Talepakemalai Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Webinar/Online
In this presentation Patrick Kirch will present the highlights from his most recent book, Talepakemalai. Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Talepakemalai is a single integrated volume in which all of the results of the Mussau Project, including more recent…
Miho Watanabe | Awareness of Between-ness: Memory and Time
Gallery
Miho Watanabe’s research investigates and theorises Awareness of Between-ness in the context of the Japanese aesthetic of ma. It asks, how can this concept support and deepen the visualisation of the invisible, the subject of in-between and Between-ness, and what methodology can be discovered that…
Thinking through (im)mobilities: A research agenda in investigating a migrant’s digital lifeworld
Seminar
This provocation offers a critical approach to investigate the diverse impacts of modern communication technologies on the personal, familial and social lives of migrants. Extending the mobilities lens in the context of digital and transnational communication, it interrogates the possibilities and…
Mary Roberts—Whose Modernity?
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Mary Roberts FAHA, Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sydney Whose Modernity? Baudelaire and Guys in Istanbul Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU Those who can't attend in person, can…
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome A Live 'Emperors of Rome' Podcast
Arts & entertainment
On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. The conflagration raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions. Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero…
Works that Shaped the World: John Ball and the Peasants’ Revolt
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. John Ball was the most famous priest and theological voice of the so-called “Peasants’ Revolt” in England, 1381. We have letters attributed to him which appear to have been sent to rebels and we have his…
Loops of Memory
Workshop
A video montage of the "Loops of Memory" workshop held in April of this year.