Various seminars and conferences happening in Australia in July:
1. Exploring the Last Frontier, Thursday July 11th, 6pm at Seymore Centre (The University of Sydney)
Over the past 60 years Australia has played a leading role in humanity’s exploration of the Cosmos. Australia has contributed using innovative instruments that incorporate world-leading technology. Professor Brian Schmidt will describe Australia’s role in helping establishing our view of the Universe, and speculate how our participation in the next generation of radio and optical telescopes will help unlock some of the Universe’s great outstanding mysteries.
http://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/18922-sydney-ideas-exploring-the-last-frontier-australia-s-pioneering-work-in-astronomy
2. Behind the Scenes tour of SMH Photos
This inside scoop on photography could be very revealing if you like sporting imagery in particular. Sandra Harrison, Commercial Editor of Visuals, and photographer Dallas Kilponen, both from the Sydney Morning Herald, give this behind-the-scenes tour of Photos1440. Sandra will talk about the challenges of editing the Photos1440 exhibition and her role as Photo Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_talks/events/behind_the_scenes_tour_of_photos1440.html
3. 26th Annual SEAANZ Conference, 11-12 July
The annual theme to be framed out for the Annual SEAANZ Conference is Small Business Management in Globally Competitive Markets. The main reason to attend this show is to explore and encourage research areas and latest technologies for enhancing the Business Management areas. Themes include:
· Exporting and globalization strategies for small firms;
· Innovation, new product development and commercialization within the small firm;
http://www.seaanz.org/conferences.asp
4. MCA on The Rocks – I only know it isn’t mine. $20 on July 18th 6:30-8 pm
We don’t choose our bodies – they’re just given to us. Fat or thin, male or female, black or white, we get no say in the matter at all. So what if we’re born with a body we don’t belong in? What if we’re born with a body we do belong in and then suddenly it changes? Are our bodies really us or just a cruel lottery of flesh disbursed by God?
Wangechi Mutu plays with the human form like most of us used to play with Lego. She builds it up and she tears it apart and then she puts it back together again in strange and unusual ways. She is art’s Doctor Moreau.
http://www.mca.com.au/events/mca-rocks-18-jul/6612/
5. Art Gallery NSW, Special Lecture: Chris Dercon talks about The 21st-century museum on 13th July at 3pm
Chris Dercon is the Director of Tate Modern, London, the most visited museum in the world, and, according to Dercon, ‘an art movement by itself’. Dercon discusses his approach to the physical and social evolution of the 21st-century museum and reflects on the recent resurgence of performance art and its display within the Tate Tanks.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/special-lecture-chris-dercon/
