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09
Oct
2025

Friends of the School of Music Jazz Concert

Performance

RAISE THE ROOF!The Annual Friends Jazz FundraiserBar from 6.30pm. Music from 7pm.ANU Jazz Orchestra (led by Con CampbellSchool of Music Jazz Recording Ensemble (Tutor Miro Bukovsky)- General admission $30- Friends, concession $25- BMus and Performance students $free 

09
Oct
2025

Managing Elections in a Changing World

Lecture/seminar

The field of electoral management is being reshaped, as many of the foundational assumptions crafted in the 1990s no longer apply as initially imagined. From the 1990s, the shaping of the professional norms of election management was shaped by democratisation practices introduced in one context and…

08
Oct
2025

Towards Actually Existing Development: Project implementation in twentieth century international development

Lecture/seminar

International development formed a core plank of the twentieth-century international system. While we know a great deal about the politics and planning of development, historians have rarely pursued the grassroots dynamics of project implementation. In this paper, Professor SobocinskaI illustrates…

08
Oct
2025

Seminar Series | Professor Brenda L. Croft

Seminar

Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Cardinal Relations From 4 – 6 October 2024, First Nations/Indigenous/Native American participants from Australia, Aotearoa/NZ, Australia, Canada and the USA attended a three-day gathering/symposium at Harvard University. The symposium commenced with Australian First…

07
Oct
2025

Seminar Series | Cecilia Jardemar

Seminar

Reframing the Encounter This talk will explore how the development of a transnational cultural heritage praxis for new imagined futures can support present-day discourses and practices of recovery from colonial epistemicide and ecocide. In her seminal book Potential History, Ariella Azoulay…

02
Oct
2025

Democracy and Disadvantage: How economic and social disadvantage shapes, and is shaped by, political attitudes and behaviour

Lecture/seminar

It is close to a truism to say that democratic institutions and norms are under threat across established, high-income democracies. This is most obvious in the US, with an uptick in political violence, contested elections, and state-directed restrictions on free speech and expression (to name but a…

01
Oct
2025

The making and shaping of an Australian icon: E.E. Dunlop’s heroic reputation

Lecture/seminar

At the time of Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop’s death in 1993, many asked: Why did Dunlop receive all the fame? Why did none of the other forty-three doctors, who were also prisoners of war on the Burma-Thailand railway, receive the same accolades as Dunlop? This pre-submission paper explores the…