Grad Show 2021
Event
Please celebrate and join us for the Online Launch Event of the 2021 Graduating Exhibition with award presentations and special guest on Thursday 9 December, 5.30pm The exhibition showcases the work of students completing undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs at the School.…
Works that Shaped the World: Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1966)
Seminar
In her Purity and Danger (1966) Mary Douglas begins with the fundamental rule of any classification system: that certain things must be kept apart. Classificatory systems always produce anomalies that cannot readily be placed into given categories. Residua potentially pollute the purity…
Launch of 'Reading the Room' podcast & panel discussion with Dame Quentin Bryce
Webinar/Online
Dreamt up by Centre for Art History and Theory PhD candidate, Lara Nicholls, staff and students feature in the ANU podcast Reading the Room which records 36 members of the broader ANU community reading from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. While in lockdown in 2020, Ms Nicholls …
Signs on screen: deafness and sign language in contemporary film
Seminar
The screen is a privileged site for representing sign languages, and for translating them to hearing audiences via subtitles. The auditory nature of cinema – with its capacity for cutting, muffling and distorting sound – also allows hearing audiences to perceive Deaf perspectives in immersive and…
2021 SLLL HDR Conference
Conference
The SLLL HDR Convenors are pleased to invite you to the 2021 HDR Conference to be held on 3 - 5 November via Zoom. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to support and celebrate the research of our PhD and MPhil candidates. Registration Zoom link for all presentations: https://…
Centre for Art History & Theory Seminar: Katrina Grant—Landscape, Myth and Scientific Thinking in the Age of Galileo
Seminar
Join the ANU Centre for Art History & Art Theory for a presentation by Dr Katrina Grant, Lecturer, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, ANU Landscape, Myth and Scientific Thinking in the Age of Galileo Due to the lockdown, this event will be online online. Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j…
Works that Shaped the World: The Concepts and Practices Associated with “Model Organisms”
Seminar
This talk explores the concept of the ‘model organism’ in contemporary biology. Use of non-human organisms such as fruitflies, mice, and worms has become ubiquitous in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and many major discoveries have been made with these animals. Thinking about model…