As a precautionary measure against Covid-19 based on expert advice, ANU has cancelled public events from Monday 16 March until the end of semester one, Saturday 20 June. As a result this event has been cancelled.   Dr Knox Peden explores the influence of German philosopher G.W.F....

Paul Kildea – musician, author and Artistic Director of Musica Viva, Australia – presents a fascinating look at iconic composer Beethoven About this Event In 1794 Joseph Haydn wrote a sonata for the brilliant pianist Therese Jansen, a work of astonishing depth and complexity. A year later his...

Join Professor Tony Dreise for the next talk in our Works That Shaped The World series. Long before Apollo 11, long before Galileo or Aristotle, long before the artists, poets and writers we typically know looked up at the stars and tried to explain and interpret the shimmering heavens above,...

Since the early days of cinema, the moon has been an enchanting muse. The science of filmmaking was invented by the Lumière brothers, who débuted their cinématographe camera to astonished audiences in 1896. Yet it was their fellow Frenchman Georges Méliès, and his experimentations with...

Join Professor Will Christie for the next talk in our Works That Shaped The World Series. Who was the lunar society of Birmingham? In the English Midlands in the mid to late eighteenth century, a large and diverse group of independent, largely ‘self-made’ men, all of them in different ways...

Join Dr Kate Flaherty for the next talk in our Works That Shaped The World Series. How did Shakespeare understand the moon? In plays and poems of the 16th century, the moon carried the imaginative freight of centuries. The moon is invoked to express longing, chastity, coldness, changeability...

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre present Works That Shaped The World; a series of talks exploring humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explores the...

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre present Works That Shaped The World; a series of talks exploring humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explores the...

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre present Works That Shaped The World; a series of talks exploring humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explores the...