Human-alloprimate coexistence? Current debates and considerations
Seminar
Facilitating co-existence, defined here as sustainable sympatry, between humans and alloprimates requires careful thought and attention to an array of realities - from the material/ecological to the social/perceptual. Anthropology, sometimes seen to be at the nexus for tensions between interpretive…
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Seminar
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation Join us for a session with poet Rae Armantrout as she explores the relationship between poetry and environmental crisis. Armantrout will read and discuss selected eco-poems from her collection Go Figure (2024) and recent unpublished works that…
Jazz & Contemporary Student Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Join ANU School of Music Performance students for a relaxed lunchtime concert. The Thursday Quartet The Thursday Quartet is an ensemble comprised of ANU School of Music contemporary jazz students who rehearse on Fridays and explore different material, pushing their musical capabilities. The…
Ella Barclay | Doom-Scroll Bed-Rots and Enhanced Entanglement: Collective Bodies in Encrypted Space
Seminar
Ella Barclay will provide an overview of her current research, including her recent institutional solo exhibition Unkempt Cognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and her research as a 2024 fellow at ZK/U: The Centre of Art and Urbanistics, Berlin. Dr Ella Barclay is a Senior…
Monsters and Crises
Seminar
This paper has two aims: (1) to introduce the broader project of Monster Anthropology that my colleague Geir Presterudstuen and I have been working on for over a decade now; and (2) to illustrate how an anthropological focus on monsters can add new perspectives on the ways in which we live with, in…
Visualising Gawari Mada with Mitchell Whitelaw
Workshop
Earlier this year participants were invited to observe, identify and record living things in the Holt Microforest using the citizen science platform iNaturalist. We’ve observed birds, plants, fungi, insects and more. In this workshop, we will investigate how we might represent and visualise this…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - September 2024
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…