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AMplify - Conversations at the Australian Museum

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Join Director and CEO Kim McKay AO in conversation with scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) and experts in First Nations and Pacific cultures. When not 'in conversation', AMplify will bring the best from the AM’s live talks, giving you a front row seat at enlightening presentations from inspirational people.
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Live at the AM - LunchtimeLectures Glenn Murcutt 25 June 2019

Glenn Murcutt AO (with Sandra Sully) Architect Glenn Murcutt is globally acclaimed for his environmentally sensitive, sustainable and quintessentially Australian designs. The sole practitioner, teacher and critic, counts his childhood in Papua New Guinea and his father’s inspiring guidance, informed by the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, as profound influences. Murcutt has received every significant award including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal and the AIA Gold Medal. Reco...

Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 12 min

Live at the AM - LunchtimeLectures Albert Namatjira By Franchesca Cubillo 18 June 2019

Albert Namatjira by Franchesca Cubillo (with Tracey Holmes) Born on the Hermannsburg Lutheran mission in the Northern Territory in 1902, the life of iconic master painter and Western Arrernte man Albert Namatjira was entangled in virulent racial politics. Franchescha Cubillo, Churchill Scholar and Senior Curator Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, offers insights into the Hermannsburg Movement, the artist’s magnificent paintings and enduring legacy. ...

Dec 05, 2019•57 min

Live at the AM - HumanNature seies 2019: Mark Carey 22 Oct 2019

Mark Carey- The Culture and Politics of Ice University of Oregon’s Mark Carey explores the fundamental role of glacial ice in global economics and politics and within our imaginative, historical and colonial narratives. Much more than just a barometer for climate change or pristine nature, glacial ice has been an elemental force in human history, fundamental to global politics and central to the quest to make oceans, mountains and the polar regions safe for global markets. Recorded on the 22 Oct...

Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 7 min

Live at the AM. HumanNature seies 2019: Katherine Gibson And Juan Francisco Salazar 20 Aug 2019

HumanNature Series: Lessons on resilience from a bamboo bridge Katherine Gibson and Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University) explore life within the rhythms of nature in resilient community economies. For more than half a century, a 1.5 km handmade bamboo bridge spanned the Mekong River in Cambodia. It was constructed annually as the waters of the river subsided, and dismantled as they rose again with the monsoon rains, until in 2017, it was replaced by a concrete structure permanently...

Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 2 min

Live at the AM - HumanNature series 2019. Andrea Gaynor 12 Nov 2019

Andrea Gaynor - Armoured histories: radical remembering for the Anthropocene Hold the past to account with Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia as she proposes `radical remembering’ to actively confront the challenges of the Anthropocene. Climate breakdown, annihilation of entire species, dwindling topsoil and fresh water, food shocks and plastic oceans led 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg to admonish the assembly of wealthy and powerful at the 2019 World Economic Forum to ‘...

Nov 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min

Live at the AM: HumanNature 2018 - Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe’s ground-breaking research completely reconsiders the notion of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians as hunter-gatherers. Explore and challenge the colonial myths that have often underpinned efforts to justify dispossession in this fascinating discussion. Reading the diaries of early explorers, both with and against the grain, Pascoe retells Aboriginal history and argues that it is time to take a new look at Australia’s past. Bruce Pascoe is Bunurong/Tasmanian Yuin man and an award w...

Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 3 min

Live at the AM: HumanNature 2018 - Rob Nixon

Environmental martyrs put their bodies and lives on the line, risking imprisonment, violence or burial in a shallow grave in the dead of night. Some activists remain anonymous, while others gain posthumous fame and power, their deaths becoming a rallying call for others to join the cause. Rob Nixon, Professor in Humanities and Environment at Princeton University, and author of the award-winning Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, explores the surge in environmental martyrdom arou...

Oct 18, 2019•46 min

Live at the AM - Lunchtime Conversations 2019 - Gabi Hollows

Professor Fred Hollows AC by Gabi Hollows AO (with Sandra Sully) New Zealand born, UK trained eye surgeon Fred Hollows’ drive to end the injustice of avoidable blindness emerged from a deep commitment to social equality. The economical approach to ophthalmology – focussing on training local surgeons and reducing the cost of lens - which he and his orthoptist wife Gabi developed, has restored sight to more than 2.5 million people. The Fred Hollows Foundation which the couple established in 1992 j...

Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 27 min

Live at the AM - HumanNature 2019: Macarena Gomez Baris 25 June 2019

Dr Macarena Gomez-Barris - The Occupied Forest Venture into the cacophonous space of the forest with Macarena Gómez-Barris of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn USA, as she considers its contested conceptual, indigenous and potentially regenerative narratives. Recorded in the Hallstrom Theatre at the Australian Museum on 25 June 2019

Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 5 min

Live at the AM - Lunchtime Conversation Series: Noel Gordon

Google Maps began in the spare room of software engineer Noel Gordon’s Sydney apartment in 2003. Today’s instant digital information, directions and street views of almost anywhere on earth has changed our lives, our understanding of the world and how we move and interact within it. Noel Gordon is in conversation with Australian Museum Director and CEO Kim MCKay. Recorded at the Australian Museum in the Hailstorm Theatre on the 25 September 2018.

Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 3 min

Live at the AM. Lunchtime Conversation series 2018 - Kim McKay

Australian Museum Director and CEO Kim McKay AO has led the transformation of the nation’s first museum into one of the world's pre-eminent natural history and cultural institutions. Kim also co-founded the Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World campaigns, and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the environment and the community. She offers reflections on the historic, scientific and cultural significance of the newly-restored Westpac Long Gallery, the n...

Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 4 min

Live at the AM — Lunchtime Conversation Series 2018: Dick Smith

Dick Smith in conversation with Kim McKay as part of the Australian Museum Lunchtime Lecture series. Sydney born Dick Smith is an adventurer, businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, political activist and 1986 Australian of the Year. The founder of Dick Smith Electronics became a household name, launching Australian Geographic magazine in 1984 to sponsor adventure and inspire a love of nature. His own groundbreaking aviation feats include a solo helicopter flight around the world and to the N...

Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 6 min

Live at the AM — Lunchtime Conversation Series 2019: Author Thomas Keneally

This talk took place on Tuesday 21 May 2019 in the Hallstrom Theatre as the first installment of the Australian Museum's Lunchtime Conversation Series. Author Thomas Keneally in conversation with Australian Museum Director & CEO, Kim McKay One of our most popular and prolific authors, Thomas Keneally has produced more than forty novels, screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction. His embrace of challenging themes and social justice is evident in Bring Larks and Heroes, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmi...

Aug 05, 2019•1 hr 9 min

Live at the AM — HumanNature 2019: Craig Santos-Perez

This talk was presented on 14 May 2019 as part of the Australian Museum's HumanNature series. HumanNature Series: Environmental justice and the power of the Pacific word Experience the award-winning "eco-poetry" of Craig Santos Perez from the University of Hawaiʻi, as he reflects on the vital role of Pacific literature in the environmental movements of Oceania. The Pacific region is at the front line of Climate Change. Can literature play a significant role in raising awareness and inspiring act...

Jul 16, 2019•58 min

Live at the AM — HumanNature 2019: Lesley Green

This talk was presented as part of the Australian Museum's HumanNature series on 30 April 2019. HumanNature Series: Is green the new white? Lesley Green (University of Cape Town) considers how environmentalism squares with anti-racism and social justice in the sourcing of `green’ commodities from the sands of South Africa. Green explores the impact of extracting titanium dioxide, used to produce lighter spectacles, more fuel-efficient airplane parts, whiter paper and food, on the coastal settlem...

Jun 20, 2019•59 min

Live at the AM — HumanNature 2019: Tony Birch

This talk was presented as part of the Australian Museum's HumanNature series on 26 February 2019. HumanNature: Connection and cooperation in a time of climate change In his urgent call to action, Birch identifies the powerful roles that First Nations ecological knowledge, environmental activism, scholarship and creativity can play in addressing the impact of climate change, particularly on vulnerable and disempowered communities suffering human rights abuses as a direct result. No less pressing...

