Free public seminars
Public Memory Research Cluster and Faculty of Arts
2012 Research Seminar Series
Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:00pm, Room Q402.
21 March (Semester 1, Week 4 )
Dianne Jones: 'Mediated sports coverage: Gender and the Olympic Games on three national public broadcasters'
Chris Lee: 'Smithy and the Navigator: Imperial Masculinity and the Affective Glamour of Flight'
18 April (Semester 1, Week 8 )
Regina Ryan: 'New Wine, Old Wineskins: results of investigations into how the shortage of priests is re-shaping Catholic identity in Australia'
Rhod McNeill: 'The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960'
23 May (Semester 1, Week 13)
Malcolm Brown: 'Reflections on NGO cooperation: notes from an ethnography'
Libby Connors: 'It is impossible that the Government should forget that the original aggression was our own: northern policing and the Colonial Office in the 1840s and 1850s'
20 June (Semester 1, Week 17 )
Barbara Ryan: 'A discussion on the phases of disaster: community response versus an agency perspective'
Jessica Gildersleeve: 'Shame on You: Who deserves Shame in Christos Tsiolkas' "The Slap"?'
18 July (Semester 2, Week 1)
Celmara Pocock: 'Contained and Excluded Difference: Aborigines, Islanders and Hula girls in Great Barrier Reef Tourism'
Peter Goodall: 'The Poetry of Sorley MacLean'
15 August (Semester 2, Week 5)
Anna Hayes: ‘Transnationalism at "the Forum": Uigher representations of East Turkistan'
Laurie Johnson: 'Appropriating Amloði: From Icelandic Legend to Shakespeare's Universal Tragedy'
19 September (Semester 2, Week 10)
Geoffrey Parkes: ‘From the Douchebags of Grindr to No Sexual Racists: Speaking back to singular ideas of masculinity’
Lachlan Malone: ‘Corporeal discord: Harmony, dissonance and Roman Catholicism in early modern England’
17 October (Semester 2, Week 14)
Robert Mason: ‘Remembering the Family Home: Migrant Men and Emotional Belonging in Multicultural Australia'
Bernadette Meenach:‘Servant of the Text: training for the Australian voice'
21 November (Semester 3, Week 2)
Richard Gehrmann: 'Adventure, life and death under an imperial flag: Australian soldiers in India before the First World War'
Janet McDonald: 'Incubatory Practice in the Arts Sector in Queensland'
19 December (Semester 3, Week 6)
Samantha Rose: ‘Scones, Smocking and Smokeless Stoves: women's groups in the Gilbert Islands, 1962-1979’
Kelly McWilliam: TBA
Kelly McWilliam, Bernadette Pryde, Catherine Dewhirst
Seminar Series Coordinators