Caring to notice: Sera Waters’ arts activist practice towards attentive and reparative futures
Seminar
Caring to notice: Sera Waters’ arts activist practice towards attentive and reparative futures Sera Waters, an Adelaide-based textile artist, in her activist artistic practice unstitches deep histories in an attempt to repair what was broken by settler colonialism for all bodies – human, non-human…
Repair: The ‘Prematurely Aged’ and ‘Burnt Out’ veteran debate, 1929-1939
Seminar
Repair: The ‘Prematurely Aged’ and ‘Burnt Out’ veteran debate, 1929-1939 This talk will analyse how and why British and Australian welfare policy and medical infrastructures for disabled First World War veterans went in opposite directions during the Great Depression (1929-1939). Despite…
Anthropocene Diary – The aesthetics and politics of writing about the environment in the Anthropocene
Seminar
Anthropocene Diary – the aesthetics and politics of writing about the environment in the Anthropocene This seminar explores the relationship between creative practice, in particular writing, and the epoch we now live in, one defined by the human footprint on all that is non-human in the realm we…
Activism & Literature Book Club - 'We Are Displaced'
Webinar/Online
The ANU Public Culture Network would like to invite you to a new initiative – an online monthly book club focused on discussing literature about social and political activism and protest. To join, please register here Discussion is casual and regular attendance is not required. Similarly,…
The Humanities in Australia: policy, politics and public value
Seminar
The Humanities in Australia: policy, politics and public value Debates about the humanities disciplines in Australia today often oscillate between defences of their economic value, and retreats into anti-market claims about knowledge ‘for its own sake’. That these two arguments form the poles of…
Repairing a way for post-war Australia
Seminar
The Architect’s Vision: Repairing a way for post-war Australia In 1944, the University of Tasmania commissioned the famed Australian architect, Leslie Wilkinson, to design a new university site. Such a bold move was a consequence of the newly appointed Commonwealth government’s desire to begin…
Public Lecture | Digital Humanities and cultural heritage partnerships
Panel discussion
The Digital Humanities (DH) benefit from partnerships with cultural heritage institutions... but how can DH researchers and practitioners build partnerships that facilitate functional, sustainable and innovative collaborations? Dr Kristen Schuster will explore this question based on work with…