The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Seminar
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris, the lover and lifelong partner of Patrick White, who turned her away. Patrick was already seated at his desk. He would brook no interruption. Irked yet…
2024 Graduating Exhibition
Exhibition
Exhibition dates: Saturday 30 November - Sunday 8 December 2024 Open daily 10am - 4pm www.gradshow.com.au The Graduating Exhibition is a showcase of the culmination of our students' efforts across a wide range of practices in Visual Arts and Design.
Prof. Alice Roberts - From Cell to Civilisation
External
This is the story of us. Our story started 3.8 billion years ago. Who are we? Where do we come from? What does it mean to be human? For thousands of years, such questions have been explored through philosophy and religion, but the answers now seem to lie firmly within the grasp of an empirical…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of his career posing bold questions. What did it mean, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to reconceptualise the novel as a work…
Tree Planting Ceremony to Celebrate the Dye & Fibre Garden
Other
We are delighted to invite you to a special tree planting event to celebrate the launch of the Dye & Fibre Garden, a collaborative project between the Landscape & Conservation Team and the School of Art & Design. Date: Thursday, 21st NovemberTime: 11:30 AMLocation: Dye & Fibre…
Voices of Regional Australia workshop
Workshop
Voices of Regional Australia workshopLanguage variation and change in non-urban settings: Honing the conceptual and methodological toolkitIn this one-week seminar series, we delve into issues relevant to the contemporary sociolinguistic study of dialectal variation. We invite local and…
‘So there you are again’: back to Waiting For Godot
Arts & entertainment
Since its first production in French in the tiny Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, Waiting for Godot has been played all over the world in different languages and in all sorts of venues: not just in theatres, but in prisons and hospitals, war zones and lockdowns. It is a play that…