Upcoming events
Postgraduate: Art History and Curatorial Studies
Event
Join our course convenor for the upcoming Art History and Curatorial Studies webinar. Where better to study art history and curatorship than surrounded by Australia’s national cultural and collecting institutions? What’s more, where better to study Art History than in Australia’s premier…
Book Launch: Early Photography in Colonial Australia by Dr Elisa deCourcy
Book launch
Early Photography in Colonial Australia (Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press) explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world.From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology – it was deeply…
Jazmourian Ensemble: The Alchemy of Ancient Song Roads
Concert
Don’t miss this intimate concert, in the beautiful resonance of the ANU Drill Hall, of the Jazmourian Ensemble (Malek Mohammadi Nejad – Iranian setar, shurangiz, voice. Anna McDonald – Iranian kamancheh), ANU’s Ensemble in Residence. They will be playing their music inspired by ancient Persia and…
Lebanon Days to Les Murray: The Memoirist Turned Biographer
Seminar
How do we ensure that writing about the personal past illustrates something beyond the person? How do we emphasise the salient fact in a tangle of intimately recorded details? And how do we achieve this when writing from memory, as opposed to when writing from evidence? This discussion will…
The Gathering
Conference
Hosted by the School of Music of the Australian National University in Canberra, this will be an Australian and near-Pacific neighbours First Nations Composers Gathering. Attendees may include First Nations composers from Australia and the near-Pacific, First Nations performers of classical/new…
Exploring the Craft of Historical Fiction: Alison Goodman, Sue Williams and Professor Kate Mitchell in conversation.
Other
The Friends of the National Library present two multi-talented award-winning authors in conversation – Alison Goodman and Sue Williams.Alison and Sue will be joined by Professor Kate Mitchell from the Australian National University to explore the craft of historical fiction writing. Together they…
2025 Grad Show
Activity
The 2025 Graduating Exhibition showcases the work of students completing undergraduate, honours and postgraduate coursework programs at the Australian National University School of Art & Design.Exhibition dates: Saturday 29 November - Sunday 07 December 2025Open daily 10am - 4pm www.…