Upcoming events
First-year Jazz and Contemporary Solo Recitals
Performance
Solo recitals from students in Performance and Music Practice Majors: 17 Nov 11am-3pm 11am - Luke Bacon 12pm - Sylvan Lawrenz 2pm - Sasha Blackman 18 Nov 12pm-4pm 12pm - Giaan Cafe 1pm - Gavin De Guzman 2pm - Lucy Yang-Tobler 3pm - Daniel Gillespie
Re-Reading the History of Labour & Political Economy within the Arabian Gulf
Lecture/seminar
The word exceptional is often used to describe the Arabian Gulf – exceptional hydrocarbon wealth, exceptional demographics, and an exceptional system of managing labour, known as kafala. But what if this system is not exceptional? What if it has been shaped by the region's entanglements with…
Roundtable - Latin American Popular Culture
Other
From crime fiction and film to poetry, music, and the novels that travel in translation, popular culture is where Latin America tells its stories, contests power, and imagines its futures. This roundtable brings together four writers and scholars to ask what “the popular” means today and who gets…
2026 Schuman Lecture
Lecture
The ANU Centre for European Studies warmly invites you to the 2026 Schuman Lecture, presented by His Excellency Mr Lawrence Meredith, European Union Ambassador to Australia. For decades, Australia and the European Union viewed one another as like-minded but geographically distant partners.…
2026 Jim Kerr Address
Lecture/seminar
The Jim Kerr Address pays respect to Jim’s legacy by perpetuating open inquiry into the understanding of place and the constant review of progress in conservation philosophy and practice.Programme4.00pm Reception: Sir Roland Wilson Building (#120), ANU.4.30pm Welcome (venue Sir Roland Wilson…
Global Food Security and Ukraine: Past and Present
Seminar
The event will focus on global food security in relation to Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. As the Ukrainian community in Australia commemorates the Holodomor, the 1932–1933 famine in Ukraine, around the third Saturday of November, the event will connect this historical experience…
Language learning and Translation in Australia’s Multilingual History
Lecture
The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Colloquium proudly hosts the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2026 Triebel Lecture, delivered by Emeritus Professor Adrian Vickers (University of Sydney). Lecture Abstract An important aspect of Australia’s…