2024 ATSE Annual Oration

Presented by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)

"Messages pass through" by Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University

Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line from Darwin to Adelaide was a staggering engineering feat and crucial system of the late nineteenth-century. Interwoven with other human, technical, and ecological systems, the OTL transformed our experiences of time, distance, knowledge, and social relationships. Through the many stories of the OTL, Genevieve will explore what we can learn from a historical large-scale system and how we can use it as a blueprint for understanding current and future systems.

Event Details
Date: Tuesday 10 September 2024
Time (AEST): 12:00pm-1:00pm
Location: ANU Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Auditorium, 146 Ellery Cres, Action ACT 2601 and Online via Zoom