The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA), Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art would like to invite you to a special forum to celebrate 10 years of Perspectives:Asia.
Retrospective Australia and Asia: The Cultural Relationship
Since its inception in 2005, ‘Perspectives: Asia’ has hosted a diverse range of speakers on various topics that look at Australia’s relationships with its Asian neighbours.
As 2014 marks the tenth year of the series, we are acknowledging this important milestone with a special retrospective event that focuses on Australia’s cultural connections with its region, with a focus on China, India and Indonesia. Join Reuben Keehan, QAGOMA’s Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, chair of this special event, and our panel of leading thinkers as they reflect on the key issues that have shaped Australian’s regional cultural relations over the past decade, and offer their perspectives on what will shape the next ten years.
Ms Linda Jaivin is the internationally published author of eleven books, including seven works of fiction, a collection of essays called Confessions of an S&M Virgin and a China memoir, The Monkey and the Dragon. Her bestselling first novel, Eat Me, has been republished as a Text Classic, and most recent novel is The Empress Lover. Linda’s fifth novel, The Infernal Optimist, a dark comedy set inside Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2007. She is also a literary translator from Chinese with a specialty in film subtitling (including the 1993 co-winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or Farewell My Concubine). Linda's short stories, essays and reviews have been widely published, including in The Monthly, Griffith REVIEW, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Dr Chaitanya Sambrani, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, is an art historian and curator with a special interest in modern and contemporary art in Asia. He has an MA in Art Criticism from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, and a PhD in Art History and Curatorship from the Australian National University. His work has been featured in major publications, exhibitions and conferences in Australia, India, China, Korea, Singapore, and the USA. His recent curatorial projects include ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’ (Chennai, 2012), ‘Place.Time.Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom’ (Shanghai, 2010).
Professor Julia Howell is an Adjunct Professor with the Griffith Asia Institute and the University of Western Sydney and former Board Member of the Department of Foreign Affairs' Australia Indonesia Institute. She is a specialist in the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion who has worked for over thirty years on movements of religious reform in Indonesia, and on New Religious Movements both in Indonesia and the West. Her areas of expertise include Sociology; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Religion, society and modernity; Indonesian studies; Sociology of Islam; Sufism; Asian New Religious Movements in Western societies; Spiritual practices and religious experiences and Gender studies.
More speakers to be announced soon.
- Thursday 11 September, 6:00-7:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
- Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank
Places are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment. RSVP to Natasha Vary by Thursday 5 September 2014 on telephone 07 3735 5322 or email events-gai@griffith.edu.au
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