(Re)Assembling Museological Diversity
Seminar
(Re)Assembling Museological Diversity In this talk, Christina Kreps describes a collaborative project devoted to researching, assembling, archiving, and disseminating materials on diverse forms of museums, curation, and heritage practice. The project aims to fill a gap in the literature and…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Chappie + Panel
Arts & entertainment
Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, and Sigourney Weaver star in this sci-fi action drama from Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9. The human police force in a near-future Johannesburg is largely replaced by robots, deployed to tackle soaring crime rates.…
Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought
Seminar
‘I believe many a great speaker to have been ignorant when he opened his mouth of what he was going to say.’ So poet and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist notes, in an 1806 fragment entitled On the Gradual Production of Thoughts whilst Speaking (2004). In that piece, Kleist recommends speaking your…
ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour - May
Tour
Join us for our popular guided walking tour of the ANU Sculpture Walk. The tour is led by HRC’s Emeritus Professor David Williams, whose esteemed career included, amongst other things, being Director of the ANU School of Art from 1985 to 2006. Tours commence from the Baldessin…
Anna Trapnel Forever: Life Writing and the Risk of Eternity
Seminar
This paper considers the representation of ‘relative time’ in the apocalyptic work of Anna Trapnel. Trapnel believes that she is living through the ‘fifth monarchy’, a brief age of spiritual turmoil which advents the end of the world. In her autobiographical work, written in the wake of the bloody…
Alternative Museologies: Historical Groundings and Future Horizons
Workshop
Alternative Museologies: Historical Groundings and Future Horizons May 20-22, Humanities Research Centre and online via Zoom This workshop is devoted to conceptualizing and planning a collaborative book and archiving project devoted to assembling examples of vernacular museum models, curatorial…
National Museums of the Future: Australia, USA and Asia
Webinar/Online
Please join us for this conversation brought to you by the ANU Humanities Research Centre in partnership with U3A Canberra. Zooming into the Future – of Australia a new series of online discussions dedicated to understanding what the Australia of the future might look like. National Museums of…