Mr Newsome will present thesis readings, music, poetry, and dance emanating from the fire fields and garnered during a 4 year inquiry engagement. The presentation will articulate some of Mr Newsome’s approach to share-make (…
Unsettling nature: Cross-cultural conversations about potential bioengineered conservation in the Torres Strait, Australia
Seminar
Applied over generations, a bioengineered gene drive promises to radically reduce invasive species’ populations through suppressed breeding. As this technology develops, synthetic biology (synbio) scientists have identified islands as potential environments in which to trial the release of approved…
Jéssica Andrade Tolentino and Thomas Nulley-Valdés, “Navigating Boundaries: Intergenerational dynamics and imaginaries of childhood in Alejandro Zambra’s fictions”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 9 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. As part of doctoral research conducted at the Australian National University, this presentation proposes a…
Benengeli 2024 Canberra
Lecture
Welcome to Benengeli 2024! Benengeli 2024, International Week of Literature in Spanish, is a festival to promote literature in Spanish around the globe. The Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, which is participating again in the Benengeli Festival, is hosting the visit of the Spanish author Jordi…
Mural Art for Outreach at UC
Seminar
Mural art for outreach at UC This casual chat will present our public art project, called Creative Encounter. As the name suggests, we are curious about the impact of art at the moment of encounter. The project begins with the premise that art has a power to circumvent the barriers of language and…