Public Culture Podcasts

Creative For Life is a Griffith University initiative that brings the Creative Arts, Humanities and Life Sciences together to promote creativity and healthy living across cultures and ages in Australian Communities

Dr Brydie Leigh Bartleet speaks about her recent experiences of popular music in Australian community contexts. It is part of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas Popular Music Seminar Series.

Reflections on a collaborative research project between an Indigenous Australian performer and a music researcher" by Katelyn Barney and Lexine Solomon. It is part of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas Cultures of Popular Music Seminar Series.

Professor Ann Blair's (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University) public lecture, State Library of Queensland, Thursday 17 July, 6pm.

Professor Andy Bennett draws on his recent ethnographic work with music fans now in their forties and fifties to both readdress the dominant focus on youth and explode stereotypes of ageing music fans as nostalgists.

Senator Andrew Bartlett (Australian Democrats) speaks at the recent conference Humane Education: A compassionate ethic for animals.

Professor George Vaillant argues that successful ageing is not an oxymoron. Based on the longest continuous study of physical and mental health, he has uncovered predictors that individuals can use to determine how well they will age.