Friends of the School of Music Annual Jazz Concert
Concert
The 12th Annual Friends Jazz FundraiserANU Jazz Orchestra (prepared by Con Campbell) Interval (bar open) Senior Student Jazz Ensembles (prepared by the School's jazz teachers)
Colonial wilding: Cattle, Kangaroo and Gumbakuluk
Lecture
In 1788, a small herd of cattle trafficked from the Cape Colony (South Africa) with the First Fleet escaped and was lost to the colony at Warrane/Sydney. Years later, they were rediscovered by colonists, now living in large wild herds in an area of Country that was then re-named ‘Cowpastures’, with…
EYES WIDE SHUT: A History of Photography
Lecture/seminar
A trend on Instagram involves celebrities posting photographs that capture them with their eyes closed. But, of course, such photographs are nothing new. Amateur photographers, for example, have regularly captured people blinking ever since the introduction of hand-held cameras. However, the…
Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition 2026
Concert
Through the generosity of the late Ms Christine Roach, students from The Australian National University have the opportunity to perform before an esteemed panel and guests for their share of $12,000 in prize money. Join us for the finals of the Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance…
Clocks for Seeing: Daguerreotypes and the materiality of time
Lecture/seminar
When we speak about photography’s material conditions, we usually mean to encompass the changing array of physical properties and capacities that have made the medium possible. However, it is important to also consider a crucial non-physical condition that has mediated the appearance of every…
Torn between two paths: uncertainty and ambivalence in fertility intentions
Seminar
In countries with widespread access to modern contraception, childbearing is, for most people, a deliberate choice. Demographic theory has often implicitly assumed that people have clearly defined preferences or desires towards children and are able to articulate their future parenthood plans. For…
Coming into Relation: Indigenous Time and Place in the Archaeology of California
Lecture
This lecture builds on Dr. Schneider’s work as an affiliated scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. It highlights relationality within his archaeological, historical, and collections-based research on Indigenous hinterlands as…