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FRIDAY FORUM
The Friday Forum is a venue for scholars, artists and performers to present ideas in a variety of formats: debates, round tables, conversations with creators, performances, and focused discussions on matters of public importance. Approached from a variety of humanities perspectives, the Friday Forum appeals broadly to the university community and to members of the public.
For further information, or to suggest ideas for the Friday Forum, please contact the convenor.
These Forums will be held on Fridays at 1 – 2.30 pm.
All Seminars will be held in the Theatrette, Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing, ANU unless otherwise notified.
Ist Semester Convenors: Carolyn Strange: carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au
and Mary Hutchison: mary.hutchison@anu.edu.au
2nd Semester Convenors: Kate Bowan: kate.bowan@anu.edu.au and Mary Hutchison: mary.hutchison@anu.edu.au
15 May |
From ‘Great Depression’ to ‘Global Financial Crisis’?
Historical Reflections
Prof. Tim Hatton, Economics Program, RSSS
Dr. Rick Kuhn, Reader, Political Science, School of Social Sciences
Facilitator: Dr Carolyn Strange, RSH
Recent downturns in the global economy have brought events of the 1930s to the forefront of public consciousness. In this Forum a political scientist and an economic historian discuss the economic and political insights that may arise by comparing these two historical moments. (abstract) |
29 May |
Hidden Treasures on Campus
From the local to the Global
Maggie Shapley, University Archivist and head, Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Ewen Maidment, archivist, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
Kylie Maloney, archivist, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
Facilitator: Dr. Mary Hutchison, RSH
Few realise that local archives on the ANU campus house items of global significance. Three archivists discuss how these treasures - a single artefact, a text, an image, a data entry – can permit researchers to explore big questions and the wider world. (abstract) |
5 June |
The Art of Creative Research
Ruth Waller: Head of Painting, ANU School of Art
Suzanne Moss: PhD candidate (painting), ANU School of Art
Nicola Dickson: PhD candidate (painting), ANU School of Art
Facilitator: Helen Ennis, Associate Professor, Art Theory Workshop, ANU School of Art
How do paintings work as 'question-producing machines'? Three painters draw on their experience of the studio-based PhD to explore the proposition that the research of practicing artists may constitute a new field of art scholarship, quite distinct from the established practices of art history and art theory.(abstract) |
12 June |
Framing Identity
Dr Christopher Chapman, curator, National Portrait Gallery
Dr Sarah Engledow, curator, National Portrait Gallery
Jude Rae, artist, commissioned by National Portrait Gallery
Facilitator: Professor Melanie Nolan
National Portrait Gallery curators Dr Sarah Engledow and Dr Christopher Chapman, and artist Jude Rae, discuss the logic behind the collection display at the new gallery, and the conceptual and practical imperatives of portrait commissions.
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| 18 September |
Literary Worlds, Global Contexts:
the challenge of literary study in the
twenty-first century
Dr Debjani Ganguly, RSH
Hamish Dalley, PhD candidate, RSH
Dr Russell Smith, English Department, School
of Humanities
Facilitator: Dr Ned Curthoys, RSH
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speakers discuss recent transnational approaches in literary studies, analysing post-1989 world
literatures, politically contested historical fictions, and the international reception of Beckett,
suggesting new and politically engaged possibilities for literary interpretation in a globalizing
world. (abstract) |
| 16 October |
Energy Politics:
Key issues for Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Professor Stephen Howes
Dr Hugh Saddler
Facilitator: Carolyn Hendriks
Will ‘energy politics’ help or hinder efforts to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in developed and developing
countries? Two experts with backgrounds in energy and climate
change economics and policy highlight the critical issues as
they are currently emerging. (abstract) |
ALL WELCOME
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