Fri, 11 June
|Ground Floor Auditorium
Research Roadshow on Biography and Memoir
Held in association with the ANU Network on the History and Legacies of Violence, this event will explore themes of biography and memoir.
Time & Location
11 June 2021, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Ground Floor Auditorium, Research School of Social Sciences Building, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
About the event
PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS
12:00 – 12:15
Welcome and Orientation
Catherine Waldby - Director, Research School of Social Sciences ANU, and Carolyn Strange, convener of the ANU cross-campus network on the History and Legacies of Violence.
12:15 – 1:30
Pathways to Memory
Malcolm Allbrook (National Centre of Biography)
Recovering histories of slavery
Adele Chynoweth (Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies)
Documenting a ‘Forgotten Australian’ survivor’s story in film
Ehsan Arabzadeh (College of Health and Medicine)
Mapping multiple forms of memory
Break
1.45 – 2:45
The Arts of Memory
Desmond Manderson (College of Law)
Insider/Outsider Identity in the art of Gordon Bennett
Brenda L Croft (School of Art & Design)
Retrac(k)ing Country and (s)kin
2:45 – 3:00
Refreshments
3:00 – 4:30
Individual and Collective Biography
Iain McCalman (Humanities Research Centre)
Theodore Roosevelt — Father of "White African" Game Butchery
Karima Laachir (Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies)
Leftist memory of mobilisation: a view from Morocco
Christine Fernon (National Centre of Biography)
Indexing histories of sexual violence through the online Australian Dictionary of Biography
Yujie Zhu (Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies)
Memorialising the experiences of ‘comfort women’
4:30 – 5:00
Sonic Memory and Memorialisation
Kim Cunio (School of Music)
‘Doye’ (interpretation of the 1988 Burma democracy uprising and its violent military suppression)
5:00 – 5:15
Conclusion and thanks
5:30 – 6:00
Please feel free to join us for a reception at As You Like It Café, 15 Childers Street (cash bar)