Past events
2016 Hispanic Film Festival Presents 'SPOT'
Entertainment
In 'SPOT', Daniel (Daniel Levitt), is a young American actor who is hopelessly in love and hopelessly manipulated by his girlfriend Natalia (a captivating Natalia Miranda). Their break-up pushes Daniel to the edge, and he performs the unthinkable with a bottle of Vanish stain remover in a youtube…
The art of Bharatanatyam
Performance
Presented by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology Aranyani Bhargav’s distinctive approach to Bharatanatyam—giving equal importance to the traditional and modern, the human and divine, the religious and secular—led her to explore other dance forms like ballet and contemporary…
Islamic banking, Islamic economics and Islamic studies: An epistemological exploration of disciplinary boundaries
Lecture
It is clear and common-sensical that ‘Islamic banking’ is a sub-discipline of ‘Islamic economics’, which itself is presumably a discipline within the broader, and long-established, field of inquiry referred to, at least since the 19th-century, as ‘Islamic Studies’. In this exploratory talk, I…
The art of Bharatanatyam: Classical Indian Dance history and current practice (a lecture demonstration for students)
Lecture
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology is delighted to present 'The art of Bharatanatyam, the history and current practice', a Lecture and Demonstration for students. The Lecture will provide a brief overview of the history of the Bharatanatyam Classical Indian dance form, and how its practice…
art forum VISITING ARTIST: Wei Leng Tay
Lecture
Through photography, Singaporean artist Wei Leng Tay considers how socio-economics, history, family and the state intersect with notions of displacement and self-identity. She is best known for portraits taken in spaces familiar to her subjects, typically their home or workplace, or a significant…
Noted Festival: Cold Like Concrete
Exhibition
Cold Like Concrete Reception: 15 March 2016 6:00pm Duration: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 10:30 - Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art, Foyer Gallery The rhythms of poetry, narrative-based construction and oblique autobiography (the literary word) – labours to distort the visual…
New Encounters international conference
Conference
Image: en:Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry/Wikimedia Commons www.nambassa.com New Encounters is an upcoming international conference at the National Museum of Australia. It explores how Indigenous communities and museums around the world are re-thinking their relationships with…