Hearing Humus with Sophia Dacy-Cole
Workshop
Hearing Humus is a workshop that allows participants to connect with soil using bioacoustics, meditation, and soil handling techniques taken from soil science. The workshop will take place twice: on May 18, from 10am-12.30pm. If the workshop fills up, a secondary workshop will take place in…
Embodying the Western Maya Frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Comalcalco and Moxviquil, Mexico
Seminar
People signal and contest identity in a variety of ways and have done so for millennia. This fundamental aspect of human societies can be examined across space and time to improve understanding of how and why it occurs. This seminar examines social identity on the western Maya frontier and centres…
ANU Orchestra & ANU Jazz Orchestra in Concert
Performance
Immerse yourself in an enchanting evening of classical music at the ANU Orchestra Concerto Gala, conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin. The program will include works by Margaret Sutherland, Aaron Copland, Frederick Delius and Beethoven. After the ANU orchestra come to the Athenaeum to hear…
Crossing the ‘Green Sea’: palaeoecological signatures of early maritime mobility and remote island colonisation in the tropical Indian Ocean.
Seminar
As humans have colonised new places, they often initiate dramatic environmental change, even in the distant past. On remote islands, where levels of endemism are high, species and environments are often particularly vulnerable to the effects of introduced species like humans, and the plants and…
Wellspring Series 2024: Bushfire Stories
Seminar
Bushfire Stories: The Collective Power of Community The Australian Black Summer of 2019-2020 saw devastation on an unimaginable scale and gave rise to stories of intense trauma and loss, but also of communities rallying together to overcome adversity. The voices from some of Australia’s worst…
Student Chamber Music Concert
Performance
ANU Chamber Music students perform works from the Baroque era to the present day as part of their assessment. Program Blavet Sonata Op. 2, no.1 Movements I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Aria I Dante Costa – baroque flute Enola Jeffries – baroque cello…
Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism
Lecture
The 2024 HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism This talk will introduce key themes from the speaker’s forthcoming book on Roman diversity, using examples from the Roman gladiatorial arena to illustrate how the value…