Recovering Lives

6-8 August 2008

Convened by: Professor Cassandra Pybus, Dr Caroline Turner and Dr Paul Arthur

Venue: Old Canberra House, Australian National University & Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia

This interdisciplinary conference engages with three HRC research concentrations: biography and society; creativity and human rights; and history and re-enactment. The highly eclectic program places a strong emphasis on visual media and on issues of human rights. The conference considers the ways lives can be recovered through political activism, archival research, textual reconstruction, documentary film, digital media, performance, photography, painting and sculpture. It will feature documentaries by three prize winning film makers. Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Professor Kevin Bales, internationally renowned founder of Free the Slaves
Professor Ross Gibson, ground breaking exponent and theorist of digital media

For enquiries and expressions of interest, contact the convener, Caroline Turner, E: caroline.turner@anu.edu.au