Public Lecture: Dr Jane Cook
Lecture
Art, Science, and the Subtleties of Making“It is human nature to put things and experiences into categories to aid our understanding of the Cosmos and our place therein. But deep discoveries and inventions often are born from new approaches to sorting Nature’s complexity: new boxes, new senses, new…
The Aboriginal Memorial 30th Anniversary Annual Lecture + Symposium
Symposium
The Aboriginal Memorial was conceived by Djon Mundine, First Nations’ curator, artist and then Art Adviser at Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land in 1987. One of the nation’s most significant conceptual works of art it was created by 43 artists, both male and female, from Ramingining and its surrounds…
Only Mediate: The Mere Interest of Interbrow in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011) and Howards End (2017)
Seminar
‘Only connect’ functions both as the epigraph to E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and as the central character Margaret Schlegel’s exhortation to her husband, capitalist entrepreneur Henry Wilcox. With her exasperated ‘only connect’, Margaret means for Henry to recognise that his refusal of…
Etched in Bone: A film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon
Other
Red Lily Productions invite you and your guest to the launch of Etched in Bone , a film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon. RSVP by 27 September to etchedinbone.themovie@gmail.com
Denis Villeneuve’s multilingual cinema: Decentring space, time and language in Arrival
Seminar
With dialogue in Arabic, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Russian, Somali, Spanish and even extraterrestrial languages, Québécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s cinema revolves around language. From 2010’s trilingual Incendies to 2017’s heptalingual Blade Runner…
Annual Alice Tay Lecture: Prof. Rosalind Croucher on "Rights-Mindedness"
Lecture
The Freilich Foundation is pleased to invite you to this year's Alice Tay Lecture in Law and Human Rights. Professor Rosalind Croucher, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will be presenting on: ‘Rights-mindedness’ — making human rights real in public service and community…
Gala Concert 2018
Performance
Presented by: ANU School of Music In Collaboration with CSO The ANU School of Music presents a Gala concert bringing together the School’s Classical and Jazz/Contemporary faculties to showcase the excellence of the School’s performance program. The night will begin with a powerful…