Historians at Work: The historians' boots
Lecture
What are historians looking for when they set out on foot (or by road, rail or air) in their quest for the past? And how often do they find it? The questions raised include: Has the digital age made travel superfluous? Do historians' observations of a particular landscape shape…
Happiness and Pain: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Symposium
Both themes – “happiness” and “pain” – are at the forefront of current research and cross-disciplinary debates across a range of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, cultural and communication studies and others. They are also of central interest to practical…
Serbia between Brussels and Moscow: a race to the bottom?
Seminar
This presentation uses the case study of Serbia to demonstrate that perceptions of ‘the other’ in the context of public diplomacy, as well as preferences of leading political elites matter in the management of foreign relations between states and regional institutions. The 2012 presidential…
SCI Seminar: Celtic Connection: The influence of Scottish and Irish art, design and literature on the art of Christian Waller
Seminar
Speaker: Grace Carroll is a second-year PhD candidate in the discipline of Art History and Curatorship, School of Cultural Inquiry. Her thesis concerns the art and life of the Australian artist Christian Yandell Waller. She recently undertook research overseas and presented a paper at the…
Historians at Work: Restoring History to family history - and vice versa
Seminar
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HRC Seminar - Finding authoritarianism in Putin's Russia
Seminar
In this seminar Dorothoy Horsfield will examine the assumpiton that Putin’s reclaiming of the presidency in March 2012 is part of his decade-long reversion to authoritarianism. In further consolidating this ‘power vertical’ he is simply drawing on his country’s traditions, in which there has been…
2012 Rhythm & Blooms Concert Series: ANU School of Music @ Floriade
Performance
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