Upcoming events
CASS International Agents Webinars 2026
Painting Itself 绘画本身
Gallery
Officially launched by Magda Keaney, Head Curator, International Art at National Gallery of Australia.Curated by Jonathan Nichols the exhibition explores a horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality – long the influence of European and American…
Mark McKenna: In Conversation
Activity
Join Professor Maria Nugent and Emeritus Professor Mark McKenna to talk about Mark's new book: The Shortest History of Australia (Black Inc., 2025). (Please note that this event will replace Mark McKenna's School of History seminar, originally scheduled for 6 May.) In The…
Frege’s Puzzle and Nature of Semantic Facts
Seminar
Frege noted that sentences that differ from each other only by the substitution of coreferential proper names can differ in their role in rational linguistic activity. For example, “Robert Zimmerman is Bob Dylan” can be used to make an informative assertion; “Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan” cannot.…
The Cultural Macroevolution of Religion
Seminar
Religious systems show the key properties of evolutionary systems: heritability, variation, and change. Yet they have only recently begun to be studied from an explicitly evolutionary perspective. In this talk, I will describe research on the origins of organised religion in hunter-gatherer…
Sign on Screen Festival
Festival
Join us for the Sign On Screen Film Festival, a collaboration between the Australian National University, Deaf Connect, the Australian Research Council, and the NFSA.Sign on Screen is an Australian Research Council-funded project about the representation of sign languages on cinema, television and…
Sign on Screen Film Festival
Festival
The full program and tickets are now available for the Sign on Screen Film Festival, taking place at the National Film and Sound Archive from 6pm Friday May 22 - 5pm Sunday May 24 2026. All events are Auslan <> English interpreted, all screenings are captioned with hearing loop…
Anthropogenic transformation of an island landscape: 3,000 years of adaptation and resilience on Efate, Vanuatu
Lecture/seminar
Join the Canberra Archaeological Society and the ANU Centre for Archaeological Research on Friday the 22nd of May for a special National Archaeology Week public lecture, delivered by the ANU's own Professor Stuart Bedford!Anthropogenic transformation of an island landscape: 3,000 years of…