Public Lecture | Identity and Transnationalism in Australian and Global Art
Lecture
Artist John Young in conversation with Dr Christopher Chapman and Christine Clark from the National Portrait Gallery and Professor Jacqueline Lo, The Australian National University John Young discusses his figurative, abstract and textual projects which have been realised in the last decade. While…
Conference | Politics, Emotions and the Periodical Press
Conference
Politics, Emotions and the Periodical Press, c.1780-1830 11 - 12 September 2017 Speakers Jon Mee (University of York, UK) Kevin Gilmartin (Caltech, US) Kim Wheatley (College of William and Mary, US) Joanne Wilkes (Auckland) Conveners Jock MacLeod (Griffith University) Pete…
Songs of Flight: Sonic Reenactments of Genocide on the Refugee Route
Seminar
In the scope of its horror and its claims to totality, genocide would seem to be, if not beyond representation, then at least beyond reenactment. The talk points out, however, that filmmakers, composers, performance artists, historians, exhibition designers, and living history practitioners…
Strange New Women: The White Snake in Three Keys
Seminar
The question of the stranger is at the heart of Strange New Women. The White Snake figure, as portrayed in the Chinese folk and literary traditions, is a stranger in the human realm. A snake spirit who transforms into a beautiful woman, she marries a human male, and, in some versions, even bears…
Ad Hominem #5
Seminar
The third event in the 2017 Ad Hominem series features: Dr Monque Rooney (School of Literature, Languages and Lingustics) Assoc Prof Mitchell Whitelaw (School of Art and Design) John Mackey (School of Music) An ad hominem argument interrogates not the argument itself, but the…
The Making of Jane Austen
Lecture
Public Lecture How did Jane Austen, a no-name author in her own day, become an international literary icon? It started long before Colin Firth’s wet-white-shirt Darcy. Devoney Looser’s lecture will introduce you to some of the unsung innovators who first turned ‘Miss Austen’ into a household name…