Friends of the ANU School of Music: Jazz Concert
Performance
The Friends of the ANU School of Music Presents: The Friends Annual Jazz Concert Featuring: The ANU Jazz Orchestra The School of Music Recording Ensemble Drinks will be available from 6:30pm and during the interval.
Classical Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Come along to listen to our talented students playing a range of different instruments. Program Tarantelle - Camille Saint-Saëns, performed by Carl Vitolovich (flute), Sarah Williamson (clarinet) and Ainsley Meale (piano) Blue Tongue - Barry Cockcroft, performed by Milan Kolundzija (…
Promotion and control of cancer quack Milan Brych in Australia
Seminar
In 1978, self-proclaimed cancer “doctor” Milan Brych set up a clinic in the Cook Islands offering a treatment that Brych claimed could cure 80% of terminal patients. The Australian media helped promote Brych as a miracle-worker; Brych said the medical profession who opposed him were ignorant and…
These Days, These Homes: Miao domesticity, Chinese modernity
Seminar
Please note this seminar is available via Zoom only These Days, These Homes is a work in progress film project centered on the lives and homes of two Miao women in 21st century China. As an ethnography, the ethnography behind the film explores domesticity, gender, and development through a…
Aging effects in language and the wisdom of our elders, lessons from Papua New Guinea
Seminar
This is a trial project looking at elderly people's language in Papua New Guinea. Using over a decade of existing recordings, we plan to measure sounds in a language with a special kind of grammar often found in PNG, clause chains, and assess if elderly people maintain intonation like their younger…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - September
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength…
Alice Tay Lecture: Human Rights in Australia’s International Relations
Lecture
Human Rights in Australia’s International Relations Human rights occupy a curiously uncomfortable place in Australia’s international relations. Like liberal democracies the world over, Australia sees itself as a human rights leader, noting with pride its role in drafting the Universal Declaration…