Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian art histories
Seminar
Artistic Meridians: Connecting Australian and Asian Art Histories This talk will present some new work relating to a larger transcultural research project currently being developed with colleagues at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University that seeks to connect art…
Untangling the history of Chinese naturalisation in the British settler colonial world
Seminar
Untangling the history of Chinese naturalisation in the British settler colonial world From the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese migrants to the British settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada sought to cement their place in the colonial community by becoming naturalised British…
Didactic blue, Humans and Machine Learning to See
Seminar
Presented by the HRC Public Culture Cluster in collaboration with the Computational Culture Lab, School of Art & Design. This talk considers John Berger’s (1972) famous assertion that “the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” If these relations are further…
Hans Mol’s “The Faith of Australians”, Redux
Lecture
Professor Andrew Singleton (Deakin) presents the annual Hans Mol Memorial Lecture in Religion and the Social Sciences This public lecture revisits Hans Mol’s 1985 book The Faith of Australians, a major sociological analysis of religion and Australian society. The Faith of Australians saw Mol…
Works that Shaped the World: The Conference of the Birds
Seminar
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. ‘Aṭṭar’s 12th century Persian epic of the birds, best known as “the Conference of the Birds” (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr), describes the birds’ quest for their king, the Simorgh, whom they discover in an unexpected way…
Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic Telegraph
Seminar
The ANU School of Cybernetics, in collaboration with the Humanities Research Centre at ANU, presents: Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic Telegraph When the first Transatlantic Telegraph cable connected Valentia Island in Ireland, with Heart’s Content in Newfoundland…
Cultural Conversations: November 2022
Meeting
Presented in partnership between the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA) ACT and the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at the Australian National University. Event Report - Cultural Conversations 4 - November 2022 The last two years have brought about huge challenges…