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Creating a forest from furniture
In her first Canberra solo exhibition, Ashley Eriksmoen, internationally renowned furniture maker and head of the ANU Furniture Workshop, has brought new life to discarded furniture. For Reforestation: how to make a tree from a chair, Ashley has created a forest using parts of tables, chairs and…
Australians face longer working life
Australians are working later in life, and the trend is predicted to continue into the future, according to new data analysed by demographer Professor Peter McDonald, from the ANU node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), at the College of Arts and Social Sciences…
Brazil is Australia's perfect match
New research by Dr Sean Burges of the Australian National Centre of Latin American Studies on Brazil’s rise as a global power was this week published in the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs’ journal, International Affairs. Dr Burges’ paper explores Brazil’s foreign policies…
The gender agenda
With a seat at the UN Security Council, Australia is perfectly placed to champion the cause of women on the global stage, writes KATRINA LEE-KOO and SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER.Australia has recently been given a lead role in international security debates at the United Nations, and now we must decide how…
film festival, PhD, Wild Things
What: The Human Rights Arts & Film FestivalWhen: Monday 3 June – Wednesday 5 June 2013Where: National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra The College of Arts and Social Sciences is a proud sponsor of the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) which will screen for…
Book launch: Who We Were
When: 6:00pm Thursday 23 MayWhere: Paperchain Bookstore, 34 Franklin St ManukaLaunched by: Marion Halligan Marion Halligan will launch Lucy Neave's latest book, Who We Were, at the Paperchain Bookstore on Thursday night. Who We Were is about a young woman, Annabel, living in Melbourne in 1938.…
Pieces of History
A termite munches its way through the wood grain. The feeding process leaves behind a deep crevice, which snakes its way through the wood – a scar created sometime in the last 100 years. A scar that could not be more perfect to artist and ANU Facilities and Services officer Naomi Somerville.…