Centre for Creative and Cultural Research
11 Kirinari Street
Bruce ACT 2617
cccr@canberra.edu.au
Higher Degree by Research enquiries:
artsanddesignhdr@canberra.edu.au
Seminars and events
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Seminars and events
Weekly seminars
Throughout the teaching semesters, the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research (CCCR) runs a series of weekly public research seminars on the UC campus and online.
The Culture and Creativity Seminar Series is hosted by the CCCR, Faculty of Arts and Design, UC. It explores culture, creativity and the myriad of connections between them.
2025 seminar recordings
| Date | Speaker |
Seminar |
|---|---|---|
| 1 May | Sally Farrah | NCDC Unearthed |
| 24 April | Damith Herath, Maleen Jayasuriya & Piumi Wijesundara | Exploring the Dramaturgical Potential of Human-Robot Ensembles Through Devised Physical Theatre |
| 17 April | Tracy Ireland & Ashley Van Den Heuvel | Nuclear Nation: A Contemporary Archaeology of Australia's Atomic Heritage |
| 10 April | Emma Phillips | Too much? The Aesthetics and Feminist Politics of Sexy Self-Representation |
| 3 April | Hamed Golzad | Gender-Diversity and Barriers for Women in Construction |
| 20 March | Dr Kim Huynh | A Statement from Australia’s Carers: A (failed) Quest to Write with Meaning in Public Life |
| 13 March | Assoc Prof Wayne Applebee | Who am I on Ngunnawal Country? |
| 6 March | Dr Mike Louw | Architecture In and Out of Time |
| 27 February | Dr Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag | Rurality of Ruins: A Subtractive Practice of Radical Preservation |
| 20 February | Assoc Prof Alison Wayne | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Evolving a New Future for an Old Telescope |
| 13 February | Prof Paul Magee | ‘His bellyvoid of nebulose with his neverstop navel’: On the ghostly smatterings of meaning in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake |
| 6 February | Dr Wendy Somerville | First Nations Collaborative Research Web |
Past events and recordings
| Date | Speaker |
Seminar |
|---|---|---|
| 24th October 2024 | Prof Patrick Falnery | Spiraling: Art, Entropy, Affect |
| 17 October 2024 | Dr Michael Mossman | Aura Country Terror Refrain |
| 10 October 2024 | Dr John Ting | Decolonisation and Australian Architecture History: A Subaltern Analysis |
| 3 October 2024 | Prof Julian Knowles | Solar Halo: An AV Work for 16 Atmospheric Weather Stations and Live Performer |
| 26 September 2024 | Dr Richard Savery | Robotic Musicianship |
| 12 September 2024 | Kerry Martin | An Artistic Response to a Truth-Telling Royal Commission |
| Dr Ursula K. Frederick | Graffiti, Heritage and Vernacular Place-Making | |
| 29 August 2024 | Dr Denise Thwaites | Orbital Maneuver (Otherwise Known as a Burn) |
| 22 August 2024 | Sam Tomkins and Assoc Prof Max Maxwell | Ideas on Re.Pete: Knitting, Robotics and Redefining Design |
| 15 August 2024 | Dr Claire Rosslyn Wilson | Collaborating at a Distance: Explorations of Creative Play In and Across Place |
| 8 August 2024 | Dr Cathy Hope | The Transformative Power of the Arts: Creative Placemaking in Haig Park |
| Date | Speaker |
Seminar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2023 | Prof Maree Meredith | Exploring Indigenous Arts and Health |
| 19 October 2023 | Prof Mary Lou Rasmussen | Feeling generational: schooling in sexuality and gender and becoming a sexual citizen |
| 13 October 2023 | Dr Gerhard Bruyns | Hong Kong Gastronomic Interiors |
| 12 October 2023 | Mikaela Danvers, Stephanie Trimble, and Ashley Harrison | Play On: Cross-disciplinary exhibitions & collaborative teaching in FAD |
| 31 August 2023 | Dr Julian Raxworthy | Growing Boundries: the novel interstices of private gardens and public landscape |
| 17 August 2023 | Dr Sam Hinton | Why I’m an Amateur Astrophotographer |
| 17 August 2023 | Dr Wendy Somerville | Storying with a Mystery Bark |
| 10 August 2023 | Dr Russell Smith | James Joyce’s Radio Tower of Babel |
| 3 August 2023 | Dr Rahmatollah Amirjani | Canberra, Public Housing, and The Great Australian Dream |
| 27 July 2023 | Martina Tenzer | Venerated Women - Mapping Anglo Saxon Female Saints |
| Date | Speaker |
Seminar |
|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2023 | Dr Steve Brown | Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice |
| 27 April 2023 | Dr SJ Burton | Poetic Topography |
| 20 April 2023 | Dr Diana Clarke | The concept of truth in creative research |
| 13 April 2023 | Dr Ernest Koh | Stateless Love |
| 9 March 2023 | Assoc Prof Paul Magee | Carbon Neutral Conferencing |
| 23 February 2023 | Kate Clark | Faith in Conservation |
| 20 February 2023 | Prof. Jan Lauwereyns | The Doubt Function |
| Date | Event | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 21 November 2024 | Platform Blues | Information and recordings |
| 22 – 23 November 2024 | Poetry on Prescription | Information and recordings |
| 18 – 19 July 2024 | Voicing the Living Archive: Working with First Nations collections in higher education |
| Date | Event | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November – 1 December 2023 | Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference | Information |
| 28 – 29 September 2023 | We Need to Talk: HDR study First Nations Australian's way | Information |
| Date | Event | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 5 – 7 December 2022 | Out of the Ordinary Conference | Information |
| 2022 | Difficult conversations | |
| 21 April 2021 | (re)create: art and the activation of heritage | |
| 1 – 2 June 2017 | Out of the Box: Sharing strategies for accessing natural history collections | Information |
| 15 May 2015 | Insignificance Symposium | Information |
