The Future of the Scholarly Book
Workshop
"This event is designed to discuss the challenges, issues and trends in the modern scholarly monograph – particularly in social sciences and humanities." For further details please see here.
The Future of the Scholarly Book
Workshop
"This event is designed to discuss the challenges, issues and trends in the modern scholarly monograph – particularly in social sciences and humanities." For further details please see here.
Friends of the ANU School of Music Historical Instruments Concert
Performance
Presented by the Friends of the ANU School of Music Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, lecturer at the ANU School of Music and Director of the ANU Keyboard Institute, will perform an all-Beethoven programme on a copy of an early 1800s piano built in the Viennese tradition by Paul McNulty (2018). All proceeds…
Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History, and the Social and Intellectual Benefits of the Cosmic Perspective
Conference
Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, Thursday 19 July, 2018 Astrobiology and Big History are two relatively new intellectual disciplines, the former focussed on searching for life elsewhere in the universe and the latter on integrating human history into the wider history of the…
Res Est Publica Caesar: The Emperor as Public Property in Roman Poetry and Currency
Seminar
Rome’s first emperor Augustus permanently recentered political, economic, and religious institutions around his public persona while claiming equality with private citizens and continuity with republican tradition. As Augustus expanded his office, though, observers found innovative, even humorous…
Identity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Understanding: Translation as Political Philosophy in Benjamin, Lu Xun, Schmitt, and Francois Julien
Seminar
This paper explores the politico-philosophical assumptions and implications in what lies at the centre of cross-cultural understanding: translation. By examining the theory and practice of Walter Benjamin and Lu Xun, I seek to show that the search for the universal is always poised to subvert and…
Inaugural ‘Australia and the World’ Annual Lecture—Australia in the World: Raising our Sights
Lecture
Australia has punched above its weight in the past, regionally and globally, and can again. In an era of great geopolitical uncertainty, Australians need a firmer sense of what we believe in, where we can make the most difference, and how we can best contribute to a saner, safer and more…