Wellspring Series 2024: Bushfire Stories
Seminar
Bushfire Stories: The Collective Power of Community The Australian Black Summer of 2019-2020 saw devastation on an unimaginable scale and gave rise to stories of intense trauma and loss, but also of communities rallying together to overcome adversity. The voices from some of Australia’s worst…
Crossing the ‘Green Sea’: palaeoecological signatures of early maritime mobility and remote island colonisation in the tropical Indian Ocean.
Seminar
As humans have colonised new places, they often initiate dramatic environmental change, even in the distant past. On remote islands, where levels of endemism are high, species and environments are often particularly vulnerable to the effects of introduced species like humans, and the plants and…
Student Chamber Music Concert
Performance
ANU Chamber Music students perform works from the Baroque era to the present day as part of their assessment. Program Blavet Sonata Op. 2, no.1 Movements I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Aria I Dante Costa – baroque flute Enola Jeffries – baroque cello…
Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism
Lecture
The 2024 HRC-Centre for Classical Studies Distinguished Lecture Diversity Arenas? A Roman Pre-History of Racial Capitalism This talk will introduce key themes from the speaker’s forthcoming book on Roman diversity, using examples from the Roman gladiatorial arena to illustrate how the value…
Sublime Voices
Performance
A concert spanning 400 years of beautiful a cappella music performed by ANU Chamber Choir with Vocal Fry (Community Music Centre). Program Sublime Voices Conducted by Tobias Cole ANU Chamber Choir Da pacem - Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Vocal Fry Locus iste - Bruckner…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Interstellar + Panel
Arts & entertainment
Matthew McConaughey leads as Cooper in this Christopher Nolan science fiction epic, starring alongside Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon. In the wake of ecological collapse, Cooper must pilot a…
No Doubt: A student-led workshop
Workshop
Join this free workshop to create images using marble rolling and explore blind folded self-portraits! This ANU student devised and delivered public program explores risk-taking by encouraging curiosity and play. Through collaborative and individual activities you will be gently challenged to let…