Dr Sarah Lawrence (University of New England) - ‘The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus’
Seminar
The More Things Change: Exemplary Time in Valerius Maximus The way time functions in the short, didactic stories called exempla by the Romans is strange: simultaneously fixed and elastic, ancient and contemporary. In Valerius Maximus’ collection, the Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, the stories depend…
Classical Student Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Come along to listen to our talented students playing a range of different instruments. Program Prelude, from Solo Cello Suite no. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 J.S. Bach Eloise Ng - cello Romance for Violin and Piano, op. 23 Amy Beach Tanya Boag - violin Jojo Yuen - piano …
GHOSTLAND with Julie Gough
Seminar
Julie Gough will speak about her current exhibition GHOSTLAND at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, and her art and research processes that focus on locating and representing often concealed aspects of the colonial past, particularly in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Julie Gough is an…
Woven Melodies
Performance
Woven Melodies – presented by ANU School of Music's Women in Music program and Wamburang Women's Choir. This concert is a celebration of the breadth and creativity of women's music through many centuries, performed by talented women from the ANU School of Music and Wamburang Women's Choir.…
Spiritual Fandom: Pentecostalism, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and Hillsong
Seminar
This paper draws on my new book Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (OUP 2024). It argues that, as Hillsong became a global megachurch on the back of its bands that toured the world and its services that resemble rock concerts, international youth…
Kin and Connection: bodies and relations in archaeology and ancient genetics
Seminar
Kin and Connection: bodies and relations in archaeology and ancient genetics In conjunction with more precise absolute dating, biomolecular data (ie, aDNA, stable isotopes) have fundamentally changed the practice of archaeology, the questions archaeologists ask, and the possibilities for…
Human-alloprimate coexistence? Current debates and considerations
Seminar
Facilitating co-existence, defined here as sustainable sympatry, between humans and alloprimates requires careful thought and attention to an array of realities - from the material/ecological to the social/perceptual. Anthropology, sometimes seen to be at the nexus for tensions between interpretive…