Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock | Julian Laffan
Gallery
The grain of trees evident in both woodblocks and prints are an under-acknowledged record of aesthetic co-production between human artists and more-than-human beings. Whilst there is literature centred on the relief woodcut print and the resulting visual communication, there is a significant gap in…
Reading Communists: the Literary Histories of Postcolonial Anti-communism
Seminar
All welcome, no registration required. Join in-person or via zoom (details below)In recent years, several strands of postcolonial and world literary studies have seen a welcome turn to the conjuncture of decolonisation and the global Cold War. As Peter Kalliney puts it in The Aesthetic Cold…
CANCELLED: Student Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Student Lunchtime Concert on 9 May 2025 (this Friday) has been cancelled. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - May 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Techne and the Human Sciences in the 21st Century: Winter Institute Colloquium
Seminar
The Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is pleased to invite ANU staff to a special colloquium at which this year’s attendees at the Winter Institute (U-Tokyo, 6-10 January 2025) will summarise their presentation topic from January and discuss how their ideas have developed as a result of…
Seminar Series | Anna Parlane
Seminar
Consigning Anarchistic Noise to the Prison-house: Slave Pianos in Historical Context In a purposefully misleading statement, the Melbourne-based art/music collective Slave Pianos (formed 1998 by Rohan Drape, Neil Kelly, Danius Kesminas, and Michael Stevenson) described themselves in 2000 as “a…
Variation in Paranthropus; microevolution, sexual dimorphism, and ontogeny
Seminar
The genus Paranthropus includes at least three distinct species, (P. aethiopicus, P. boisei, and P. robustus), that share a unique suite of primitive and derived characteristics including small brains, and a hypertrophic masticatory apparatus. The relatively large sample of P. robustus and P.…