A critique of the natural artefact: anthropology, art and museology
Lecture
Forty years ago Anthony Forge edited Primitive Art and Society, a foundational collection for the anthropology of art. In introducing the book, Forge noted that the study of art had been neglected, a casualty of the lack of dialogue between mainstream anthropology and the museums that had once been…
Best Practice in managing heritage places
Continuing education
Location benefits This intensive course is based at a key heritage site in Australia (Port Arthur, Tasmania) and will include heritage experts with a wide range of local and international experience in the field of heritage management. Issues relating to the documentation of heritage sites as…
ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2013
Symposium
Themes Presenting Canberra’s heritage through a range of media How to reach the non-believer – significant places accessible to all Collections maketh the memories Bureaucratic and boring – where’s the fun in Canberra? What happened before the Federal bubble burst on this…
Broadside Ballads and Tactical Publics: ‘The Lady and the Blackmoor,’ 1570-1789
Seminar
In this presentation, Patricia Fumerton tracks the multiple media (text, art, and tune) that made up one of the early modern period’s most popular and most violent broadside ballads. She follows the ballad’s media over 200 years, two continents, and several genres. In the process, she demonstrates…
Indigenous Issues: Past, Present and Future
Continuing education
Convenor Dr Renata Grossi t: 6125 5527 e: renata.grossi@anu.edu.au Registration Fee Registration includes all tuition, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements. Vegetarians will be fully catered for. Full registration $450.00…
Eating Green: Lifestyle Choices and Political Identity in the French and British Green Parties
Lecture
Choosing a diet is a way of constructing one’s identity and affirming group membership, but there are surprising variations according to the national political culture. We thus find that the French Greens’ preference for a “balanced’ diet (locally sourced and organic) is linked to their reluctance…
A Cornucopia of Publications - 5-book launch in Classics and Ancient History
Book launch
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