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…
Connecting arts, culture and heritage sectors through National Cultural Policy
Lecture/seminar
The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU is delighted to invite you to a seminar with Professor Mathew Trinca AM FAHA to relaunch its monthly seminar series. Prof. Trinca will discuss the opportunity of connecting Australia’s visual, literary and performing arts with the GLAM…
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…
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…
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…
What Makes a Monster Horrible? Exploring the Sensory Experience of Monstrosity in Myth through Disgusting and Aversive Language
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 6Ancient Greek and Roman myths abound with vivid descriptions of giant, supernaturally powerful creatures with horrifying composite bodies and a taste for mortal destruction – monsters. Across Greek and Roman literature, monsters are most commonly portrayed as horrible…
The role of wild food plants on the well-being of local communities in Cambodia
Seminar
Globally, there is a commitment to protect 30% of marine and terrestrial areas by 2030 (the “30×30” target), alongside the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger by the same year. In alignment with these commitments, Cambodia expanded its protected areas to over 40% in 2023.…