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Murrudha: Sovereign walks - tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language, and music - Track #14
Gallery
Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – Track #14 is the fourteenth outcome associated with the ANU Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge project "Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language and music".Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – Track #14 has been led…
Bodies as Living Laboratories: Towards A Sociology of Experimentation
Seminar
Experimentation has become one of the most dominant forms of knowledge production in use today, invoked by scientists, artists, activists, policy makers, and critical theorists alike to describe practices that generate new knowledge, enable new modes of expression, or transform existing conditions…
Ancestral futures in practice - museums as platforms for continuities
Lecture/seminar
Recognising and embedding First Nations concepts within museum work has characterised museum practice for the past two decades. Today, First Nations leaders within museums have the opportunity to extend on this – translating concepts into practice in ways that feel natural and empowering.Hear from…
Unboxing the Historian: Sources and Surprises in the Neil Gunson Archive
Seminar
What remains of the scholar when the man is gone? A great mass of paper is one answer: paper with major potential for future researchers. To realise that potential, by turning an inchoate heap of material into a coherent historical resource, is the job of the archivist.The mandate of the ANU…
Biography as Justice: Recasting Cultural Legacies of Harm
Seminar
Content warning: This talk will reference experiences of childhood sexual abuse, framed by the voices and stories of survivors.This paper considers questions from a forthcoming biography of Dorothy Hewett that explore not just how her legacy can be reconsidered in the light of revelations about…
'Each book, in a word, carries a history': New Insights from First Fleet Association Copies
Lecture/seminar
The First Fleet sailed from England on 13 May 1787, carrying more than 1,500 people. What books they read, owned or carried with them remains a subject of great historical and research value for understanding Early European settlement in Australia. This paper examines surviving books of First Fleet…
Murrudha: Sovereign Walks - In Conversation Event
Gallery
Join us for an in conversation event about the ANU Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge, Murrudha: Sovereign Walks - Cultural Actions In Progress. Hear from the panellists below as they explore our current exhibition Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – Track #14. 1-…