Of Spriggans, Periwigians and Cornish ancient monuments: Hidden treasures in British Library Additional Manuscript 51020 of the early 18th Century
Seminar
This is a hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Archaeological Research and Centre for Early Modern Studies. Please register if you are attending online. Registration is not necessary for in-person attendance. BL Additional Manuscript 51020 is misidentified in the…
ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour - March
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…
Pedagogies of truth: truth-telling, seeking, and listening in Australia
Seminar
Does Australia have a listening problem? Since colonial occupation, Indigenous people have consistently and publicly articulated truths about settler colonialism. They have demanded an accurate accounting of European occupation and violence, as well as faithful and nuanced treatment of their own…
Black Spots: Reflections on Caste, Desire, and Discards in Bengaluru, India
Seminar
Bengaluru, a city whose high technology firms serve as signposts of a ‘modern’, ‘caste-less’ India, is perpetually plagued by garbage pileups, clogged sewers, and leaching landfills. Vernacularly referred to as ‘black spots’, such sites of public litter contain objects city inhabitants once desired…
Living City: people, plants and place
Meeting
Join ANU School of Art & Design to discuss Living City: people, plants and place. In the first year of this three-year visual arts and design program we are working with Gawari Mada – the Holt micro-forest & food forest. Everyone is welcome, you do not have to be an existing micro-…
Postgraduate Student Short Talks
Seminar
In this seminar, we will be having three prostgraduate students to give short talks: Iona Claringbold: Zooarchaeology and Polynesian Ritual Sites: New regional approaches to human-animal relationships Emily Nutman: Geological sourcing in Sahul: documenting 50,000 years of human…
Tracing the threads of linguistic and genetic diversity in New Guinea
Seminar
New Guinea is the heart of global linguistic diversity. New Guinea makes up 1% of the global land area as an island, containing less than 0.2% of the world's population and 20% of all languages. The obvious linguistic and anthropological question is why? There are many social and evolutionary…