Frankenstein and the Communication Challenges of Regenerative Medicine
Seminar
Within and without the medical profession, many believe we are at the eve of a medical breakthrough of tremendous proportions by the advent of regenerative medical techniques using revolutionary stem cell technologies. They promise much more efficacious treatment of chronic, non-communicable…
Books that Changed Humanity | Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Lecture
***Tickets for this event have sold out. Registered attendees are asked to bring their Eventbrite ticket with them to ensure they get a seat in the theatre*** Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University.…
The Xenotext
Seminar
“The Xenotext” is an artistic exercise currently being undertaken by the poet Christian Bök, who proposes to create an example of “living poetry.” Bök plans to generate a short verse about language and genetics, whereupon he plans to use a “chemical alphabet” to translate this poem into a sequence…
Conversations Across the Creek | Rethinking Roman Cameo Glass: A Unique Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
Seminar
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 continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
Feminism, Literary Reception, and the Case of Amanda Lohrey
Seminar
When it comes to gender and literary culture in Australia, it would seem that everything old is new again. Over the past decade feminists have identified gender bias in our prizes and reviews, made interventions, and seen changes. Now, it seems, it’s not such a bad time to be a woman writer in…
Double Helix History
Seminar
In this paper I want to think about what Jackie Pearson and others have termed the ‘genetic imaginary’. That is, popular understanding of the work of our DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it. In particular I’m interested in how genetic science interacts…
Conversations Across the Creek | Lactation After Infant Loss in Contemporary Motherhood and Health Service Delivery
Seminar
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 continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…