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Conversations Across the Creek 2022
The potential, challenges, processes and realities of collaboration, conversation, and contestation across, between, and with, humanities and science disciplines will be explored in this series, which brings together researchers from diverse fields working together or using innovative methodologies from other fields to address a specific issue or topic. It shows that despite our disciplinary norms, practices of open curiosity, critical thinking, and team-work underpins research excellence across the ANU.
Our discussion topics present issues and concerns at the heart of both humanities and science research, and significance for the community at large. The speakers show that despite being based in ‘home’ disciplines as diverse as archaeology, anthropology, history, visual art, astronomy, medicine, and demography, our research methods and solutions are always improved through dialogue across difference.
Conversations Across the Creek has been running for several years to provide a space for continuing dialogue among ANU scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. It recognises that despite the physical separation of the sciences from the humanities on our campus (separated by Sullivan’s Creek), shared intellectual spaces and communities of practice continue to grow apace, and with great results.
In 2022, the series is convened by Kylie Message (HRC), Anna-Sophie Jurgens (Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science), Elisa de Courcy (Centre for Art History and Art Theory), Alison Behie (School of Archaeology and Anthropology), and Ruth Morgan (Centre for Environmental History).
Video presentations of the conversations will be shared on the HRC /ANU website via You Tube thanks to the expertise of Amr Tawfik (School of Art and Design).
Past conversations can be found below.
2022 Program
August: Increasing understandings of maternal health threats through cross-disciplinary research
Cynthia Parayiwa (PhD student, School of Archaeology and Anthropology), Dr Mike Roettger, School of Demography), Dr Amita Bansal (JCSMR). Chair: Dr Alison Behie (School of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Wednesday 17 August, 2022. 1pm -2pm
Green Couch Room, Peter Baume Building 42A, ANU
September: Biodiversity Cancelled due to announcement of Public Holiday on Sept 22
Professor Arnagretta Hunter (medicine), Professor Mitch Whitelaw (School of Art and Design), Cameron Boyle (PhD student, School of Sociology). Chair: Dr Ruth MorganThursday 22 September, 2022. 1pm -2pm
RSSS Auditorium, 1.28, Building 146, Ellery Cres ACTON
October: Visualising research
Dr Anna Madeleine Raupach (School of Art and Design), Dr Mathieu Leclerc (School of Archaeology and Anthropology), Dr Martyn Jolly (School of Art and Design). Chairs: Dr Anna-Sophie Jurgens (Australian National Centre for the Public Communication of Science), Dr Elisa de Courcy (Centre for Art History and Art Theory)
Thursday 20 October, 2022.
10:30am - 11:30am
RSSS Auditorium, 1.28, Building 146, Ellery Cres ACTON
Past events
Conversations Across the Creek: Visualising research
20 Oct 2022
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17 Aug 2022
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16 Oct 2020
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9 Oct 2020
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25 Sep 2020
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21 Aug 2020
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11 Oct 2019
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9 Aug 2019
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10 May 2019
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for...
