Past events
Launch of the Austkin online database
Seminar
The Austkin Project unfolded in two stages. AustKin I collected a large database of kinship terms from Aboriginal languages all over Australia, endeavouring to maintain standards of spelling, kin formulae and group identities, without losing the details of original sources used. An online…
art forum VISITING ARTISTS: Ken + Julia Yonetani
Entertainment
Hear from ANU Alumni Ken + Julia Yonetani on their new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Ken + Julia Yonetani’s work explores the interaction between humans, nature, science and the spiritual realm in the contemporary age, unearthing and visualizing hidden connections between people…
Penalising "job seekers' in remote areas
Lecture/seminar
The Remote Jobs and Communities Program (RJCP) began in July 2013 as a new single-provider, integrated approach to Commonwealth-funded employment and community participation services in remote areas. While not an Indigenous-specific program, the clientele of RJCP was anticipated to be…
2016 Hispanic Film Festival Presents 'La Yuma'
Entertainment
The ANU School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, in collaboration with Pragda’s Spanish Film Club Series, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, and SPAIN Arts & Culture, is celebrating its first Hispanic Film Festival in 2016. The series is free and open to the…
Jewish and Israeli life today in Germany
Lecture/seminar
ldad Beck is the Berlin-based correspondent of the Israeli daily “Yedioth Ahronoth.” He has been covering Germany, Central Europe and the EU since 2002. He is one of the rare Israeli journalists who reported from countries such as Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan about major events in…
Zoffany’s daughter; a biographical fragment
Seminar
My subject is a microhistory – that is, a small story with potentially large meanings. In mid-1825 Cecilia Zoffany, daughter of the illustrious painter Johann Zoffany, a woman of ‘rank and fashion’ and reputed to be a great beauty, arrived with two of her children on the island of Guernsey. For…
ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Stan Grant
Book launch
Stan Grant will discuss his new book, Talking To My Country, a powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity. Grant says, "This is the story of my country; this is the story I am now drawn to tell. Black Australia is a foreign place and…