Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It
Lecture
CCS Research Seminar 4 - Public Lecture presented in association with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum During the two millennia that the Roman state lasted nearly everything changed. Rome began as an Italian city state in which people spoke Latin and worshiped pagan gods and evolved into…
The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion
Seminar
Religious systems show the key properties of evolutionary systems: heritability, variation, and change. Yet they have only recently begun to be studied from an explicitly evolutionary perspective. In this talk, I will describe research on the origins of organised religion in hunter-gatherer…
Sign on Screen Film Festival
Festival
The full program and tickets are now available for the Sign on Screen Film Festival, taking place at the National Film and Sound Archive from 6pm Friday May 22 - 5pm Sunday May 24 2026. All events are Auslan <> English interpreted, all screenings are captioned with hearing loop…
Anthropogenic transformation of an island landscape: 3,000 years of adaptation and resilience on Efate, Vanuatu
Lecture/seminar
Join the Canberra Archaeological Society and the ANU Centre for Archaeological Research on Friday the 22nd of May for a special National Archaeology Week public lecture, delivered by the ANU's own Professor Stuart Bedford!Anthropogenic transformation of an island landscape: 3,000 years of…
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
Lecture/seminar
Ethnographic filmmakers often struggle to balance the need to let people speak for themselves with the need to create a coherent presentation through their own creative hand. Ethnographic writers face similar challenges in choosing to approach their subjects through expository versus evocative…