Past events
Postgraduate Study Options - Anthropology
Webinar/Online
Join our online information session and hear from leading academics and students about the benefits of studying a postgraduate qualification in the area of Anthropology. The clues to humanity are everywhere. Embedded within our culture, the study of what it means to be human can be fully achieved…
Micro Macro
Exhibition
Reception open to the public: 6:30pm Wednesday 3 October 2018 at the CSIRO Discovery Centre ANU School of Art & Design Foundation students working with the CSIRO National Insect Collection
Conversations Across the Creek | Rethinking Roman Cameo Glass: A Unique Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of stimulating and…
Australia’s Argonauts: The Remarkable Story of the First Class to Enter the Royal Australian Naval College
Seminar
This talk focusses on the research and writing of Australia’s Argonauts which is a narrative history of the 28 members of the first class to enter the Royal Australian Naval College. The class members were all born in 1899 and came from every state in Australia. They were witness to, or played a…
Choosing Honours at ANU
Webinar/Online
Join us online and hear from our leading academics and a current student on how Honours at ANU is the right choice for you. An Honours year at ANU can provide you with the skills and preparation to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate research or to secure your dream job. Working…
Women against grog: Old and new temperance movements among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women
Seminar
In 1897 the residents of a ‘temperance colony’ in a rural Australian town decided to buy their local, dry, hotel and experiment with a form of community-controlled licence. They wanted to end illegal sales of spirits, improve drinking behaviour and raise funds for local causes. Eighty years later…
Annual Alice Tay Lecture: Prof. Rosalind Croucher on "Rights-Mindedness"
Lecture
The Freilich Foundation is pleased to invite you to this year's Alice Tay Lecture in Law and Human Rights. Professor Rosalind Croucher, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, will be presenting on: ‘Rights-mindedness’ — making human rights real in public service and community…