Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Springtime, with Fences: Ruth Park’s Teenage Years and the Emergence of a Writer (1930–1937)
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.“The Three Wise Men of Gotham loved the springtime so greatly they could not bear to see it vanish. So they built a fence around the cuckoo.” (A Fence Around the Cuckoo, 1992)With this epigraph, Ruth Park opens the first volume of her two-…
Collections as Data for Humanists
Seminar
Books tend to be well defined as something with a start and a finish and often have a cover, serving as a nice physical boundary representing where they start and end, and generally researchers trained in the Humanities are comfortable with these objects. However, as the world of cultural…
The Case of the Coal Basin in Southern Chile
Seminar
Introducing rephotography as a participatory tool to involve communities and to analyze the changing dynamics of industrial landscapesThis seminar will highlight the results of research focusing on industrial activity in the Biobío Region of Chile. In this project, I served as the principal…
Craniofacial development in bats: Insights into the evolution of laryngeal echolocation
Seminar
Presented in person and online, details below.Bats are known for their ability of laryngeal echolocation producing of high-frequency pulses from their larynx and interpreting returning echoes to track their prey and avoid obstacles in the night sky. The evolution of laryngeal echolocation within…
REMIX'D
Exhibition
REMIX'D - Exploring collaboration, creative practice and cultural continuity in VanuatuAn exhibition by the students of MUSC8018: Exhibition Design and Delivery.Opens Friday 24 October 4pm - 6pm Exhibition is open weekdays, 9am - 5pm, until 10 November 2025
New Thinking About the Origins of Material Symbols
Seminar
At some point our evolutionary past (exactly when is debated, though most would say within the last 200 ky years or so), our ancestors began to regularly produce material symbols (e.g., jewellery, parietal art, etc.). As yet, there's no widely accepted account as to what drove this intuitively…