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Public lecture: Jack Smart: Logic and Passion
When: 4:00 - 6:00pm Thursday 18 JulyWhere: Coombs Lecture Theatre, ANUPresenter: John Bigelow, Emeritus Professor, Philosophy Department, Monash University Jack Smart defended a number of theories with palpable passion, and yet also with candour and clarity and rational argument. Among the most…
Australian sex lives on shortlist
Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno’s book The Sex Lives of Australians: A History has been shortlisted for a 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award. “It’s a great honour just to be shortlisted. I’m still getting over the fact that someone was willing to publish it,” says Frank. The book, which…
Dirt Files
When: 4:00 - 7:00pm Monday 15 JulyWhere: PhotoSpace Level 1, ANU School of ArtPresenter: Editor Russ Radliffe and contributing cartoonists To celebrate the launch of Dirt Files, The Australian National University is hosting a political cartoons forum together with an exhibition of cartoons from…
Heritage specialist recognised for excellence
Michael Pearson AO training future heritage managers at the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania. Photo by Sally May. Michael Pearson originally came to ANU as a postgraduate in Archaeology in 1974. In fact, it was some of his postgraduate work that pushed him towards a career in…
ANU guitarist named on Queen's Honour list
Associate Professor Timothy Kain. ANU School of Music teacher Timothy Kain is modest. “Someone once said, there’s no such thing as good teachers, only good students.” Associate Professor Kain has just been named in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. For more than thirty…
Changing of the guard
Stepping into Gordon Bull’s office you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d walked into a library or a gallery. His personal art collection lines the office walls and rows of books and exhibition catalogues tell the story of a career that has spanned several decades and more recently seven years as…
Exhibition: Unsafe Havens
Hazaras in Afghanistan When: Tuesday 18 - Friday 28 JuneWhere: ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Ellery Crescent Abdul Karim Hekmat, Out of School, 2010, photograph, 87 x 113 cm Unsafe Havens is Abdul Hekmat’s documentation of his journey to his homeland, Afghanistan after…