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 A wall outside the ANU School of Art was a giant canvas for visiting Year 10 students to make street art.
03
Aug
2015

Year 10 students get creative at School of Art

Dozens of yeart 10 students from across Canberra have spent a day creating at the annual School of Art High. It coincides with the ongoing Step into the Limelight 2015 exhibition of artworks created by Canberrans aged from kindergarten to year 12. Today the visiting students donned gloves and…

30
Jul
2015

The case for quotas in politics: the absence of women isn’t merit-based

By Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International RelationsLast weekend’s ALP national conference unanimously adopted a resolution to have women make up 50% of Labor parliamentarians by 2025. Women already make up 43.1% of Labor MPs in all Australian parliaments, as well as…

 CASS Interim Dean, Professor Paul Pickering, with Zoya Patel, founder of Feminartsy arts and literature site, CASS alumnus and our luncheon guest speaker.
27
Jul
2015

July 2015 CASS Graduation luncheon

Congratulations to all our CASS graduates and thank you for joining our celebration earlier this month. Thanks to our guest speaker and alumnus, Zoya Patel of Feminartsy and photographer David Paterson of Dorian Photographics.

 Sabina Nowak spent three months in the Timor Leste embassy as part of the Australian National Internships Program
23
Jul
2015

ANU student makes a difference to Timor Leste’s tourism industry

A young woman in the ANU Australian National Internships Program has recently helped the Timor Leste embassy in Canberra plan a tourist trail of the young nation’s World War Two sites.   Sabina Nowak, studying a Bachelor of International Relations/Bachelor of Arts specialising in Spanish,…

 Image by JD Falk/Flickr
21
Jul
2015

New scholarship to honour philosopher John Passmore

The ANU School of Philosophy has celebrated its annual John Passmore Lecture today by announcing a new scholarship in his honour.   The Passmore family in 2014 gave a generous bequest to the School to create the three-year scholarship for an international student.to support the promotion of…

 Title Page of the Australian Sketchbook 1864-65 chromolithograph. State Library of Victoria.
20
Jul
2015

An overdue appreciation of ST Gill, Australia’s first painter of modern life

 By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, School of Literature Languages & Linguistics  ST Gill may be the quintessential Australian colonial artist, known to anyone who has been educated in Australia and seen textbooks on Australian history full of Gill illustrations of…

 Some of the world's leading philosophers are joining their colleagues at the School of Philosophy this month
15
Jul
2015

Philosophy universe centres on Canberra

This month the ANU School of Philosophy is a whirlwind of activity with two flagship annual lectures and classes taking place, featuring leading philosophical figures from Australia and overseas.   Prominent Cambridge University philosopher, Professor Rae Langton, will this week will deliver…