Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - December 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…
Exploring the Craft of Historical Fiction: Alison Goodman, Sue Williams and Professor Kate Mitchell in conversation.
Other
The Friends of the National Library present two multi-talented award-winning authors in conversation – Alison Goodman and Sue Williams.Alison and Sue will be joined by Professor Kate Mitchell from the Australian National University to explore the craft of historical fiction writing. Together they…
The Gathering
Conference
Hosted by the School of Music of the Australian National University in Canberra, this will be an Australian and near-Pacific neighbours First Nations Composers Gathering. Attendees may include First Nations composers from Australia and the near-Pacific, First Nations performers of classical/new…
Book Launch: Early Photography in Colonial Australia by Dr Elisa deCourcy
Book launch
Early Photography in Colonial Australia (Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press) explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world.From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology – it was deeply…
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…