Upcoming events
Join us for ANU Open Day on 28 March 2026
Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass | Harriet Schwarzrock
Gallery
Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, I create blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate, luminous interactions within shared electromagnetic fields. Rather than the distant…
Enchantment and Apocalypse: The Lives and Art of Twin Prodigies, Edward Julius and Charles Maurice Detmold
Seminar
The twin artists Charles Maurice (1883–1908) and Edward Julius (1883–1957) Detmold have been described as ‘two of the most extraordinary figures in the annals of early modern art’. Largely self-taught artistic prodigies, they first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of thirteen. But, as…
Repression, Religion, and Regime Loyalty in Nazi Germany
Lecture/seminar
Measuring regime support in closed autocracies is challenging due to preference falsification and censorship. Professor Alexander De Juan introduces a novel behavioral measure of regime loyalty based on expressions of allegiance in 600,000 soldier obituaries published in Nazi Germany (1939–1944).…
ANU School of Music Open Day 2026
Experience
Welcome to the ANU School of Music at Open Day 2026. Join us to explore our programs, facilities and creative community, and discover what it’s like to study music at ANU. Across the day, you can attend information sessions, meet academics, tour the building, and learn more about music technology…
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Lecture/seminar
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy. Snakes continually appear in the scholarly debates about the utility and value of flora and fauna from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century,…
US/ Israel War on Iran: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
The ongoing US/Israel War on Iran has grave human consequences that deeply threaten regional & global peace1,500+ people reportedly killed in Iran so far, plus 3+ million displaced.1000+ people have been killed in Lebanon and 1+ million displaced.Iranian retaliatory strikes have…
Research Seminar | Dr. Le-Tuyen Nguyen
Seminar
Vietnamese Musical Heritage: From the Mekong Delta to the Mountain ForestAbstractA special lecture-recital featuring a new repertoire of Australian music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Written for the guitar by Vietnamese-Australian composer Le-Tuyen Nguyen, these compositions…