Collaboration across boundaries : a cross-disciplinary conference (2017)
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The Early Career Academic Network of ANU (NECTAR) and the Joint Colleges of Science Early Career Academic Development Committee hosted the first Collaboration across boundaries: a cross-disciplinary conference.
Solutions to the world’s intractable problems are more likely to come out of collaborations across disciplines, such as between industry, government and academic institutions, than out of isolated disciplines (ANU Strategic Plan 2017).
This event offered an opportunity to network and build collaborations across these boundaries. It showcased the future leaders: early career researchers and academics of ANU as well as potential collaborators from invited industry and government bodies.
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Item Open Access Australindopak archive: journey in painting, film and sound.(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Glikson, MichalDuring this journey I travelled to parts of Australia, India and Pakistan taking small steps and large. I carried materials, responding to different communities, cultures and environments I encountered through painting. I filmed in many of the places I visited, and recorded sounds and interviews. The Australindopak Archive is the outcome of this journey. It is an interactive mulltimedia journey, accessible at www.michalglikson.com.Item Open Access Contemplate content: four works(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Walsh, ErinI am an artist and scientist. During my time as a student and now postdoctoral fellow at ANU, I have had the honour of collaborating with academics across disciplinary boundaries (psychology, biology, epidemiology, science communication, physics, law) as both a researcher and scientific illustrator. These abstract portraits pay homage to four people who have inspired me down this path. They are all psychology PhDs, and also hold skills that reach beyond their discipline (philosophy, art, music, and mathematics).Item Metadata only Eating snow, drinking snow and understanding snow(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Otede, UchraltThis clip features snow water quality testing by local herders in Inner Mongolia and Uchralt's research collaboration with Dr D.C. "Bear" McPhail in Australia.Item Metadata only Striving toward malaria eradication: development of a single drug to kill malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that transmit them(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Spry, ChristinaMalaria is a lethal infectious disease caused by a parasite transmitted between humans by mosquitoes. In 2015 alone, there were 429,000 malaria deaths worldwide. Currently, malaria control predominantly relies on (I) reducing human contact with mosquitoes, e.g. through use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets; and (ii) antimalarial drugs that kill parasites within an infected person. However, as malaria parasites have become resistant to all antimalarial drugs in clinical use, and insecticide-resistant mosquitoes are widespread, our ability to treat and limit the spread of malaria is under serious threat. Striving to find a novel malaria control tool, I have identified a naturally-occurring chemical that kills both malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that transmit them. The chemical acts rapidly to kill malaria parasites while they multiply in human blood, and mosquitoes that have fed on blood containing it. To exploit this dual-activity, I am working toward developing a drug that will cure an infected patient of malaria, as well as kill mosquitoes that feed on that person, thereby preventing transmission of the parasite to healthy individuals. Such a drug would be an invaluable addition to our malaria control toolkit and an ideal candidate for a mass drug administration campaign targeted at malaria eradication.Item Open Access Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Glikson, Michal"Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting" investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. Peripatetic practice was explored as a means of redirecting a personal experience of rootlessness towards connecting with others as was painting as a way of communicating the complexity of cross-cultural experience. And the function and form of peripatetic painting was examined, and documented through film and writing. The study acknowledged travel as an ancient way of knowing the world and took inspiration from the paradigm of the nomadic storyteller, exemplified in the Bengali tradition of Patuya Sangit (scroll performance). Sensing the capacity for painting to provide spaces of connection and empathy, the study explored a confluence of ideas about the evolving social role of the artist, drawing influences from historic and contemporary peripatetic creative practices. The project incorporated immersive methodological approaches borrowing from anthropology, situating the artist as observer, participant, and ultimately, agent. Such social, interactive dimensions made for painting as a means of knowing and questioning the nature of cross-cultural experience. Field work in Australia, India and Pakistan generated scroll paintings, documentary films, and sound compositions. Key research spaces for painting, the scrolls employ pencil, collage, watercolour, and oil, and a metaphoric fusion of styles and techniques of painting and drawing, notably Persian miniature and life portraiture. These paintings have been brought together with films and sound compositions to create the "Australindopak Archive", an interactive multimedia journey, accessible at www.michalglikson.comItem Open Access The Vanishing(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Cunio, Kim; Sharma, Akshay; Sharma, Manisha; Manisha Sharma, Virginia TechThe Vanishing is an ongoing series of artistic projects that investigate the forced foeticide of Indian girls, realized as an audio installation it is an inspiring and arresting event. The Vanishing is produced by Virginia Tech academics, Akshay and Manisha Sharma and Kim Cunio.