Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud? Musicological Responses to Psychobiography
Seminar
Psychobiography has often held an uneasy position in the writing of musical biography. Ernest Newman’s: The Man Liszt: A Study of a Tragi-comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself (1934) attempted to ride the wave of the debunking biography model laced with a psychoanalytic angle, but few of the…
Brenda L. Croft—Kurrwa (stone axe/axehead) to Kartak (billycan, pannikin, tin cup): hand-made/held-ground
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Dr Brenda L. Croft, Associate Professor, Indigenous Art History and Curatorship, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU Kurrwa (stone axe/axehead) to Kartak (billycan, pannikin, tin cup): hand-made/held-ground. Due to the lockdown, this event will be online…
Works that Shaped the World: Malthus and the Modern World
Lecture
As the planet approaches 8 billion, international debate on population will be ignited again, and as with 7 billion, 6 billion and 5 billion, discussion will still circle around Thomas Robert Malthus and his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). Why does a controversial text from the…
Research Seminar: Scott Davie
Seminar
Cataloguing Rachmaninoff’s Career in Performance Sergei Rachmaninoff is widely regarded as one of the great pianists of the twentieth century. While his professional career as a concert pianist dated principally from his time in the West, in pre-Soviet Russia he was recognised as a preeminent…
CANCELLED - Friends Historical Instruments Showcase Concert
Performance
* Due to the ACT's lockdown and assciated travel restrictions restrictions, this event has now been cancelled. Join Dr Scott Davie, Lecturer in Piano at the ANU School of Music, and some of our finest keyboard students for a showcase of the ANU Historic Instruments Collection. Hear Scott…
Alice Tay Lecture on Law & Human Rights: Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson on 'The paradox of race in Australian legal thought: making the invisible visible'
Webinar/Online
The Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry is pleased to invite you to the 2021 Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights. This year’s Alice Tay Lecture will be presented in conjunction with the CASS Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Sub-Committee.Distinguished…
Research Seminar: Thomas Peter Laue
Seminar
The development of carillon art and culture in Australia: Two case studies (1933–2021) This presentation charts both historical and contemporary accounts pertaining to the musical and societal functions of two carillons in Australia: the War Memorial Carillon in Bathurst, New South Wales (1933–…