Teaching teaching indigenous studies during the pandemic, indigenous methodologies, developing the linguistic competence in discussing indigenous issues and navigating difficult topics - Lily Brown shares her insights on these in this episode.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Lily Brown

What's it like teaching indigenous studies during the pandemic? How to develop the linguistic competence in discussing indigenous issues and navigating difficult topics? Lily Brown shares her insights in this episode.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Lily Brown

Potluck, legos, and giraffe talking piece, what do all these have anything to do with Justice Studies? Muhammad Asadullah, Assistant Professor at the Department of Justice Studies from the University of Regina, tell us how in this episode.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Muhammad Asadullah

Editor: Xia Cui

It's challenging to make students feel connected and supported in an online environment, especially when they are first year university students. Since the start of virtual campus, Isidro Garcia and Lara Anderson from the Faculty of Arts have experimented multiple initiatives to support their students and help them to stay connected, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Listen to this episode to find out how they did it.

Guest speakers: Isidro Martinez Garcia; Lara Anderson

Host and editor: Xia Cui

Can we suppose an object might have its own character, a life of its own? A purpose and function beyond decoration or ornament? In this 5th episode of The Art of Looking series, Olivia Meehan explores the biography of an object by listening to it!

Resources and Links

BBC Sunday Feature: Cristiani and Her Cello

Classic FM: Case Notes: the award-winning true crime podcast: The stolen Stradivarius

Collection Pieces

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The Gould" Violin, 1693; "The Antonius" Violin, 1711; "The Francesca" Violin, 1694

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

The 'Messiah' Violin, 1716

The Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne

Rare Music Collection

Museo del Violino, Cremona

ACO Australian Chamber Orchestra

Our instruments: https://www.aco.com.au/the-orchestra/our-instruments

ACO Home to Home: Richard Tognetti and Satu Vänskä

Join Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and Principal Violin Satu Vänskä for this special recital as they perform the music of JS Bach, Paganini and Leclair from their Manly home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96xUS2BlBmI

The Musical Forest

Violinmakers have been coming to the Latemar forest in South Tyrol since the time of Stradivarius. Violinmaker Paul Lijsen is once again searching the Latemar forest in South Tyrol's Eggental valley. How can they hear a violin just from a tree trunk? Join him as he searches for the perfect tree...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGM_VsTwoMA

With thanks to Robyn Archer for the readings.

Readings and quotes taken from:

Faber, Toby. Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius, Pan; Reprints edition, 2005.

Dr. Wendy Haslem teaches in the Screen Studies program. She is also the Program Director for Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. In this episode, she chats to host Wajeehah about what changes Covid-19 has brought to the Bachelor of Arts, as well as to her own subjects.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Wendy Haslem

Editor: Xia Cui

This is part 7 of the "checking-in" series in which our host Wajeehah Aayeshah zoomed in with academics from the Faculty of Arts and chatted about how they are adjusting in life and teaching in this fast changing situation.

In this episode, Nonie May from the School of Culture and Communications chats about her experience in adjusting to online teaching, and in particular, how she feels about her duty of care towards the students.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Nonie May

Editor: Xia Cui

Ruonan teaches Chinese language subjects at the Asia Institute. In this episode, she shares her insights in how to engage students and enhance their sense of community both in class, and out of class.

Guest speaker: Ruonan Zeng

Host and episode editor: Xia Cui

In this 4th episode of The Art of Looking series, Olivia Meehan takes us to The Blue House Museum in Mexico. Listen to how she sees the Blue House, and enjoy an interspersed audio feast of Robyn Archer's reading from Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo.

Resources and Links:

Museo Frida Kahlo - The Blue House

https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/en/the-blue-house/

Virtual Tour

https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/en/the-blue-house/multimedia/

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

A fresh perspective on Kahlo's compelling life story through her most intimate personal belongings

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/frida-kahlo-making-her-self-up

Goethe: The Theory of Colour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjvc

EDITORIAL FEATURE: The Hidden Meanings In Frida Kahlo's Paintings

Explore the wonderful details included in the artist's works with the help of Art Camera

https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/the-hidden-meanings-in-frida-kahlo-s-paintings%C2%A0/MwISAVsIDncgLQ?hl=en

Readings:

Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Perennial; Reprint edition, 2002,

With thanks to Robyn Archer for the readings.

In this episode, 4 students from the Faculty of Arts chat about their learning experience since the start of virtual campus: what has the dynamic been like between them and their teachers? How does this dynamic affect student engagement and partnership? And what particular aspect of their online learning experience they would hope to continue when they go back to campus.

Host: Nira Rahman

Guest speakers:

Michael Hester

Campbell Rider

Tejas Sethi

Margherita Mezzasoma

Producer and editor: Xia Cui