10 September 2024

2024 ATSE Annual Oration

Hear from Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University, as she explores the Overland Telegraph Line and its lessons for understanding past, present, and future systems.

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"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.

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