Upcoming events
FUSE Glass Prize 2026 Exhibition
Gallery
Presented by JamFactory, the FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. 18 Finalists (12 Established Artists and 6 Emerging Artists) have been selected as part of an exhibition at JamFactory, Adelaide before touring to the ANU School of Art…
Coastal livelihood transitions in Southeast Asia
Seminar
Coastal Southeast Asia is undergoing rapid economic change. Rising seafood demand, growing wealth and mobility, and state enthusiasm for the 'blue economy' have made mariculture and coastal tourism two of the most significant new sectors along coasts once dominated by small-scale fishing. Drawing…
Museums, Truth, Governance: The Civic Agency of the Country/culture Couplet
Lecture/seminar
There will be three aspects to this presentation. First, I will briefly review the concerns that have informed my contributions to museum studies since the publication of The Birth of the Museum in 1995. These have been informed chiefly by two aspects of Michel Foucault’s work: his conception of…
Cello & period instruments Recital: Zoltán Szabo (cello) and Nicholas Kennedy (piano)
Concert
Zoltán Szabo (cello) and Nicholas Kennedy (piano) present a recital featuring rare instruments from the ANU Historical Keyboard Collection. The program includes Beethoven's G minor cello sonata, using a period cello with gut strings and the University's replica fortepiano by Paul McNulty of a…
Six Conservative Australian Feminists, 1901-1970: Towards a Collective Biography
Seminar
Content warning: this presentation will refer to eugenics. To steal from E.P. Thompson in a way he would have deplored, I am seeking to rescue conservative feminists from the enormous condescension of posterity! Although they have had greater scholarly attention in recent years, we know more…
Speaking Animals, Talking Books: From Radio Play to Digital Download
Lecture/seminar
Ruth Park’s The Muddleheaded Wombat is widely known today through the illustrated children’s books first published in the 1960s. Wombat first reached Australian children as a broadcast voice in a long-running ABC radio series within the Children’s Session. Written by Park and performed by a…
CAIS Public Lecture Series: The Afterlives of Ottoman Objects
Lecture/seminar
The Afterlives of Ottoman Objects: Alternative Forms of Muslim Citizenship in Turkey Ottoman objects, art traditions, and social practices occupy a contested place in Turkish political life, shaped by the republic’s selective rupture with its Ottoman past and more recent projects of…