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 National Gallery of Australia meets the European Union, via the ANU Centre for European Studies. EU flag photo by Hakan Dahlstrom/Flickr
10
Aug
2015

ANU helping conceptualise Europe’s Australian ties through art

The ANU Centre for European Studies and the National Gallery of Australia have begun a three-year partnership which aims to provide new audiences to both parties.   It follows another three-year agreement, between the centre and ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas program that seeks to explain…

07
Aug
2015

An Aboriginal view of the Canning Stock Route

A new National Museum of Australia (NMA) exhibition curated by ANU anthropologist Dr John Carty will reimagine the world's longest historic stock route through the paintings of the Aboriginal people whose land it cut through.   Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route explores the…

 The Patji-Dawes award celebrates excellence in language teaching. Image: Ken Banks, Flickr.
07
Aug
2015

New award to combat decline in language studies

A declining interest in learning languages other than English and lack of recognition for language teachers is seeing Australia fall behind.   This is the view of Professor Jane Simpson, Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at The Australian…

 Alumni and staff celebrated ANU-European ties at a recent dinner in Brussels, Belgium
06
Aug
2015

ANU alumni bringing distinct flavour to EU’s political heart

An ANU arts alumnus is using her house in Brussels to showcase 20th century furniture, artworks and design objects. Dr Kathryn Smith (BA fine arts, 1988) is the director of Ampersand House, a gallery she operates in the Belgian capital with her fellow ANU alumnus and husband, Ike Udechuku. Kathryn…

 A 1969 recording of a sonata by Emeritus Professor Larry Sitsky is among the school's tapes to be restored and digitised
05
Aug
2015

School of Music treasures digitised in collaboration with the NFSA

The ANU School of Music is teaming with its near neighbour the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) on a research project, restoring old reel-to-reel tapes from the school’s archives.   Among the treasures, which have lain in the School’s basement since the turn of the 1970s, are a…

 Larry Sitsky by Stuart Hall
05
Aug
2015

New honours for Emeritus Professor Larry Sitsky

Emeritus Professor Larry Sitsky AM from the ANU School of Music has won a new honour.   Professor Sitsky has been named the winner of the 2015 Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music for his significant and enduring contribution to Australian music.   "I am excited and…

 Professor Simon Jackman is the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Social Science Data Analytics.
04
Aug
2015

New professor brings US politics and data analysis expertise to ANU

An expert on American and Australian politics, polling and statistics has recently joined the School of Politics and International Relations from Stanford University.   Professor Simon Jackman, the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Social Science Data Analytics…