May 13, 2019•1 hr 3 min

Live at the AM — Lunchtime Lecture Series: Australians Shaping the Nation, George Miller

This talk took place at 1pm, Tuesday 2 September in the Hallstrom Theatre at the Australian Museum as part of the Australian Museum's Lunchtime Lecture Series. Australian film legend George Miller traces his multi-award winning engagement with film to the ritual Saturday matinee in his hometown of Chinchilla, Queensland. After a stint at medical school he became a filmmaker, going on to create the Academy Award-winning Mad Max, Babe and Happy Feet series among many others. In this intimate talk,...

Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 3 min

Live at the AM — Lunchtime Lecture Series: Australians Shaping the Nation, Layne Beachley

Layne Beachley is widely regarded as the most successful female surfer in history, and is the only surfer, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles (1998-2003); she went on to win a 7th world title in 2006 before retiring in 2008. In this inspiring conversation with AM Director Kim McKay, Layne reveals the source of her drive to be the best of the best, involving the loss of her mother at age 6 and the revelation of her adoption. She also opens up about the equally strong power of l...

Sep 25, 2018•59 min

Live at the AM — Lunchtime Lecture Series: Australians Shaping the Nation, Ita Buttrose AO OBE

From copy girl to editor at the age of 23, Ita Buttrose’s boundary-pushing career at The Telegraph, Cleo, The Australian Women’s Weekly and The Sunday Telegraph won her status as a feminist icon. The legendary media trailblazer, businesswoman, best-selling author and 2013 Australian of the Year continues her active leadership role as a committed community and welfare contributor. This talk took place at 1pm, Tuesday 21 August in the Hallstrom Theatre at the Australian Museum.

Sep 17, 2018•56 min

Live at the AM — HumanNature Lecture Series 2018: Alice Te Punga Somerville

This event took place in the Hallstrom Theatre, Australian Museum, Sydney, on 14 June 2018. Join Alice Te Punga Somerville as she explores the histories and possibilities of Indigenous gardens in the Pacific region. Colonial projects have long been bound up, in a variety of ways, with the movement, growth and exploitation of plants. But these projects have also traded rhetorically on particular understandings of people’s relationships with plants, like the vein of colonial storytelling in which ...

Sep 05, 2018•1 hr 11 min

Live at the AM — HumanNature Lecture Series 2018: Catriona Sandilands

This event took place in the Hallstrom Theatre, Australian Museum, Sydney, on 12 July 2018. Join Catriona Sandilands (York University, Toronto) on this adventure into the complex and fascinating worlds of plants. Sandilands is particularly interested in people’s relationships with botanical others, including shifting understandings of what plants are and what they can do. In this time of accelerating environmental and social change—which is also a time of widening inequalities—Sandilands draws t...

Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 10 min

Live at the AM: HumanNature Lecture Series, Mike Hulme

This lecture took place at the Australian Museum on 23 April 2018. How do different human cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate? Join Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, as he explores some of the many fascinating ways climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed. Understanding these complex climate cultures is, Hulme contends, essential to any ad...

Jun 18, 2018•52 min

Live at the AM: HumanNature Lecture Series, Deborah Bird Rose

How does giving and receiving take form in, and give form to, our living world? While most discussions of gift-giving focus on exchanges between humans, Deborah Bird Rose is also captivated by the many forms of connectivity and flow that are integral to ecological processes. Drawing on her research with Indigenous people, Rose asks: what might it mean to understand gift giving as central to, and moving across and between, many systems of life; and what might it require of us, in this time of ext...

May 08, 2018•1 hr 2 min

Treasures, Episode 8: Life in the freezer

The icy expanses of Antarctica were an unforgiving frontier for early explorers. Among them was Sir Douglas Mawson, who faced frostbite, exposure and exhaustion in his journeys across the frozen continent. He passed some of his time writing love letters to his wife back home. But how did he stumble on a meteorite in all that ice and snow? Behind every object is a story – join Charles Wooley and Kim McKay as they reveal some of the Treasures at the Australian Museum.

Apr 30, 2018•10 min

Treasures, Episode 7: The platypus rug and the lyre bird

Early British settlers were so flummoxed by the platypus that they thought it an elaborate hoax, created by stitching a duck’s beak onto the body of a mole. But Australia’s greatest charlatan is an entirely different creature to behold. Behind every object is a story – join Charles Wooley and Kim McKay as they reveal some of the Treasures at the Australian Museum.

Apr 23, 2018•10 min
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