Research Seminar: Dr Nicholas Ng
Seminar
Chinese Music Performance in Australia Abstract: Performances of Chinese music have been part of the Australian soundscape since at least the 1850s. In recent decades, urban Australia’s main engagement with Chinese music was most likely through buskers – often middle-aged or…
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism
Seminar
Migrant Welfare Workers (1970-90s) and the Frontlines of Australian Multiculturalism The perspectives of ethnic-minority and migrant-background women are pivotal to understanding the history of multiculturalism as an access and equity issue. This paper draws on oral histories conducted…
Research Seminar: Towards Hetero-Optimism
Seminar
This research project presents a six-episode podcast series exploring the cultural logic of Asa Seresin’s concept "heteropessimism". We are carefully and critically exploring how to build alternative visions for sexualities that do not reinscribe the hierarchical binary opposition of heterosexual…
Sound, Image, Text : Symposium
Symposium
Sound, Image, Text: Symposium 24-25 August 2023 Sir Roland Wilson Building Room 2.02 Sound, Image, Text brings together a range of art historians, musicologists and literary scholars to speak on Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s long-forgotten illustrated songbook Choix de Chansons (1773) and…
Fighting with money: Patriotism, Thrift and Warfare in the British World, 1939-1950
Seminar
During and immediately after the second world war, propaganda educated British subjects around the world to consider their money as a weapon. Campaigners called for individual war savings, collective donations, sacrifice, and performative thrift. Propagandists, and their targets who read the news,…
Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Seminar
Please note this event is available via Zoom only This talk explores the cultural, political, and affective significance of mourning among the Indigenous Marind communities of rural Merauke West Papua, whose intimate and ancestral relations to native plants, animals, and ecosystems are…
ANU Viola Day 2023
Workshop
Registrations close COB next Monday 14 August. ANU Viola Day 2023 will be hosted by the Australian National University School of Music. Back by popular demand, this event will bring together ANU School of Music and Open School of Music viola students and other violists from across Canberra and the…