Gurindji Freedom Banners & Wave Hill / Jinparrak / Canberra Exchange
Gallery
Gurindji Freedom Banners Mumkurla-nginyi-ma parrngalinyparla - From the darkness into the light The banners retell the story of the historic Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966. The 10 iconic banners on display tell the Gurindji account of the ‘walk-off’, which was led by Vincent Jurlama…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - March 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…
Prehistoric Coastal Resource Dynamics in Island Southeast Asia
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Prehistoric Coastal Resource Dynamics in Island Southeast AsiaWallacea’s complex island landscapes have shaped human subsistence strategies for at least 50,000 years, offering a key setting for examining long-term adaptations to coastal…
Seminar Series | Anna May Kirk
Art forum
Revealing the Invisible with Glass Anna May Kirk will discuss her practice with glass, exploring how environments transform over deep geological and human historical time, and how this change is experienced. Kirk’s works utilise the optical nature of glass to make tangible the many processes of…
The Brow of Brow Network: Taste-making in Contemporary US Art and Literature
Seminar
While twentieth-century brow categories—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—may no longer explicitly structure taste-making, the “judgmental sting” that Beth Driscoll (2014) associates with levels of distinction continues to shape artistic and literary taste in networked cultures. The words highbrow…
Seminar Series | Geoff Isaacs
Art forum
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design Plastics are everywhere—but at what cost? With rising environmental and health concerns, the need for sustainable materials has never been more urgent. Plastics dominate consumer product design due to their affordability and durability, but their widespread…
Archaeology in Rapa Nui - Anakena excavations re-analysed
Seminar
Presented in person and online. Zoom details below.Archaeology in Rapa Nui - Anakena excavations re-analysedThis seminar will present Rapa Nui pre-history spanning over 3 decades of my archaeological research. Rapa Nui is a tiny island situated in the southeast Pacific. Geographically, it is the…