Culture and Creativity Seminar Series

Dr Sally Farrah – National Capital Development Commission Unearthed

Prof. Damith Herath, Dr Maleen Jayasuriya, Piumi Wijesundara – Exploring the Dramaturgical Potential of Human-Robot Ensembles Through Devised Physical Theatre

Tracy Ireland and Ashley van den Heuvel – Nuclear Nation: A Contemporary Archaeology of Australia’s Atomic Heritage

Dr Emma Philllips – Too much? The Aesthetics and Feminist Politics of Sexy Self-Representation

Dr Hamed Golzad – Gender-Diversity and Barriers for Women in Construction

Dr Kim Huynh – A Statement from Australia’s Carers: A (failed) Quest to Write with Meaning in Public Life

Assoc. Prof. Wayne Applebee – Who am I on Ngunnawal Country?

Dr Mike Louw – Architecture In and Out of Time

Assoc. Prof. Alison Wain

Prof. Paul Magee – ‘His bellyvoid of nebulose with his neverstop navel’: On the ghostly smatterings of meaning in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

Dr Wendy Somerville – First Nations Collaborative Research Web

Art as a Way to Community

Writing on Country in Barkindji, Yuin, Ngunnawal and Ngamberi Lands

Vic McEwan – The Potentials of Artistic Engagement in Clinical Spaces: “It’s Like Being Re-connected to my own Humanity”

Lachlan Brown – Poems in relation to Vic McEwan’s ‘Face to Face’ Exhibition

Paul Magee – Poetry as a Change in the Language

Bridget Vincent –Close Reading Climate Change

In the Poetry Clinic

Jen Webb – Arts/Health Policy Settings and the Rise of Social Prescribing

Distinguished Prof. Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, where she researches the role of art and artists in society and writes poetry. Recent scholarly books focus on gender and the creative labour market and art and human rights in Asian contexts, while Jen’s poetry collections engage social, political and environmental issues. Her current research addresses the relationship between creative practice and wellbeing, specifically the role of art...

Rachel Davey – Social Prescription: A Brief Introduction

Platform Blues – I got the Right to Sing the Blues

Platform Blues – Bittersweet Stories: Making Sense of Uncertainty and Chaos

Platform Blues – Volatile Spaces: Toxicity and Transformation

Platform Blues – Hiding in and from the Internet: Avoidance and Dissociation

Welcome to Platform Blues

Grace Zhang – Enhancing Access to Indigenous Collections: From Internship to Research

Delephene Fraser & Ashley Van Den Heuval – Scar Tree: A Living Teaching Tool

Denise Thwaites & Wendy Somerville – Circulating and Connecting Stories: Indigenous Pedagogies as Alternative Economies

Rose Barrowcliffe- Honouring Indigenous Knowledges Rights in the Academy

Andrew Simpson – Two Horizons: Two-Way Museology, a Multi- Knowledge System Exploration