Understanding the appearance of ceramics on mainland New Guinea: Outline of recent research
Seminar
Over the last 15 years archaeological research on the north coast and inland areas of mainland New Guinea and offshore islands has produced interesting insights into this area's past, including understanding the appearance and role of Lapita communities, if any. This seminar will review a number of…
The Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism: A Case Study from the Danube Limes
Seminar
The Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism: A Case Study from the Danube Limes This seminar will examine two skeletal samples from eastern Austria: one pre-Roman and one Roman period. Using specific skeletal markers, it will investigate how levels of physiological stress differed between and within…
2024 Alice Tay Lecture: Panel on Human Rights and the NDIS
Panel discussion
The 2024 Alice Tay Lecture on Law and Human Rights will be taking place Thursday 23rd May. This year we are hosting a panel discussion considering the NDIS and its intersection with human rights. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr Melissa Lovell (Australian National University). Our…
Peter DeGabriele (Mississippi State University), “Sovereign (Ir)responsibility: Hobbes among the Drones”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 23 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Shuttling between analyses of a 2012 series of memes entitled “Texts from Drone” and the philosophy of…
Jazz & Contemporary Ensembles Concerts
Performance
May 22nd will see a wide variety of contemporary sounds from the broad church of the jazz idiom, and current original works by our talented Jazz and Contemporary students. The event will feature performances by Con’s Ensemble, Lachlan’s Ensemble, Recording Ensemble, John’s Fri Ensemble…
ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour - May
Tour
Join us for our popular guided walking tour of the ANU Sculpture Walk. The tour is led by HRC’s Emeritus Professor David Williams, whose esteemed career included, amongst other things, being Director of the ANU School of Art from 1985 to 2006. Tours commence from the Baldessin…
Anna Trapnel Forever: Life Writing and the Risk of Eternity
Seminar
This paper considers the representation of ‘relative time’ in the apocalyptic work of Anna Trapnel. Trapnel believes that she is living through the ‘fifth monarchy’, a brief age of spiritual turmoil which advents the end of the world. In her autobiographical work, written in the wake of the bloody…