2005 Conferences, Workshops & Symposia

29 April 2005
A one-day workshop on fighting women on screen.

26 – 28 May 2005
Cruising Country invites participants to explore Australian automobility, intercultural exchange, power and social transformation through a series of presentations, panel discussions and film screenings.

8 – 10 July 2005
This conference will take a multidisciplinary look at the meanings, values and uses of bodily remains, sacred places and things.

11 July 2005
This one day conference seeks to bring together scholars from history, literature, anthropology, art history and cultural studies to examine the indelible mark left by slavery on societies, cultures and peoples all over the world and the artistic and literary attempts by artistes and writers to mitigate this stigmata of History and reclaim their “slave ancestry”.

8 – 14 September 2005
The seminar will be an informal gathering of 6-8 invited documentary filmmakers and an equal number of postgraduate students who will explore the creative aspects of cross-cultural documentary.

15 – 16 September 2005
Among the themes and problems the conference will address will be those evident in Aboriginal history in Australia, legal cases involving gay history in the United States, debates on history text-books, the work of truth commissions such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the conflict over ‘Hindu’ history in India in the last two decades, the controversy over the Enola Gay exhibition in the United States, the work of the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand, and Israeli archaeology.

3 – 4 November 2005
This conference will draw together theologians, historians, artists, lawyers, philosophers, political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, media representatives, museum and art curators, as well as intellectuals from different religious and cultural groups to speak about the conception of sacralisation /desecration in artistic creation, representation of the sacred, exhibiting the sacred and to address the concerns about sensitivity towards religious and cultural difference.

24 – 25 November 2005
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies together with The Australian National University present this two-day symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of W.E.H. Stanner (1905-1981).

Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics and Legalities

8 – 10 December 2005
The so-called war on terror and its representations have ignited interest in pain and death across a wide range of disciplines, including criminology, political science, law, history, literature, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, linguistics, journalism and philosophy. At the same time artists working in the visual arts, as well as music, poetry, dance, and theatre have taken up state violence with renewed vigour. Fertile dialogue among and between artists, activists and scholars is the aim of this gathering.