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A group exhibition featuring work by technical staff at the ANU School of Art & Design. Our technical staff are makers, artists and creatives. They are the quiet workforce behind our creative studios - who share their knowledge, ensure integrity of process and provide fundamental…
Seminar Series | Min-Haeng Kang
Seminar
Glass as Living Matter: Devitrification, Waste, and the Ethics of Materials In the world of glassmaking, transparency is typically seen as the material’s essential value. Devitrification—the process in which glass becomes opaque due to surface crystallization—is commonly treated as a technical…
A Moving Sense of Place: Cinematic Geographies as Representations of the Korean Past
Lecture/seminar
In reflecting well-received historical understanding and perception, as well as in contributing to an evolving popular discourse about the nation’s past, Korean historical films released over the past quarter-century—the so-called “Korean Wave” period—have done a masterful job of using the country’…
Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community
Lecture/seminar
Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature reserves, surrounded by a built environment. In this seminar, Dr Peerson will discuss other ways of viewing urban ecology. By considering diverse…
Seminar Series | Tets Kimura
Seminar
Wool and Silk: Raw Fashion Materials to Build an Initial Australia-Japan Relationship Within the Asia-Pacific This presentation examines the foundational role of raw fashion materials—specifically Australian wool and Japanese silk—in establishing initial Australia-Japan relations. Before the…
In Conversation with Sita Sargeant
Book launch
A collaboration between the National Centre of Biography and Harry Hartog (ANU)Founder of tour company She Shapes History Sita Sargeant will be in conversation with Michelle Staff about her latest book She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women (Hardie Grant, 2025),…
Calling All Historians! 2026 - History Honours Info Session
Other
Do you wish to undertake independent research in history with some of Australia’s finest scholars? Do you wish to learn how to blitz through dense texts and compose flowing, argumentative prose? Want to improve your presentation and speaking skills, as well as enhance your critical thinking? …