[csaa-forum] UTAS Media School Seminar Series May 25 - Associate Professor Katrina Schlunke "Public Secrets, Media and Extinction"

[Gemma Blackwood]

We are pleased to invite you to the Media School’s May research seminar!



Title – Public Secrets, Media and Extinction



Speaker: Associate Professor Katrina Schlunke (University of Sydney/University of Tasmania)



Abstract: This paper will explore the role and imaginary of the many advertisements put in Tasmanian newspapers throughout the 1940s concerning Tasmanian tigers ‘accidentally’ killed or captured. These advertisements were posted by the Fauna Board but countersigned by the Police Department and are a mixture of process and promise of reward. For every reason we can imagine, the idea of ‘accidentally’ catching a Tasmanian tiger in 1945, seven years after what is now considered the last thylacine death in the Hobart Zoo seems risible now. But what work did these publicly circulated advertisements do? Influenced by Michael Taussig’s notion of the public secret and Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose’s notion of the long and ‘dull edge’ of extinction, this mediated example brings together ideas about the cultural histories of extinction and their present effects.



Bio: Associate Professor Katrina Schlunke is co-investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery project ‘Beyond Extinction: Reconstructing the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Archive’ and has recently published on the Anthropocene and art, fictocriticism, and a rug made from Tasmanian tiger skins. She is an Adjunct in the School of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney and CALE, University of Tasmania.





Wednesday 25 May 2022, Time 4.15pm-5:00pm AEST



The Media School/School of Creative Arts and Media

Location: Room 206, The Media School

Level 1, 2 Salamanca Square



All are welcome. To attend this seminar either in person at The Media School OR to watch online live via ZOOM, please register via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-secrets-media-and-extinction-tickets-332706292477

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Katrina presents research about the cultural histories of extinction and its present effects, examining 1940s media on the Tasmanian tiger.
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If you register to watch online, a Zoom link will be sent to you closer to the event.



Kind regards,



Dr Gemma Blackwood
Lecturer, Media
The Media School/ School of Creative Arts and Media

College of Arts, Law and Education
University of Tasmania
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