Upcoming events
Join us for ANU Open Day on 28 March 2026
Eliciting Plasma Illumination as a Responsive and Relational Medium within Blown Glass | Harriet Schwarzrock
Gallery
Drawing on the dual etymology of plasma as both a luminous state of matter and a vascular component of blood, I create blown-glass objects that explore the boundaries between object and observer through intimate, luminous interactions within shared electromagnetic fields. Rather than the distant…
ANU School of Music Open Day 2026
Experience
Welcome to the ANU School of Music at Open Day 2026. Join us to explore our programs, facilities and creative community, and discover what it’s like to study music at ANU. Across the day, you can attend information sessions, meet academics, tour the building, and learn more about music technology…
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Lecture/seminar
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy. Snakes continually appear in the scholarly debates about the utility and value of flora and fauna from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century,…
US/ Israel War on Iran: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
The ongoing US/Israel War on Iran has grave human consequences that deeply threaten regional & global peace1,500+ people reportedly killed in Iran so far, plus 3+ million displaced.1000+ people have been killed in Lebanon and 1+ million displaced.Iranian retaliatory strikes have…
Research Seminar | Dr. Le-Tuyen Nguyen
Seminar
Vietnamese Musical Heritage: From the Mekong Delta to the Mountain ForestAbstractA special lecture-recital featuring a new repertoire of Australian music with Vietnamese cultural influences. Written for the guitar by Vietnamese-Australian composer Le-Tuyen Nguyen, these compositions…
Surface Rights: Aboriginal Lands and Minerals Under the Woodward Royal Commission
Lecture/seminar
On the 50-year anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, this seminar turns to the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of the recognition of Aboriginal mineral rights. Why were Aboriginal mineral rights not…
Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI
Seminar
At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan “knowledge is power” has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the informational environment for a group is a way to shape their decisions; it is essentially a way to…