Writing lives, revealing lives, Portraiture and personhoold 20 years of portraits
Lecture
The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is hosting a visit from art critic Sebastian Smee who will be presenting a keynote lecture at the forum Writing lives, revealing lives; portraiture and personhood at the National Portrait Gallery on 1 July 2018. The forum is a partnership between CAHAT…
Austen’s Theatricality and the Limits of Realism
Seminar
Jane Austen’s narrative economy is often praised, as is her psychological realism, yet the first relies in important ways on the stage and the second is haunted by the generic expectations and dramaturgies of the comedy of manners and melodrama. The traditional view of Austen as anti-theatrical has…
Always Politicise?
Seminar
Is literary scholarship an emancipatory political activity? In this paper, I argue that the claim to some form of political emancipation has become a tic—a professionalizing tic—of our discipline. Recent books by Joseph North and Caroline Levine provide examples of the phenomenon for the current…
Clarinet Day!
Activity
Clarinet Day will feature internationally Acclaimed Clarinetists: Including Socrates Villegas (Clarinet - Philadelphia Orchestra), Eloise Fisher (DMA Clarinet, The Juilliard School), Rachel Allen (Clarinet - Canberra Symphony Orchestra). Activities: Clarinet competition (prizes), Clarinet…
Research Matters Forum: Mitchell Whitelaw and Kathryn Robinson
Seminar
Mitchell Whitelaw will speak on "Visualising Living Landscapes" and Kathryn Robinson will speak on "Rediscovery cultural identity in a digital age" in the Research Matters Forum. The Research Matters Forum supports cross-disciplinary discussion and is co-hosted by The Centre for Heritage and…
'Handwork': Sonya Lifschitz & Lisa Moore
Performance
Virtuosi maverick Australian-Ukrainian-American pianists, Sonya Lifschitz and Lisa Moore, join forces to present Handwork - a powerhouse journey on two grand pianos with masterwork music by J.S. Bach, Martin Bresnick and John Adams. Hear the infamous Bach Goldberg Variations afresh, with it’s…
The Legend in the Dream: Demonstration of a Virtual Reality Environment based on Franz Kafka's 'A Country Doctor'
Activity
The Centre for Digital Humanities Research warmly welcomes all ANU staff and students to come experience a virtual reality (VR) game called "The Legend in the Dream". It is a role-playing game based on Franz Kafka’s 1917 short novel A Country Doctor, built by Xinrui Meng (currently enrolled on the…