http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ en martyn.pearce@anu.edu.au Copyright 2012 2012-01-29T22:24:03+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dr_susan_west_common_artistry_releasing_the_musician_within_us_all/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/dr_susan_west_common_artistry_releasing_the_musician_within_us_all/#When:23:49:09Z The ANU School of Music is developing a different model for musical engagement that gives concrete form to the idea of ‘Common Artistry’, particularly with regard to music making. It is widely acknowledged and accepted that human beings are a compulsively musical species, yet most of us do not engage actively with music making. Indeed, many of us believe that we are not ‘allowed’ to make music at all because we have transferred our musical ‘rights’ into the hands of those we regard as experts. Perhaps one of the stresses of modern life is not just our inability to connect via music, as we are supposed to do, but that we actively suppress our natural, core instinct to be musical together.The concept of ‘Common Artistry’ has arisen through an approach to music making that prioritises the social importance of shared music making, not the perceived talent or skill level of the music maker. It provides a simple, concrete pathway that allows anyone and everyone to engage with music immediately, whether trained or otherwise. It incorporates ways by which the trained can share their skills in a way that is meaningful to both giver and receiver but also highlights the ways in which we can all learn from the so-called ‘untrained’, be it a four-year-old singing with all heart and no noticeable tune, or an eighty-four year old who believes he has no ‘voice’ but carries a repertoire of hundreds of songs in his head. Public Lecture, Creative Arts 2011-11-15T23:49:09+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/alice_giles_introduces_anu_school_of_musics_new_harps/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/alice_giles_introduces_anu_school_of_musics_new_harps/#When:23:30:07Z Associate Professor Alice Giles, Head of Harp Area at the Australian National Universities School of Music, introduces the School of Music's two newly acquired harps. Exhibition, Creative Arts, News & Media 2011-11-15T23:30:07+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/betty_churcher_notebooks_public_lecture/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/betty_churcher_notebooks_public_lecture/#When:05:36:19Z Join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velázquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cézanne. Public Lecture, Creative Arts, Humanities, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2011-04-15T05:36:19+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/art_that_is_not_language_anthony_forge_and_kamasan_painting/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/art_that_is_not_language_anthony_forge_and_kamasan_painting/#When:04:51:51Z This lecture discusses the work of Professor Anthony Forge in the field of Balinese Kamasan painting. Anthony Forge argued that art has a visual quality, summed up by a quoted line from dancer Isadore Duncan who said ‘If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it'. His interest in art as non-verbal communication led him to Bali and Kamasan Painting. His work in Bali allowed him to explore the ways in which his Balinese collaborators experienced the world, and to develop new aspects of the understanding of the social meaning of art. By exploring these problems of meaning and communication in Balinese art, this lecture examines the relationship between Anthropology and Art History, with a particular focus on the responses of contemporary Kamasan artists to Forge's fieldwork project. Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Humanities, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2010-11-18T04:51:51+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/closing_the_gaps/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/closing_the_gaps/#When:01:09:00Z In delivering an apology to the Stolen Generations the Prime Minister set a concrete target to halve the gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade. Related to this is a subsequent declared need to improve housing conditions for Indigenous Australians with the establishment of a housing policy commission as the first step. In this forum, leading academics discuss the scale and nature of the issues facing the new government as it attempts to achieve these aims. PART ONE 1-2.30pm THE INFANT MORTALITY CHALLENGE Indigenous Infant Mortality: what is known from available data Dr Elizabeth Sullivan, Director of the National Perinatal Statistics Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, University of New South Wales. The Indigenous Infant Mortality Target: what needs to be achieved Associate Professor Heather Booth, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, ANU Culture as Cause: the debates on improving aboriginal health Professor Francesca Merlan, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU PART TWO 3-4.30pm THE INDIGENOUS HOUSING CHALLENGE The Scale and Composition of Housing Needs Dr Nicholas Biddle, Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU Housing Tenure in Remote Areas: directions and dilemmas Dr Will Sanders, Senior Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU The Delivery and Performance of Indigenous Housing and the Persistent Relevance of Culturally Specific Factors Professor Paul Memmott, Director, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, University of Queensland Public Lecture, Creative Arts, Indigenous Studies, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-04-09T01:09:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speechmaking/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/speechmaking/#When:03:18:01Z Allan Martin's two principal subjects as a historian, Sir Henry Parkes and Sir Robert Menzies, were both great orators. Among questions asked in this lecture (the Allan Martin Memorial Lecture for 2007) are the following: When can a speech be said to have affected history? What has become of that once popular institution the public meeting and that once popular form the sermon? What is the future for speechmaking in an age of speechwriters, doorstop interviews, sound grabs, power points and the internet? Allan Martin (1926–2002) was an intellectual, institutional, and social pioneer whose career as a historian spanned the second half of the 20th century. When most Australians went to England for their postgraduate work, he chose ANU, where he was the first doctoral student in History in the Research School of Social Sciences. He accepted the Foundation chair in History at LaTrobe University in 1966 and returned to RSSS as a senior fellow in 1973. Ken Inglis enjoyed Allan's friendship for more than 40 years. They were long-time colleagues in the history department of the ANU's RSSS, and worked closely together on the 10-volume bicentennial project initiated in the department, Australians. A Historical Library . Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Journalism, Language & Linguistics, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-05-24T03:18:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/whose_abc/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/whose_abc/#When:03:53:00Z As controversy continues to swirl around Australia’s national broadcaster, a long-awaited history of its last 20 years provides much-needed insight and background to the current debates. Distinguished historian Ken Inglis first chronicled the ABC in his 1983 book This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983. In his new volume Whose ABC?, he covers intricate details of the reigns of David Hill and Jonathan Shier and the stormy politics of the broadcaster’s relations with the government over the last two decades. Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Society & Culture, University, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-10-12T03:53:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/when_art_meets_science/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/when_art_meets_science/#When:04:58:00Z Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both motivated by a desire to make sense of the world in which we live. A sculptor and a scientist, Dr Wetherell talks about his experiences working with various artists and scientists on a range of interdisciplinary projects - from the monumental sculptures of body arts to growing living cells over a computer-generated head. This lecture was sponsored by the ANU College of Science as part of National Science Week 2006. Public Lecture, Biological Sciences, Creative Arts, Science Communication, ANU College of Science, Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine and Life Science 2006-09-22T04:58:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/storytelling_history_writing_which_came_first/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/storytelling_history_writing_which_came_first/#When:04:01:00Z Dr Valerio Massimo Manfredi traces out the interlinked lineage of 'story' and 'history', arguing that the latter became important when societies needed to reinforce collective identities through an authorised version of the past. Once upon a time people began telling stories. These early tales stuck to the truth, narrating actual events. Soon, storytellers became aware that to hold the attention of their audience they needed to jazz things up with liberal dashes of adventure and wonder. If reality didn’t conform, the truth could be bent to more attractive designs. Dr Manfredi proposes that despite the need for history, the continuation of the storytelling tradition is a testament to the human imagination. This lecture was presented by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the Italian Embassy. Public Lecture, Creative Arts, History & Archeology, Humanities, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences 2006-09-04T04:01:00+10:00