SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with the exhibition Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge
a significant multi-screen cinematic work
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Margaret Throsby in conversation with

Professor Geremie R. Barmé,
historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor

Saturday, 14 May 2011
3 – 5 pm

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Speakers:

Margaret Throsby is one of Australia’s most versatile, popular and admired broadcasters. Her highly successful career encompasses both radio and television. Margaret presents Mornings on ABC Classic FM. Accolades for her achievements include: Member of the Order of Australia (for Services to Broadcasting, 1989), Variety Club of Australia’s Radio Award, Two Avion Awards for the ‘Best in the World’ inflight audio programmes (Qantas), Golden Gavel Award presented by the Law Society of NSW for Excellence in Legal Reporting, Children’s Week Media Award and Rostrum Speaker of the Year.

Professor Geremie R. Barmé  is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor. He is a research professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, where he also edits the online e-journal China Heritage Quarterly. Trained in Chinese, Sanskrit and history, Geremie has lived and worked in China (where he studied from 1974 to 1977), Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. His works include the two-hour documentary film Morning Sun (2003) and The Forbidden City (London: Profile Books & Harvard University Press, 2008). He is the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU.