Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November 2024
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 include…
ARTefacts Project: Artists’ Talks and Reception
Exhibition
Please join the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum for talks by the artists participating in the current ARTefacts Project exhibition, on display October 2024 – March 2025. The ARTefacts Project engages contemporary artists and ANU postgraduates in the creation of new works that respond to the…
Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love
Seminar
Adam’s presentation is his Oral Presentation milestone for his PhD thesis, Darwin’s Lovers: Evolutionary Perspectives on Romantic Love. Adam will discuss five articles he has prepared. The first article is a phylogenetic analysis of territoriality and social monogamy in non-human primates that…
Helen Hughes | An Absence of Conviction: On the Apparent Lack of Convicts Depicted in Early Colonial Art
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online It is often said that convicts are largely invisible in early colonial Australian art. This is intriguing, because convicts were one of the main groups of artists working in Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales to record the development of the…
Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities
Symposium
What would happen … if antiquity, no longer carved stone, turned liquid? This provocation issued by Brooke Holmes almost a decade ago is an invitation to defamiliarize our vision(s) of the past, to imagine it not as a fragmentary solid object patiently awaiting reassembly, but as a mobile liquid…
Sublime Voices
Performance
Sublime Voices - Spring concert with ANU Chamber Choir and Vocal Fry (ANU Community Music Centre) Conducted by Tobias Cole Program to come. Audience members can choose how much they pay for each ticket. All proceeds will go to the ANU School of Music Community Outreach…
Masterworks for Winds
Performance
Program Percy Grainger Colonial Song (1911) Arturo Márquez Danzón No 2 (1994) Martin O’Donnell, Michael Salvatori, Kazuma Jinnouchi Halo Suite (2024) Katia Beaugeais First Light at Uluru (2015) Interval Philip Sparke…