Past events
Vice-Chancellor's Packed Lunches
Other
Hi everyone, This year, I am going to be out and about meeting with staff and students. I want to better understand how you experience the campus and what is impacting you or your workplace. I also want to share some updates and hear your thoughts. Please bring along your packed lunch and any…
Books that Changed Humanity: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Lecture
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand ourselves…
Uncovering the True History of Australian Literature
Lecture
Newspapers were the main sources of fiction, international and local, in Australia in the nineteenth century. But the lack of records of this fiction and the enormous size of the newspaper archive have left us with very little understanding of the types of stories published, where they came from…
In conversation with Jacqui Lambie
Lecture
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT Jacqui Lambie will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on Jacqui's new book Rebel with a Cause. The event will be chaired by The Canberra Times' Karen Hardy. Rebel with a Cause, subtitled 'You can't keep a bloody Lambie down - my story from…
In conversation with Benjamin Jones
Lecture
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT Matt Thistlethwaite will launch Benjamin Jones’ This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future before a conversation between Benjamin Jones and Michael Cooney. In this crisp yet comprehensive book, Benjamin Jones explores Australia’s long republican…
The Language of Leadership
Lecture
Four panellists have been invited to respond to the examination of leadership rhetoric in Leadership Performance and Rhetoric, and to participate in more general commentary on contemporary leadership in Australian politics. Professor John Hewson, Crawford School, ex leader of the Liberal Party Dr…
A Career up in Smoke
Lecture
Please join us for the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series. In this lecture, we welcome Professor Simone Dennis from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Career up in Smoke Why is it important to…