Research School of Humanities Friday Forums

1 May, 2009

(Starting) 15 May (1.00-2.30pm)

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.

All Seminars will be held in the Theatrette, Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing, ANU unless otherwise notified.

Convenors: Carolyn Strange: carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au
and Mary Hutchison: mary.hutchison@anu.edu.au

2009 Semester One Program

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.
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.
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.
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: tbc 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.