In his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit...
Seminar
What exactly do we eat when we eat a biscuit? Everyday objects like biscuits contain unexpected, dense connections that illuminate material and cultural networks. Thousands of years before biscuits could be purchased in packets from the grocery store, twice-baked breads circulated as military…
After You: Reflections on More-Than-Human Hospitality in South Asia
Seminar
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and the capture of Pakistani “spy pigeons” at the India-Pakistan border. By examining the moral values created through culturally enshrined values…
ANU Flute Day 2023
Workshop
ANU Flute Day is back by popular demand! ANU Flute Day has become a key annual gathering of the Canberra flute community, bringing together ANU School of Music and Open School of Music flute students and pre-tertiary flute students from across Canberra and the region with Canberra’s leading flute…
Music for the Dauphine: Laborde's Choix de Chansons
Performance
This recital is the final event of the Sound, Image, Text symposium, hosted by the Centre for Art History and Theory in the ANU School of Art and Design. The event is inspired by the digital critical edition of Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s Choix de Chansons (1773), developed by…
Sex differences in allometry for phenotypic traits
Seminar
Sex differences in the lifetime risk and expression of disease are well-known. Preclinical research targeted at improving treatment, increasing health span, and reducing the financial burden of health care, has mostly been conducted on male animals and cells. The extent to which sex differences in…
Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)
Seminar
In a 1992 review of Abdelrahmen Munif’s Cities of Salt, Amitav Ghosh coined the term ‘petrofiction’ and pointed towards the invisibility of fossil fuels in much Western literature. Writers, he said, had largely failed to narrate the sources and effects of the energy that powers the modern world.…
The Enslaved Muse - a talk by Dr Tom Geue
Seminar
The Friends of the Classics Museum invite you to a talk by Dr Tom Geue, a Latin literature specialist and newly arrived staff member in the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU. The Muse is part of the furniture of classical poetry. By the time of Virgil, we barely notice she is there, and her…