Research Programs
interrogating concepts of the cross-cultural
postcolonialism and cultural history
the cultural impact of transnational migrations
and mobilities
visual and new media research across cultures
cross-cultural perspectives of contemporary art and
society
Visual and New Media Research Across Cultures
The focus of the program is on visual anthropology, film studies and
new media research in contemporary and historical contexts. We employ
a broad conception of visual culture, embracing a wide range of audio
and visual material forms that include ethnographic films, iconographies,
digitised music forms, multimedia art exhibitions, and music, dance
and theatrical performances. The program explores the cultural impact
of new media and digital technologies on everyday life and on society
at large. It also nurtures research engaged in tracing networks of cross-cultural
digital contact and exchange. Vision and the visual lie at the heart
of the program, both as a way of exploring social and cultural experience,
and as cultural expression itself. Researchers under this program are
encouraged to explore the visual, not so much as an adjunct to primarily
written work, but as a distinct experiential mode that demands interpretational
skills of a different order from that of analytical written/verbal exposition.
Our planning for the next three to five years involves several interrelated
areas of research and a variety of operational strategies, bearing in
mind that we also wish to remain open to unforeseen, innovative projects
proposed by incoming fellows.
Projects
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The internationalisation
of Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp
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Multimedia biography
of Narritjin Maymuru
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South Seas Project:
Cross-cultural history in networked hypermedia
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Indigenous knowledge
and science curriculum project
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Indigenous knowledge
and western Arnhem Land plateau: film and digital media project
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Digital futures
in the Humanities
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New technologies
and global public spheres
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Visualising Indian
public school identities
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Diya makers in
Northern India: the social life of things
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Hindu pilgrimages
and new media
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A film study of
the history of cross-cultural engagement in Tasmania's southwest
