Thursday 7 August 2003

Events

2.00 - 4.00pm	Two short plays that voice the experience of asylum seekers in Australia. Halal-el-Mashakel by Linda Jaivin and Refugitive by Shahin Shafaei Canberra Youth Theatre, Gorman House, Ainslie Avenue (theatre entrance from Batman Street)
2.00 - 5.00pm	Conference Registration @ Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing, Australian National University (Building 73) View associated exhibitions at the Drill Hall Gallery and School of Art Gallery, Australian National University. Please make your own arrangements.
6.00pm	Exhibition opening and Artist talks by Mella Jaarsma and Nindityo Adipurnomo Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House, Ainslie Avenue.

Friday 8 August 2003

Day 1: National Gallery of Australia :: 8.30am - 5pm

Theme - Art and Human Rights: Witnessing and Reconciliation

Events

8.30 - 9.00am	Conference Registration @ National Gallery of Australia
9.00 - 9.10am	Ngunnawal welcome
9.10 - 9.20am	Short film by William Kentridge, "Ubu Tells the Truth"

Session 1 :: 9.20 - 10.45am

Chair	Andrew Sayers Director, National Portrait Gallery
Dr Caroline Turner Deputy Director, Humanities Research Centre, ANU Conference Committee	The Silence before the storm
Professor Christine Chinkin London School of Economics, UK Conference Committee	The legal framework and challenges
Dr Brian Kennedy Director, National Gallery of Australia	The Certainty of Uncertainty: Art and Human Rights
Discussion

10.45 - 11.15am

Morning Tea

Session 2 :: 11.15 - 12.45pm

Chair	Professor Iain McCalman HRC, ANU
Professor Barbara Stafford University of Chicago, USA	Analogy: creating a logic of reconciliation
Professor Hilary Charlesworth Centre for International and Public Law, ANU	Cultural baggage and human rights
Discussion

12.50pm	Performance by Dadang Christanto Portrait of a Family
1.00 - 1.30pm	Lunch

Session 3 :: 1.30 - 2.55pm

Chair	Professor Sasha Grishin ANU
Dr Jennifer Webb Program Director of Writing, School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra Conference Committee	"'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities': artists and activists"
Professor Ihab Hassan University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA	Painting a continent_or Nothing. A Kenotic View of Human Rights
Discussion

2.55 - 3.30pm

Afternoon Tea Includes viewing of the exhibition: Sari to Sarong Special introduction by Robyn Maxwell, Senior Curator, Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia

Session 4 :: 3.20 - 4.50pm

Chair	Dr Charles Green University of Melbourne
Dr Charles Merewether Getty Foundation, USA	Latin America
Chaitanya Sambrani Lecturer, Canberra School of Art, ANU	Contested Terrain: Experiments with activist art in India
Associate Professor Pat Hoffie Queensland College of Art, Griffith University	'Nor all thy piety nor wit': Art as witness
Discussion

Evening Events

5.30 - 7.30pm	Conference function and viewing of Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights Drill Hall Gallery, ANU
8.00pm	Discrepant Project - light projection work, Civic town centre

Saturday 9 August 2003

Day 2: Humanities Research Centre,
Australian National University :: 9.15am - 5.30pm

Theme: Art and Human Rights: Communities, Crisis and Healing

Session 5 :: 9.15 - 10.30am

Professor Rangachari Narayanan New Delhi, India	Identity, Human Rights and Diasporic Communities
Dr John Gage Reader, Department of History of Art, Cambridge University, UK	Human Rights and Visual Culture

10.30 - 11.00am

Morning Tea

Session 6 :: 11.00 - 12.20pm
Panel Discussion: Artists and Communities

Chair	Professor David Williams ANU
Christine Clark	Introduction
Dr Michael Mel
Jon Cattapan
Michel Tuffery
Dr Pat Hoffie

12.20 - 12.50pm

Lunch Tea will be available until 3.30pm

Session 7 :: 12.50 - 2.25pm (5 minute break, 2.25-2.30pm)
Panel Discussion: Communities in Crisis

Tony Schirato	Media after September 11
Linda Jaivin	"Halal-el-Mashakel"
Charles Green/Lyndell Brown	Artists and Human Rights
Discussion

Session 8 :: 2.30 - 3.20pm
Panel Discussion: Communities in Crisis

Chair	Dr Maureen Bettle
Marc Chaussivert	Art as therapy for trauma victims
Subhash Jaireth	Poetry as Resistence
Jeni Allenby	Palestinian Women
Leoni Ebert	The Graham F Smith Peace Trust and Afghani Artists
3.20 - 3.30pm	10 minute break

Session 9 :: 3.30 - 5.00pm
Forum: Human Rights in Crisis

Chair	Professor Christina Slade
Marion Le Refugee advocate
Kate Eastman Lawyer
Panel Members:
Dr Miriam Estrada Chief Prosecutor, East Timor
Professor Christine Chinkin Human Rights Lawyer
Professor Mbulelo Mzamane Poet and activist
Sharon Payne Lawyer
David Tait University of Canberra

Evening Events

6.00 - 7.30pm

Exhibition Opening - Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, School of Art Gallery, ANU Performance by Michel Tuffery

Sunday 10 August

Day 3: National Museum of Australia :: 9.15am - 3.30pm

Theme - Art and Human Rights: Cultural Survival

Session 10 :: 9.30 - 10.50am

Chair	Professor Peter Read
Professor Amareswar Galla Director of Studies, Sustainable Heritage Development, RSPAS, ANU	Culture in Poverty Alleviation - South Africa and Vietnam
Professor Adam Shoemaker Dean of the Faculty of Arts, ANU	Indigenous Cultural Property Rights in Film and Literature
Dr Diana Glazebrook Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU	Teaching (Performance) Art is Like Sharpening the Blade of a Knife

Morning Tea

Session 11 :: 11.15 - 12.45pm

Chair	Professor Mick Dodson
Ms Dawn Casey Director, National Museum of Australia	Art and Politics at the National Museum of Australia
Dr Miriam Estrada Chief Prosecutor, United Nations, East Timor	Comparison of Human rights in Ecuador and East Timor

12.45 - 1.30pm

Lunch

Session 12 :: 1.30 - 3.00pm

Ms Margo Neale Program Director, Gallery of First Australians, National Museum of Australia Conference Committee	'They came to our country and they didn't turn Black'
Dr Jonathan Mane-Wheoki University of Canterbury, New Zealand	Resistance or complicity? The politics of contemporary Maori art in Aotearoa New Zealand
Professor Mbulelo Mzamane Poet and activist from South Africa	Reconciliation and Reconstruction: Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa

Closing Event

3.15pm

Performance by Michael Mel Il Iamb Nai? Kundulul molga Pombraal? (Who is this person? White or Black?)

For conference speakers biographies and abstracts, please click here.

Please note, this is a draft program, and may be subject to change.

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