School of Culture & Communication Research Seminars
Wednesdays 4.30-5.30 pm, Dennis Driscoll Theatre, Doug McDonnell Building. (NB this is on the third floor of the building between the ERC Library and the Alice Hoy Building)
These seminars are free of charge and open to all staff, students and members of the public. No RSVP necessary.
The papers last 40-50 minutes, and are followed by informal discussion. Drinks at University House afterwards. This seminar is free of charge and open to all staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students and members of the public. Details of the program are also circulated by email.
Program: Semester 2, 2009
July 29 - Ken Gelder
“Proximate Reading: A Transnational Approach to Australian Literature.”
August 5 - Julian Lamb (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Sense and Sententiousness: George Puttenham, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein.”
August 12 - Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
“Art Matters: On The Matter of Colour in Painting.”
August 19 - Simon During (Johns Hopkins University)
“University Management and the Humanities.”
August 26 - Clara Tuite
"Sanditon, Somatic Witness: Austen's Pre-Post-Waterloo."
September 9 - Ghassan Hage
“On With-ness: negotiating the ungovernable other”
September 16 - Peter Otto - PLEASE NOTE, THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO NTEU INDUSTRIAL ACTION,THE SEMINAR WILL NOW BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER.
“Telling Tales about Crossing Borders: David Malouf, Germaine Greer, and the reception of Remembering Babylon.”
Oct 7 - Tom Prendergast (The College of Wooster)
"Violating the Sanctuary: Westminster Abbey and the Inhabitation of the Middle Ages."
Oct 14 - David Bennett
'Libidinal Economy, Sexual Revolution and Biopolitics'
Oct 21 - Peter Otto
Wednesday October 20, 4.30-6.00 pm. Dennis Driscoll Theatre, Doug McDonnell
Oct 28 - Susan Lowish
“The Globalization of Australian art: History, theory, method.”
Susan Lowish (University of Melbourne), Wednesday October 28, 4.30-6.00 pm.
The Globalization of Australian Art:
History, Theory, Method
Overseas, with very few exceptions, Australian art means the art of Indigenous peoples living in Australia. In recent years, the first museum dedicated solely to ‘Aboriginal art’ opened in Europe (Utrecht 2001); the first permanent display of Australian Indigenous art in a public museum opened in the United States (Seattle 2007); and a number of important collections both public and private have been gaining increasing recognition and circulation (Smithsonian, Kluge-Ruhe, Felton, and Wilkerson). This seminar paper reports on the state of the art from Australia in museums, galleries and temporary exhibitions in North America, England and Europe and explores the potential for globe-spanning networks of exchange.
Susan Lowish is Lecturer in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne and has published on the historiography of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous art and their various intersections. She teaches subjects in Australian art history and Contemporary Aboriginal art.
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/david-bennett.html