Book Launch | Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street
Book launch
Please join us in celebrating the release of Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street, the final book in The Disobedient Museum trilogy by Professor Kylie Message, which will be launched by Professor Paul Pickering, Director of the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. The…
‘Australia and the World’ 2019 Annual Lecture: Hon Josh Frydenberg MP
Lecture
The Australian Studies Institute warmly invites you to the 'Australia and the World' Annual Lecture: 'Navigating the global economy in challenging times' presented by the Treasurer of Australia, The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP. About the speaker: Josh Frydenberg was elected to the Australian…
In conversation with Tony Jones
Book launch
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR ABC Q&A host and one of Australia's most admired journalists, Tony Jones is moving to China. But first he's coming to Canberra for a conversation with Mark Kenny on Tony's new political thriller, In Darkness Visible, and his life…
Lauren Kalman | Public Lecture
Artist talk
Lauren Kalman | Public Lecture 6pm Wednesday 6 November 2019Lecture Theatre, Level 1, ANU School of Art & DesignFree | All welcome --Lauren Kalman is a Detroit based metalsmith, performance, and object artist. She will discuss her work, which consists of images, video,…
2019 Future of the Humanities Lecture | Islam and Reform: Myth and Realities
Seminar
It is often suggested that Islam needs a reformation, especially in the face of extremism and the lack of social and political liberalisation in Muslim societies. The call for reform is propagated by critics of Islam who view the religion and its adherents as incapable of embracing change and…
Menzies Screening: Etched in Bone, Followed by Q&A with filmmakers
Panel discussion
Film Screening, Followed by Q&A with filmmakers Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon Made over eight years, documentary Etched in Bone examines the theft of Aboriginal human remains by the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948, their removal to the Smithsonian…