Ancient communities attending feast gifted boars sourced from distant lands
Offering gifts with geographical symbolism is an ancient human practice that can be traced back to prehistory, new ANU research shows.Magnets and shot glasses serve as fun holiday souvenirs, but…
Professor Christopher Sainsbury featured on ABC’s Music Class
Professor Christopher Sainsbury, an accomplished composer, guitarist, and highly experienced music educator at the ANU School of Music, was recently featured on ABC’s Music Class (Saturday 13 July)…
The Future of Music at ANU: A Message to Our Community
To our Community, We know there’s been confusion and concern in the media about the future of the School of Music and two separate processes have become conflated. First and most importantly…
Australia’s oldest occupied ice age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains
Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and The Australian National University (ANU), in collaboration with First Nations community members who hold cultural connections…
Why do we keep remaking Pride and Prejudice?
Written by Natalia Burgess. It is a truth universally acknowledged that adaptations of classic novels can often fall short of the original text. But Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice…
Rare archival photographs commemorate a pivotal moment of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) history
Written by Erika McGown If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a collection of archival photographs is an entire library of memories.Fifty years ago, a group of Japanese researchers –…
ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair for 2026
Overview: Each year the Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the College of Arts and Social Science may offer one position known as the Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair for the Centre for…