Aboriginal Astronomy Forum

Photograph by Renee Nowytarger, courtesy Australian Museum

This University of Western Sydney Open Forum on Aboriginal Astronomy features guest speaker Dr Roslynn Haynes, Adjunct Associate Professor School of Arts and Media, UNSW and Honorary Associate School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania.

Dr Roslynn Haynes will discuss Aboriginal Astronomy and will explore what it offers as a critique of Western astronomy and its implications concerning our place in the environment.

Roslynn Haynes, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania. She did her first degree in Biochemistry before reading for an English Literature degrees. Her PhD thesis on the influence of science on the writings of H.G.Wells was the first of many adventures in interdisciplinary research – in science and literature, in landscape, literature and art, and cultural studies. It was while writing Explorers of the Southern Sky that she became fascinated by Aboriginal Astronomy both for itself, for what it offers as a critique of Western astronomy and for its implications concerning our place the environment.

Find out more by downloading the flyer here. You can register online here or call 9678 7374.

Event Details

University of Western Sydney Open Forum: Aboriginal Astronomy
Date: 16 September 2014
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: University of Western Sydney, Parramatta South Campus, the Auditorium Building EE, Room G.36, James Ruse Drive, Parramatta
Cost: Free

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