Harmonious Connections: Nature and Culture - Advanced Humanities Symposium 2024

Join us for the 2024 Advanced Humanities Symposium where we hope to untangle what it means to attain Harmony in and through Nature and Culture.

In light of our world’s constant state of discordance, Harmony can help us advance our cultural discourses and disciplines, both in history and today. The 2024 Symposium will explore the ways in which particular aspects of our nature and culture intertwine and can be utilised to help remedy societal issues. 

The Symposium will take place in-person at the Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building, University of Queensland. It will also be livestreamed on Zoom here: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/87378557598

Schedule:

09.30 - 10.00 Arrival & Morning Tea

10.00 - 11.15 Heather Zwicker Opening

10.15 - 10.30 Introduction: HARMONY

10.30 - 11.00 Robert Brennan - Painting, Dance, and Transculturation in Renaissance Italy

11.00 - 11.30 Anne Levitsky - “‘Harmonia mundi’: the Troubadours, Natural Philosophy, and the Intellectual World of the Northern Mediterranean in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”

11.30 - 12.00 Beth Spacey - Disharmonious Nature: Crusade, Heresy, and the ‘Polluted’ Landscapes of the Thirteenth-Century Languedoc

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.15 - 13.30 Introduction: MAGIC OF MUSHROOMS 

13.30 - 14.00 Paige Donaghy & Karin Sellberg – Fungal Philosophies

14.00 - 14.30 Alistair McTaggart - Designer Shrooms Beyond Evolution

14.30 - 15.00 Bianca Tainsh  - Intimate Processes of Interspecies Connection between Humans, AI and Fungi

15.00 - 16.00 Yarraka Bayles - Indigenous Bush Food Knowledges 

16.00 - 16.30 Mushroom Feast & Canapes