The Australian University of the Future
Webinar/Online
Please join us for this important conversation brought to you by the ANU Humanities Research Centre in partnership with U3A Canberra.Zooming into the Future – of Australia a new series of online discussions dedicated to understanding what the Australia of the future might look like. The…
Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. From the radical politics and poetic experimentalism of Kargun (1980) to the complex poetics of address in Harvest Lingo (2022), Wakka Wakka poet Lionel Fogarty…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Black Orpheus + Panel
Arts & entertainment
In Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting this romantic tragedy in Rio Di Janeiro admist the festivities of Carnival. The narrative follows the complicated love triangle…
Of Spriggans, Periwigians and Cornish ancient monuments: Hidden treasures in British Library Additional Manuscript 51020 of the early 18th Century
Seminar
This is a hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Archaeological Research and Centre for Early Modern Studies. Please register if you are attending online. Registration is not necessary for in-person attendance. BL Additional Manuscript 51020 is misidentified in the…
ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour - March
Tour
Join us for our popular guided walking tour of the ANU Sculpture Walk. The tour is led by HRC’s Emeritus Professor David Williams, whose esteemed career included, amongst other things, being Director of the ANU School of Art from 1985 to 2006. Tours commence from the Baldessin…
Pedagogies of truth: truth-telling, seeking, and listening in Australia
Seminar
Does Australia have a listening problem? Since colonial occupation, Indigenous people have consistently and publicly articulated truths about settler colonialism. They have demanded an accurate accounting of European occupation and violence, as well as faithful and nuanced treatment of their own…
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
Seminar
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups, clogged sewers, and leaching landfills. Vernacularly referred to as ‘black spots’, such sites of public litter contain objects city inhabitants once desired…