ANU Orchestra & ANU Jazz Orchestra in Concert
Performance
Immerse yourself in an enchanting evening of classical music at the ANU Orchestra Concerto Gala, conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin. The program will include works by Mozart, Weber, Glanville Hicks, Copland, Bunk, Elgar and Sibelius. After the ANU orchestra come to…
Jazz & Contemporary Ensembles Concerts
Performance
Join us for an evening of outstanding musical performances featuring talented ensembles from the ANU School of Music. The event will showcase a range of instrumental and vocal performances by Con's Ensemble, Lachlan's Ensemble, John's Ensemble and Recording Ensemble. Program Con’s…
Dr Daniel Hanigan (Trinity College, Cambridge)- ‘Counter-Mapping Empire: Dionysius of Byzantium in the Thracian Bosporus’
Seminar
The rhetoric of global territorial conquest was central to the propaganda of the early Roman Empire. Augustus and his successors frequently presented themselves in Virgilian terms as masters of an “empire without end” (imperium sine fine) bounded only by the impassable waters of Ocean. This was,…
Jeffrey Sarmiento | Export Quality
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online Jeffrey Sarmiento is a glass artist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Art & Design at the Australian National University, where he is Head of Glass. Educated at the Rhode Island School of Design USA and the University of Sunderland UK where…
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
Seminar
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central Australia. The reintegration of this material has prompted diverse responses from different communities. At the community of Laramba, a project…
The earliest multi-island obsidian exchange network and exciting discoveries from Wetar Island, Indonesia
Seminar
Our species embarked on the world’s first great maritime journey from Sunda (greater Southeast Asia) to Sahul (greater Australia) at least 50,000 years ago. In the process they settled Wallacea, the archipelago of thousands of islands lying between these two continental landmasses. While this…
Frailty, mortality and complexity: The osteological paradox and beyond
Seminar
Paleoepidemiology is concerned with exploration of disease of past population, and in particular the mortality risk associated with factors such as skeletal indicators of disease (such as bone lesions), as well as socio-cultural factors such as class which may impact health. The exploration of such…