ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour October 2023
Tour
Join us for a 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…
Repairing the Lombok Royal Library: Violence in the Making of Cultural Heritage
Seminar
Repair of the cultural damage inflicted by colonialism is an increasingly explicit aim of museums, libraries and governments in the 21st century. This project aims to provide a secure historical basis for arguments about the restitution and repatriation of the heritage objects of colonised peoples…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Total Recall & Discussion
Arts & entertainment
Total Recall (1990), hailed as one of the best science-fiction films of all time, raises many questions about technology. What is real and what is fantasy in inner and outer techno-space? Can we use Total Recall to test theories about how technology is influenced by social pressures and desires?…
Why write about sex work?
Seminar
The global sex industry has emerged as one of the most pressing and debated humanitarian concerns of our age. Much of the debate has centred on whether individuals working in the sex industry are victims of male sexual violence or liberated, labouring agents. Rather than weigh in on this debate, I…
ULTRA-PERCEPTION: Science Goes Pop
Seminar
What if there was a never-before-seen, super contemporary format that brings science to life through art and technology, awe and wonder. A funky format that makes you discover and understand crazy things about our world that you want to further explore with friends, family, your gang – that you…
Naming Country again: place names and Aboriginal cultural renewal on Australia’s Southeast Coast
Seminar
In 2017 Grace Karskens stumbled across a list of 178 Aboriginal place-names for Dyarubbin and Ganangdayi, the Hawkesbury and Macdonald Rivers in New South Wales. An avid researcher of this area for over ten years, Karskens had never dreamed such a document existed. This list became the heart of a…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Sound of Metal & Discussion
Arts & entertainment
Why are so many films about deafness also about music? Why do cinema and television so often represent hearing loss as a tragedy, and cochlear implants as a magical ‘cure’ for deafness? In some ways, the 2019 American Sign Language-film Sound of Metal repeats these patterns. In others, it subverts…