Multilingual Mosaic
Other
Are you curious about where studying Languages can take you?Join us for a fun session at the ANU, where you’ll discover how learning languages opens doors to exciting opportunities in Australia and beyond. You’ll meet our team, hear about our courses, and find out how you could study or work…
Life Narrative Studies
Seminar
Life narrative studies is a broad term used to reflect the interrogation and analysis of practices of self-representation. Such practices include textual (life writing, memoir, auto/biography, diary), digital (websites, blogs, social media), material (visual art, quilting), and performative…
World Cities Day address: Resilience by design – A Vision for Urban Australia
Panel discussion
In the lead-up to World Cities Day, the ANU Australian Studies Institute is pleased to host an address by cities expert Honorary Professor Barbara Norman that looks at the future for Australia's urban settlements. From our post-war migration, to Whitlam’s urban and regional development, to…
Translating Greek in Māori-language theatre from Homer’s Odyssey to Euripides’ Bacchae
Seminar
This talk addresses interactions between Classics, theatre, and te reo Māori, the indigenous Polynesian language of Aotearoa New Zealand. The principal focus will be two quite different works:Hemi Kelly’s Ngā Whakamāoritanga, a Māori translation of Brian Friel’s play Translations published in 2022…
Stolen heritage: Why giving back colonial loot makes white people so angry
Seminar
Should museums return cultural heritage taken from colonised peoples? This question is usually fought on legal and technical grounds: Do the original owner societies still exist in a form able to reclaim cultural objects? Can present-day conventions be applied retroactively to takings from the…
Making Slow: Textile Craft Timelines in India’s Fashion Industry
Lecture/seminar
The handmade aesthetic of block print textiles is an enduring element in India’s marketplaces even as the craft’s production timelines conflict with fashion industry demands. Making the textiles is characterised as ‘slow’ by both heritage printers in the town of Bagru, Rajasthan and industry buyers…
Personhood and Power at Late Prehistoric Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand
Seminar
Later prehistory has been identified as a time of rapid social change northeast Thailand. However, the drivers, nature, scale, and impacts of this change are debated. Personhood theory provides an alternative avenue for understanding social change during this critical…