“Emotions3D: Digital Modelling for Cultural Heritage and Museums”, Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow (UWA)
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions/CMEMS Lunchtime Seminar

Date: 29 April, 2016
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: No RSVP required

Join CHE Associate Investigator, Jane-Heloise Nancarrow, to hear about her latest research in 3D digital modelling and virtual reality in museums and cultural heritage. Jane-Heloise uses photogrammetry to create realistic, true-to-life 3D reproductions of historic artefacts which will be available online as part of a History of Emotions collection later in 2016. This array of objects, sourced from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Keats’ House, Stirling Smith Museum and St Barts’ Hospital Museum will be annotated with interactive history of emotions content to tell their unique material stories, and can be viewed using the Google Cardboard virtual reality headset. Learn how digital cultural heritage can be 3D printed for use in teaching and research, and hear how you can get involved with the project.

“The Rediscovery of a Viking Burial Site in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland”, Dr Shane McLeod (University of Tasmania)
CMEMS Lunchtime seminar

Date: 3 May, 2016
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: No RSVP required

This talk is on the joys and discoveries possible during field work, be it in an archive or during a site visit. In 2014 I visited the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, to try and locate the site of a Viking burial excavated by a Royal Navy commander in 1862, but whose whereabouts was subsequently considered to be uncertain. Fortunately, after consulting the antiquarian report, early Ordnance Survey maps, and Google Earth, field walking enabled me to find the site with a high degree of probability. This talk discusses the location of the site and details of the burial.

““You Get a Feed There” – The New Zealand Shakespeare hut and other Shakespeare tales from 1916”, Dr Mark Houlahan (Waikato)

Date: 23 April, 2016
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Venue: Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Cost: Free event. More info: http://waikatomuseum.co.nz/exhibitions-and-events/view/2145882751/you-get-a-feed-there-the-new-zealand-shakespeare-hut-and-other-shakespeare-tales-from-1916

Mark Houlahan, Lecturer, University of Waikato and President Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) speaks on Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary and in commemoration of WWI.

The memory of Gallipoli casts a long shadow over our perspective of WWI. Yet if we focus exclusively on grim reports from the front, we settle for an uncomplicated picture of this war. For throughout 1916, New Zealanders round the globe embraced the 300th anniversary commemorations of Shakespeare’s death. In January 1916, British forces abandoned the Dardanelles after the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign. At home in New Zealand, space was found amidst the battle news to celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary.

Dr Mark Houlahan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Waikato and current President of the Australian and NZ Shakespeare Association (ANZSA). He has published widely on issues of Shakespeare, adaptation and cultural formation.

“Shakespeare and Modern Life” Professor Indira Ghose (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) with Sarah Kanowski (ABC Radio National)

Date: Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Time: 6:00pm (for a 6:15pm start)
Venue: Customs House, Brisbane City
Register: Free. RSVP essential here.

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety”. Shakespeare’s description of Cleopatra might well apply to his own work. This public lecture will try to get to grips with the question of why, four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare still matters. Why is his work continually performed, adapted, and cited in every part of the world, in both high and popular culture? Perhaps one reason lies in Shakespeare’s modernity. His characters are still alive today because in many ways they seem like us: self-determined independent individuals, on a constant quest for self-realisation, in control of their own destiny. Or so they think, as we do. Shakespeare’s plays give us access to the richness and diversity of human life—and simultaneously allow us to watch ourselves, and others, with a certain ironic detachment. A multitude of perspectives jostle one another in each play, suggesting to us that there are always other stories to be told.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Professor Ghose and Sarah Kanowski, presenter of Books and Arts on ABC Radio National.

Indira Ghose is Professor of English at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her research interests range from colonial to Renaissance literature. Her first book, Women Travellers in Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 1998), was followed by a number of anthologies of colonial travel writing. Shakespeare and Laughter: A Cultural History (Manchester University Press, 2008) examined Shakespearean theatre in the context of a history of laughter. Her study of Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing will appear with Bloomsbury in 2017. Professor Ghose is currently working on a book about the Renaissance culture of courtesy and its impact on the theatre, and is a Partner Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Sarah Kanowski is a writer, editor, and broadcaster with ABC Radio National. She completed an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Queensland, and holds a Masters in English Literature from Oxford University. She has edited the Tasmanian literary magazine Island, and now hosts Books and Arts on ABC RN.

Presented by the UQ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).