The white man in the desert: Aboriginal whiteness and settler belonging
Seminar
In the dry season of 1889 on the remote northwest coast of Australia, a station manager with a violent past went in search of a white man rumoured to be living deep in the desert. This episode is the starting point for an exploration into the strange history of Indigenous whiteness, from the…
Strategic Design in Times of Unsettlement: Questions of Policy - facilitated by Adj Prof Tony Fry and Dr Naomi Hay
Workshop
Please join Adj Prof Tony Fry (UTAS) and Dr Naomi Hay (SOA&D, ANU) for the upcoming workshop “Strategic Design in Times of Unsettlement: Questions of Policy”, hosted by ANU’s School of Art and Design and Research School of Humanities and the Arts. The workshop will open by defining the…
ANU Flute Day 2024
Workshop
Please do not purchase a ticket to ANU Flute Day 2024 before registering through this application form After registering, you will receive an email with the Eventbrite ticket link. ANU Flute Day is back by popular demand! ANU Flute Day has become a key annual gathering of the…
Vietnam’s Role in Understanding Settlement and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia from c. 5000 – 3500 BP.
Seminar
Vietnam’s Role in Understanding Settlement and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia from c. 5000 – 3500 BP. Vietnam possesses some of the best-preserved early 5th to mid- 3rd millennium BP archaeological sites anywhere in Southeast Asia. They are often deeply stratified open air settlements…
The Challenge of Sorcery
Seminar
In many small world, pre-state societies it is believed that many misfortunes are the result of malicious human agency, using occult techniques. Shit does not just happen. The aim of this paper is to persuade the audience that this is a puzzle for the human evolutionary sciences, that the standard…
How to see yourself in a job ad, 1-2pm 22nd Aug (Pathways in Linguistics series)
Seminar
How to see yourself in a job ad, 1-2pm 22nd Aug (Pathways in Linguistics series) Join us this August for one or more events in the ‘Pathways in Linguistics’ series. These sessions are open to all students taking, or thinking about taking, courses in Linguistics. If you are interested in knowing…
Dr. Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Macquarie University)- ‘Interpreting the Horoscope of Octavian’
Seminar
Interpreting the horoscope of Octavian The young Octavian was encouraged in his political ambitions by a consultation with an astrologer, and he later published his own horoscope in some form. So much is well known, but details on the form of this horoscope are lacking from the historical record.…