Benengeli 2024 Canberra
Lecture
Welcome to Benengeli 2024! Benengeli 2024, International Week of Literature in Spanish, is a festival to promote literature in Spanish around the globe. The Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, which is participating again in the Benengeli Festival, is hosting the visit of the Spanish author Jordi…
Mural Art for Outreach at UC
Seminar
Mural art for outreach at UC This casual chat will present our public art project, called Creative Encounter. As the name suggests, we are curious about the impact of art at the moment of encounter. The project begins with the premise that art has a power to circumvent the barriers of language and…
Book Launch: Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building
Book launch
Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building (2024, edited by Lucas Lixinski and Yujie Zhu) Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transforming heritage from a casualty of conflict into an opportunity for peacebuilding. The…
An ordeal of peoplehood: representations of Indigenous collectivity in the 2023 referendum - POSTPONED
Seminar
Presenting themselves as sovereign peoples (and not just as citizens of Australia), Indigenous Australians struggle over therms in which to represent their collectivity. In 2012, I argued that their collective being has come to be rendered in two distinct idioms - 'population' and 'people' - that…
Microscope Drawings with Erica Seccombe
Workshop
You’re invited to join Living City: people, plants and place by participating in a microscope drawing workshop with Erica Seccombe at Gawari Mada (Holt Microforest).TIME: drop in anytime between 11:00am - 02:00pmDATE: Saturday 04 MayLOCATION: Gawari Mada (Holt Microforest) Boyle Place Playground,…
European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
Seminar
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the nineteenth century by amateur archaeologists. These interpretations were based on flakes of obsidian found in the soil of the mound that were…
Friends of the School of Music Ensemble Prize Finals
Performance
The Friends of the School of Music established its ensemble prizes to promote ensemble playing in the tertiary student cohort, in all musical genres taught at the ANU School of Music. Prizes will be awarded in two categories for each Prize: Friends Chamber Music Prize First Prize - $1,…