Snakes
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In May 1770, Joseph Banks described sea snakes near the coast of ‘New South Wales’ as ‘beautifully spotted’. In 1788, Watkin Tench noted the ‘[l]arge snakes beautifully variegated’ around Botany Bay and Port Jackson. The one snake…
Seminar Series | Susie Russell
Seminar
“Toward a New Culture”? The Promiscuous Politics and Queer Potential of the ‘Pregnant Man’ Poster In 1972 a New England Free Press catalogue offered, amidst its extensive book list, three posters, priced at 5 cents each. One was a comic skewering capitalism, the second a reproduction of an ink…
The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.The temporal ambiguities of Win Neisen. Transformations of historicity in the Paliau Movement (Manus, Papua New Guinea)Win Neisen is a local, indigenously developed church, that is the contemporary manifestation of the well-known Paliau Movement…
Seminar Series | Alia Parker
Seminar
Multispecies Commensality: The Experimental Edge of Biodesign Eating, digesting and metabolising, although performed in often manifestly different ways, is something shared by more-than-humans and humans alike. When we eat, we eat with others. What or who we eat, and eat with, speaks to our…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October 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…
Roots and Rhizomes: Theorizing Inequality in Osteoarchaeology
Seminar
With its capacity to interrogate both identity and lived experience in the human past, osteoarchaeology provides an essential toolkit with which to examine embodied inequalities. Much of the osteoarchaeological literature on inequality, however, pertains to historic periods and the embodied…
Looting Etruria on Film: Alice Rohrwacher's ‘La Chimera’ (2023) - Panel Discussion and Screening
Panel discussion
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF ITALY, THE ANU FILM GROUP, AND THE FRIENDS OF THE ANU CLASSICS MUSEUMThe ANU Classics Museum invite you to a reception and panel discussion in the ANU Classics Museum (6-7pm), followed by a FREE screening of ‘La Chimera’ (2023) (7.30-9.30pm) in the…