Chamber Concert: Violist Tahlia Petrosian with ANU staff and students
Performance
In August, the ANU School of Music and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra welcome violist Tahlia Petrosian for a Canberra musical residency. Tahlia enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, director of KLASSIK underground, creative producer and member of the world-famous Gewandhaus…
SCIENCE. ART. FILM Blade Runner: The Director's Cut & Discussion
Arts & entertainment
What is in a memory? Why do we feel emotions? How do they relate to our sense of identity, self and responsibility? Blade Runner (1982) encourages us to reflect on how these questions about memories, emotions and selfhood not only define what it means to be human, but also how we relate to those…
String Workshop with Tahlia Petrosian
Performance
Hear advanced violist, violinists, cellists and double bassists play for and learn from an internationally renowned violist! Program to follow.
Artist Talk and Demonstration: Procter Fellow Alexander Rosenberg
Artist talk
Join Alexander Rosenberg for a fascinating lecture and demonstration of his interdisciplinary practice in glass. Rosenberg, the ANU School of Art and Design's 2023 Procter Fellow, is an international award-winning artist who is widely known as a finalist on the reality series Blown Away. Starting…
Untangling Refugee Bodies and Navigating Through ‘Crisis’ in Humanitarian Protection
Seminar
CANCELLED *unfortunately this event has needed to be cancelled The paper begins with a discourse analysis of the deployment of the language crisis in situations of mass displacement and humanitarian protection. The key questions asked are: How is humanitarian protection articulated…
Oblique Objects by Tim Phillips
Gallery
Oblique Objects explores concealment as a visual and poetic strategy in figurative painting. Drawing on subcultural aesthetic lineages of secrecy and highlighting painting’s capacity for latency, the exhibition enlists a queer opacity as its conceptual modus operandi and consists of a body of…
The Political Bee: Apicultural Knowledge and Human Politics and in Ancient Greece
Seminar
My presentation revolves around a peculiar human habit that seems to have been popular in the ancient world but that is still with us today: attributing political qualities to honeybees. By distinguishing a ‘queen bee’ from ‘workers’ we continue a tradition that has its roots in classical antiquity…