Indigenous Knowledge Educational Workshop 2026: Reciprocity and Exchange
Workshop
Learning with Country, community and each other The 2026 Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development Workshop explored reciprocity and exchange as practices of learning, relationship and responsibility.Reciprocity invites us to think differently about what it means to learn and share…
Wellspring Series 2026: Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique
Performance
In this lecture-demonstration, scholar Wesley Lim and choreographers James Batchelor and Ruth Osborne explore the movement legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser and the lineage of her teaching in Australia.Lim will introduce Bodenwieser’s radical modernist practice, brought to…
From Alexandria to Baghdad via Damascus: Missing Links in the Transmission of Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Seminar
The established narrative of the transmission of Greek philosophy and science in late antiquity leaves a significant gap between the end of the Alexandrian school in the 6th century and its “rediscovery” in 9th-century Baghdad. This so-called ‘Dark Age’ can be illumined by looking at the…
2026 Anthony Forge Memorial Lecture: "Just Sign for Her" - Proprioception and Consent
Lecture
This upcoming lecture is co-sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute and the School of Archaeology and Anthropology and is free to attend. Register your attendance through Humanitix to stay up to date with event information. Originally published on the ANU Gender Institute website.For the renegade…
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
Lecture/seminar
This past summer, wildfires again washed across southeast Australian landscapes, affecting over 500,000 hectares. Many of the forests that have carried these combustive tides are regrowth of native forests industrially cleared for mining and then recleared for timber. Many of the grasslands that…
Reckoning with Anthro-Cast: A Progress Report from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Lecture/seminar
In 2024, Chip Colwell and I convened a Wenner-Gren Seminar that scrutinised the Foundation's ethical obligations in connection with the Foundation's legacy casting program, Anthro-Cast, a profit-generating enterprise that the Foundation ran between 1962-76 (see Colwell and Rutherford 2025)1.…
Forensic Investigation of Victims of the Batavia Mutiny, 1629
Seminar
On 4 June 1629, the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) retourschip Batavia wrecked on Morning Reef, in the Houtman Abrolhos, approximately 65 km off the Western Australian coast. The macabre events following the wrecking saw more than 100 individuals murdered over a three-month period, by…