Culture and Creativity Seminar Series
As we learn from First Nations peoples throughout Australia, creativity is deeply embedded in culture, and culture is deeply creative. The CCCR’s seminars explore the ancient, innovative relationship between culture and creativity. We open conversations by presenting new work in a wide range of humanities, social science, creative and applied disciplines. To learn more about the CCCR (Centre for Creative and Cultural Research), head to https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/cccr
Episodes
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The production of creative objects for wellbeing seems to have been part of human culture since the dawn of our emergence as a species. It did, though, take until the 20th century before it became formalized and institutionalized – first as art therapy and more recently as a part of social prescribing. In this seminar I will briefly touch the history of c...
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This paper takes fire from Seamus Heaney’s comments on the “cultural depth charges latent in certain words,” and in particular from his analysis of poet Ted Hughes’s predilection for those with Anglo-Saxon roots. Heaney sees Germanic word choices as integral to Hughes’s attempts to evoke “the being-thereness. . . of sea, stone, wind and tree.” So Heaney m...
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This seminar explores the complexities behind a deceptively simple directive: just put it on a map. Drawing on recent web-based mapping projects, I will unpack the messy realities of transforming research data, often buried in Word documents or scattered across unstructured formats, into meaningful digital interfaces. From wrestling with datasets to navig...
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Technological innovation has evoked anxiety in (some) contemporary writers. But writers are also well-placed to adapt to technological change by virtue of the multiple worlds they already inhabit. This paper examines two novels written contemporaneously with the pandemic by Ali Smith as a way of tracing the heightened embedding of people in the virtual wo...
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